Symposium Cafe Restaurant & Lounge

We sat fast and that is where the service ended. we waited almost 20 minutes with our one-year-old child and nobody even confirmed us or took over our order. we finally left without anyone else noticed. rather sad customer service, would not recommend for families or anyone who valued their time.

From the moment we got there the greeter was rude and abrupt. She told us to seat our selves and gave us the menu. We waited for someone to come to take our order. She brought us water then didn't come back for 10 minutes....She was training another lady who was lovely, We order the spinach dip It had shredded carrots and was warm the pitas were delicious. The salads were both mildly tasteless and she gave my daughter ranch salad dressing on the side for the Cobb salad. The salmon on mine was delicious but the salad was bland with raw mushrooms . Very disappointed for the excessive price and 2 ice tea. Will not be back .

Went up to friend's cottage on Sturgeon Lake, took a half day and had no time to make food because we had to get on the highway before the long weekend traffic jam. Of course everyone was starving. Google LCBO in Lindsay and saw Symposium...in same parking lot. We go to Symposium Thornhill regularly so knew we could call for take out. Called ahead to arrange pick up time and while my better half got adult refreshments, I pick up Chicken Parm meal, salmon salad, two burgers and wings to share. packaged carefully as usual and if the environment is important to you, the individual food containers are compostable. Kids loved the burgers especially this time with sweet potato fries. Couldn't eat the chicken parm noodles too easily in the car just ate the chicken and left the noodles for late night snack. also brought two pieces of carrot cake as a gift to our hosts. Food was delicious and packaged carefully so no in car disasters. Very pleasant staff- nice patio if you have the time to stop.

Decent good, non existent service We visited this restaurant, which we’ve been to many times before, this past Saturday. We ordered and received our meals, server was a young lady who was great, and our meals were good as usual. The problem came when we...got our desert. My kids always order their warm cookie with ice cream. They only had one left so they shared, no problem there. Problem is when the get it, it’s a hard as a hockey puck. Ok, things happen. Asked the young lady to ask the manager to see us. He looks over and goes about making himself busy behind the counter doing anything else. 10 minutes later our server goes and reminds him. Still nothing. Restaurant is almost empty at this point and we realize he’s not coming to see us at all. Terrible service. This “manager” (Alex I think was his name) deserves to be fired. He has no idea what customer service is. A quick apology and a coupon or credit for this would have easily solved the problem. See the video, would you eat this? Exactly how old is this cookie and why would you serve it!? Edit: can’t post the video so here’s a screen shot. I’m pushing on the cookie as hard and I can and cannot even break through

My wife and I had our first visit in this restaurant for dinner last weekend. from beginning to end we were very impressed. they were very busy, but they gave us a nice table and a friendly server called joel. he was very helpful. because we had many questions about the interesting menu. we chose the garnels as an appetizer and we could not have been happier with the choice. the pad thai was excellent and very plentiful. for dessert we chose the tiramisu and it was fresh and delicious. we look forward to our next visit. thanks to many for a wonderful culinary experience in the picturesque town of lindsay. great work!