Sneaky Dees

Tonight Ian and I went on a mission to try a new restaurant recommended by Cheap Eats 2006 and again were disappointed. Refer to our previous nasty falafel experience and some Indian buffet. Victims of a slightly out of date book. Note to self, will check out TO Dine Safe website before heading out next time. They are generally pretty up to date.

A cheap tapas place called Oasis was supposed to be at College and Spadina. Cheap Eats 2006 had promised pumpkin dip with pita and chickpea, cauliflower, squash curry, all for $3.60 each. Check out the link: Now Magazine, also made the place sound pretty tasty.

All we found was an inferior looking Savannah restaurant loosely based on tapas. At $9 for a chicken quesidalla, it could hardly be considered cheap tapas though. Not too many creative sounding things, just regular old pub food seemed to be the new specialty.

So, we kept on moving and hit up Sneaky Dees just down the street. They seem to have re-done their website so no more of their weird graphic things and odd shapes windows.

Ian, as always, had the really cheap special - on Friday it's two soft tacos - your choice of beef, chicken or veggie. Comes with salad, mexi rice and not so good refried kidney beans ($7.95). I had the veggie enchiladadas - baked with cheese and some tomato sauce ($9.30). Same side dishes as Ian. Add in a pitcher of beer for $9.25 and total bill came to $33 including tax and tip.

Maybe I am turning into a fine dining connoisseur, but I am finally starting to agree with Ian that the Sneaky is not so great. Sure, it's a horrendous amount of food, but it's not all that tasty. Guess that makes it a classic cheap eat??

I think that next time, I would go back on a Tuesday for the 1/2 price fajitas or Thursday for the veggie nachos + large pitcher of beer for $18.95. Based on previous experience, the fajitas and nachos are probably tastier than the other tex-mex stuff they serve.

Also mildly disturbing, every other customer in there seemed to have a rather large beard....maybe for some reason it attracts facial hair dudes??