Earth to Table: Bread Bar James

14 James St N, Toronto - L8R 2J9
351 reviews
Salad Pizza Soup
(905) 527-2999

I went for a girl's night celebrating a birthday and it was fabulous !!! They were so accommodating (they called to come earlier and made it work!) our server was GREAT (Cora- thanks !!)! The food and drinks were also so delicious! We had the baby kale caesar salad, skinny fries, and the bee sting pizza !!!! Highly recommend it for a great atmosphere and fabulous food!

I love it there great great food , drink prices a bit high , will only be able to go once and awhile

This is the James St, N location: We visited Aug 6 at around 6PM. When I called earlier in the day to make a reservation, I was told that they don’t take reservations for groups of under 6 (it might have been 8). So when we arrived, we were told that even though the restaurant looked empty it would fill up by 7. Too bad we didn’t have a reservation. After explaining my earlier experience, they did graciously find us a seat. I also explained that we would be gone shortly after 7 as we had tickets to the Theatre Aquarius for 7:30. We ordered the Meat Pizza (11”) and the Risotto. The Risotto was very good. The pizza, however, was abysmal. The first one that arrived, when I tried to cut it, sort of just dissolved. When I rolled the piece over, it looked like the crust was either uncooked, or saturated with water. The pizza itself had the necessary charring around the crust, so wasn’t sure what was wrong. I returned it, and they replaced it with another Meat Pizza. The waiter told me the pizza would be out in 8 minutes. (This could be part of the problem.). When it arrived, I grabbed the crust edge to pull a slice back a bit to let it cool (it was very hot). The edge crust separated from the crust with the toppings on it. Still saturated with water so much that it just fell apart. They were very apologetic and suggested that I get a different type of pizza as there was a lot on the Meat Pizza. So I order the Bee Sting. It arrived about 10 min later. It suffered buy the same problem, but not it was almost 7 and we had tickets. This wasn’t as bad, but when you lifted a slice it just sagged down. The crust still heavily saturated with water. I ate 1/2 of it before we had to leave (burning my mouth as it was so hot). I finished it later that evening. It tasted reasonably good, but as far as a oven fired pizza went, was still very poor. I did note the table beside us did not have a soggy pizza. It believe it was the margarhite pizza (I spelled that wrong I know). In fairness to them, the waitstaff was excellent. The waiter that first addressed the problem, saw me and came over and addressed it very well. He wasn’t serving our table. The other waiter serving our table was very apologetic, offered to take the pizza off the bill. The third person (I think it might have been a cook) that delivered the Bee Sting pizza explained that they would put something in the take away bag for us (2 delicious cookies we had later). So the service was excellent. As for the pizza, I was a surprised pizzas could be prepped and cooked in ab out 10 min. In other similar places, you usually can expect 15 or a bit more. I’see had similar pizzas from Il Fornello’s, Good Fellows, etc., some I wasn’t a fan of, but none have had the soggy mess these pizzas were. I’m not sure what was going wrong. I would expect if it was a new menu offering, they would have resolved the issues. Since it was 3 for 3, I can’t conclude it was a bad batch, or a mistake in the kitchen, this is how they make pizza. And as such, I would not recommend it for that. Try anything else on the menu.

Food(pizza), drinks, music and service were all amazing! Loved that the staff were so friendly and obviously enjoyed working together. They also were helping each other prepare and serve orders . Will def be back!

Go for mouth watering and amazing farm to table food items.

We had a enjoyable dinner. The service was wonderfuL.

Very nice meal and helpful waitstaff with a nice decor. We’d return on future trips to Hamilton.

Excellent food - great service - food came out hot and quick... only minor complaint was bar service was very slow... will come back!

Such a wonderful place to grab lunch or dinner. They have fresh ingredients and their food is amazing! The staff are wonderful and it was just a pleasure to dine there, we will be back for-sure!

Great food great drinks good service!!! Definitely will return