A Cambridge landmark, this lively restaurant offers both inventive and traditional cooking, delivered in a casual yet elegant atmosphere. The restaurant's ambiance is comfortable and appealing, providing quality food, at the right price in an unpretentious way. Located on Hespeler Road, 2 sets of lights south of the 401, beside the Travelodge Hotel.
Food: continental cuisine, seasonal features, fresh fish, pastas, vegetarian friendly.
Features: premium beers on tap, wide scotch selection, extensive wine list.
Outside Dining on Southside Patio.
Private room for up to seventy guests.
Open year round.more...See more text
Ontario corn fed chicken breast, red wine velouté braised, goat cheese stuffed, double smoked bacon, pearl onion and mushroom ragout, fingerling potatoes shaved asparagus
$30.00
MUSHROOM RIGATONI
rigatoni pasta, cremini, shiitake and button mushrooms, fresh herbs, roasted garlic, white wine and porcini mushroom cream sauce, fresh parmesan
$22.00
GNOCCHI PROVENÇALE
pan seared potato dumplings, asparagus, tomato concasse, red onion, baby spinach leaves, white wine and fresh herb beurre blanc
$21.00
ROASTED AUSTRALIAN RACK OF LAMB
fresh Castricum Brothers Farms lamb rack, Dijon and herb crust, buttermilk mashed, Madeira jus
$47.00
BEEF TENDERLOIN
AAA, lean and tender centre cut, buttermilk mashed potato, Madeira jus
6 oz
$37.00
ADD
Grilled Salmon
$12.00
Pan Seared Sea Scallops
$15.00
Grilled Tiger Shrimp
$14.00
Grilled Chicken Breast
$9.00
Steamed Asparagus
$7.00
Sautéed Mushroom Medley
$7.00
Potato Frites
$4.00
Sweet Potato Frites
$6.00
Dijon Cream
$4.00
Madeira jus
$4.00
Lobster Tail
$17.00
Features MENU - Blackshop Restaurants & Lounge
EGGS BENEDICT
toasted English muffin, poached eggs, wilted spinach, peameal bacon, hollandaise, pan fried herbed potatoes
$15.00
SMOKED SALMON BENEDICT
toasted English muffin, poached eggs, wilted spinach, smoked salmon, hollandaise, pan fried herbed potatoes
$19.00
3 EGG OMELETTES
served with wilted spinach, pan fried herbed potatoes, shaved asparagus, balsamic reduction, bacon, three year old cheddar, tomato confit, mushroom, caramelized onion, stilton cheese
$15.00
STEAK AND EGGS
pan seared striploin medallions, scrambled eggs, pan fried herbed potatoes, shaved asparagus, hollandaise
$20.00
BREAKFAST BURGER
Italian sausage patty, fried egg, roasted tomato and avocado salsa, served beside green goddess salad
$16.00
FRENCH TOAST OF THE DAY
a new creation daily
$14.00
Brunch meals include a basket of fresh pastries
Additional basket of pastries $2 per guest
Beverages
MIMOSA
orange juice and Cremant sparkling wine
$11.00
BLACKSHOP CAESAR
Luksusowa triple distilled potato vodka, with Walter all natural craft caesar mix
$9.00
VANILLA OR CINNAMON LATTE
steamed milk with espresso and vanilla or cinnamon syrup
We had our staff Christmas Dinner at the Blackshop. The pace of service, quality of food and the hospitallity were all excellent.
I would recommend this restaurant to anyone!!!
The new restaurant is dramaticly improved from the previous. It is unfortunate that the food does not reflect that. If you are going to charge Toronto prices then you need to get yourself a better chef. All our food was cold and the service was very slow. Overall not impressed. The sadest part is they reaaly seem not to even care. Next time I willmake the drive to Toronto.
Celebrating a family member's birthday.
First time at the new location on Hespeler (been here twice before).
Congrats to the owners, they have dramatically improved Blackshop in terms of decor, ambiance, service and most importantly, food quality.
Our server was excellent, as was the bar service on their patio.
Food was also a big quality improvement (not that it was bad before) -- it's now a top-notch restaurant. High quality, fresh ingredients and the dishes hit the table piping hot. Nice!
We'll definitely be back.
My husband and I spent many a wonderful evening...
My husband and I spent many a wonderful evening at the "Old Blackshop" and I was very disappointed with the service and the food we received in December of 2007. On entering the new location for the first time, we were blown away with the atmoshpere and the decor...very chic, modern and refreshing...unlike any other restaurant in Cambridge. Our starters were perfect.....Calamari was crispy, caesar salad beautiful. We waited forever for our main. When it arrived, the strudel was stone cold and the lamb chops were burned beyond being edible. After sending both back, the strudel returned...obviously microwaved because the pastry was soggy..before the chops, which were still on the well done side and not as ordered. Other than the fact that this was a very special occasion for us, we would have been irate at this time, but we were enjoying the afternoon and our waitress seemed very apologetic. For that reason we decided to linger over coffee. I ordered an irish coffee, my partner a regular coffee. When i took a sip of the irish coffee I was shocked . The glass was rimmed with salt and not sugar. Appalling. And, my partner's coffee was old and stale. We filled out a comment card pointing out the lack of attention to the food. Maybe that was the problem...you paid more attention to your decor and new image and not enough on the quality of food you were serving.
The variety of seating is awkward, not very many...
The variety of seating is awkward, not very many intimate seats, its as if they tried to push in as much tables as possible first off. Our server for the evening was not attentive we had to keep flagging him down he walked by our table many times and never stopped to ask us if we were ready to order even though we had our menus closed and placed on our table ready to go.. The food although was delicous, the lobster nachos were out of this world! and my veal and my fiance's pork tenderloin was extrememly moist and tasty, although we were not offered better knives other than the butter knives placed on the table for the bread and butter so we had a hard time cutting our meat and the waiter barely came around so we never got a chance to ask for different ones. So the food is delicous but the service suxs and we will only go there for special occasions, as it is extremely expensive to have a 3 course meal.
