Pickle Barrel

This is the WORSE restaurant I have EVER experienced in my life! Hostess looks like she’s gonna kill u and sits you at the most crooked table in the place even they are empty… dirty tables, dirty glasses… waiters took 10 – 15 minutes to come and greet us… the food was ok but on the cold side… mix up in bills… the only good thing is the fact they have a patio and that day it was sunny… TERRIBLE!!! Don’t waste your money there… there’s plenty better around the corner

Food was good .
Service could have been better. We visited in afternoon we expected quicker service, however service was very slow .
Food was good as always the quantity and quality of food is good .
The Center point mall location is far better than Vaughan mills location.

I am absolutely disgusted with the way my wife and I were treated by the MANAGER named MIKE. He was rude, disrespectful and extremely condescending!
This man needs to retire from the restaurant industry! I will never step foot into this Pickle Barrel until I know it is under new management.
It is quite unfortunate, considering I basically grew up being a Pickle Barrel customer. Shame on Pickle Barrel for having this man run the business in this manner.
HORRIBLE!!!

I like this pickle barrel. I find restaurants in malls van be hit or miss and this one is for sure a hit. It’s a comfortable oasis in the middle of what is sometimes a chaotic mall experience.
Location
It’s located in Vaughan Mills.
Parking:
Suburb mall so tonnes of space but can be incredibly stressful. There’s a few buses that come here, take those and save yourself some blood pressure points :)
Décor:
I the nice weather seasons they have a patio that you can sit out on. As with most PB patios it’s pretty great.
This trip I was with an octogenarian who preferred to sit inside. The inside is pretty great too.
Comfortable seats, lots of really great looking lighting. Music playing at a nice volume, loud enough that you can hear it but quiet enough that you can talk. No assault on the ears.
Menu:
This place has the typical PB menu, something for everyone.
Food:
I’ve noticed food quality can vary from PB to PB. This one has always been pretty good. Maybe I have been very lucky but I’ve never had anything terrible.
I got the Thai inspired beef salad. Which I thought was great as usual. My dining companion got the toasted chicken and avocado sandwich with sweet potato fries. She loved the sandwich. It was a monster in size. I had some of the fries. They were cooked well.
Overall:
It’s a great place to duck into when the hunger strike and you are bargain hunting at Vaughan mills! You can rest your weary feet and grab so. erhung good to eat.

150 items to choose from is a bit daunting… Thank goodness, i like my breakfast…
Fast friendly service…
Good price $ 6 for early bird breakfast special… Coffee was hot
Server was attentive to our needs.
All went according to plan
Had to drop a star. Although everything was «good» at VM location, promenade 1 up’ed them in all departments

6, I killed 6 fruit flies during my visit here. I was absolutely grossed out by it.
everything was fine when we were seated, but then we placed our order, which included mimosas and shortly after those were brought the fruit flies started appearing.
as I started looking around the restaurant I noticed people were swatting around their arm as they ate so it wasn’t only me who experienced this.
we asked if this was a known issue and the server said he didn’t see a single one! I had to swat
one to the table to show him, maybe I should have started a collection?
anyhow, our food came out and we finished it as quickly as we could to leave.
super disappointed with the reaction I got from the server — I’d rather eat fast food than have to swat flies at a restaurant.
and funny enough — the review below mine is also complaining about fruit flies in their drink.

I came here for a dinner on a weekday a couple weeks ago, entering from the inner mall entrance. It wasn’t busy. The person working at the front said hi, but that’s all he said. We waited for about 15 seconds and when he paid no more attention to us, we walked in a bit further, assuming we would have to sit ourselves. Probably 20 steps in, he followed us, and asked us where we would like to sit.
We got a booth table and I ordered Nachos, Lychee Lemonade and a Hummus Wrap. The hummus wrap is my favourite dish at Pickle Barrel relative to the other overly priced items. When I got my drink, I took probably 10 sips before I REALLY looked at it and saw a dead fruit fly inside. When the server came by, I showed him the fly and in disbelief, he took it to the back. When he came back, he said «it was only a fruit fly,» but would give me another drink. ONLY a fruit fly? I was appalled. So the next time he came over, I asked him what the restaurant would do for me due to having already drunken from their infested drink. He had to go see the manager, who then came by and told us the appetizer would be on the house. So, good for the manager for rectifying the situation.
I found my server quite annoying throughout the night. I was seeing a friend whom I haven’t seen in a long time and he kept coming by and asked about our lives such as which school we went to, what we were studying, etc. When I have a good server, they don’t ask these type of questions. More like, «how is your dinner going?», «are you doing anything later in the night?», etc. Our server was borderline annoying.

WARNING! Food poisoning and salmonella! First and last time coming here!
After reading most reviews people only come here out of sheer convenience! Seems about right.
Walked through the door and the hostess was very rude right off the bat, and when we were finally seated literally AT the mall entrance when we specifically entered through the parking lot entrance to avoid sitting in that section, bug whatever we let it pass because we were hungry. I said «thank you!» To the hostess, and I was literally speechless when she replied with «k». But lucky for her I wasn’t going to let that ruin my mood tonight.
Got 22oz shock top which was okay but served without the orange slice which is partly why I order it, again I didn’t say anything other than thank you! Our server was quite nice and quick which earned this restaurant the 1 star (as if I had a choice to go lower)
I got chicken and waffles (way overpriced at $ 16.99) because I specifically was in the mood for those. They came quickly and everything tasted decent.
I got home and felt my heart start to hurt and began to worry. Later that heart pain turned into gastro pain and would radiate in and out like cramps, like food poisoning. I couldn’t sleep all night because of that pain, hugging the toilet for hours until 6:30am.
Regretfully this review may come across as accusatory, however I visited the doctor and truly DID have salmonella after dining here. No accusations, just the absolute TRUTH. Just looking at the pics I posted makes me want to puke

My boyfriend and I went to Pickle Barrel this past Wednesday evening for dinner. When we entered, the restaurant was fairly empty, but we waited nearly 10 minutes for sometime to greet us and take us to our seats. Once taken to our seats, our server asked for our drinks right away and brought them over. My boyfriend ordered the steak, medium rare, and I ordered the chicken fingers. When my boyfriend’s steak came, it was nearly blue on the inside and had to be sent back to be cooked more. A quarter of the steak could not be eaten due to the amount of fat that was left on it. My chicken fingers were mediocre and the BBQ sauce that was given with them tasted as though it had been watered down, as did the ketchup. For dessert we ordered the Skor sundae which was the best part of the night. The restaurant was also very cold and drafty.

Went to the pickle barrel tonight with my boyfriend as it’s very close to where he lives so it was kind of a matter of connivence… and the large menu was appealing as it has no shortage of options.
When we arrived we were greeted and taken to our seat over near the bar. We both ordered a drink, which came pretty quick. After that we waited quite a long time for anyone to even come over to us, another waiter took our order, we had to ask for water as that wasn’t brought to us or offered. The waiter told us that they were very busy because the football game was on, but when we looked around and were walking out there was literally nobody in the restaurant.
We ordered mussels to start, they were the spicy mussels, and believe me they are extremely spicy ! If you don’t like a lot of spice you will not like these. They are ok until you mix them into some sauce, then it is spice overload ! If you do like spicy then they were actually quite good !
I ordered the salmon salad with extra goat cheese and added avocado to it which was great. Salad was really good just lacked dressing, I think if I do go back I’ll ask for it on the side which I usually do. Some of the leaves were totally dry. The salmon was good.
My bf had the deli meat plate and he said it was excellent, the cold slaw was not good, and the pickles were not good either. The Cesar salad was very fresh but lacked dressing as well.
The manager came to check up on us a few times to ask how we were enjoying things, not once did our waitress come and ask us how we were enjoying the food or if we needed anything. I think the manager was informed we were being neglected. As the waitress apologized to us stating how busy it was. Yet it was not busy at all, there were 3 tables in our section .
Overall I would say the food is average, the service is slow and unengaged/​no effort, and I would maybe go back just for the all day breakfast.

The food is good, we never been disappointed, good variety of kids meals, tasty soups, tasty health menu, the sandwiches and the loaded burgers are recommended, the service mostly good, if anything is wrong they will replace or add, they have a big space so it safe to come to lunch or dinner even on weekends when many in many other good places you have to wait.

Ate here on Halloween. Totally regret it. The workers all hated being there on Halloween and it showed on their faces and in their service. The server who was covering for someone else, didnt write down our order. Just took it by memory. Missed an item when she inputted the order. 1 star off there.
My date ordered a simple breakfast meal and it was just terrible. Terrible. It was so mediocre I couldnt believe they served that as a restaurant quality meal. 2 stars off.
This location may look nice and big but its empty in food quality and service. Stay away. Just because they have a captive audience at Vaughan Mills they think they can get away with this. Spend your money on clothes at the mall instead of eating here. 2 stars **

i went here for the first time and was quite upset with the honesty of the workers. i ordered a blueberry muffin and a vanilla bean latte (i originally wanted a green tea latte but the worker was like oh, «even though it’s on the menu we don’t actually do this latte anymore. i can do the vanilla bean latte though.») she said it was sweet and even was like i added more syrup to make it sweeter and i kid you not when i tried it, it was like a cup of complete lies. it was more bitter than bitter melon and seriously it was NOT sweet at all like no sweetness whatsoever … so it was like BRUH WHY YOU GOTTA BE LYINNG !!! WHAT DID I DO TO GET LIED TO?!? anyways aside from that whole ordeal the muffin was actually pretty bomb. i love muffin tops and that is what i look for in muffins (les be real here, the muffin exist for its muffin top) one extra star for the bomb-​ass muffin

We enjoy every pickle barrel so this review is specific to this one. The atmosphere is beautiful as this is one of the newer ones. The food never disappoints especially if you want to eat healthy. Would give it a 5 star but this location likes to use students for service compared to the other locations that use full time mature help.

WELLLL — going here was a waste of time. Got to the restaurant around 5:20/30, hostess was away from her «stand». We had to wait a couple minutes for her to seat us.
We sat outside where there was 1 other couple (many tables occupied inside). Their server went over to them shortly after we sat down, but didn’t bother coming by to greet us at all.
The server went by to the other table another 2 times and didn’t come to our table once! I went to find the hostess or a server AND COULDNT FIND ANYONE TO ASSIST ME!!!
We finally decided to leave the restaurant around 6:00, or shortly after.
STILL NO ONE AT THE HOSTESS STAND — NEVER GOING BACK THERE!

Wow! Food poising warning yet again?
Deff inanely scary! Especially since we bring our children here! I would deff inanely drop
My rating from the 3.5 stars to what this place was to us, to a ZERO!!! Getting people sick and getting paid for it? Companies get sued and lose their license for that!!!
Below is my Previous review.
Which is Currently irrelevant.
But out of respect I chose not to delete. And hope to see and hear positive changes coming our way!
The food is good here, every time we’ve been here the servers were ok not too good.
The
Place gets busy, and I would
Hate to sit in the middle
Of the place, I love getting a booth. The drinks a mediocre, but not bad.
Kids menu is good, the kids actually eat their dinner! Overall we like it

When we arrived, there was a lineup, but it was cleared very quickly. The first table they sat us at had a very wet floor, so they apologized and quickly sat us down at a different table.
The washroom is truly hands-free…well except you have to touch the pump to get soap. A wave of hand is what you need to open the door to the washrooms.
Our waitress was friendly and gave good recommendations. We were just a little disappointed with the presentation.
We ordered two apps (Luau Chicken and Honey Garlic Chicken Wings) and a main course (Beef and Mushroom). The chicken wings were right on, but the Luau was nothing like the picture from the menu… actually close to unappetizing, and the taste was nothing exciting.
Here’s the most disappointing part. The luau came at the same time as our main course. It is not because it took that long to come out. We JUST finished the wings, and our server came back with both. Why did the kitchen fire the main course so early? Why did our server bring it out? The main ended up was just sitting there while we felt like rushing our app just so that we won’t be eating a cold main.
The saving grace of our meal would be the Mammoth Oreo Cookie. It was simply mm-​mm good.

First off I must say I really like the décor and atmosphere of the newer Pickle Barrel locations.
I have always found the staff here friendly enough, but not exceeding any expectations. The food is pretty average, the deli sandwiches are pretty good, but I’ve had bigger and better in the same price range.
They always seem to carry whatever marketing specials their suppliers have on, I’ve received a Steam Whistle 1L boot glass, and 1L ceramic stein here, which I’m sure is a draw for extra customers.
This particular evening we were sat in a corner, round booth that was very private as the walls of the booth were padded and go right up to the ceiling, felt as though no one else could hear us, although I’m not sure if that was actually the case.

Went there on a weeknight. I’ve always been to the one at Yorkdale which is normally fantastic. But this location was on the way home so decided to try it out with a friend. I ordered my normal Fish Taco and their drink special — beer for $ 5 dollar. Not only did the food took way too long to arrive. My fish taco was tiny! Barely any avocado, the fish was cold. They went pretty cheap on the sauce too.
I will not come back to this location. The servers were friendly and tentative, but it’s not worth it. I would rather go to the yorkdale location.

My experience at Pickle Barrel located inside Vaughan Mills exceeded my expectation. As I don’t really have much expectations at all.
Patio area is spacious and well laid out with a mix of sunny and shaded area.
Surprisingly it was empty on a Saturday evening.
Service was attentive and we were being checked on numerous time!
Daily drink special with at least a beer and cocktail for $ 5. If not there is also Beau’s in bottle format for around $ 10.
A great place to chill out after some shopping at Vaughan Mills!