Symposium Café Restaurant & Lounge – Stoney Creek

We love this restaurant. I have my favourite items of the menu and they always come perfect. The owners are extremely friendly and hard working. Sunday mornings are busy so expect to have a wait… just like any good restaurant. We are frequent customers… why? Simple, good food, good service, reasonably priced and clean.

A good place to accommodate large groups of 20+ people with friendly service, but several members of our group were not happy with our meals. I had the Southwestern chicken bowl which sounded very fresh and full of vegetables; however it was basically just chicken in an Italian flavoured tomato sauce over rice. Also the guacamole that came with it was absolutely terrible and ruined the whole meal for me — it tasted like someone accidentally spilled cleaning product into it! Other people also had complaints about the flatbread and the chicken parmesan pasta.
Next time I’ll stick to just drinks and spinach dip.

Went there last night waited half hour for drinks to be served the waiter didn’t clear our table from our soup dishes. then proceeded to serve entrée with all bowls still on the table. Got out entrée it was cold waited twenty minutes for my dinner to come back out! Not impressed at all

Came here here on Father’s Day with my fiancé’s family. The entrance was kind of chaotic, no real host waiting to check people in. When the host finally did arrive, we heard a few people squabble about being there first. Totally disorganized and pretty sure that bald man cut in front of us.
The restaurant is small, but it didn’t take long for us to get seated. It’s a nice family restaurant with very comfortable chairs. Thank goodness it was comfortable because we ended up waiting 1.5 hours for our meal. Father’s Day, right?
I ordered the French toast with bacon and the fiancé ordered the three eggs with farmers sausage. We were starving by the time the food arrived, so my assessment of the meal might be a little bias. The French toast was good, perfect egg to bread ratio. It came with a pack of table syrup (not maple syrup) which was disappointing, but the fruit salad was fresh which kind of made up for it. The three eggs and farmers sausage was standard fare, good but not spectacular.
Honestly, there are better brunch places out there, but you can’t really go wrong coming here if you want to bring the family.

Sat down quickly, but waited almost 45 minutes for our food.
The food itself was fantastic, Tuscan Benedict, eggs florentine and French toast for me and my two friends.
Disappointed with the slow service.

Took my wife and kids there to celebrate my wife’s birthday and had a terrible experience.
Had a 6pm reservation and arrived at 5:55. Was left standing at the check-​in station for a good 12 minutes completely ignored. It seemed nobody was manning the podium and nobody even acknowledged our presence.
After finally being seated, our food took way too long to arrive. It seems Symposium is ok with booking large groups (there were at least two groups of 15+ patrons at the time we were in) with no additional kitchen coverage to keep things moving. So we had to wait.
The chicken wings were average. I’d argue the potion was as advertised (1lb). Nobody at the table seemed wowed by their food. The draft beer is too expensive, too.
Finally, upon leaving we were offered take out containers for our leftovers. We asked for one when asked how many we wanted. They proceeded to bring us, I kid you not, a styrofoam container designed to hold a single hamburger (like the old McDonald’s containers).
Overall, a very poor experience with «meh» food. I’m on no hurry to go back.

Good place for breakfast. Front door is a little bit of ciaos when it busy but once you get sat it is a pretty good place for a Sunday brunch. Eggs benedict choices are great! Lots of different options and all of them tasty. Service is average and prices are fair.

This location is CHEAP!
The restaurant is hard to find because it is located behind another large pub house. I had a coupon but they only allowed me to used 50% of the coupon value because my partner did not order from the entrée section specifically. C’mon, don’t be cheap on coupons! Accept them properly, and not just for some of the menu.
I will not return to this location until they fully honour all meal vouchers and not just a portion of it.

Most good was good but the tomato that was on each plate and that I paid extra for as a side were totally under ripe and seemed to have been frozen. I know it’s winter but just take it off the menu if you don’t have good product. I expected more for here.

my wife and i go quite often because they have early bird specials at really low prices and great size portions .to include coffee and a small desert as well all for less than $ 14.00 per person. we have had pretty much tried all the early bird meals and you just can not beat it.

Went for breakfast on the weekend, first time there. Went with my wife and 5 year old son. Food was average, a little higher priced than the egg&I, but the service was horrible. Took 50 minutes to get three breakfasts, my poor son didn’t even want to eat his breakfast by the time it got there. I think they should have told us before we ordered that they were behind instead of taking our business and then making us wait a ridiculous amount of time for some eggs and bacon. I won’t return because of the service and I feel there are better breakfast joints in the area for the price.

This place is dirty! We went twice and got hair in our food twice!

This past Friday, I went to Symposium Café with a close friend of mine. It was both of our first times at this particular café, and we were pleasantly surprised with it.
I felt the environment was quite dark and mysterious, but it was also spacious and I didn’t feel extremely close to other individuals sitting around us. At the same time, even though it was a Friday night, the café was not too busy, so we were able to get a cozy seat and sit for a while without feeling rushed.
When ordering, I went with the Friday special of fish and chips and my friend went with one of their chicken entrees. Portion sizes were really good and I enjoyed every last bit of it.
Overall, I enjoyed Symposium and will probably be returning. My only negative about the café is that it is located right behind another restaurant (so it may be hard to find at first).