Elgin Street is a wonderful place to be at night- calm traffic, lively streets cape, and a disproportionately large number of Italian restaurants. Among them is Mo Bros, from El Grande concepts (the group that runs Grappas).
The location of this place is admittedly quite interesting, in that there is no "store-front" or street view so to speak, but rather this alley that you have to walk through to get there. If you're on a wheelchair or dining with someone with mobility concerns, you might want to think twice about this place. Otherwise it's a very nice cozy restaurant with great food, though service could use a little more work.
The service isn't bad, but rather servers seem a bit uncomfortable at times and depending on where you sit could be difficult to get a hold of (generally what happens when you have a more awkward restaurant layout- they have a two-tiered design with their indoor and outdoor dining area, I think they may have used the rear portions of two separate buildings)
On with the food- I ordered their Bruschetta Classico, the fried whitebait, Baked Mostaccioli, and veal Parmesan, and was very satisfied overall. The bruschetta Classico has very juicy and flavourful tomatoes and you could really taste the garlic too. Bread was light, and despite its relative thickness still allowed the tomatoes to shine through. The whitebait was well seasoned and crunchy. They claimed that the tartare sauce came with it would be spicy, but it was more seasoned than anything. Either way, it was still a good fish with the whitebait being pleasantly flaky. I don't typically think much of baked pastas, but I was very pleased with how it turned out- it was very cheesy, the mostaccioli pasta was al dente, and it came with generous portions of spicy sausage and a rich tomato sauce. The veal parm was great too- tender, well seasoned, and it had a good amount of chewy mozzarella melted on top. I would remark however that the tomato sauce that came with it was a little too rich and overpowered the dish, so I'm glad they served it separately.
Great place to dine overall read more