This review is longgggggggggggggggggggggggg overdue and my excuse for the delay is, well, I was not a Yelper back then! :) So without further ado, here it is. MLH is as good as it gets when it comes to an intimate country-style venue. I got married here in May of 2009 as the beautiful spring blooms were starting to come alive and boy, oh boy, this place was everything I had hoped it would be and more. What I wanted was a breezy, organic and natural setting and MLH fit the bill just perfectly. Just for comparison purposes, other venues of consideration were Estates of Sunnybrook, Graydon Hall, Kortright Center and McMichael gallery. None of those places came even close to MLH. It was such a perfect venue for me that now I'm considering hosting my daughter's first birthday party here. When we were planning our wedding, we wanted an outdoor ceremony with 150 guests and a less formal reception space where guests could mingle with ease. MLH offered all of those things as we had our ceremony site set on a sweeping lawn situated next to the house which had a rustic arbor set against a backdrop of tall trees that offered comfortable privacy. The greenery here is just so striking and you forget that you're still in the middle of a large Metropolitan city. Our reception was held in an outdoor tent with excellent food provided by Presidential Gourmet. MLH is truly a gem of a space and if you're lucky enough experience this venue, you will fall in love with its one of a kind charm and history along with its beautiful grounds. read more

I attended for a Mother's Day brunch yesterday and the entire experience was beyond awful. The waitress was never around and even complained about me ordering a cup of tea; which took over half an hour to actually get. The food was terrible!! It was a buffet style and they ran out of food and did not refill the stations. What slim pickings were available were burnt, cold or undercooked. My group of 4 mothers left with a large bill and empty stomachs. I am not exaggerating when I say this was the worst dining experience I have ever had. read more

This estate property dates back to 1911 which initially began as a project took until 1913 to complete the design. The design itself was based upon the Arts & Crafts style. It was said that the materials used in constructing the house was simple but quite extraordinary at the time. The house itself carried the craftsman principle of making a house harmonious with the natural surroundings. By the end of the twentieth century, the Millennium Project took it upon themselves to successfully restore the Miller Lash house. Per the history of the Miller Lash House, "the walls are constructed of poured concrete, then faced with river stone collected from the Highland Creek bed which meanders by the house. All of the heavy beams and truss work that support the cathedral ceilings and porch roofs are squared pine timbers - no doubt milled on the property. Natural clay products were used for roof tiling and floor areas both inside and out. The house was built with wooden framed casement windows and French doors that opened out from three sides of many rooms directly onto the patios." We attended an indoor ceremony for a family wedding. It was supposed to be outdoors but got rescheduled due to the rainy weather. I liked the simplicity of the indoor tent with the chandeliers and seating. The tent is surrounded by the gardens and overlooks the Highland creek. Staff was warm and friendly and assisted the guests with directions and parking. read more

The Miller Lash House - Venues & Event Spaces Near Me - Toronto, Ontario

The only reason I am giving this property 1 star is because it is absolutely gorgeous and the events team (lead by Julie) that worked my wedding on the day of did an amazing job- however, overall I am writing this review to warn other brides against booking this venue. Let me preface this review by saying I was by no means a bridezilla, I always say to people if working with this venue could stress me out, I cannot imagine how it would make a bride that is very fixated on her 'big day' feel. -It took 4 contact requests before the manager Tammy actually got back to me about specifics about booking the venue, over a month- by this point we had almost booked another venue -Upon her initial meeting with my father-in-law the manager said that the venue could not minimize the cost of booking the place but that things like the projector ($600) that were already on-site they could offer discount for however when it came time to ask about discounts on these she denied she could do this (Basically said what she could to get us to book and then didn't care) -the communication of this venue is horrible. It would take on average a week for the manager to respond to an email. It took two weeks to book a site visit. They have hired a new Event Coordinator who is so nice but didn't have any answers to any questions. Tammy obviously did not train her. Anytime we asked a simple question (ex: how much are chair rentals?), she had to get back to us because she had to ask Tammy who would not be available for a week. Tammy once bitched me out because I emailed requesting a response to a question that was a week overdue and she said 'I am off Mondays because I work weekends'- but how am I supposed to know that? -In February we asked for our final quote (we booked late January). We sat down with the venue in March and explained that we were new to this but explained the type of style we wanted and the type of seating that we needed. We wanted a cocktail style party but needed some seating for older guests which Tammy was aware of. However, over the next few months it would become obvious that she didn't take any notes at meetings or pay attention to past conversations. After speaking over email and phone and in person for 5 months- she came to us with a seating plan that had no chairs! She blamed us, and actually yelled during a meeting because she didn't like being criticized. I had to calm everyone down and ask us all to work together, me the bride! -In June, we still hadn't received our final quote and Tammy said if we didn't finalize it we may not be able to secure rentals. We emailed back that week anxious to secure rentals but we did not get our final quote until a week before our wedding in August! She then told us because we finalized everything so late we could not get any additional discounts as she had initially promised (she had told me she would give us a break on linens etc). She waited 2 months to finalize our contract (even more if you consider the fact we had asked for it to be done in February) and then blamed us -We wanted an ice cream truck on the day of and she said we could not have any outside vendors and had to use U of T's ice cream truck. We kept asking her for a quote and she kept claiming she emailed and was waiting to hear back. We asked about this in May (and a few times after) because we wanted to bring in our own but she said no, then a week before our wedding in August she emailed to say that their truck wasn't operating that year. With a week to go we couldn't get the approvals for an outside vendor. -She stopped responding to my emails after I called her out on her lack of communication skills and refused to respond to my emails, my fiance had to email her if we had a question -We wanted to rent kids tables and she offered us her personal tables that she had at home, I thought that was a bit unprofessional but it would keep our costs down. I think she was trying to be nice after being so rude. A week before our wedding we ask her assistant about the table and she says that Tammy said her husband sold them- she never even told us, so we had no kids tables -Make sure you ask the venue about their staffing ratios. They claim that they have a certain ration for staffing and smallware rentals that you have to follow (though this is not in the contract) Tammy way over scheduled for ours, we accidentally found out when we asked her assistant what the ratio was (8:1) she had us at like 250 guests server ratio when the max we had or were even allowed to have was 200 -She lied about what our liqour license entitled us to, she said we couldn't have two bars. We called the LCBO and they said it was fine, then she changed her story and said U of T didn't allow 2 bars. All in all, it was stressful dealing with the manager of this venue and she really made me sad during a time I should have been happy and excited. I would say if you choose this venue be aware of these things. read more

Beautiful grounds & delicious food! Was lucky to attend a reception at Miller Lash House last night as part of a summer institute hosted by UTSC. Very impressed. Love the house ale, too. read more

We just attended the Mother's Day Brunch here this past Sunday. Beautiful property and surroundings are peaceful. Mother's Day Brunch was held in an outdoor large tent. Set up and presentation was pretty inside. Buffet was a little unorganized, it was hard to navigate around and hot items were next to cold items etc. Service was so/so, had to find someone to get us drinks etc. My big complaint was that it was freezing inside the tent, weather was not that great and it did rain. Venues that I have gone to in the past that are tented outside always have outdoor heaters inside just incase the weather is not great. Since it was chilly inside, it was difficult to keep any of your food warm, everything got cold very quickly. At $40.00 a head, I would have expected them to make sure the room was a comfortable temperature and they should have paid more attention to this. To be honest everything would have been so much better if only they had heated the tent properly. read more