I returned to see how C-5 in the ROM was doing a  year after its opening.

I found the Dorset Lamb Sausage,Grapefruit Panzanella, Olives, Prune Purée  ($15), a lamb sausage with pink grapefruit and cubes of bread, delicious. A small helping which suited me fine. A pastrami sandwich, which appears to have gone from the menu, was also very good. Only thing that bugged me was the MUSIC! In a room like a barn with an open kitchen, you just don't need more noise. The last manager there acknowledged customers complained about the noise, but customers apparently don't mean anything !

A customer's comment was posted recently.

Edward:

The large room is coldly austere with what looks like whitewashed vaulted ceilings, somewhat like those in the film Son Of Frankenstein.

The acoustics are terrible: canned music booms through the room making it easier to hear someone 10 tables away but hard to keep up a conversation with a table mate.

People at valued windows may have a nice view  but in the middle of the room we felt trapped in Grand Central Station.  The din at times made us laugh.

 Service and presentation were excellent although the portions were so very tiny my companion said it would have been nice to have just one more scallop. I had the steak frites --the frites were ever so minuscule but done to perfection, the steak was very juicy and i was promised it had been aged 60 days --no more, no less.  the "cheese" plate I chose for desert had three very small cheese pieces artfully arranged with walnuts and crispy toast slices and did the trick.The hot tea may have come via a tea bag but it was fine. It may be that C5 is pitched just a little too high for the average Toronto museum visitor's palate.......

The two ladies with me complained about trying to find the restaurant in the first place and wondered if the ambiance increased after dark with a twinkling skylight as backdrop. Finding the restrooms made for an adventure.