ayden kitchen & bar

over rated. i don't know what all the hype is about. the service was good but the food was on the cold side and not very filling. disapointed after reading so much about this place winning awards etc

dinner. the restaurant has a great feel and and greeted nicely by staff. accommodated my wife and i and our newborn very easily with better seating. the food was superb! scallops were awesome! waiter was nice and paulette was one of the nicest and sweetest woman i have ever dealt with in the restaurant business. she was very caring. as a whole the staff was nice and incredible along with the food.

some good - some not so good. ordered caesars to drink and they were very good - spic and flavourful.
started with chicken wings, then ordered the fish and pork dishes for main courses.
disappointed in the chicken wings, found them quite dry and tasteless. i enjoyed the fish and chickpea dish although i found it slightly salty. my husband was very disappointed in the pork - found it full of fat. he loves whipped potoatoes, but found these were almost soupy.
didn't have dessert. our waitress was very good. won't hurry back.

friendly staff and delicious cuisine. lobster caesar salad was delicious! tender morsels of lobster on a bed of lettuce drizzled with a light citrusy caesar dressing creation! heaven! seared branzino fish on hummus with asparagus was perfectly cooked with crispy edible skin. one of our favourite new restaurants!

service. got the ribeye steak and to be honest much more fatty than i am used to, and i normally love my ribeyes! had to cut off a few chunks of fat that were almost half of the steak but when the waiter noticed this he made a note to the chef and the chef came out and offered to cook me a new steak, and the second one he brought out was great. very impressed with the service and the waiter/chef going above and beyond to fix the problem.

the seasoning on the steak was also great, the bread for a starter was very tasty and fresh, and the twice baked potato may just be my new favorite potato.

ayden. everything was amazing, the food, the service, the decor!

food was unbelievable. best scallops i've ever had. will be back for sure.

my wife and i ate here tonight for our anniversary. the popcorn shrimp and bread and olive starters were great. unfortunately the main course was terrible. i had the chicken dish which was disgusting. the chicken itself was spongy, and the sauce was too salty. the side salad interestingly was salted heavily as well. overall not impressed and will not be back.

not sure if i'd go back. a friend and i went for drinks to ayden after work. we sat down and no one said anything to us for approximately 40 minutes, and when the gent did, he was extremely rude, said the table had been booked for months and that we had to move to the bar. we were never offered a menu or treated very nicely even though we are/were paying customers. we had one overpriced glass of wine and left. we ended up going to congress, where we were treated nicely at the door, and had a generally lovely time. i think i would give ayden one more try, but if there is one more "i'm really too cool for you" experience like i had the first time, it would be a frosty friday before i'd go back.

tonight i dined at ayden and to be quite honest i wanted to be impressed but wasn't. last time i ate here it was very good but right now i can't say the same. the burger was good but nowhere near amazing... tomato was soft and mushy, lack of quality control when you see sad veggies. i've had a better burger for half the price in saskatoon, winstons burger blows this one away. but all that aside the worst part about dining here was smelling like a deep fryer long after leaving the building.. i would expect that from a greasy spoon, not a fine dining establishment. fix your ventilation please!

great food and service - gluten, dairy, soy-free options. i'm starting to love this place! i have a tonne of food allergies (gluten, dairy and soy to name a few), and not only did our wonderfully friendly and attentive waiter recognize me from the last time i was there a few weeks prior, he remembered all of what i was allergic to. both times, he went and spoke with the head chef to determine what was suitable for me, what they could amend, or what dishes they could create for me! everything i have eaten there was really amazing and totally unique from anything else you'll find in saskatoon.

didn't work for me...noisy, expensive and not gluten friendly.. i had heard interesting things about ayden's and am a fan of top chef so thought we would give it a try on our anniversary. i know its called a kitchen and bar, but i didn't really expect a "pub" atmosphere given the prices... it was very noisy and the chairs and tables were not comfortable. that may be because they were so tiny and crowded together - my waitress wacked me while talking to the table next to us and again walking by!

we were sat quickly and poured warm tap water - strange for a fine dining establishment. the food - maybe my expectations were too high - but the menu just wasn't very much fun. it seemed expensive and limited - $23-24 for a chicken breast or pork medallion. we tried the scallops, and they were very good, but we only got 3 small to medium-sized scallops for $16! my husband had the burger, which he enjoyed and i had the lobster caesar salad. again, it tasted good, but to me a caesar salad needs some form of garlic and parmesan...this one was iceberg lettuce with bacon and oranges in a citrus-type vinegrette. it was fairly bland and i felt like asking for some salt (there's none on the table) or some garlic-aoli. maybe a parmesan crisp on top? they were fairly generous with the lobster, however.

i was also disappointed because ayden's markets itself as gluten friendly, but did not have a gluten free menu! the waitress said "most everything on the menu is gluten free" but many items clearly were not - contained breadcrumbs, etc. this is a dangerous comment to make if your customer is celiac (luckily i'm just allergic to wheat). they do not offer a gluten free pasta or bread choice (which is not difficult to make or source), and were out of anything gluten free for dessert.

as other reviewers have noted, we too felt somewhat rushed; after clearing our plates our waitress informed us there were no gluten free desserts left and brought us the cheque. she did not offer us coffee or my husband dessert. we were there for exactly one hour.

overall, i liked the flavors, but i think this place has a bit of an identity issue; if its a bar, we don't really expect comfort, but want satisfying, fun food. if its a fine dining experience, it should be more comfortable given the prices.

this is to the place to bring anyone you want to impress (your date, your out-of-towner friend, your in-laws). it's also a great place to have a casual meal if you're willing to shell out a bit more $$ than average ($30-40pp before alcohol).

what i love about this place is that it serves great quality innovative food without being pretentious. serving sizes for appetizers can be a little bit skimpy here and there, but always perfect for entrees. they change their menu every season (i think), but the structure of the menu stays the same (chicken item, pork item, beef item, pasta item, burger item). every time i see the menu change online, or i see a new menu item on instagram, i get excited to go back. 

servers are great and down to earth, and the atmosphere is great -- modern and industrial, but not too hipster.

i highly recommend the popcorn prawns.

didn't even get to order a drink... went in for what we expected was going to be a lovely late night dinner.. shortly before the server came to our table we saw a mouse run through the dining room, right by our table. needless to say, we informed the staff and quickly proceeded out the front door.

i'm not about to pay that much money for a meal and have to dine with mice.
solve this problem, maybe i'll be back.

i attended a work supper at ayden kitchen & bar this week & was very impressed! not only was the food extremely tasteful and unique from all the other restaurants in saskatoon but the service from the moment we walked in was above and beyond! our waitress was very friendly and knowledgable about the menu, she even had the bartender create us drinks (which where delicious)
all and all, we will be back.