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BillyQ

Points +28

Vegan
29 Nov 2018

meet

The operators of this restaurant do not know now how to properly fry food. Tried a cronut at their Main St. restaurant and burger & fries at their Yaletown operation. The cronut was like eating a sponge saturated with oil (squishing out when you bit into it) and the burger was overcooked and over saturated also. The fries looked and tasted like they had been re-fried a dozen times and we only managed to eat around a third before giving up. The deep-fried burger patty had a weird sour flavour which did not fit with the meal. At one point I had to spit out what I was chewing because something tasted off and decided to leave the rest uneaten. The little side salad was the only nice part of the entire meal. Don't get me wrong; I love fried food but this was ridiculously bad! The worst part for me was not the food though but the non-alcoholic beverage choices. I always like to have a nice glass of water handy with a meal so was very disappointed to be served a PLASTIC tumbler full of CHLORINATED water. For a sit down restaurant that serves alcohol, this feels very cheap. The only affordable non-alcoholic bottled item they had on their menu was Phillips root beer which was horrible; it was like drinking clove extract in carbonated water and had no resemblance to root beer. After a few attempts to sip it, I gave up. When I asked if they had any bottled water, the server said the only water they had was their filtered water. Since I had already rejected the chlorinated plastic tumbler presented to me at the start of the meal and since I did not want to spend $12 on a bottle of flavoured kombucha, I was really disappointed by the time the meal was over. They never charged me for the soda but even if they had, I would gladly have paid for some bottled water even if it was something like Canadian Springs from an 18L plastic bottle. My suggestion to the owners is if you can not figure out how to fry food properly, then maybe its time to redesign your menu with non-fried foods that are of better quality and appeal. Either way, for god's sake, offer SPRING water in a GLASS.

Pros: Good side salad

Cons: Chlorinated water in plastic, fried food