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(2.5) (2.3) (2.3) (2.5)Had to come here when we were in Gibsons. It was cleaner and spruced up since the last I was here many years ago. There are Beachcomber photos on the wall and one tv playing the Beachcombers in one corner, but I'd like to have seem more memorabilia.
The food was slight over priced as a tourist trap at 10-20 % above actual value. Now to the food. I wasn't expecting much but was surprised.
Cod and chip was delcared delicious, grilled cheese - yummy. Crab and shrimp sandwich was pretty good if not a little bland and there was two large thick slices of tomato stuck together inside. The burger was said to be good but the cheese was weird. The coke was flat as well. The fries were really good - the battered kind and cooked perfectly.
Not somewhere I'd go often, but if you're in town and want a Beachcombers experience it's definately worth it.
I have been to this place quite a few times on my way through Abbotsford. It's not the best sushi around but not the worst. The service is fairly fast if not robotic. The sushi is average if not a bit fishy. I went the other day and had lunch. I paid on my Visa and she pretended that she was having some type of trouble with the machine. I had two small cheap rolls and a soup. It still came to $14 with tax - I didn't check at the time but that seems high. I left a cash tip so I did not add a tip to the machine. When I check the charge that went though on my credit card it was put through at over $17 so they somehow helped themselves to a tip. Pretty low. Watch your bill - I won't have to as I'll never go back.
Now that the Inno Bakery has been open for a year and a half I thought for sure this place would close down. It's been here forever, or at least as long I've been in Poco. I find their bread dry and tasteless and it is completely stale the next day. There's little in the way of hearty bread and no great shaped loaves mostly slice white loaves in plastic bags.
I can't comment on the deli part since I don't use it but it looks just live everywhere else that slices the prebought meat and cheeses. All the cookies and stuff are the same you can buy in any "european" stlye bakery - white from a mix. And the only good thing they used to have were th honey bran muffins, which tasted like real grammas bran muffins. Sadly no more. They now taste like they too are from a mix. Now that Inno's here I don't really see a reason to go here.
What a blast! Went there while visitinig a friend who lives nearby. Walked in an found restaurant busy but not full, with basic tables and the traditional portable type buffet table. This reminded me of the Dragon Inn in Burnaby that I used to go to as a small child. The price for the smogasboard was ten something for adults and 85 cents per year for kids. Great value.
The had hot and sour and wonton soup with sliced green onion to put on it. Then there was noodles, fried rice, stir fried veggies with tons of broccoli in them(my fav) some kind of meat and veggies in black bean sauce, deep fried pork, chicken wings, deep fried wontons, and deep fried prawns!!!! Dessert was fresh fruit, cantaloupe and watermelon, some cake and 2 colours of jello. Waitress brought me a big free bowl of sweet and sour sauce when asked. Waitresses were fast, efficient and friendly even asking how everything was when we left and expressing gratitude when I told her how good it was. Quite unexpected in a place like this.
Exactly what you'd expect and for the price I was stuffed when I left. I think I ate more than my money;s worth in prawns! All of the food was hot and fresh, being quickly replenished often, It was so cool, retro and small town - I loved it. For what it is, it is the best!
2's all around for this place. Fish burrito consisted of 2 frozen "fish" fingers. Was it real fish? I don't know. Was it their fingers? I don't know. Didn't taste like much. Could have been fish, could have been fingers, could have been any number of things. Had to wait an extra five minutes while they unfrozen them. Add refried beans that looked more like something my 2 year old made. Hmm this is not going well. Would you like sour cream and guacaomole? Yes. Didn't say that sour cream was free but guacamole was an extra 75 cents. Tricky.
They have white, whole wheat, tomato and spinach tortillas which really do not translate as flavours more so as white, brown, green, and red. I think I had green. After they put in the mystery fingers, baby poop, green glop and white glop I got a small spoonful of "cheese" and some salsa. That's about it. Cost me lober $8. Was full of bland after a few bites and chucked it out. They used to give you free chips and have bottles of hot sauce on every table. I guess they stopped because they wouldn't want the food to taste like anything? Weird,
And it wasn't funny.
I paid over $10.50 for a gross meal and a pop. I want my money and my time back. Plus I want to throw up and try a better meal.
I got less thana cup of white steamed rice afew stir fried bean spouts, 1 mini piece of broccoli and 5 shrimp with a gross sauce. I could have eaten at a real Japanese restaurant for that. It was nasty. Do not go there ever for any reason. That's all I have to say about that.
We love this place. It's the only restaurant where we feel special and at home. Yeah, it's a tad on the $$ side but not really compared to a lot of other pizza places(not dominoes or panago) BUT real pizza places.
A larege cheese pizza for $16 feeds my 2 kids 2 meals. $4 a meal - not bad. A LARGE PIZZA feeds me and hubby and some for his lunch next day $26 - so about $9 a meal - but the toppings are top quality. THE perogy pizza is crazy good - you feel like you had perogies AND pizza for dinner. I love the atmosphere in the place - it's fun, the kids love playing by the fireplace and the wheel chair ramp - when no wheel chairs are using it. Once I heard some crabby old lady complain about the kids playing and was told it was a FAMILY restaurant not a pub by the staff!! Sweet.
The Godfather is really good as is the Shrimp Pesto supreme(that could be the best pizza on the planet). You have to like thin crust thought to like this place - if you like fried dough balls in your tummy go to Pizza hut.
Ive been here many many times. We come with my MIL and FIL once every month or two on Sundays for dinner. I used to love it and find it huge value and totally yum. As with all great places it sees fantastic success and then decides to change and cheap out till it's gone I guess.
Ive noticed a steady increase in prices, decrease in quality and value, continued lack lustre service and WHAT restaurant has never accepted debit these days?
The food is still good and the daily chalk board of specials is interesting. However I have had a few dishes poorly seasoned or seasoned incorrectly, items missing that were described on the board, and exepnsive ones too like seafood. The portions are starting to get smaller but are still good. Worst of all is the desserts. Some are realy good but the specials are often so puny I'd be embarrassed to serve it to a child never mind charge a ton for it. Booo boo boo. I hope the owners read this because we your loyal customers are hip to your ways and will soo be gone. Wake up! Turn the clock back a few years and start again.
I grew up going to this bakery in Richmond. I guess I thought it was good back in the day as there were no real bakeries to compare it to. I'm not sure what a "Dutch" bakery is although many bakeries around town use that term, but I think it means everything is white and tastes the same. Even when you go to other "Dutch" bakeries it's like they all have the same stuff. Now that I have travelled the world and tasted real baking this place is bad.
I went in the other day and saw the new place. Sad to see the old one gone as my mom said I had my first ice cream cone there as a baby - I guess they used to have ice cream. The place looked nice and the girl behind the counter robotic. I studied all the "pastries" and white bread and decided to get some cookies for my family. I picked a selection. Price was average at $5 a dozen but not when you consider the quality.
All of the cookies were based on the same white flour dough and just has stuff added. White dough with chocolate chips = chocolate chip cookies. White dough with raisins = "fruit" cookies. White dough with cherries and almonds = well you get the picture. YUK we ended up throwing half away as my family was not even interested. That includes teenagers - nuff said. Even Cobs "Bakeoff"eries are better than this.
Went on a weekday night. Food was good. Good selection, and reasonable prices. Halibut burger was really good, caesar salad - store bought variety. Not great, nothing to write home about. Sliders were good but charged extra for garlic mayo.
Decent but not memorable wine list and small cocktail menu. I don't understand why these places don't print and sell the specials and cocktails. Menu said martinis were on special, but no where did it list any martinis or describe them. I would have ordered one it if somewhere it sounded good. So I just ordered a plain old glass of wine.
Blonde waitress sucked and was rude. I would not sit in her section again. Had to ask for a CLEAN glass with each wine order. They just try to pour it in your dirty old glass. Cheap and gross.
Had a 2frer1 coupon so not bad. I liked it that it was older people like over 35 not a bunch of teenies.
Good vibe, music volume and sport on tv if you like that(not).
Went on a summer evening. It was avery busy. Waited at least 10 minutes to order and then another 15 for the food. It was worth the wait. Lovely summer evening. Beautiful location. One piece order of cod and chips came with 2 large whole pieces. The fries were excellent. The fish yummy hot and crispy. One person had a burger and said it was awesome and "melty". The only bad thing was the grilled cheese - it was weird as it was a hamburger bun turned inside out. Great outdoor dining experiece.,
I go to this Starbucks almost every day. Sometimes twice a day. I pay like $5 each time for a coffee. My sister goes there sometimes 3 times a day.
Today I went in with my daughter. At the other great Starbucks on Shaughnessy st in Poco they once asked if she wanted "tiger" stripes on her hot chocolate - chocolate and some caramel - they put a lot on! She loved it and has ordered "tiger" stripes many times in Starbucks all over the lower mainland but does not expect more than the standard size drizzle,just a little of each. Today I asked when I ordered for "tiger stripes" and told the girl what it was. She said fine. When we got the hot chocolate there was only a tiny bit of chocolate syrup. I asked the barista to put a little caramel on as she wanted the "tiger stripes". Then the lecture came.
"Well, it's actually extra. You have to ask when you order and then you will be charged for it." I explained that it hadn't even been my idea, but rather other barista's and no one anywhere had ever said it would be extra. "well, we're running a business and I'm the manager and you are supposed to be charged for it" she went on "we can't give everything away for free". Are you KIDDING ME??? One mini drizzle of caramel on a tiny hot chocolate. I see people ordering extra caramel, "layered" caramel frappuccinos and a whole host of other things and are NEVER charged extra. I thinks it's quietly understood, that they would not have the balls to charge extra when you pay so much for a coffee. This lecture was also given loudly in front of other customers, I guess to make me feel bad, but it just made her look cheap and stupid.
So, the net result of the lecture from Ms. Genius Manager and businsess executive extraordinaire is that neither my sister nor I will be ever going to this Starbucks again. So her 2 cents worth of caramel will result in a net loss to this store of $4000-$5000 this year alone. Wow- we spend that much on coffee - time to cut back anyway. We're heading to Tim Hortons tomorrow. She should be recommended for Manager of the Year.
I used to love this place. Great food reasonable prices and fun atmosphere for what it was. Also had an awesome salsa bar with many different and yummy salsa, I know they redid the place a couple of years ago.
We went and checked it out finally. It looked the same pretty much with different tables, the salsa bar gone and the order counter gone. It was now a "sit down". Ok so it still was in a dumpy garage but trying to be fancy. The menu has way fewer items on it and no tacos or anything like that - at a Mexican restaurant? Odd.
The service was slow even though there were only a few tables occupied. Got a small bowl of chips and were asked what type of salsa we wanted. We had the medium and it was awful. It was slimy as if it was one of those bottled ones, not freshly made like they used to have. The chips were not nice freshly made like they used to be there were out of a bag. Only a few were whole on top and then all the others were crushed and broken until the bottom third that was all crumbs.
The burrito was good and had nothing "weird" in it my partner said. It was very large but at $12 it really only contained inexpensive ingredients and came with nothing else. I think this one used to be about $8. The fajitas were massively overpriced at $14. There were 4 very small tortillas, some food service premade shredded cheese, a pile of cheap iceberg lettuce that was cut way too thick, a thimble of salsa and a steaming pan of about 5 burnt onion slices and exactly 6 small shrimp, NOT prawns as advertised. There was aslo nothing else, no beans, rice or even guacamole. This is a COMPLETE rip off - do not order. The other REALLY poor value was the kids meal. $6.50 for a 2 VERY small tortillas with a little cheese, a juice box and a freezie(a NO NAME one from the Superstore no less so you can imagine how much that cost them). I was STUNNED when you compare that to say Whitespot or somewhere where they woulc have got a chocolate milk, full size grill cheese, fries and a and ice cream sundae for less.
The other kid had a bean burrito which he said was cold mostly and was SUPER boring mostly lettuce. Two nasty plastic cups of pop rang in at $5.50. So for over $50 PLUS a tip now it was a sit down and NO alchol I felt totally ripped off. the ingredients we had cost way less thatn $5, If this was authentic or different mexican in anyway maybe but it's cheap food made from cheap ingredients. Spend $50 at a good restautant and buy all these inexpesive things at Walmart and make the same at home.
I loved this place. I WENT at least once a week. I wrote a great reivew. Then I felt ripped off. I ordered a catapillar roll. It is a 3.99(expensive) california roll that gets three thin slices of avocado on top and becomes $5.99 on the menu. It rings up when you pay at $6.99. I coud buy 2 whole avocados at the store for $3. I HATE being ripped of and I despise the sly ness of having the reister ring up higher than the menu. The woman preteneded `:me no speaky english when I complained. I have not been back.
I have never had a green falafel until today. Somewhat weird. The inside was seriously neon glowing green. And there was an unplesantly odd spice in it. The falafel was crunchy so that was good, but I asked for everything on it and all I could taste was ice berg lettuce. No tomato or onion taste - they put on slices so thin you can read the paper through it on there. Plus there was supposed to be tzatziki or garlic sauce or something on it but it had no flavor. Basically it was edible. Thats it.
Not being a fan of the Waves cafes, I had never really tried this location. Where others are either rundown and empty or packed with students taking up tables for hours on a $2 coffee this was completely different. Weird, in Poco.
It had a great cafe vibe, a good mix of people, good music and nice table set ups. I had a coupon from the paper and it was gladly accepted with no hassle. I think I had a caramel macchiato and honestly it was 100 times better than anything I ever have at Starbucks. Good coffee with good crema. I was stunned, it almost tasted like Cafe Artigiano. Slightly more than Starbucks in cost but the coffee and atmosphere were worth it. I will be back.
but why the heck is Subway so freakin expensive? I know people say it's fresh food and better for you than say McDs but their pricing structure sucks. Vegetarian are completely ripped off. I stopped going because of the cost to take my kids and myself for veggie sandwiches. Recently there was a $5 footlong promo that I didn't realize was going to end. We had started visiting subway more often - until today.
My kid had a footlong sub, with cheese, and little extra cheese(which they charge for). That makes NO sense because if he had ham or deli meat it would have been included. Veggie sandwiches are the same price as all the other "classic" sandwiches that have meat AND cheese. Then has a little lettuce, 3 pieces of cucumber and some mayo. With a bag of chips and a drink it came to $11.50 - for ONE kid. You have to be kidding me. They better fix their prices or people will be going bag to the other places.
I refused to pay them any more and walked down to taco del mar where I got a huge burrito with fish, chips and salsa and a drink - I could not finish all the food - for $7.50. Subway better shake their head.
Went with a gift card we had received. Why on earth someone who knows us well would give us one to this place is beyond me. We have only been here once in all the time it's been here.
OK- pizza way too small for the price. Flat small rectangular pizza was $14.
Pastas were not bad for what they were - certainlly edible but not memorable nor high quality.
We waited a long time to be seated. there were at one point 25 people waiting to be seated. During the 1/2 hour or more we all waited MANY tables were left empty and unbussed. There were also set tables that were not being used while we waited. The only thing that made up for it was the ton of free bread, all you can eat and they kept brining more. It was good with the garlice butter, but really not expensive.
I would not go there again unless I had to
This place could be really good. I had a combo with a greek salad. It was absolutely the worst greek salad I have ever had anywhere. It was mostly nasty green pepper, big pieces, tomatoes were hard as a rock and it had absolutely No dressing. Plus the worst part was the lille bit of cheese they put on was goat feta. I can';t stand goat cheese and it did not say anywhere that it was goat cheese. It wasn't much but it was enough to ruin th entire salad so I could not eat it.
The pita sanwich was ok but way too much sauce made the pita soggy and then fall apart. Customer service was lacking. I stood at the till for a very lond time before I was acknowledged. You gotta step it up if you want me to come back.
This place moved across from where it was and made the seating area bigger. It is in the Coquitlam Centre Mall. My go to place for sushi in the mall is Sashimi Sushi with real Japanese people. But, I thought if this place had expanded it must be good right - wrong.
I had a California roll and a yam tempura roll. The Cali roll tasted like - no kidding - smoked salmon. That was not totally bad to me but weird. But, it should not have either been contaminated with smoked salmon or have been stored so close to it that it picked up the flavour. The yam tempura for the other roll had been fried much earlier in the day, if not the day before and was cold and hard. Yuk. Also, the roll was so bad and had so much cucumber in it that it fell apart. That's about the worst thing a sushi roll can to. Plus it was way overpriced. A lousy yam tempura roll with cucumber was the same size and price as a dynamite roll with a tempura prawn, crab and avocado -go figger.
Also, the menu was false advertising. It said the california roll was crab. It is not crab, it is fake crab. Plus they cheap out on the wasabi.
Customer service was nil, with little interaction and no conversation or smiles. I'm heading back to Sashimi sushi where they know how to make sushi and treat customers.
