Restaurant #44 - Kwong's - June 1st 2012

Thank you Stéphan for the review:


Kwong’s is a small unassuming Chinese take-out in Riverview. Their small room has four tables so Darren, Pierre and Stephan decided to try it for a sit-down supper. While waiting for their meal to arrive, they could see a steady stream of customers coming in for take-out, a promising sign. Pierre and Stephan had a # 3 combo while Darren went for the # 4.  The food turned out to be very good, a unanimous thumb up. Everyone agreed the chicken chow mein was the best they ever tasted. The chicken balls (# 3) and spare ribs (# 4) were also very good, as were the egg rolls. The only disappointment was the chicken fried rice, as there was basically no chicken in it. It was good, but more like a plain fried rice than a chicken fried rice as advertised. All in all though, a good experience.

 

 

 

 

Restaurant #43 - Swiss Chalet

We went to Swiss Chalet, the food was good. JP was down from Alberta, so it was fun to hear all his stories and everything.

 

 

Restaurant #42 Mexicali Rosa's - May 4th 2012

Mexican/Californian food done wrong...

Pierre, Darren, Stephan, Stephane and I went to Mexi's. I don't particularly like it. I've been there a handful of times, and the last time I was there, I finally discovered that the nacho's were good. So when we went this week, I knew that the nachos were a safe bet (the other things I tried or sampled from other people before didn't taste too good). Turns out that I didn't order the same nachos as the time I enjoyed them, and these weren't too good. Everyone ordered something Mexican except Stephan, and turns out that he seemed to be the one that enjoyed his meal the most.. live and learn, and thankfully this restaurant is done off the list so I won't have to go back for at least a year or so (those seem to be the intervals that I've been there). There was one time (quite a few years ago), that I went with friends for boiled ice cream.. that was actually good.

 

Restaurant #41 Jean's - April 20th 2012

So, I haven't kept the blog up to date lately, and honestly, I had been getting a bit sick and tired of hearing the discussions of where to eat over the last few weeks because we did all the "good" restaurants (in my opinion at least) and now we're left with the shitty ones, so we're not very motivated on choosing restaurants or there's always someone that has a negative comment about most of the restaurants left so I was getting fed up, and the thought of updating this thing with pictures and comments was making my toes curl. Needless to say, I'm feeling better about going to the crappy restaurants and I'll try to update this thing (and adding some pictures), so if the comments/reviews are short and to the point, that would be why.


Stephane, Stephan, Darren and I went to Jean's (the original, on St. George), and it was a typical diner-style restaurant. It was my first time there. I found it ok overall, but in order of preferences of diner's, mine are Hynes then Jean's.. I do like the center island part and how they have a counter all around. Also, Darren had the fried chicken and said that it was very good, so that's nice.

 

 

 

Restaurant # 40 - Mike's -April 13th 2012

We went to Mikes. I got a table d'hote, with a bbq chicken pizza that was good, except that I found there was a bit too much sauce on it, but besides that it was quite tasty. Also, Darren's birthday was the day after, so later on in the evening, we had cake (but it was from Superstore, not Mike's).

 

 

Restaurant # 39 - The Sports Rock - April 6th 2012

The guys went to sports rock. I was told that it was good, normal-style pub food. There was Darren, Stephane, Stephan and Pierre. There was a picture of them outside the restaurant, but due to technological+human errors, that picture no longer exists.

 

Restaurant # 38 - Cafe Maelstrom - March 30th 2012

Bye Bye Maelstrom!

This restaurant is now closed, the night we went was their last night. I always liked this place (others will disagree). I find that it has tasty sandwiches, soups, desserts and good pasta for supper. I think everyone enjoyed their food and the place was quite busy as usual, and there was a steady stream of people waiting to be seated. All in all, a good place by my standards and I'm sad to see it go.