Restaurant #45 - Savana's - June 8th 2012

We went to a relatively new restaurant in town, Savana's on St George,almost beside Red Satay (here is where I would like to point out that Savana's civic address is 203 St George St and Red Satay's is 207 St George St, clearly indicating that 205 St George St is between the two places.. and when you look on google maps, and yes it is an old picture of street view, but we all know that Oh My Fry is now Red Satay, you can clearly see that there is a door for 205 St George St, which might just be the stairs to get upstairs, but it still exists, which would be why I wrote "almost beside" and not "beside" :-) - end of rant). The restaurant had been open for a little over a month when we visited. There was Erick, Stephane, Mikella, Darren and I. The restaurant advertise's itself as a creole-jamaican-african restaurant (I think I got that right, I'm going by memory). The concept seems pretty fun, and it's nice that there's something exotic. Now, what it came down to is, there are 4 different main plates, Darren and Erick ordered two of them, which were exactly the same, but the sauces were different. There were also meals, which Stephane and I had the same one, couscous with ginger chicken and vegetables and Mikella had the chicken skewer. The food was good, and the bowls that Stephane and I got were huge and full of food, but overall, I was expecting more spices or something a bit more exotic. The other thing that bugged me was that it took over an hour to get our food, and we were the only people in the restaurant. The waiter/chef did bring out some hummus and bread, which was actually very delicious. I don't know how the food actually compares to "real" African food, so I don't know if it would be considered authentic or not, but I enjoyed my meal :)

 

 

 

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.