Saturday, April 01, 2006
Joey Tomato's - Lougheed Highway, Coquitlam
After a long 4 hour meeting, my head was spinning, my stomach growling. I leave to take to the freeway when I spot this restaurant, which I had heard good things about, although it wasn't necessarily about the food.
I get shown to my table by a hostess with Lisa Loeb glasses and a nice sweater. I'm thinking DD - due diligence, that is - so I request a table with good lighting so I can pore over the technical engineering report and all the associated costs.
It's 3pm and the restaurant is still fairly full. Lots of young waitresses hustling around busily.
Of course, with my luck, the waiter shows up and takes my order. I order a pint of Honey lager ($5.49)and the Beef Dip ($10.99) with fries.
The lager is good but that pint seems kind of small. The fries here are short skinny things and was ok. But I must comment on the Beef Dip.
It seems like the God of Salt has been following me cause the dip was extremely salty. Seems more a ploy to sell more beer than to kill a slug, although the salt content could have killed a dozen slugs.
The service was good as I mentioned the saltiness and they seemed ready to take it back or to replace the sauce. I declined.
I know they're opening up another one, so I give them one more try before I pass judgement. Or the salt.
I get shown to my table by a hostess with Lisa Loeb glasses and a nice sweater. I'm thinking DD - due diligence, that is - so I request a table with good lighting so I can pore over the technical engineering report and all the associated costs.
It's 3pm and the restaurant is still fairly full. Lots of young waitresses hustling around busily.
Of course, with my luck, the waiter shows up and takes my order. I order a pint of Honey lager ($5.49)and the Beef Dip ($10.99) with fries.
The lager is good but that pint seems kind of small. The fries here are short skinny things and was ok. But I must comment on the Beef Dip.
It seems like the God of Salt has been following me cause the dip was extremely salty. Seems more a ploy to sell more beer than to kill a slug, although the salt content could have killed a dozen slugs.
The service was good as I mentioned the saltiness and they seemed ready to take it back or to replace the sauce. I declined.
I know they're opening up another one, so I give them one more try before I pass judgement. Or the salt.