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Copyright 2005 Randy Charles Morin
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Located next to the ACC, Real Sports is one of the, if not the top sports bar in Toronto. Check out the 30 foot big screen.
Lots of beer on tap. This was some kind of London stout.
Meatloaf was awesome and looks even awesomer. Fried onions on top. Potatoes great! Presentation perfect. Mmmm.
I had the chicken fingers. Suicide. I didn't get much for $10. 3.
One kid had the butter pasta. Love the bowls. She loved the pasta.
Son had the mini burgers. Loved 'em. Fries weren't that good. Overcooked.
Gotta have more than one beer and of different varieties. Lot's on tap.
Desert was OK.
Overall, great experience. A little expensive. Wouldn't go here often, but worth the experience at least once.
We love Red Lobster. If it wasn't so darn expensive, I think my fam would eat there almost every day. Usually we go to the Red Lobster on Queen St in Brampton.
Ya start off with drinks and they almost always have my fav Rickards Red on tap. Then they bring the biscuits. These are evil. They will bring as many as you can eat. They taste great and you can easily kill any hunger with them. Be careful not to ruin your meal. Done that.
My caesar salad.
Stuffed sole is my fav. It's cheaper. It's also very rich.
If ya got bucks, then they have the best seafood platters. Garlic shrimp. Friend shrimp. And a lobster tail.
The kids lose the crab legs. And the mashed potatoes.
And the youngest is crazy about brocoli.
The kids also love the popcorn shrimp.
Makes you almost wanna go back. Except with drop $100 every time :(
On Valentin's Day, my wife took me to Osso Rucco on Bovaird, near Hurontario, in Brampton. This is a fancy, yet reasonably priced restaurant in Brampton.
The specials menu is a large board, which they have plenty of for all the guests. Different. I had the Spaghetti & Meatballs and the wife had Seafood pasta off the regular menu.
Overall, great food. Great atmosphere. Great service. I should'a taken some more pics of the food and front door. Never can have enough pics.
One of our fav restaurants in both Canada and the U.S. is Applebees. We started going about the time the movie Talladega Nights came out (the movie featured the restaurant). We were just getting into NASCAR as a family and it was fun to go to Applebees like they did in the movie. Except we don't get thrown out. Over time, we've come to make this our prime regular restaurant.
My wife usually has one of the chicken stir fry dishes.
I have the chicken bites, buffalo suicide style. The chicken is the exact same in both the stir fry and bites. I wish they'd put more sauce and spice it up. I often have to ask. That said, they are great chicken pieces.
Sometimes we get rings, but not usually. The rings tend to be overcooked, but usually great.
Kid's like the pogos, which are quite often overcooked, but the wife always gets them to re-cook them when they are. Fries are pretty good, not great.
They also like the MacNCheese. Always good.
In Brampton, they always have Rickard's Red (or maybe it's Keith's Red) on tap. That suites me fine.
Last month, while attending my son's hockey tournament in Oshawa, I took him to the East Side Marios at the Oshawa Centre.
East Side Marios is my son's fav restaurant, but this one had horrible service. The worst part is that there was plenty of empty tables, yet a wait at the entrance to be seated. The greeter was either told to make everybody wait 10 minutes before seating them or she was incompetent. Even with a near empty restaurant, we waited in line to be seated. A couple girls who came after us waited for 20 minutes while half the restaurant sat empty.
Once we sat down, the food was typical great ESM. I had the wings, of course. My son has the kid's Cappelletti (two actually). Table service was OK.
Several salesmen and woman at Gateway helped me feel comfortable about my decision. They gave me 1900 off the price.
I got the basic LS, no air, standard trans. I'm luving driving my stick Cruze. I'm sure the novelty of driving stick will wear off, but for now I'm excited.
Last week, I had Buffalo Style Perogies at Kelseys in Brampton (Queen near Airport). Amazing. That's now my dish whenever we return. Total recommend.
The most important part of your life is your schooling. I take this very seriously when it comes to my kids. I put them in the best school I can afford. One year, I put my eldest daughter into Catholic school, which in Ontario is a public school system. After about a month, I regretted that decision and she was back in private school for the next school year.
Talking with parents at the hockey rink always reassures me that I'm still doing the right thing. "My son never has homework," says a mom to me yesterday. I told her Brayden always has homework, but that's the school. These kids are in grade 4 and they never have homework? What are public schools in Ontario? Glorified day care? No homework?
I almost hate talking with other parents about schooling, because my tendancy is to belittle the public system. I don't want them to feel like I'm bragging about sending my kids to private school, but in a way, I do. The public school system in Ontario and most likely everywhere has failed our kids. Parents need to know that their kids are getting a sub-par education.
This makes me wonder what to do when my eldest moves into grade 9. Her school only goes to grade 8. Can I put her back into the public system? Do I need to find a private high-school? Will she get bored in the public system?
The beer was expensive. I had their house amber. They did have the football game on numerous widescreen TVs in the bar area. I didn't try the food. No WiFi sealed the deal for me. I won't be going much.
I prefer the Walkers Brew pub across the street. Even with the new restaurant opening, Walkers was absolutely packed on Sunday for football.
I did have some problems. They told me the card was misprinted, but that I'd get the discount anyway. They also took y card and wrote up the total before they took my credit card. I was gonna have another beer, but I decided to avoid the hassle. Then, when I got the bill, it didn't include the discount and we had to void and re-charge my card. Sloppy, but the lower price might get me there more often.
Video from the dashboard of me driving on Queen Street near Dixie in Brampton.
When I first went there it was a pretty good sports bar, but it's gone completely downhill in the last year. They have five taps; Canadian, Coors Light, Alexander Keiths, Budweiser an 50. Only Canadian and Coors Light have worked for the last ew months. They use to have Rickards Red, but it wouldn't pour properly from their taps and they discontinued it. Now I get Canadian and that tap doesn't pour properly either anymore. They have to discard 6 inches of head per beer and it taste like flat crap.
Further, they use to have a bunch of sports pics lining the wall. A half year ago, they renovated and never returned the memorabilia to the walls. I use to go there weekly in the summer. Now it's monthly. This place sucks. If they had competition in the area, then they would go bankrupt.
The course is still nice, but it's evidently falling into disrepair. Some sandpits are growing weeds between the harpan dirt. The sprinklers were running even while we golfed thru. The ground crew renched a green just before we played it. The back nine has a lot of 300 yard par-4 holes.
On the positive, it was 40 dollars with cart and he greens are very challenging/fast.
I then went to the Trinity Commons CT and they didn't have any on display. I aske a clerk and they didn't know what I was talking about. I told them it was on the website, so it had to be at the store. She looked it up and with a lot of help from me, she found it. There was 20+ of them in storage and none on display or on shelves. Ten minutes later, she brought two out for me to pick from.
Ask yourself how many customers would have driven to two Canadian Tires and pushed their clerks to get this. One. Just me. It's for my wife. Our 15th anniversary is this week.
Today, I visited one of the most ridiculous sports bar EVAR! The bar is located near the intersection of Derry and Hwy 10. I entered the bar just after 1PM today and it was completely empty. The bar itself is gorgeous with big flatscreen TVs located on every wall. I asked the bartender for a Rickards Red and she needed help pouring the beer from the manager. When I paid, the bartender asked if I needed exact change, because they didn't have pennies. I asked the manager and bartender if they had WiFi. I could see a signal, but it was password protected. They thought they did, but they didn't know anything about it.
Then a group entered. The bartender and manager didn't know how to make a Caesar or pretty much any other mixed drink, nor did they know where to find the ingredients. One of the customers took the initiative and started making the drinks himself. He had to search thru the 10+ fridges for Clamato juice as the bartender and manager watched him do their job.
Three month ago, this use to be a St Louis Bar and Grill. It was a fantastic looking bar back then as well, but I remember the service was just as ridiculous. I also remember that nobody was their when I visited either. I'm amazed they are still in business. I have to assume they have a great staff at the dinner hour.
Overall, we love the restaurant, but I just wish they had more reliable WiFi.
