General Food, Dining and Nightlife News

[panamaniac]

Two Goblets' arrival is excellent news for Ontario St.  And I think it'll be good for Two Goblets as well, while the current location is not far, it is not visible from downtown, and there is next to no other retail nearby on Weber.

No, they definitely weren't expecting haute cuisine (they used to be big fans of the Heidelberg).   My suggestion to them was to try Two Goblets or J&B, or perhaps Veslo's, next time they are down that way and want the "schmecky fix" (not that I've been to any of them, but one hears good things).  Of their various complaints, the one I discounted was that the schnitzel was "too thick" - I think that is not unusual for local pork schnitzel as I've experienced that myself at other locations in the Region.

Ate at the Metro tonight, partly because of the complaints, wanted to check the situation for myself.    Definitely still the Central European home cooking style, love it or hate it.  Caesar salad decent (lots of dressing, lots of garlic), gypsy schnitzel quite tasty but on the thick side (fairly typical for a pork schnitzel in my experience).  Cabbage rolls were very good, I was told.  Home fries, mashed potatoes, sauerkraut were all as one would expect, and were washed down by a pint of excellent Staropramen.

This confirms that I should go in myself - the cabbage rolls (described as frozen, not fresh) and the mushroom gravy (!) on them (described as "glutinous" and "commercial product" were singled out by my friends for special criticism, along with allegedly deep-fried pierogis (!).  Either my friends were out to lunch (so to speak) or somebody in the kitchen was at their worst that particular evening.