| Restaurant | Rating | Type of Food | Style | Description | Information | ||||||
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| A & W |  | Hamburgers | Fast Food | This was Grant's first experience of fast food back in the time when servers on roller skates put trays on your car windowsill. We still like to go back for the sake of nostalgia, but unfortunately the fries and onion rings are bland and the burgers are OK, but only in a 1950's sort of way.
www | 3120 17 Ave. SE 273-1373 70 Glendeer Circle SE (across from Calgary Auto Mall) 252-0352 | 4307 - 130Ave. SE 257-5337 5325 - 72 Ave. SE 720-2515 | |||||
| Anpurna Curry Pot |  | East Indian | Informal | For quality, service and vegetarian dishes at reasonable prices, this restaurant is hard to beat. Reservations recommended. Of course, there's a good vegetarian selection; this is a vegetarian restuarant. | SW corner of Memorial Dr. & 52 St. SE 235-6028 www | Tu to Su 11:00 a.m. - 9:00 p.m. | |||||
| Baskin Robbins |  | Ice Cream | Informal | The fine details of the name of this 31 flavour ice cream parlour vary from the northwest to southeast, but the quality and choice of the ice cream are the same. And there is frozen yogurt too if you are not of the true faith. (That is an ice cream freak.) Needless to say, there is a good vegetarian selection, until they come up with flavours like beef vanilla or chocolate with deep fried pork. | 516 10816 Macleod Tr. S in Willow Park 278-6611 | www | |||||
| Booster Juice: Juice and Smoothier Bar | | Juice | Fast Food | Juice is the new panacea for those who want healthy food in a hurry. Here you find it. From yogurt to mango, from soy to açaí, they will whip the ingredients to your taste's desire. And with every drink you get a free booster. From protein to echinacea and from calcium to ginseng, they will do their best to keep your body alive and well. Good vegetarian selection. www | South Trail Crossing
4703 - 130 Avenue SE 726-0483 | ||||||
| Calgary Sweet House & Restaurant | | Indian | Informal | It is tiny and very informal, hidden in the corner of a strip mall. As the name implies, it is a "sweet house" with delights like jalebi and burfi first and a restaurant second. But do drop by for one of the small, simple traditional meals, and then be sure to take home some other delights for later. The samosas are among the best in Calgary. Good vegetarian selection. | #7 5320 - 8 Avenue SE 272-7234 | W to M 10:00 a.m - 8:00 p.m. | www | ||||
| Costco |  | General | Fast Food | First there is "Brunch at Costco". This is free, made up of the samples being given out everywhere. We won't rate this. What we will tackle, however, is the lunch counter. The selection is limited, but wide, from hot dogs to pizza, from coffee to coke The presentation is predictably average. But let's be honest, at some of the lowest prices in town for the quality given, you might as well grab a snack here after shopping. www | 90 Heritage Gate SE | ||||||
| Cravings Market Restaurant | | General | Buffet | The restaurant experience at Cravings is fun. You are given a card and then go around to the different stands and pick out your food, ranging from sandwiches to soup, from Asian to Mexican, from pizza to lamb. However, when you sit and think about it after the first excitement has worm off, you realize this is just a rather complex buffet or a restaurant with quite a varied menu. And in the end of the day, this is a pleasant place to get tasty but ultimately rather ordinary food. Good vegetarian selection. | 7207 Fairmount Dr. SE 252-2083 www | ||||||
| Dragon Palace | | Chinese | Buffet | A old-style Chinese restaurant, for those who remember Chinese food as it was served in the 1950's. | 2754 Glenmore Tr. SE 279-4471 | ||||||
| Earl's |  | General | Informal | Earl's serves good food at reasonable prices, but among the good dishes are some very ordinary ones, and some of the small details, like homemade fries are missing, and the hamburger buns don't seem strong enough to support the hamburgers. Good vegetarian selection. | 3012 - 17 Ave. SE 271-3275 | www | |||||
| Harvey's | | Hamburger | Fast Food | Our favourite we-put-on-it-what-you-want hamburger outlet. Watch though; the rating can fluctuate a little between outlets, but this usually stems from the service, not the food. Good vegetarian selection. | #500 3619 - 61 Ave. SE 720-0252 390 Shawville Blvd. SE 201-2505 www | ||||||
| Joey's Only Seafood Restaurants | | Seafood | Informal | From their original emphasis on seafood, they have now branched out into Tennessee Jack's Rotisserie Chicken & Ribs at many locations. This attempt to be all things to all people seems to have lowered the general quality over the years. Even the original fish and chips are becoming more and more like a packaged frozen entrée you might heat up at home. www | Unit 27- 4307 130 Ave SE 386-0345 | 514 42 Ave. SE 243-4584 | |||||
| Jugo Juice | | Juice | Informal | The staff is friendly and have a good knowledge of what they are making—especially those strange extra ingredients. If you just want a quick, wholesome drink, or even a complete meal with one of their wraps or sandwiches do drop by. Good vegetarian selection—of course. www | Deerfoot Meadows 33 Heritage Meadows Way SE 212-8258 | ||||||
| The Keg Steakhouse & Bar www | | Steak | Informal | A good medium-priced steak house. Note: They do not take reservations—for reasons we do not understand—so expect long waits at key times. | #100 4600 - 130 Ave. SE 403 726-1022 | ||||||
| KFC | | Chicken | Fast Food | Some foods are difficult to rate because their taste is unique and can't be compared to anything but other brands that have imitated them. Yes, we know we can't call it "Kentucky Fired Chicken" anymore, because someone might think about the fat content, even though now it is vegetable oil. The gravy and coleslaw have changed from the good old days when the Colonel was alive, but still the taste is addictive, and you get what you expect. | 4315 - 17 Ave. SE 15325 Bannister Rd. SE 13750 Bow Bottom Tr. SE 8338 - 18 St. SE | Home delivery: 296-0000. www | |||||
| Mimo Restaurant & Lounge | | Portuguese | Informal | Excellent, inexpensive, filling Portuguese food with friendly service. | #203 4904 - 17 Ave SE 235-3377 www | ||||||
| Oriental Phoenix Vietnamese Restaurant | | Vietnamese | Informal | For excellent Vietnamese food in a pleasing, friendly setting, this is the place. It is always a happy day when you can find an economical meal that leaves you truly satisfied. Good vegetarian selection. | #80 104 - 58 Ave. SE 253-8383 | ||||||
| Papa John's | | Pizza | Take Out | Good pizza, a little over-priced for what you get. | #230 177 Country Hills Blvd. NW 567-2000 |
3172 Sunridge Blvd. NE 219-8400 | Westmarket Square 1851 Sirroco Dr. SW 217-7373 601 - 17 Ave. SW 693-7272 | Bonavista Square 12101 Lake Fraser Dr. SE 2715757 | |||
| Quizno's Subs | | Sandwiches | Informal | They're toasty hot with just enough bread. For a fast sub, they are hard to beat. But don't feel you have to pick the large size unless you want two meals worth ort have a Dawson–sized appetite. The name does vary from one store to another, but let the business people worry about that.  Dorothy and Grant prefer the Angus beef, while Scott, the vegetarian in the family gives his approval to the Cheese Melt.www | 4705 130 Ave. SW (South Deerfood Centre) 257-4712 | ||||||
| Ricky's All Day Grill | | Grill | Informal | The setting is homey; the service is fine; the food is good. All in all, though, this is a pale imitation of other better rib places, and the difference in price would make us shun the pale and take the real. | #16 277 Shawville Blvd. SE 543-7200 #207 4307 - 130 Ave. SE 257-6658 #308 8338 - 18 St. SE 203-5855 | ||||||
| The Second Cup | | Coffee | Informal | The coffee was a bit strong, and we don't know where the spoons were, but this is an adequate place to pick up coffee for the office or grab a cup while shopping. Good vegetarian selection. | 14931 Deer Ridge Dr. SE 225-4101 Mackenzie Towne 30 High St. SE 257-2809 296 Shawville Blvd. SE 256-1488 | ||||||
| Stage West | | Dinner Theatre | Formal Buffet | First you must realize that this is not a review of the current presentation at Stage West. We leave that to theatre critics, though we do have our opinions. We're looking at the buffet which is large and from a technical point-of-view well-handled with very few empty or cold trays. From a culinary perspective, however, the food is wholesome but rather forgettable. There are few dishes that one would want to line up for again to get seconds. Good vegetarian selection. | 727 - 42 Ave. SE 243-6642 www | The dress is semi-formal. Grant tried a dress shirt, tie and sports jacket with pyjama bottoms, but this didn't seem to be the kind of "semi" they meant. | |||||
| Starbucks Coffee Comapny Ltd | | Coffee | Informal | For a good cardboard cup of standardized coffee from a limited menu, this is the place to go. Good vegetarian selection. | #202 11566 - 24 St. SE 236-4531 | ||||||
| Tony Roma's www | | Ribs | Informal | Great ribs and other grilled things. What more can one say? | #31 4307 - 130 Ave. SE 405 244-7427 |
