[GDChoi]

Coast Overall everything 8.89/10
Service was great, except for the little longer wait we had when asked for the bill but thats our fault because we asked to divide the birthday girls bill between everyone so she didn't have to pay. Our waiter even knew when to take out the cake when we were all finished with our dinner, and he knew how to make it look like a suprise rather then those other waiters/waitresses that simply come out with the cake in hand.
Service 10/10

I had Cauliflower soup, the scallop dish and the desert

For Appys

Cauliflower soup smoked sable fish, brioche croutons, minced egg, chervil salad
9/10 Soup was the best appy, as well as the best dish of the night even over the mains, al1though it tasted good, felt like I could get this soup from a can and add some fish and croutons.

The other appy choice was Smoked salmon carpaccio horseradish aioli, pickled beets, forno roasted tomato, double smoked bacon
8/10 This dish my friends had, was a basic salmon carpaccio nothing special to behonest but was alright, I still recommend the soup if you decide to go to Coast.


For the Main

Wild Haida Gwaii coho salmon crab croquette, salsa verde, carrot pure and fried artichokes
7/10 The first thing that caught my attention for this dish was, the portion size. This fish was huge almost too big for the plate, ok not really but not the size you expect to see. Taste of salmon was tender perfectly cooked salmon. I only got a small piece from my friend so I can't give this dish a very fair rating.

Qualicum Bay Scallops saffron fingering potato, tomato fondue, eggplant ratatouille, in a shelfish broth (dish that I had)
7.5/10 A dish of tomato, eggplant, shelfish broth sitting under 3 seared scallops. The scallops were fairly big for a dish and the texture was pretty good, but the taste was bland, though paired with the tomatoes and eggplant chutney style toppings i gave this dish an 8.

Confit veal breasted herbed potato gnocchi, roasted parsnip, veal jus, braised veal short rib
8.5/10 Saying right now, this was probably the better main that was ordered from my friends. Though a bit fatty on some parts of the veal the sauce on the veal paired great on the veal. What I mean in the consistency of the fat was that, of my friends 4 ordered this 2 had the right amount of fat and 2 the whole thing was almost fat. I found that the potato gnocchi attracted everyone because of the texture it was the star of the dish (its just a ball that has similar texture to rice cake)

There was a last main, thats not featured on the online menu for some reason
it was a Lemon preserved risotto.
6/10 This dish was terrible, stay away. If ordered you get an overdone risotto with a hint of lemon after taste, but sometimes couldn't be tasted because of the overwhelming starch taste of the risotto. It soo happened that 2 of my friends ordered this, in which you receive a bowl of rice that tasted like starchy lemon, thats it. Sorry for all the risotto lovers, this was not liked by anyone.

Desert

Flourless Chocolate Torte, butterscotch gelato with a butterscotch lollipop
8.5/10 This desert dish was neat, nicely plated and the first thing many people picked up was the butterscotch lollipop dipped in chocolate and pop rocks, it was a first never seen before ( in my standards) and the pop rocks got everyone talking. The chocolate torte was a bittersweet piece of cake and when topped of with a refreshing scoop of ice cream was excellent.

Rating for My dishes 8.33/10
Rating for Overall 7.78/10
Rating for Service 10/10
Ill see what picture I can get on here but I hope this review helped. Honestly Coast was not too bad compared to some stories Ive heard, definitely give it a try when you can, I hope though to give Restaurant C a try!

Thank you for reading