Wednesday 7 November 2012

Kalvin's Szechuan Restaurant 松林居

Hours: 

Mon - Tue: 11AM - 2:30PM & 5PM - 9:30PM 
Wed: Closed 
Thu - Sun: 11AM - 2:30PM & 5PM - 9:30PM





Ambiance: Like a western restaurant diner, old large tables and chairs.  Not pretty.

Seating/Wait time: Not that many seats, could get busy at times.

Dress Code: Casual

Crowd: Everybody

Meal: 





Beef Noodle Soup

Personal Remarks:  


Didn't enjoy the slow service, but I did enjoy the food.

Not the place to go when you have a 1 hour lunch break.

This is one of the more expensive restaurants in the neighborhood of the Victoria Drive area.    From the exterior it doesn't look like a place that could cost you more than $5.00 for a decent meal.  However, this is a $10-$15 per entree place.

This place could use some updates and renovations.  The decor is not welcoming at all and is not a place to bring someone for a first date.  This is a place to go with your friends when you want to fill your stomach.


If you don't judge the food based on the appearance of the restaurant and decor.  This restaurant is very tasty.  The broth is very flavourful and there was plenty of noodles.  The meal was very filling.

Beef - It was flavourful and did not break apart too easily.  It was a little too hard in terms of texture but it wasn't so hard that you would have trouble grinding the meat with your teeth.

Noodles - thick noodles, very tasty.


Brooth - Very flavourful, not oily. 

We had a table of three people and we had a 1 hour lunch break.  It took a while for the server to take our order.   Also, the food took a long time to come out.  None of us could finish our food in time.  We all had half of our meal left that we had to pack to go.  At the time there were only 3 other tables in the restaurant with no more than 3 people at each table.  

Evaluating this restaurant based on taste and value it definitely rates well in my books.  The promptness does need to improve.  Very hard to get back to work on time if the food takes so long to come out.  Or, I would recommend you come when you are not restricted by time.  

Value: 4/5 Overall: 4/5

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