Snarky Gund
Dec. 24th, 2007 07:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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seattlejo and I went to Joey's for my company dinner.
Joey's is a fusion cuisine joint based north of the border. The executive chef is an Iron Chef Japan competitor. The food is.......
Well.......
Maybe my review on Yelp describes it better. Assuming I wasn't too snarky.....
On a cold winters night, the techies and their mates gather. Holiday lights brighten the lakeshore, the warmth inside beckons them inside.
Well, that, and the fact it was a company holiday party.
The dark modernistic interior muffles sight, the noise muffles speech. I haven't seen this many roundels on the walls since the last time I saw an episode of "Doctor Who". The cloned waitstaff, the females all bleach-blond and stylish, the males all perfectly coifed and styled, adds to the cheap 70's SF feel. And obviously our party missed the sign by the door, with a picture of David Beckham, saying "You must be this metrosexual to enter". Only our reservations seems to have stopped us being turned back out into the cold.
So we get seated, and order. Both my lady and I order the Steak & Garlic Prawns. The Prawns are very good indeed, full of yummy prawn goodness on a stick. The asparagus was crisp and full of flavour.
Those were the highlights. Because Joey's does fusion cuisine. And like much fusion cuisine, the sum is decidedly the less of the parts.
My steak was actually too rare, a first for me. The seasoning on it was good, but their "CAB Top Sirloin" is really too tough to work well as rare. I suspect it might have been tough no matter how it was cooked.
Seems a Joey's specialty is what they call "Crispy Mashed Potatoes". So you're expecting something like, oh, I dunno, mashed potatoes. Certainly with green onions and bacon, (My lady also had sour cream and cheese on hers).
What you're not expecting is Mashed Potato lumpia. Two sticks of an eggroll or tortilla-style wrapper, filled with mashed potatoes and then fried, with the toppings then put ON the sticks, a combo guaranteed to make sure the toppings slide off. But this makes sense, since the toppings might actually add flavour to the mashed potato rolls. By having the toppings slide off, it insures that the mashed potatoes remain curiously flavourless, like eating deep-fried library paste.
Then there's the Gorgonzola "Garlic" Bread. An awkward chunk of bread without the faintest hint of the garlic promised. What little favour might have been brought out by the gorgonzola cheese does not complement the bread. All you taste is tasteless burned cheese.
Add to that the wonderful looks our group got from the other patrons, ("Like, OhMyGod, what are THEY doing here?? Who let THOSE in??"), and the dinner was truly forgetful.
But the view out on the lake was nice."
seattlejo and I went to Joey's for my company dinner.Joey's is a fusion cuisine joint based north of the border. The executive chef is an Iron Chef Japan competitor. The food is.......
Well.......
Maybe my review on Yelp describes it better. Assuming I wasn't too snarky.....
On a cold winters night, the techies and their mates gather. Holiday lights brighten the lakeshore, the warmth inside beckons them inside.
Well, that, and the fact it was a company holiday party.
The dark modernistic interior muffles sight, the noise muffles speech. I haven't seen this many roundels on the walls since the last time I saw an episode of "Doctor Who". The cloned waitstaff, the females all bleach-blond and stylish, the males all perfectly coifed and styled, adds to the cheap 70's SF feel. And obviously our party missed the sign by the door, with a picture of David Beckham, saying "You must be this metrosexual to enter". Only our reservations seems to have stopped us being turned back out into the cold.
So we get seated, and order. Both my lady and I order the Steak & Garlic Prawns. The Prawns are very good indeed, full of yummy prawn goodness on a stick. The asparagus was crisp and full of flavour.
Those were the highlights. Because Joey's does fusion cuisine. And like much fusion cuisine, the sum is decidedly the less of the parts.
My steak was actually too rare, a first for me. The seasoning on it was good, but their "CAB Top Sirloin" is really too tough to work well as rare. I suspect it might have been tough no matter how it was cooked.
Seems a Joey's specialty is what they call "Crispy Mashed Potatoes". So you're expecting something like, oh, I dunno, mashed potatoes. Certainly with green onions and bacon, (My lady also had sour cream and cheese on hers).
What you're not expecting is Mashed Potato lumpia. Two sticks of an eggroll or tortilla-style wrapper, filled with mashed potatoes and then fried, with the toppings then put ON the sticks, a combo guaranteed to make sure the toppings slide off. But this makes sense, since the toppings might actually add flavour to the mashed potato rolls. By having the toppings slide off, it insures that the mashed potatoes remain curiously flavourless, like eating deep-fried library paste.
Then there's the Gorgonzola "Garlic" Bread. An awkward chunk of bread without the faintest hint of the garlic promised. What little favour might have been brought out by the gorgonzola cheese does not complement the bread. All you taste is tasteless burned cheese.
Add to that the wonderful looks our group got from the other patrons, ("Like, OhMyGod, what are THEY doing here?? Who let THOSE in??"), and the dinner was truly forgetful.
But the view out on the lake was nice."
