Linda Dixon
04/08/2021
I took my Mother to Club Glenvale for her birthday. As long time members of the club we've become accustomed to how hit and miss the food can be from one visit to the next. That being said, we still weren't prepared for the abysmal dining experience we had on this occasion.
My Mother's Seafood Basket came to the table with pale, doughy looking pieces of battered seafood (she said they tasted doughy), lukewarm chips and a cup of unappealing, limp salad. Yes, that's right, a cup of salad. I can only assume that chefs are being taught it doesn't matter what food tastes like as long as its presented in a trendy or clever fashion. It was truly awful and at $25, grossly overpriced.
Then there was the meal I ordered, which turned out to be the poorest excuse for Chicken Kiev I've ever eaten. It was bone dry both inside AND outside. The crumbs were so tough I couldn't simply 'cut' a piece off, I had to saw through it with the steak knife I'd been given . There was no garlic butter oozing out of it, the meat was stringy and it was tasteless to boot. It too was accompanied by barely warm chips and a tiny, limp salad. It irritates me when I pay for a meal that is supposed to include a salad and it's just a tiny bunch of soggy leaves slapped on the side of my plate. If you've charged me for it, then it's not there as an afterthought or for decoration....I should be able to eat it AND enjoy it!! I just don't understand how (supposedly) qualified chefs could get something so simple so very, very wrong.
This disaster of a night was capped off when we arrived home and found a mangled piece of Lemon Meringue pie in our styromfoam takeaway container. It looked like it could have been cut with a chainsaw...or dropped on the floor....who would know?
I can't speak for my Mother but I definitely won't be handing over my hard earned money to eat at Club Glenvale ever again.