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| Delicious Steak House Reviews |
Address: 2080 St-Joseph Boulevard Orleans ON CA K1C 1E6
Tel: 1 613 830-3366
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| "Delicious but..." |
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by David (from Orléans)
December 2007 - I had given up on Delicious about eight years ago. There's something too pushy about that name.
I didn't like the cheap quality of the food -- you know, that kind of Chinese-buffet flavour that gives a subtle hint as to how they can serve so much food for such a small price. Delicious had the same cheap taste but without the volume. l remember that the hot food was lukewarm and the salad was, too. The grated "cheese" was processed stuff.
I finally went back in December 2007 as part of a group dinner meeting. It seemed that Delicious was trying to upgrade the food and the decor. Everything was dark and candle-lit. The menu pages had a column of double-digit numbers down one side, punctuation-free -- and only the good places set up their prices like that, right? The impressive list included a whole page of steak options like Steak Oscar (with crabmeat) and Steak au Poivre. I was craving a good steak and was quite curious to see if the menu lived up to its promises. The wait-person took carefully written notes; she leaned in to see my selection as I tapped the steak page and said "pepper steak." She nodded and asked how I'd like it done. "Medium-rare." It all seemed clear enough.
The steak dishes include a bread basket and salad bar. This time the lettuce was fresh and cold and crispy -- and no cheese in sight. The other offerings were limited to cafeteria-style pasta salad, bean salad, mushy potato salad, pickles and goopy salad dressings. My vegetarian friend was disappointed but soothed herself by adding an order of bruschetta -- heavy with oil but garlicky and good.
The main dishes arrived. My friend's order of Steak Oscar included a little lump of greyish crab meat that still held the shape of the side of the can. The wait-person walked all around the table with a plate calling out "green pepper steak." It couldn't be mine; it looked like stew. She placed it at an empty place when no one claimed it and delivered all the other dishes. Once everyone else had been served, she arrived beside my chair to show me in her little book that I had ordered the pepper steak and so the lonely unclaimed plate was indeed mine. It had a puddle of brown sauce containing chunks of steak, green pepper, onion and some mushrooms, nicely outlined in golden grease, alongside my baked potato. I decided to take my chances rather than insist on a steak with pepper on it. Especially after seeing the Steak Oscar.
The "green pepper steak" was quite tasty -- it just was not what I ordered. I'm not sure how one can cook one-inch steak cubes as "medium rare" but, hey, at least they weren't tough. And wherever the "green pepper steak" appeared in the menu, I don't know, but it was certainly cheaper than "steak au poivre." I saved about $10 -- I mean 10.
Reactions from the rest of the group ranged from great to blah. Everyone else got the right order. A few went for the desserts which were reportedly a good cheesecake and a "forgettable" oreo/cream thing with jam -- I mean coulis.
Overall, Delicious serves edible but not great food, not great value. Be careful with the menu translations; order it the way it's printed! And be wary of restaurants that work so very hard to convince you that their food is "Delicious."
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