 A friend of mine was nice enough to "gift" me with a nifty card for the Kelsey's in Owen Sound. Since the b-ball tournament was near the restaurant, I thought it would be a nice outing for the family to celebrate a long basketball season and a pair of excellent mid-term report cards that my daughters brought home.
Kelsey's used to be a favourite restaurant when we lived in Owen Sound. At least once a month my wife and I would go there for some awesome bruschetta bread or a cracked peppercorn burger (and as a basic rule I don't eat red meat..that's how good it was...lol). We did notice that the quality stopped to drop (ie. the burger was no longer made from fresh and was instead made with frozen patties...yuck..at least I went off red meat again..). The bruschetta went from amazing to gawd awful. As a result, we haven't been through the doors in a few years. Last night was a hope for redemption. The menu looks amazing, and we were excited by the offer of 1/2 price wings (my youngest daughter and I shared an order of Spicy Thai boneless with a side of Sweet Potato Fries), and my wife had daughter had entrees. All of the food was dry, overcooked, and generally "bland". My gift to my family was not much of a celebration, as most of our food went untouched. Service was "okay", but our waiter did not go out of his way to see if we were happy with our food or if we wanted refills on our "bottomless" beverages. So, Kelsey's you once again have been moved to the "do not frequent" list. You can now keep East Side Mario's, Boston Pizza and Montana's company. Owen Sound is in a sad, sad state of affairs when it comes to casual family dining. There are some excellent small restaurants, but they are not really geared to the needs presented by younger children (either in food selection or atmosphere).
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dave robinson
2/19/2011 09:26:30 am
why even go to those chain "restaurants" (they're not really restaurants--a restaurant is owned by a family that lives in the town and the owners are the chef and /or the servers and hosts and their nieces and nephews wash the dishes and bus and you get Great Grandma's recipe for dumplings in a cabbage broth or something and it has a quirky name like "Peggy's Beanery" or something, and when you and your family dine out you're actually supporting some small business, local fare independent part of your community. Kelsey's ,Montana's; all those places get their meat cooked and frozen and it comes by truck and they thaw it, grill it to put grill marks on it as if it got seasoned and marinated right back there in the kitchen which it didn't because nobody who works there knows how to cook, and they bring it to you along with some non- nutritious white doughy bread with too much garlic butter- esque flavour goop forced into it and some overly fatty rich dressing on a salad without serious greens... come on. Snap out of your robotic consumer state before the thought police sprinkle brain control powder on your industrial pre- engineered meal replacement flavour sludge. And you can multiply the danger level by ten as soon as the letters "K-F-C" come into the story. Go eat at the what's that place called... dragonfly or something. Have a bowl of soup; challenge the owners to a family versus family round of Scrabble... try the eggs... Leave a Reply. |
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