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| - MEEEAAATTTTTTTT..*nom nom nom nom*
..fast forward 2 hours....cold seats, hot sweats, MEAT SWEATS...face in hands..dyin..
Yup - welcome to my first experience at Bolero and a massive lesson in OVER INDULGENCE. I knew it would happen and I had others warn me - but once that juicy BBQ meat starts rolling by the tables...YOU.CANNOT.SAY.NO. It almost feels forbidden to say no.
Prior to jumping over to Chinook for a 10:30pm movie, 10 of us decided to try Bolero as it has tempted us for ages. We enter the cool, dark atmosphere to be seated quickly by a lovely host, followed by drink orders and an "explanation" of how this place works.
You can buy the 40$ "all you can eat meat", and a couple other items built for sissys and vegetarians..clearly we're here for the AYCE. We start with the "salad bar" which wasn't the most amazing looking bar. Scarce vegetables, weird vegetables, and a couple pots of "cafeteria stews". I barely picked anything to avoid spoiling the meat fiesta to begin.
The meat begins to arrive (we're told that there are 17 different skewers *gasp* "17" we all say), and the fun begins. Tenderloin, tenderloin wrapped in bacon - seriously folks, wrapped in bacon, sirloin, fish, chicken, the kitchen sink, blueberry sugared grapefruit and of course the beloved PINEAPPLE. The pineapple was warm and cinnamoned (not a word), and a nice cleanser between too much meat. There were also ribs, sausage and lamb. Even taking a small portion of each, we couldn't try them all...stuffed to the top like a Christmas turkey. All of it was juicy, tender, bbqed, and delicious. One complaint is that a couple items came by 2, then 3 times before others even came once for us to try.
I believe they offered dessert, but seriously - ridiculous after the 18 cows the 10 of us ate in one sitting.
Service was quite good and attentive, restaurant was very cool and casual, and pricing was awesome - 40$ for AYCE tenderloin..seriously deadly.
..off to the movie...*sweats begin*..regret sets in...how do I get out of the center row seat? - I'm stuck...suffer it out...eff.
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