Winter-undelicious: This was not a good Winterlicious pick.
Quick - I must write it down before I completely forget the unmemorable food of Canyon Creek.
I came for Winterlicious - which advertised a "California Striploin Steak" on their menu. I wanted Steak - and only steak and a steakhouse seemed to be the place to go. Boy, was I WRONG!
I arrive and I'm told by a surly waitor: "The striploin is actually a roast - it comes either medium-rare to medium - somewhere in that range." What? At a steakhouse? Who expects to go to a Steakhouse and not be able to order their steak exactly how they like it ? Be it Blue, rare, medium-rare, medium, medium-well or well done. And since when do you call a ROAST a STEAK? They are two completely different cuts of meat. It's unacceptable that a steakhouse would not have a regular steak, cooked to order, on their Winterlicious menu. Really wish I'd gone elsewhere instead. Big mistake coming here!
Ended up getting a very unmemorable burger instead because I was upset about the menu. It tasted home-made, which is nice, but there was nothing memorable or special about it. The shoestring fries were crispy (bonus), but way too salty and really reminded me of McDonald's fries. I tried the winterlicious "roast" that my friend ordered. Maybe it was 4 ounces of meat and 1.5 ounces of pure fat - just a hunk of pink meat on a plate. It had none of that gorgeous searing you'd expect - nay - NEED - when ordering a steak. It was tender but had very little flavour. His potatoes were flavourful but became boring very quickly.
The only good thing was the Pot de Creme for dessert.
I will not go back to this place. I'm upset at the way they mislead consumers to believe they'd be getting a real striploin steak when they were just getting old roast that had been sitting on a counter all day.