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| - For me personally, Bolero is definitely a restaurant exuding style over substance with an over-priced menu for mediocre food.
Of course, you are probably wondering why the hell a vegetarian was at a bbq house that predominantly caters to meat-lovers. Well the reason why I went was because I was dragged along for a family dinner. So right from the get-go, readers, you can skip over my review if you like as i have no idea how the meat tastes. However based on what my dad and boyfriend report, the meat apparently has lack of flavour, except for having a very smoky flavour????
For first-timers, I do suggest that you either book a reservation a week in advance regardless of how big the party is. The restaurant at this moment is among the most popular to dine at where getting a table at a decent time can be quite a challenge. The other option is to either go very early or very late to miss the busy rush. With the restaurant located just off of Macleod Trail, it is upstairs and directly above another busy eatery, Open Sesame. If you have already added the two together, it equals a crazy busy parking lot so ensure a few extra minutes of some frustration and stress trying to get a decent spot.
Bolero itself is beautiful, complete with large wooden tables, spacey booths, and dark undertones throughout the restaurant creating a nice and relaxing atmosphere. Served with two bottles of wine, that was about as good as the dinner got....for me that is.
The concept of Bolero is definitely a MYOM (make-your-own-meal) type of thing which immediately turned me off as I have a strong pet-peeve for food venues like this. The dinner itself can be quite expensive because it depends on how many meats diners want to try. The first and most expensive pick off the menu is the Full Rodizio where diners have access to the salad bar and 17 (effing 17!) choices of meats. The teaser platter is priced at $30 dollars, where you have access to the the salad bar but only two choices of meats, and lastly, those who don't enjoy meat can just dine from the salad bar at $20. Me being the boring vegetarian stuck to making friends with salad (woot, representing!!!!).
Although Bolero is a beautiful restuarant, the salad bar didn't cut it for me. Despite the fact that they offered a variety of seafood, roasted vegetables, pasta salads, both a meat and vegetarian stew, and an array of salads, I found the quality and taste was mediocre. Even if the salad bar was all gourmet, I found most of the vegetables and pasta salads kind of saucy which strangely resembled the taste of Kraft salad dressings. Not trying to be a snot, I also found the vegetables over-cooked....but who really wants to eat stringy asparagus and zucchini? The one thing both my boyfriend and I enjoyed during the dinner was the beans and the coconut rice where I actually would go back to Bolero for if I didn't have to pay $20.
Throughout the meal, I got to enjoy the AWESOME....just awesome view of my family gorging themselves on the skewers of meat where I was frankly horrified in how much the human body is capable of digesting. One thing for sure, I was not nursing a stomach ache on the way home like they were ;) haha. So despite a beautiful atmosphere and interesting concept of a dinner, Bolero just didn't cut it for me. Obviously they don't really cater to vegetarians, so the salad bar was a bit of a disappointment for me where it definitely is not a bang for your buck. I do definitely suggest that people should at least try it once, however, if you are a picky eater in terms of flavour and food quality, you may or may not be faced with disappointment.
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