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Fishman Lobster Clubhouse Restaurant is a well-known seafood restaurant within the Asian-Canadian community as they are known for as the first restaurant to introduce the majestic lobster mountain, and they remain to be one of the best. I shared a table with 8 other people, and we were determined to get our hands on the lobster mountain. And yes, reservation is a must at this restaurant, especially during the weekend.
Environment:
The restaurant is located at the Steeles/Silver Star intersection, which also has quite a few Chinese restaurants nearby. The parking is free and there is ample of space to accommodate the large traffic to the nearby restaurants.
The restaurant itself is fairly big and has lots of big tables to accommodate big groups and for special buy-out events. The dining space is surrounded by lobster and crab tanks, which allows you to see how big some of their offerings are and they are definitely all fresh.
Food:
They have a lot of combo options available that caters to different group sizes and also the type of seafood. Generally speaking, the combo is a much better deal than ordering the seafood separately by weight. We got the B4 combo for $270, which comes with a 20lb lobster mountain, a bean stalk with goji berry dish, plain white congee, and almond milk dessert. We also ordered a lobster roe fried rice ($10 with the combo) and E-Fu noodle ($16) on the side.
Before they prepared for our lobster dish, they brought the live lobsters to our table to ensure that we are satisfied with the size and quality, and yes, also for photo-opp purposes :P For our 20lb lobster mountain, we got 2 lobsters: one is 8lb and the other is 12lb. Our friends on the other table also ordered the same dish as us and they got 3 lobsters even in size. Our 12lb lobster was gorgeous and essentially everybody at our table was taking turns holding it up and taking pictures with it. Its claw was literally bigger than my face!!
Our lobsters were slightly heavier than the intended 20lb combined, so they charged us some extra money following their regular price/pound rate, so yeah, we did get up-sell by a little bit.
The lobster mountain that we finally got was massive that it was approximately 40cm tall and looked exactly like the pictures I've seen only. I really liked its flavor and especially the tiny deep fried fish that were sprinkled all around the lobster mountain. The fish was slightly spicy but it would pair well with congee and fried rice, so we packed all the leftovers home. The meat of the lobster was too stiff for me due to its size, so I think the other table with 3 smaller lobsters had better texture of meats.
The other dishes that we got weren't very good and definitely didn't deserve the price. We were totally let down by the lobster roe fried rice and the noodle, because there were barely any meats in both of the dishes and the flavour wasn't that good. On top of that, for $16 regularly, it was definitely too expensive. Heck, even the plain white congee was supposedly $8 if you order separately. Just stick with their famous seafood dishes and you're good to go.
We ended up paying $41 per person for the 9 of us, which was still a pretty good deal considering how much lobster we were getting.
Service:
We had some argument with the staff regarding how they were using the parts of our lobster. We had specifically requested that we would like to keep the lobster roe and brains from our fresh lobster and the lobster roe used in the fried rice was supposed to come from some other lobster. Even though our server wrote it down, the kitchen didn't follow our request.
When we found it, the server came to apologize and sent another dish with just the lobster brain. However, since it was made separately, it didn't have the flavour that was in the lobster mountain. Later on, the management came over and their attitude was horrible, even though it was clearly their fault for not following our request. On top of that, they were essentially scamming out of the other customers who didn't specifically requested to keep their lobster roe and brains, so they could reuse it on the fried rice.
I'm deducting one star due to this incident, but the meal itself was great.
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