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| - My lady and I tried District on Valentine's Day.
It was the free 200ml bubbly that finally drew me in, but I gotta say I had heard about it for a long time and had intended to giv'r a whirl (hey, when you have a reputation for serving a "bucket of bacon," chances are I'm going to see what all the hubbub's about).
Everything at the restaurant was pretty well prepared. Not mind-blowingly good, but tasteful and worth a visit. It's also good that their thing is that they try to keep everything local and organic.
After the champagne, we had a beer & a mojito along with appetizers (a "bucket" of house-cured bacon and 10 BBQ wings). The beer was an in-house brewed "Ambush English Pale Ale" and was pretty good. Being happy hour it was only $3.75 for an 18 oz mason jar, which is hard to beat. The Mojito was also $3 off due to happy hour.
We got two entrees, Buffalo Chicken Mac & Cheese and the "District Burger." Both were very good. The Mac & Cheese had chicken, jalepeno, onion and peppers, topped with breadcrumbs, and came with a side salad of mixed greens (which I'm guessing had a "Saskatoon vinegarette" that I saw posted somewhere). The burger came with fries and was topped with bacon, aged chedder, onions, butter lettuce and a "tomato confit." Not sure exactly how a tomato is prepared "confit" but it was DELCIOUS. Hands down the best part of the burger. The meat in the burger was well seasoned and not shy on flavour.
The Mac & Cheese was total comfort food, the kind of dish you want to keep coming back to, although I was hard pressed to think of "Buffalo Chicken" while eating it. Aside from not really naming the dish very well, I thought it was quite good.
I have a few reservations about District overall:
- First, the "Bucket of Bacon."
When I hear the term "bucket of bacon," I expect just that. The house-cured bacon was excellent, but for $8, 6 strips of bacon with a side of maple syrup seems pretty stingy. As Jessica pointed out, make it 8 strips and it's fine!
- Second, the side salad that came with the Mac was very forgetable. It was bitter and tart and I found myself continuing to eat it, not because it was good, but because it was 1) there, 2) "healthy?"
The side of fries was also very forgetable. Floppy and bland, they seemed to just be "filler" for the meal. Maybe should have got poutine?
- Finally, the wings we got as an appetizer were good, although two of the drumettes were PINK inside! I'm not sure if this was maybe due to a blood vessel or what, but I think it's possible that they were undercooked. Also, a sign said wings were $0.15 each during happy hour and ended up being $0.25 each on the bill. Only a dollar difference, but still. In both cases with the wings, I neither sent them back or pointed out the amount on the bill, as I believed neither was a big enough deal to make a fuss, so no harm, no foul.
The service was pretty good (very attentive, which was nice) and the decor is great.
Not any place I am jumping out of my seat to return to, but like I said, worth a visit and I might be back for happy hour sometime.
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