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| - My buddy Ryan raves about the Holy Grill. He works pretty much next door and I'm not kidding when I say he could write out the menu. He's had it all a million times. We were downtown and decided to try it for lunch.
The Holy Grill is a basically a clean, nice diner. It's definitely not a greasy spoon. There are no servers. You order at the front when you walk in and when your order is ready they call your name.The place was filled with a well dressed lunch crowd who probably weren't there for the first time. The walls are covered with original art work (nice stuff too) by local artists. You can purchase the art work if you like and it changes on a regular basis.
My friend had me convinced to try a burger before I even walked in door, so I didn't really look at the menu. The lunch menu pretty much consists of burgers and paninis - my kind of place. Anytime I am in a place for the first time, I keep it simple and order the restaurants specialty in a simple form. I figure if they can do something simple and get it right, the rest of it will be great.
I was disappointed to see that when the burger came, the meat that was used was a frozen pattie, but there were two of them. Where I grew up in Nova Scotia, there is no shortage of family run, mom and pop style diners, greasy spoons, etc... and they wouldn't dare serve a frozen pattie style burger. I thought when I moved to Calgary, home of Alberta beef, I was in for a treat with all the great burgers I would be trying. I really am shocked how many places server frozen meat in this city. I've only found a handful that don't. I would have thought that by looking at this place, there is no way this would be the case. The burger was good and very filling, the highlight though was the fries. Probablly the best fries I've ever had in Calgary. My friend tells me that the sweet potato chips are awesome too, but these fries were so good that I'm not sure I could go there and not get them again.
Looking around the room it seemed that the percentage of people eating paninis to burgers was 75% to 25%. The panini's were popular and looked delicious. Next trip I'll be going that route for sure. I also here great things about their breakfast. I wouldn't expect anything less. Check out the Holy Grill.
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