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| - It's YYC Burger week so I selected the place based on the burger that was presented being offered by The Fine Diner on the yycburgerweek.com site. The Surf n Turf burger proved to be a disappointment. The burger is described as 5 oz beef patty topped with lobster warmed in garlic butter, cheddar cheese, housemade garlic aioli, red onion, lettuce, tomato on a butter brioche bun with a pickle spear on top and served with a side of house cut duck fat fries. I opted for salad instead of fries. The presentation was pleasing, my salad served in a wide mouth mason jar but the burger didn't look like the photo, for one thing I wasn't sure that was anything in between the bread except for a very flat patty and cheese, the only seasoning I could detect was salt and had to take a quite sniff to make sure that there was indeed some lobster in there. Upon tasting, there was really no flavour other than salt. I couldn't tell there was garlic aioli on it, the patty was home made but the beef used flavourless and the lobster looked and tasted like cardboard. I have never been to The Fine Diner before so based on this experience I would not be in a hurry to return. The salad was dressed with a balsamic vinegar dressing and the overall flavour was vinegar, not a good balsamic vinegar taste, the cranberries were supposed to balance the flavour but because of being served in a jar they had all sunk to the bottom and hard to get to. For those of you on YYC Burger trips I would give this place a miss unless you were on the hunt for the taste all 30 burgers prize.
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