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| - Summerlicious review!
Short Version: Great drinks on the pricey side. Summerlicious menu has a lot of options; everything is good, but nothing really stands out. Waiters are all studs. Solid choice, but there are definitely better restaurants to spend your money on for Summerlicious.
Long Version: They seem to have the open patio on the front reserved for summerlicious, and the regular patrons in the back. Service was slow, but that's definitely understandable with the large crowds.
We picked Byzantium because of the extensive martini menu, and they had so many options to chose from in their fixed price menu. The patio area was nice, but there were a lot of flies flying in and out, and it was really annoying to have to constantly be shooing them away.
First of all - charging for bread? Really? My Canadian friend said that it's more common in Canada than in the US, but whenever restaurants do that it just strikes me as incredibly cheap. Our first round of bread came over topped with a long, curly hair. We flagged our waiter down and he promptly brought us another batch. Bread came with this delicious hummus - it really had a kick to it; the bread itself was stone cold though.
I got the poutine, which was pretty good. The best part were the cheese curds - massive, soft and chewy, I definitely felt like I was going to get lactose intolerant eating them. The gravy was very unimpressive - very reminiscent of the gravy from Smoke's Poutinerie, and the fries were thin cut and equally un-outstanding. The PEI mussels came in a creamy white sauce that was delicious when we dipped the bread into it. Mussels themselves were a little small. The beet salad was ... beety. Couldn't get into it but the friend who ordered it really enjoyed it.
I ordered the BBQ ribs; we also had the chicken and waffles, and the vegetarian moussaka at our table. The ribs came with a pretty good BBQ sauce, but the meat was very dry. Came with some sweet potato wedges that were delicious! The moussaka looked delicious - large pile of steamed veggies and a cube of potato. The chicken and waffles were a little weak - the fried chicken had an overly thick crust; it came with a sweet gravy (instead of gravy and syrup separately) that tasted a little off.
Dessert was good - we ordered one of each of the three options. The chocolate cake was definitely the best of the three.
Great selection of wine. I got a glass of Zinfandel from California that was surprisingly good. As always, martinis are a must. Prices aren't listed but range from 9-12$, a bit on the pricey side. They're pretty huge and so yummy!
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