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| - Poutini's gets a big, fat, meh from yours truly. Went there on Friday night and there were only 3 other people in the store (there was a giant thunderstorm raging outside, it was around 7pm, long before the strip gets super-bumpin') but I had to wait 15 minutes for my order?!?! WTF?!?
Listen, I've worked in the restaurant biz (Bymark, Canoe, Sen5es, etc.) and at the height of Summerlicious, when Bymark was pumping out 250 people covers in an hour and a half, it didn't take us more than 2 minutes to put a cone of fries out. If you're frying pre-blanched fries (which the dude was) there's no excuse for that.
The counter staff were the rude, disaffected, borrowing accessories from native american culture-type. Most egregious of all, I found the pricing a little unacceptable. For the regular poutine it's decent, but there's NO WAY IN HELL that "The Works" (a regular poutine with sour cream, chives, and bacon) should be NINE DOLLARS PLUS for a "large" - is you tweakin'?
I will give them props for the quality of the curds they use - large, squeaky, plentiful. But Poutini's falls apart for me at the gravy stage - thick, glommy, over-thickened, all you can taste is salt and flour. It's like a less flavourful KFC chicken gravy. I'm not even sure what animal's stock it's supposed to be based on, but you don't taste it, that's for sure.
Overall, I'd stay away. When you can get something midway decent from any number of other places that ALSO have other edible items on the menu, why would you go out of your way for this?
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