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| - My boyfriend and I visited Brown's for the second time, after receiving a gift card for leaving feedback after our first visit. Now, the first time we went, things weren't great (our waitress was rude, the food was meh), but they weren't terrible. We both had burgers, we had a plate of calamari that was oddly lemony and strange, and then a pot of oreo cheesecake that was in a mason jar. The burgers had very little meat, and my boyfriend called them "lettuce and bread burgers" because of the ratio of those things to the actual patty. He didn't like the calamari at all, and he had just had the most amazing calamari in BC just a few weeks before. The oreo pot was the saving grace of the evening, because it was delicious, albeit hard to get at.
We went to Browns on the 30th, the last day of undergrad classes for us (EVER!). We had a big lunch earlier in the day, so we decided to split two appetisers, and grab a dessert. No drinks for us, because he was driving and I wasn't going to drink without him. Anyway, we grabbed the Dragon Roll and the General Tso's chicken, and we decided to grab the oreo cheesecake pot for dessert. We regretted every minute.
The dragon roll was a mess. The rice was overcooked and goopy (and warm!), there was nothing besides a tempura shrimp as a filling (no cucumber, or anything else), the mayo sauce drizzled atop the roll was almost the same colour as the rice, and the "aromatic soy" they give you for dipping is just soy sauce watered down with vinegar. It was awful, but the waiter was too busy and we were starving, so my SO avoided the sauce, and I just ate a lot of ginger to make it okay. The chicken wasn't awful, but it was not General Tso's-- I couldn't tell what the flavour was, but my boyfriend nailed it when he asked me if I'd ordered Orange Chicken by mistake. It tasted like marmalade was poured on to it, and had the same citrusy tang that the calamari did. Whoever is in the back really likes to abuse citrus.
Browns fails miserably at Asian "fusion," the food is disgraceful. I was so disappointed, but my boyfriend expected it.
The oreo pot was smaller than last time, and sealed into the pot with an EXTREMELY hard oreo crust. Seriously, I had to put some effort behind my spoon to crack the top. The whip cream was also really bland, and because we couldn't dig all the way to the bottom, we essentially had to eat flavourless fluff to reach anything that was half-decent.
Something interesting that we noticed at Browns, was that they ask you if you're new visitors or not. On the way to the bathroom, I noticed that the "new" visitors' table numbers were written on a small chalkboard, and the waiters payed more attention to them. Once I got back to the table, we paid the bill, and then the waiter took our receipt back-- including the slip that encourages you to offer feedback. From what my boyfriend and I noticed, the place was only busy during reverse happy hour, and people were only buying drinks or ordering burgers. The burgers seem to be the only halfway decent thing on the menu, though extremely overpriced. You can buy a much more filling burger with sides at The Works or the Burgernator for less than what you'd have to pay at Browns.
Not going back, neither should you, and you should be suspicious of any really positive reviews you see here.
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