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| - I was utterly disappointed with my visit to Royal Meats.
Although the place is supremely clean and contemporaneously furnished to the nines, it was the food itself that makes me shudder every time I drive by.
I went in hungry enough to eat a side of beef. Their menu offers a simple range of choices, all clearly posted with nice photos of each. Their menu choices are
Royal Burger
Chevaps
Steak Sandwich
Shish-Kabobs
BBQ Chicken
Grilled Pork
Smoked Sausage
Royal Cannon
My wife and mum in law opted for the grilled chicken sandwiches (as they're not keen on pork nor veal and that's what the hamburger patties are made of), and I decided I had to attempt the Royal Cannon based of my aforementioned hunger.
The Royal Cannon is a gigantic, rolled piece of veal, filled with cheese, battered and deep fried. I know... gross eh? But I was starving!
I'm constantly saying "We don't have places like the ones you see on Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives here in Toronto". I thought this Royal Cannon was about to change that.
Two-bites in, I felt sick to my stomach. The cheese inside bled out of the grey, rolled meat into an oily pool on the plate. I have no idea what kind of cheese it was because it was incredibly oily, strong in flavour and rich. Waaay too rich. I pushed the $16 piece of garbage to the side and continued with my sweet potato fries, which were good. My Cannon was served with some sort of European bun. I took a bite. The texture was amazing, soft and dense... great flavour too! I took another bite and spit it out. Inside the bun was slathered (and I mean slathered), some sort of weird cheese mayo which tasted just like the innards of the Cannon. Blech. Back to the fries.
My wife and mumsy in law felt sorry for me and offered me parts of their chicken sandwiches. I them up on their offer. Dry, pallid and boooooring. Nowhere near to anything that should be labelled as BBQ.
It is my new belief that there should be a law governing establishments that use the term BBQ, or any derivation of it, in their title. Churrasquieras are not BBQ. Korean grill houses are not BBQ. And Royal Meats is NOT BBQ! (1)
I will not be back to RMB... but I hear there's an award-winning burger spot just up the road that I'll be sure to try.
(1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbecue
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