. "Decided to go to Laurier Gordon Ramsey for lunch today. I was interested to find out how he had changed it from the original Laurier BBQ. \nNot that impressed!\n\nWalking in, the restaurant looked great, very clean and modern but with traditional wooden touches. Me and my mom were seated in the bar area on high stools. \n\nThere was a pot of pickles to munch on while browsing the menu and waiting for the food. Good pickles but Moishes is better. \n\nI decided to go with the lunch special; a soup, chicken leg, and dessert. My mom just had the chicken leg and we split a side order of the smoke meat mac n; cheese.\n\nThe soup was really good. you could taste that they make their own broth and it had barley.... always a plus for me. \n\nNext, the main dish came.... what we had waited to taste...... looked amazing but the taste.......... ummmm not so much. \nThe fries were mixed with a salt concoction and tasted like you took a glass of sea water. \nTo offset the salted fries, i dipped them in the sauce..... big mistake..... insanely salty!\nThe chicken was average and i've definitely had better. \n\nSmoke meat mac n' cheese was actually quite good.... although its not traditional smoked meat but rather ham. \ndidn't know the two were the same!?!\n\nFinally dessert tasted like Laurier BBQ. A traditional chocolate cream pie from the original restaurant.\n\nOverall, with coffees, water, and one glass of wine, our total ended up being close to $85 for lunch!!!!!!\n\nIf you want good chicken go to CSL BBQ..... or at the very least St-Hubert. you'll get way more for your money and won't have to chug a bottle of water after."^^ . "1"^^ . "0"^^ . "2011-11-16T00:00:00"^^ . "2"^^ . "4"^^ . . .