Breakfast – Page 16

October 19, 2013October 19, 2013

Pete’s At The Beach – Sylvan Lake, AB

I’ve been to Sylvan Lake once before, and had a great dinner. This time, we came by for breakfast – and we decided to try Pete’s at the Beach which is located right on Lakeshore Drive, across from the beach. There’s parking here and it’s at an ideal location, great for all types of travelers.

The interior was decorated with a large collection of old favourites and antiques to really neat artifacts. It was fun inside and you know each piece of item has some history for the owners.

We ordered our breakfasts, and we had their Denver Sandwich – opened and it was really nicely done! It was a delicious omelette with ham, peppers, onion on top of toast with some hash browns. It sounds simple, but simple is best in this case!

We also ordered their Eggs and Toast with sausages on the side. It turned out to be a pretty big and decent breakfast! The toast and bread used in both meals was the best! It was light and fluffy, even after it being toasted, and it just tasted really great!

This was a great place to stop at! It was great to see the locals come in and they talk to the workers in the restaurant like family! It was a great environment and the food was excellent! I would recommend coming here to grab some food! We enjoyed ourselves thoroughly.

Pete’s At The Beach

4711 Lakeshore Drive
Sylvan Lake, AB
(403) 887-4747

October 18, 2013

White Spot Macleod Trail – Calgary, AB

Thanksgiving this year was kind of interesting. This year, I didn’t make any feasts which I quite enjoy – as I haven’t not made something in a long time. We decided we still wanted turkey dinner, so we went to White Spot on Macleod Trail which is located just in the Willow Park area.

We started out with some appetizers, their Salt and Pepper Wings which was not a good deal at all! It costed more than a buck a wing. Sure, they’re good, but they’re not worth the price tag they put on it.

As mentioned, we wanted turkey for dinner, so we got their Roast Turkey Dinner and on this Thanksgiving, they made it into a combo, I guess… it came with pumpkin soup. It was actually quite tasty and I really enjoyed the soup. Tons of flavour and the texture was nice too.

The actual turkey dinner was surprisingly good! It was a large plate with both white and dark meat, mashed potatoes with gravy and some stuffing. I’m not a huge fan of stuffing on the best of days, so I still didn’t eat these ones. I tasted it and that was about it. This plate did get cleared between the 2 of us, and quite quickly too!

The other thing we ordered was their Baby Back Ribs and these ribs were fall of the bone tender and juicy. We got it with onion rings, and the waitress really didn’t tell us that it was an upgrade/substitute fee. Oh well, it wasn’t the end of the world

Overall, the food was excellent and the service was really good. The only part I had to complain about was the bill as mentioned with the onion rings, it was added, which I’m sure we could have just read. But, I guess for Thanksgiving, they had a special combo that had dessert added as well. We weren’t offered it and when we asked the waitress, she took it off the bill and the total on the bill because more expensive. She didn’t explain to us anything – so we figured she didn’t know what she was doing. Instead of causing a scene, we just paid the more expensive bill and left. Kind of left a sour note in my mouth, but the food was soo good. Not sure if I’ll be back.

White Spot

10400 Macleod Trl S
Calgary, AB
(403) 278-8212

October 17, 2013August 16, 2020

Diana Restaurant – Drumheller, Alberta

Touring Alberta some more recently and we found ourselves hungry during a late lunch hour in Drumheller. We originally wanted Vietnamese, which was closed, but we found Diana Restaurant right on Centre Street (basically Main Street), so it was easy to find with lots of parking.

We went inside and got seated in a booth and we looked around – couldn’t help but giggle as it was decorated with everything “Asian” and kind of retro actually! This place totally feels like a family restaurant as it appears there was only 1 person taking care of the front of the house and 1 in the back. Service was still really good and the food came out relatively fast. I wasn’t feeling 100% so I wanted something less greasy, so I opted for their Wor Wonton Soup which had quite a few wonton in the bowl — around 12 of them! I’m afraid to talk about the taste as I know I lost some tastebuds from not feeling good! If I had to say something, it would be that it was really quite good!! It just needed a little salt or soy sauce.. or even hot sauce!

My husband loves pork chop and he jumped to the opportunity to have pork chop. It was called Grilled Pork Chops off the menu, and it’s what it sounds like! We were just surprised that it came with 2 giant slices. Of course, I had some to try as well, and it tasted pretty good! Well seasoned, well cooked and it was still tender and juicy.

Overall, we enjoyed our little stop here! It was quite fun and the atmosphere was pretty neat! Not your traditional Chinese food, but as it says outside “Western Chinese”!

Diana Restaurant

388 Centre St
Drumheller, AB
(403) 823-3030

September 2, 2013

Horizon Restaurant – Provost, Alberta

We found ourselves passing the small town of Provost, Alberta from our road trip. We decided to stop at this town to fill up on gas and our bellies and stopped at the Horizon Hotel and Restaurant.

Once inside, we noticed that it was Koreans that ran the restaurant, so we thought it was kind of neat. The restaurant is spacious and quite large and offers an lounge on the other side with VLT’s! But, we were here just to eat lunch and that’s what we did!

We started our lunch with some Fried Perogies which of course wasn’t really fresh. It came out rather greasy from the fryer, but yet kind of doughy, but the filling was tasty. Overall, it as decent, but not something I would get again from here.

I tried their special, it was their Hawaiian burger which a burger with a beef patty, some ham slices, cheese, bacon. lettuce and pineapples! It as a large burger and it was a messy one too! It was tasty, but I found it had a little too much teriyaki sauce on it.

The last thing we ordered was their Roast Beef Ramen which was spicy! It was actually really tasty, and reminded us of a modified version of Korean Instant noodles that you can get in a pack. But, the soup base did taste different. We really enjoyed this bowl or ramen!

Overall, this was as great stop! A perfect lunch spot for a lunch that hit the spot!

Horizon Restaurant

4305 57 Ave
Provost, AB
(780) 753-3905

September 2, 2013

Coaldale Bakery – Coaldale, Alberta

For one how knows me well, I love bakeries and Coaldale Bakery was recommended to us by my husbands co-worker. I knew we had to go as they offer famous Apple Fritters and it’s something I didn’t use to love, until now – except for the fact, I can’t find any as good! This bakery is attached to a market and it’s just minutes outside of Lethbridge! It’s definitely worth the trip if you’re in the area!

We ordered a box of 6 fritters and kind of an assorted, we asked for 2-Apple Bacon Fritters, 2-Apple Raisin Fritters, and 2-Apple Blueberry Fritters. I loved all 3 types and I often think about going back to purchase some more – but the trip is a little far!

We had so much fritters and we didn’t know that the Lethbridge Air Show VIP section fed us so well. We had left overs and I must admit, these were just as delicious the following day! We were lucky as I was worried about it getting hard from the exposed air, or even soggy… who knows what can happen with day-olds. But, they were wonderful!

Needless to say, this bakery was awesome! I will be back and to actually sit down to enjoy the cafe! And, I’ll bring more home as well, since they were still good even when they’re not fresh!

Coaldale Bakery

1907 – 20th Ave
Coaldale, AB
(403) 345-3322