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This is my family's favourite place for brunch! We go to the Fathers Day buffet every year! Its the best! Love the staff and service. Love the food ev…
Karli Poettcker
The Workshop Eatery
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To everyone reviewing this restaurant highly: I wish I understood.Came here on a Sunday evening after a recommendation by Avenue magazine and other re…
Alexandra Konkina
The Workshop Eatery
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Lunch at the workshop eatery. Glad we made a reservation as this place is busy today. Staff are quick to seat us and bring us our drinks. After a visi…
Ladyrose
The Workshop Eatery
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7 Reviews on “The Workshop Eatery”
This is my family’s favourite place for brunch! We go to the Fathers Day buffet every year! Its the best! Love the staff and service. Love the food even more!
To everyone reviewing this restaurant highly: I wish I understood.Came here on a Sunday evening after a recommendation by Avenue magazine and other reviewers. I had high hopes, as the menu items sounded delicious and the ambiance of the restaurant was overall pleasant. My friend had the duck breast and duck sausage, and I had the pork chop. While the presentation was good and the service was friendly, the flavours were bland, the food poorly-seasoned, and the meat very dry. For $30+ a plate, it was a huge disappointment. I am giving one star for the quality of the food, which was honestly poor. (The wait-time was also around 45 minutes, though maybe that’s the time they spent over-cooking my pork!)Unfortunately, many restaurants in Edmonton and area have begun to pop up that sound (and look!) high quality, but the actual flavour of the food is mediocre and frankly, sub-par in comparison with other cities and even other restaurants in Edmonton. You’re likely far better off going to a family-owned or tried-and-true ethnic restaurants than to eat somewhere like this.Maybe it’s a ‘big fish, small pond’ situation in Edmonton right now, but this is far from a good quality restaurant if you compare it to similar-priced restaurants outside of Edmonton’s borders.
Lunch at the workshop eatery. Glad we made a reservation as this place is busy today. Staff are quick to seat us and bring us our drinks. After a visit a long perusal of the menu we decided on the cheese burger and the fried chicken sandwich. The cheese burger arrives with a salad topped with prosciutto and a gluten free bun. Fried chicken sandwich arrives with the same type of salad and on a multi grain bun. Both sandwiches are HUGE! Flavors are great, both proteins are cooked perfectly and salads are dressed nicely. Staff are friendly and attentive. Keeping our table clean our drinks full and delivering the dessert menu at just the right time. We order a gluten free chocolate cake to share. It comes with vanilla bean ice cream and berry compote, also very good. Service was great throughout our stay and the food was fab. Note* restaurant is very noisy when busy and when slow. We had a hard time hearing each other at lunch. Both when the restaurant was full and when we were the only table left.
Ate here for lunch one afternoon with some friends and was pleasantly surprised at the quality for such a commercial/industrial area. I had the eggplant parmesan sandwich and the carrot ginger soup. Both were great but not outstanding. The service was adequate but didn’t pop out for me. I was told that the arancini is really good so if I go back that is what I will try.
Went there for lunch and had the Vegetarian melt. I expected a burger but it was actually more like a sandwich with very greasy toasts. The goat cheese was yummy but the whole dish very sweet. Chips for side. They were very salty!!Small portion overall as I was still hungry after I left. Dish was $15 so I overpriced for the portion size.I don’t think I would go back.
Very disappointed overall. I had the baseball steak which was tough. Brussel sprouts were greasy and overcooked. Cheese tater tots were deep fried and laden with grease — tasted almost identical to our appetizer of risotto balls. Very little flavour. Dijonaise was sauce was awful. Chicken dish came with a pitiful portion of gnocchi. Only vegetable with the chicken dish was a pure of butternut squash which resembled pumpkin pie. Creme brle was overpowered by a compote of sickly sweet rhubarb. Our waiter came across as being stressed and impatient. Not an impressive night to share with our friends. Way too noisy to carry on a conversation. Not good value. Did not complain as we were with friends and did not want to create a fuss.
Food – 2.5/5Service – 3.5/5Overall Experience -3/5Ambiance – 4/5Value – 2/5Positives – great area, ample parking, romantic atmosphere, open concept is very visually appealingNegatives – made reservations and still had to wait 30 mins to be seated, food was not pleasant (not one of our 6 dishes were finished – table of 4) and prices were relatively high. The meal took a long time and was drawn out due to the extended wait between courses.FoodClams were overly salty and lacked depth. Flavor was flat some clams had crunchy bits.Pork belly was above average in texture and had decent flavor.Lamb shank was disappointing. The meat was not as tender as it could be and flavor again was lacking depth.Chicken was a little dry but the gnocchi was EXCEPTIONAL but not enough to salvage the meal.DrinksCocktails tasted fine but did not match the pictures in the menu (pickled Caesar came with one small pickled item on it).This is the third time I have visited this restaurant. Hopefully the forth time will win me over.