Canyon Creek Chop House and the Fairmont Royal York Hotel

Posted by jafer
March 14, 2010

Saturday night was my snookey’s birthday but he usually goes out to dinner with his kids, so I arranged for our birthday celebration on Friday night.

I made a reservation at Canyon Creek Chop House. Mmmm, mmm, mmm. I loved that place The food was spectacular. I finally had a caesar salad that tasted like a real caesar salad (they have their own home-made dressing). It was garlicky, flavourful and big (we split the salad between us cuz I didn’t want to get too full). They also give us some bread while we were waiting and you know I’m not a big bread fan, but they have this honey butter that I could hardly stop eating – even the bread was good, some kind of ‘multigrain’ type but the honey butter makes you want to keep eating the bread even when you don’t like bread that much.

I then ordered the Ultimate Cheeseburger which is described as an “all-beef patty layered with smoked mozzarella, asiago and cheddar, garnished with horseradish-dijon mayo”. I had mine medium well-done and it was probably the most flavourful burger I’ve had in a long, long time. I’m a fan of Harvey’s when I go for fast food burgers, but this was much nicer than that. My snookey ordered the Bacon Cheeseburger, “barbecue basted with applewood-smoked bacon and cheddar cheese”, and I’ll assume his was just as good because he ate it all up. I wanted to try a little of the applewood-smoked bacon, but it’s not like we were at home – I let it go in order to behave like a civilized human being in the middle of a restaurant. The burgers came with a pile of shoestring fries which were the good hand to mouth, non-stop snacking kind, but I had control of myself – didn’t want to fill up too much on fries when I had that great cheeseburger in front of me.

I was stuffed, but since it was his birthday, I had also ordered their birthday champagne with a sparkler (two glasses) or I had the option of a birthday brownie, but I was clever enough to know we’d be full so I had asked for the champagne. We almost ordered a dessert to split, but based on how full I already felt and knowing that we had a night of sucking back beer scheduled, we had to forego dessert. I had plans for us to go play some pool (just like we used to in the ‘olden’ days).

I had bought a $50 gift card for Canyon Creek, and it cost me an additional $20 but we’d both had a couple of beers with our meal, so let’s say you can eat there for under $100 if you’re just having a burger and fries. The steaks cost at least double that, and maybe next time I’ll try one of those – when it’s closer to a pay day.

I had also booked a room for the night at the Fairmont Royal York Hotel. I told my snookey to meet me there at 4:30; I arrived around 4:00 and went up to scope out the room. I ordered a king-sized bed and I’ve got to say that I don’t know what kind of beds they’ve got there, but that was the most comfortable bed ever. The pillows were great too, but the bed… I didn’t want to get out of the bed. When Saturday morning arrived (and our check-out time was noon), you could find me still in bed at 11:00 in the morning – me! Me who never sleeps in! If only I could find a bed like that for home. I didn’t even hear any snoring – I wouldn’t have gotten out of bed if it wasn’t for my honey waking me.

Now I’ve got to say that the staff at the reception desk were a helluva lot more friendly on my checking in than my checking out, but I guess that’s just a matter of personalities. I like friendly staff who smile and sound like they mean it when they say ‘enjoy your stay’, not miserable staff who don’t even say thank you when you’ve paid your bill – listen up Royal York.

Anyway, the whole experience was a good one. I got the hotel room for roughly $160 inclusive and that was using the service we have at work where you get deals on things like this, and shows, and other stuff I can’t even think of. So let’s say the night cost me $300 but that’s only because my snookey paid for our night of pool playing and drinking – that probably ran him about $100 too.

I came home and slept some more since I’m not used to drinking so much; my body wasn’t handling that too well. Would I do it again? Yes I would. I’d stay at the Royal York with their fabulous beds. I for sure will go back to Canyon Creek and the next time will hog that caesar salad all to myself and have an extra $30 in my pocket to order the filet mignon.

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