Fireside Restaurant - Edmonton, Alberta

Back in the 1980's it was much better both in food quality and price. Now the prices are sky high and the portions are small. Don't waste your time and money.

Terrible, overpriced food. I suggest getting bottled beer, as the "cocktails" are watered down. I had a long island iced tea for $11.95 that tasted like cola and triple-sec. The wings were tiny and over done. The lettuce on my salad was room temp and un-washed. We were a table of ... 7, so i could go on about everyone elses terrible food.. let me just say, there is a "for sale" sign outside and now i know why. Our poor server (Zoe, who the hostess said was just starting her very first shift of employment there) did her best and we tipped her well, but she should look to apply her service someplace else. Read more

The restaurant smelled like a ethnic soap. Buffet food was luke warm, we felt like getting sick. Water was from bathroom tap. $20 a person. There was nothing around rexall centre to eat, and we were from our of town. Just disgusting experience.

Staff seated us at a filthy unwiped table. Took my drink order and walked away without taking my girlfriends. Couldn't remember who ordered what and ignored the fact we needed refills on 3 visits(empty glasses on edge of table). Had to remind her twice we needed ketchup until she brought ... us an almost empty sticky bottle. Bugs everywhere and dropped off the check before we were half done eating because it was "busy". (Half full) wI'll not be back! This place should be shut down. Read more

Went there on a Sunday evening around 4-5ish. Greeted by a nice lady wearing casual clothes - I liked her pink pants lol! She let us sit anywhere in the restaurant - the place was empty. We choose a booth but when we sat down it was hard rock, didn't see that one ... coming but it is an old restaurant and the décor all in all was pretty basic. I went for the Grilled Chicken Salad - said it came with grilled chicken, mozz & cheddar cheese, diced tomatoes, romaine lettuce mixed in ranch sauce served in a tortilla bowl. My partner got the Gardener Burger with fries and took his mushrooms on the side which I would be eating since he hates mushrooms lol. Food arrived very fast - we were surprised by how fast! The portions were huge on my salad. His burger looked alright he had a good amount of fries. As I started to eat, I noticed the ranch dressing had a weird taste and some lettuce was actually old! I showed it to my partner and he tried it too, we both agreed it tasted old, also there was no cheddar cheese even though it was listed on the menu. Also the chicken did not look cooked. It looked and tasted like turkey sandwich meat, the chicken didn't look grilled it actually looked like it had been microwaved. They used like kraft mozzarella packaged cheese and the tortilla bowl tasted stale and looked very brown in color. Now my partners burger was even more weird tasting then mine. It didn't even taste like beef. It tasted almost sweet when I tried it. He ended up just eating the fries and half the burger. So we called the server over and I mentioned about the salad. She apologized and offered something on the menu right away. I ordered the BLT sandwich and asked for it to go. My partner did mention about his burger as well and the server surprised us by saying she would only charge for the BLT. We had no idea she would discount his too. That was a nice gesture. Overall. Food was not good, Décor was alright for a restaurant/pub, Service was the best, the lady was very nice and accommodating and didn't hesitate to fix our meals! =) Read more