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Sawmill Tap House, Chemainus, BC

Our travels this week have been several. Senior citizens don’t have to stay home. All you have to do is remember “motion is lotion” and go for it. We did. We went to Chemainus to see a live theatre production and then went for lunch.

The Sawmill Tap House was one we had not been to and it was fun to try out.

Don ordered the Chicken and Waffles. Our daughter loves this dish and he thought he would try it. He even brought a piece of chicken back home. It was so crispy, he liked it.

I ordered the funghi pizza. I checked out the menu on line before and it looked super. Well, being a mushroom freak, I ordered it. Uh, big mistake. it wasn’t anything like what they showed. It was not cooked. Period. I am not one to make a fuss in a restaurant, especially with the people we were with and the time restraint we were under. We brought it home and threw it out. If there was even 2 little mushrooms cut up on it, I would be surprised. The crust was like it had just been thawed and then served. True.

Oh, I almost forgot. I pulled off the pizza 12,  yes 12 cloves of garlic. I wouldn’t eat one of these, yet they put 12 on it. Also, having a teenage hockey team who had no clue how to behave…you could not even yell to the person sitting next to you and understand what was said.

You decide for yourselves. This is just my opinion but…..

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Blackfin Pub, Comox, B.C.

Last week, we travelled with Janey’s Got a Bus to see the Coastal Black Pumpkin park in Comox. WOW! This place is huge with millions of pumpkins set out differently. I will review the park on “Damn I Gotta Read This” site You should make the trip and then go into the Blackfin Pub for lunch.

There were 8 of us and everyone enjoyed what they ordered. Our server, Sarah is a wonderful asset to the restaurant for sure. I had something you wouldn’t think works but it does. I had the Mac and Cheese (made the old fashioned way) with elbow macaroni, wonderful sauce and now with shrimp and crab. These were whole shrimp minus the tails and crab pieces. OMGoodness was it ever delicious. Yup! I brought mine home as it was wonderfully large. Don wanted to share it as well.

Don ordered the Skirt Steak Sandwich and really liked it. No left overs here. He never orders a skirt steak but this was really tasty.

It is fun to take these jaunts and visit different restaurants. This is a really good one.

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