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The Village Café and Deli

After watching a segment on “You Gotta Eat Here”, we decided we would check it out. So far John has been right on in his showcasing a restaurant. It is teeny-tiny in size. But it is clean and the servers are the friendliest. Our server, Swill, was awesome.

We  already knew what we were going to order before we even entered the establishment. The description John gave did it for us.

Don ordered the 1/2 West Coast Benny served on a potato latke. Did you really think he would order anything different?   Of course not.  It came with fresh fruit as well . He ordered a ‘small’ orange juice. Well…it is served in a beer glass and not so small at that. He said it was the freshest orange juice he had ever had.

I ordered the 1/2 Back Benny. This is egg, back bacon served on potato latke. Comes with fresh fruit and, when we finished our plates, we said we could have gone the full order. It was delicious. Both come with a Hollandaise sauce and that was delicious. In fact, our server, even offered to go into the kitchen and ask them to prepare the other half of our order. We just laughed and passed on that.

Hot coffees rounded out the meal.

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Nautical Nellies, Victoria, B.C.

It was suggested to us to try this establishment for dinner. We took them up on it and it was pretty good. Don’t ever let anyone tell you people don’t go out for dinners anymore. It was packed on a Wednesday night. Easy to find, on Wharf Street, close to the Inner Harbour.

Don ordered the Seafood Hot Pot. It was huge and all kinds of seafood in it. Big pieces not some chopped up mini “guess what it is” food. He absolutely loved it. An O’Doull’s was a good pairing.

I ordered the Scallop Dinner.  Our server, Terri, suggested I choose this one dinner over another as the scallops were a bit larger in size. It comes in a round flat-bottom bowl with the scallops around the outer edge. It had a great almost succotash in the center of the bowl. It was delicious. I have to mention, however, if you want large scallops, just ask my husband to prepare them. Just sayin’. I enjoyed a glass of chilled Pinot Gris. It was a good choice.

We could not leave without a dessert and, of course, it had to be the Crème Brulee. We have had this dessert all across Europe and everywhere in between.

 

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