Village Squire, 1979-12, Page 42SQUIRE'S TABLE
Good family fare at the Queen's in Seaforth
When you sit nearly alone in a dining
room of a restaurant or hotel in the heart of
the dinner hour you begin to wonder if
everybody else knows something you
don't.
That's what happened this month when
we visited the Queen's Hotel in Seaforth.
Luckily everybody else didn't know
something we should have. Oh the food at
the Queen's isn't going to challenge one of
the top spots in the region but there were
more plusses than minuses in our stay.
Like a good many of ,the hotels which
only maintain a dining room as a side
operation to the bar, the Queen's
management didn't seem to be expecting
too many customers the evening we
arrived. The dining room was dark and the
staff had to open it up for us. We were later
joined by a few other diners but it was
about as quiet as eating at home
throughout the meal.
Once the lights came on though they
revealed a quite pleasant dining room,
bright even at night with rough plastered
white walls, recessed pot lights in the
ceiling and a good selection of plants. The
furniture was mostly the mix and match
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assortment which didn't detract from the
overall effect.
The menu wasn't extensive with only
about a half dozen choices on the dinner
menu. The selection was made smaller we
learned from the waitress because of an
equipment malfunction that eliminated
several of the possibilities.
On her second choice the lady settled for
pork chops while the writer chose southern
fried chicken after finding out that the
salmon steak was not available.
The meal was accompanied by the usual
choice of soup or juice. The soup offered on
this day was cream of celery. After some of
our earlier experiences we were a little
r hesitant as to what to expect but were
pleasantly surprised by the soup. If it
wasn't the real made from scratch kind. it
was at least a very good imitation and
didn't look or taste like it had just come out
of a Campbell's can. It was hot, thick and
tasty with plenty of celery floating in it.
The two entrees arrived both with plates
quite full yet attractively laid out. The pork
chops in particular made a plentiful meal.
They were thinly sliced and nicely cooked.
The fried chicken was about what you
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expect when von order southern fried
chicken these days, in other words,
unexciting. The lady chose French fried
potatoes while the writer chose hash
browns and received commercially prepar-
ed patties of potato. The vegetable... well
we won't even comment on the canned
peas.
The meal provided a real treat though
with the large slab of buttered bread that
accompanied each plate. It was very fresh
and sweet.
For dessert the pies were selected.
There was a good selection of pies
available and none seemed to be from a
large commercial bakery. Either someone
on staff made them or they perhaps came
from a local bakery but they were a cut
above what one can often expect
nowadays. The top crust was a bit thick
perhaps but the fillings seemed like real
cherry or apple not the stuff that gets
called fruit by some of the big bakeries.
Service was pleasant and helpful though
not polished. The bill came to just over $IO.
In all the Queen's seems deserving of
better than a near empty dining room even
on a niid week night.
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Not in Festival Square,
not in City Centre, not in Stratford Mall
... we're just in the most beautiful spot in the
whole of Stratford, near Waterloo Bridge, with a
view of the Avon.
That's just one difference between us and any
other bookshop - our prize location. Then
there's our wide range of books -in five ram-
bling rooms in the old Victorian house -on -the -
Park.
If you still don't know why our customers love
us so, come in and learn to love us too. We can't
get too much love! We're open Fridays till 9 p.m.
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