Albert's Bistro Family Restaurant — Restaurant in Brandon

This place was abysmal most likely due to their busy timing. It looked cute and charming, heard great recommendation from my college class supervisor. From a glance at their menu and claim to fame "Prime rib available every day". I was expecting much more of their service to be friendly and helpful. Their food to be of a good standard. Some key points of their mistakes towards mv meal and service: 1. Their greeting at the from door was non existent. I had called ahead earlier in the day for a reservation, and when we arrived, we stood around for 40 minutes. Not a single: “Hi we’re quite busy and the wait time is…” Our reservation was not even written down or mentioned to anyone. This group of nice people that arrived for Albert’s Bistro were immediately greeted and asked if they were reserved. Without a single mention to any of us until we walked forward and mentioned we were reserved and waited there for so long, and felt such a rude and embarrassing moment to be seated after when our reservation was meant to be earlier. When we were sat, we had a terrible wait time again. My order for prime rib was then cancelled as they had zero cuts of prime rib. Replaced the order with a different entree, but my sides were then wrong. The food seemed like frozen groceries, a very basic and terrible ingredients for how they’re trying to express themselves as local, fair and reasonably priced. They had the policy to not waive anything. Yet have a lot of audacity to say: “Albert’s doesn’t do discounts” they did offer me an item off the dessert’s menu at the very least but I was not satisfied with that outcome as It was an item I would not even want at the end of my meal. The few guests ahead of me had complained the food was not good at the price they were asking and decided not to tip their server. Obviously very overworked and overbooked and they could not handle this day The food arrived terribly did not taste good, and so I unfortunately asked the manager to just walk out without paying which I was not proud of. They phoned Albert and allowed me to leave after a such an excessive...

O-M-G. I was waiting to try the prime rib for a while and it did not disappoint! No wonder it is the restaurant's specialty and a must-try menu item in Brandon. Very generous portions of tender meat. The lemon roasted potatoes were surprisingly flavourful. The side Greek salad was well worth the extra cost and a nice compliment to the meal. My only minor suggestion would be to have a more potent horseradish, although my boyfriend would disagree! The Dolmades were herbaceous, and a sprinkle of lemon really made the flavours pop. We had enough leftovers for a proper lunch the next day. The service was friendly and accommodating with good COVID-19 safety precautions (masks required, plexiglass barrier, social distancing, hand sanitizer available).

UPDATE: I'm adding to this review about 2 years later. I still recommend the lemon roasted potatoes, upgrading to the Greek salad, and making a reservation! I ordered the Greek Delight, which gives you a good amount of everything: Pork or chicken souvlaki (I had one of each), moussaka, spanakopita, and dolmades. DELICIOUS! The tzatziki that came with it was so tasty I'd probably order the tzatziki with pita bread next time. We enjoyed the saganaki (fried cheese) appetizer; once brought to the table, some brandy was poured over it, lit aflame, and fresh lemon juice squeezed on top. Our server, Chelsea, was fabulous from start to finish. However, we noticed another young server turn away two people around 7pm because the restaurant was full, dismissing the 15-minute wait they were told by a third server. She tried to do this again to another group later in the evening — not good for business. Some might say service was slow but I found it to be a relaxed pace that allowed for enjoying the meal and not feeling rushed to leave. Thank you for a lovely...

I have tried to stop here a half a dozen times, but always ended up getting there close to closing time and turned away several times.

Place is small and cramped with limited seating and somewhat drafty it being December even though it was a mild day.

The menu was limited to only 2 pages and most of the items over priced.

I ordered the ceasar salad and it not up to par. Most of the salad was from the core and was yellow lettuce and not nice leafy green romaine you would normally expect. Overly seasoned with garlic salt and parmesan and doused with a lot of croutons. The price of this sad bowl of lettuce was 12 dollars alone.

The redeeming thing was the cheese cake which was rich and smooth, topped with canned frozen strawberry concoction.

It might be considered by some as a cozy little spot by the locals. However I don't have any plans on ever returning to this place.

There are just too many other places that have better venues, food and lower prices.

The fact was this was next to the truck stop and within walking distance was my main reason as it...