MR MIKES SteakhouseCasual — Restaurant in Prince George

Mr. Mikes couldn’t be more generic if it had a yellow label and found on the bottom shelf of the Real Canadian Superstore. There’s virtually nothing distinguishing itself from a dozen different franchises like Boston Pizza, Original Joes, or Applebee’s. Blindfold me, lead me in, and I wouldn’t be able to name where I was with any degree of certainty. With that, I shall make up a generic name to call them all. I shall call them… Mr. Boston Applejoes While inside Mr. Boston Applejoes—which honestly sounds a little dirty—I found all the usual vapidities of casual fine dining: the entire décor was smothered in various shades of brown; the menu was laminated with photos for those unwilling to read, and the layout is so confusing, you’d get lost on the way to the bathroom. The menu offerings looked appetizing, but dreams rarely match reality. I notice that whenever I drink coffee. Sure it looks good, and when using words like mocha, latte, and pumpkin spice, it certainly offers the impression that it would be good…but then I taste it and remember…it’s still coffee. About the only thing I like with coffee in the name is Coffee Crisp, and that has about as much actual coffee as it does nutritional value. I think they call it Coffee Crisp in the same way that companies have to put those warning labels on chocolate bars if there’s a chance they’ve been in contact with peanuts. Perhaps it’s been diluted to such an extent that no original molecules remain—they might as well call it Homeopathic Chocolate Covered Wafers. …Anyways, coming full circle, Mr. Boston Applejoes is the Coffee Crisp of restaurants. It’s been diluted, only the mere scent of a restaurant remains. My eventual selection was advertised as “sliced sirloin sautéed to perfection, creamy peppercorn sauce, mushrooms, roasted red pepper, green onions and asiago with triple elbow (as if two weren’t good enough) noodles.” Firstly, the noodles in my peppercorn sirloin pasta were under-seasoned, if seasoned at all. Secondly, to compensate, the sauce had far too much salt. This is an unfortunate truth in franchise restaurants, as salted water contributes to corrosion in expensive pots. Thirdly, said sauce wasn’t mixed into the dish, with a mound of semi-moist pasta sitting over a bowl of peppercorn “soup”, with the mushrooms wallowing at the bottom leaving an unappetizing conclusion to my meal. These are not mistakes made by chefs; these are mistakes made by workers in a factory line. Finally, and I fully admit nitpicking, it’s not called triple-elbow pasta—only children call them that. It’s called Cavatappi, proving that Mr. Mikes is pandering. As for the other patrons at my table, one suffered from a dairy intolerance, and instead of attempting to create something both appealing and accommodating, all the chef’s did—or rather those working the line—was steam some broccoli and dump it next to a mound plain rice. I know it’s difficult when someone has such an encompassing intolerance, but an intelligent and creative chef would have taken it as a challenge and made sure his or her customer was satisfied. To charge full price for such an underwhelming plate that lacked a shred of originality is disappointing. And to top it off, the meal cost more than one at Boston Pizza, with the latter at least not charging an extra three dollars for garlic bread. With the aforementioned competition just down the street, I honestly don’t know the appeal of Mr. Boston Applejoes. I admit this is an overly negative review, so I’ll diffuse that by saying that I’ve heard their burgers are really good, but so are Red Robin’s. I heard their steaks are good, but so are The Keg’s. The décor, though unoriginal and unexciting, isn’t cheap. I’ll also admit Mr. Boston Applejoes is better than the restaurant it replaced. But that doesn’t make it a recommendation by any stretch. In the spectrum of casual franchise restaurants, Mr. Mikes occupies a low rung in an increasing...

Edited to add: Mike reached out to us very quickly after our review went up and offered to have us back to the restaurant for a meal on him to make up for our poor experience. We've been back twice since this first experience and it must have been a fluke that one night because both times we've been back have been fantastic. Food was phenomenal and the service was great! Thank you Mike for having us back!

First time dining here and to be honest, my husband and I were very let down. We came to celebrate our anniversary and after reading the many good reviews, thought we would be in for a nice dinner out.

First off, our drinks. For the price of an alcoholic drink here, you couldn't taste alcohol in either, and we aren't big drinkers. These drinks were very watered down to the point where we had to ask if we had accidentally gotten a non alcoholic version. So unless you're ordering straight liquor, wine etc, stay away from the cocktails.

Next up came our appetizer . We had the sirloin bites, which were tasty, though a little overdone. They could have used a little less cooking and they would have been perfect.

Our mains were probably the biggest disappointments. My husband ordered the seafood pasta, and the noodles were so overcooked they were like mush. He said it also tasted like someone forgot to add salt. I ordered a filet mignon with garlic herb butter on top, done medium rare. I received a steak with some kind of gravy on top, that had very hard, overcooked pieces of bacon in it. I asked our waitress for what I ordered and she argued with me stating this was what I had ordered. She then proceeded to state that the filet automatically comes with this gravy topper, except when I placed my order she did not inform me of the added topper. I was very clear in my ordering, and if there were a gravy that came with it, she should have informed me and I would have stated that I only wanted the herb butter. She then got very irritated with us before finally just taking the steak away and leaving the rest of my food to get cold while I waited for my steak to be remade.

After all this, we weren't offered any apologies of any kind. Our waitress was rude, dismissive and unkind and our food was unbelievably disappointing for the...

To who ever this may concern... I am not happy at all.. My husband and I came to Mr mikes in prince george bc. We "were" regular customers to this establishment but we will never return to this place. We were greeted at the door she was very pleasant and seated us to the right of the doors where the kitchen is. we were sat in the far corner when we got our appy the flies appeared and were everywhere all over our food all over us, we killed about 5 flies while sitting in that spot. It turned my stomach i could not handle it any more so i asked for us to be moved they moved us right up by the door. we got our main course and once again the flies were all over us and our food again this is disgusting I have never experienced anything like this ever. I am so upset I demanded to speak to Dave, apparently he was gone home for the night, the girl who was acting manager came to talk to us and was of no help at all. She offered us a free desert I said no thank you I have had enough and let it be known that I was completely unsatisfied we were not looking for a free meal or anything we were looking for someone to do something about the flies as they do carry deceases NOTHING was done .. We will never be back I would rather take our hard earned money elsewhere with better service and cleaner atmosphere where they care about what and how the...