The Twisted Cork — Restaurant in Prince George

Twisted Cork review

They’re organic greens salad was big and beautiful and fresh. We found the house dressing bland so next time I would ask for a different drssing, but the quality in the greens was definitely there. We were hungry, so I forgot to take pictures until so I’d already started the salad.

We got the tapas board And everythingwas very nice, the bread they supplied were very nice quality baguette slices and all the picked vegetables, meat slices and olives were tasty.

Really wonderful menu, there’s so many things I wanted to try that will definitely have to come back again. The décor is beautiful, very old school, Beautiful oak paneling, subdue tones, exposed brick walls, very comfortable, relaxing atmosphere. Our server Alanna was very friendly, efficient and pleasant.. the best service we have had at a restaurant in Prince George so far, and it was moderately busy but she was still attentive and very quick to fulfil any of our request such as the extra butter I wanted for the bread and brie cheese.

Hector got the chicken breast stuffed with seafood including lobster, and he really enjoyed it, said the flavor of the sauce was excellent and the combination of lobster and cream cheese with the chicken worked really well.

I got the bread, brie cheese and roasted garlic.. bread was excellent, fresh with good chew, the baked brie was very nice but the roasted garlic wasn’t baked enough and wouldn't spread and still had a bit of a bitter raw flavor. Our server took the half head of garlic back for more roasting, and ended up bringing a new serving of the baked garlic Head but it was the same, but I didn't bother to say anything as I was satisfied with the brie cheese and bread. We ordered the lamb spring rolls, but in my opinion, they did not live up to their description, I could only taste the lamb and I don’t like some flavors of lamb and I didn’t like these. However, Hector really liked them so he had them.

We were in the small lounge area, a very nice cozy feeling room, but I found the chairs too low and deep to for the table so I asked for one of the dining room chairs, which Alanna was very quick to take care of. They were somewhat better, but their dining room chairs had a high edge at the front of the chair that cut off the circulation of my legs over the course of the evening so I end up switching back to a lounge chair which wasn't quite the right for sitting at the table, but overall more comfortable.

Overall, they have a great menu, wonderful ambiance, received excellent service from Alanna. But like most places, some of their menu items are great, but some are so, so, you have to experiment. Personally, I am quite willing to send a dish back if it isn’t satisfactory but it sends Hector into a seething rage when I do that and he really liked the lamb spring rolls, so nothing got sent back. I couldn’t send back the roasted garlic, really because I ate& enjoyed all the cheese and the bread and it would have ben petty on my part to complain a second time. The had some type of sauce drizzled on the bread, that really went well with the cheese.

We will probably come back for one more meal while we are staying in Prince George, they had some other things I definately wanted to try.

The front of the building is really beautiful architecture, I would be curious to know if it this building was a restored original building for...

Truly a devastating culinary experience. The service was great; the food bordered on traumatic it was so bad.

The Risotto and cheese appetizer was presented like fish sticks. It was deep fried sticks of “risotto” which proved to simply be mushy flavourless rice. I don’t know what part cheese was suppose to play, but it never made an appearance.

The scallops were terrible; and for some reason there was more of the flavourless mush masquerading as Risotto underneath the scallops.

My Eggplant Parmesan was wet. There was a huge amount of it served and I wished there wasn’t. There wasn’t a single flavour in the entire dish except for the balsamic vinaigrette on the plate which was by far the best part of the dish. I was absolutely baffled to find Risotto underneath the eggplant Parmesan.

The Paella was almost a crime. There wasn’t a crispy bottom layer; it was just what was essential the Risotto AGAIN in a mushy messy with no flavour and the mussels were so undercooked I was scared to eat it. I don’t know how you can call something a Paella without a socarrat. The prawns seemed like they were boiled from frozen with absolutely nothing for seasoning or even butter. Boring is an understatement.

And then the bill. $130 before the tip. We drank water and had no dessert and were charged fine dining prices for the worst meal I can remember.

Again, our waitress was excellent. No complaints there.

I don’t know if they somehow found themselves with an excess of Risotto and were just trying to offload it; but it was unforgivable.

I’m not a review writer and probably would have let this go, until we got the bill.

If you value flavour and respect food in the slightest, I would suggest giving this...

Start from the beginning. Decided to favour a local based restaurant over a chain. Menu posted outside includes mention of a striploin steak with "pommes frites", peppercorn sauce and seasonal vegetables. Go inside. Entrance like one of those cheap funhouses from your youth, completely black, no lights. Had to guess which interior door to enter. Scallops were good. Asked waitress why entry was so dark. "Lightbulbs were burnt out". What, no spare lightbulbs in all of Prince George?. Medium rare steak was medium, had maybe a teaspoon of peppercorn sauce (from a bottle?), and sat on a plate of what was basically Hickory Sticks - dried out deep fried matchstick potatoes. Go online for what real pommes frittes are. Waitress even confirmed before ordering that the fries were like McDonald's fries, more commonly called steak frites or moules frites in restaurants that know what they are doing. Chocked on them. Couldn't eat rest of meals because the dry food stuck in my throat. No apologies from the staff. Wish we'd eaten at The Keg. It even smelled nicer when we walked past there. Oh yeah, vegetables were vastly undercooked. Basically raw vegetables warmed to room...