Lakeshore Restaurant — Restaurant in Regina

Lakeshore is one of those restaurants that is stuck in time somewhere - personally I find that absolutely delightful. This is a fancy restaurant for people who find fancy restaurants intimidating.

We started with a bottle of wine and shrimp cocktail - for $15, the 5 shrimp were just under frozen and there wasn't much cocktail sauce. I think it would have improved if the shrimp were more defrosted - you want that fresh seafood brininess and the weird spongey bounce and that is muted if they are too cold.

The garlic bread was delicious, but they could bring it up a notch by making their own bread - it seemed like this was a take n bake style bread.

Next, I had the 6oz filet mignon with house salad and baked potato. The house salad was rather sad - shredded iceburg lettuce with two cucumbers and two carrots. I would have liked to see some slivered radishes, segmented fruit pieces, or something else to make it special. The house dressing is really tasty though.

For the streak, mine was cooked SUPERBLY - sometimes I get a little nervous ordering medium rare as it sometimes comes more medium, but it was super tender and lovely. Seasoning was absolutely perfect. Mixed veggies were tender and well seasoned as well; everything managed to still have bite while being perfectly cooked. I would have liked to potentially see more caramelization on them, since steamed veggies are a little old school? But no complaints. My baked potato was slightly under where I like to make them myself. It was not tender enough to be "fluffy" but still be cooked and hold together. Inoffensive in all, and the toppings offered were delicious.

My only real complaint was that the béarnaise sauce that I ordered on the side was clearly a packet mix and a fairly bad one at that - béarnaise should be a wine reduction with shallots, tarragon, and vinegar mixed with eggs and butter. This was... emulsified butter. It brought none of the tangy, licorice-y bite that I was looking for.

All in all, I found this a good steak restaurant but not a great one. To be 5 star, I would want to see this place make an effort to bring flavor in every element and make things from scratch. This was not that kind of establishment and I'm okay with that! The more casual atmosphere made up for the minor missteps, and I genuinely will come back for their Date Night Special as it looks like a massively good deal. Can I suggest having a dessert that is not milk based? My husband is lactose intolerant and can't do either cheesecake or ice-cream without making my life extremely unpleasant...

We to pick up food that was ordered and drove up to the pickup window. Waited for several minutes which was fine but then gave the restaurant a call. Some one came to the window and told me they did not have the order, she had said that she will check with the kitchen and apparently the kitchen had the order but didn’t tell anyone which I find weird. Still continued to wait for my order when a different lady came to the window and asked if I’ve been helped and I said yes they are finding my order. Still continued to wait another 3-5 min and then I think was a manager or owner came to the window asking if my order was under a name and I said no then he said oh cause we have several orders for the same steak and want to make sure we get it right. Finally we got the order and when o got back home I found the $35 of 1/2 pound crabs legs we ordered along with the steak was maybe $15 worth of crab and the butter was thrown all over the container. Overall I think there customer service has gone downhill and lack of communication...

Arrived for dinner evening of March 8. The scruffy person at the greeting counter was really uninterested in greeting us. He continued to doodle on his paper before he finally acknowledged us after a couple minutes. There was 3 of us so he showed us to a table for 2. Oh, he was suprised we did't want that table. My elderly mother asked for a table at the fire place as there was lots of tables available. NO, was his response. Lots of tables but he stuck us up in a corner away from everybody. Ok, seated. Our server was great. Marlee. Food was only very average. Ribs and shrimp for me. I think the ribs were left over from the day before.. Not very tender and did not taste fresh. My sisters steak was ok but the baked potato was cold. A good comment... the ceaser salad was awesome, loved it. The decor and the food does not match the pricy menu. I won't go back and do not reccomend lakeshore for anybody unless you want a ceaser salad and a...