The Wobbly Canoe — Restaurant in Sechelt

Hot damn! My new favourite Sechelt eatery. Fantastic service and fantastic food. Went for lunch and returned for dinner. I'm a burger guy, but I choose the Buddha Bowl for lunch because I also love... well... all food.

It was substantial and I will get it again. Everything in it was fresh and full of flavour. I figure if they put that much effort into the vegetarian option the rest must be stellar. I was not wrong. My wife and I also got the corn fritters appie. Holy mother of...! Just do it. So worth it. Note: they are balls about the size of golf balls. Just in case you expect a large fritter donut.

We were too stuffed for desert, but really wanted it so we came back for dinner. We shared the Macaroni and Cheese. That is a big bowl of mac and cheese. It was also stupendous. If KD is nostalgic think of this as what KD could be if it were gourmet and not made of chemicals. If you don't like KD - try it anyway.

We had the basic green salad with it to make us feel like we were eating healthy - hahaha. It was really good too. I wish I'd gotten a full size.

For desert I had the chocolate brownie with caramel and what is basically chocolate mousse all stuffed into a mason jar. A lot of people are doing this trick with their deserts - I have zero complaints. It works. And the desert was topped with banana chips.

If you have ever been to a place called Bistro Bistro in Vancouver on 4th before it closed a few years ago and had their mousse? - that's how good that desert was. Now, Bistro Bistro just did the mousse and it was heaven while it takes the whole jar with brownie, mousse, and caramel at Wobbly Canoe to compare, but hey! Heaven is heaven, right!

My wife had the Cheesecake with raspberry coulis and it was equally wonderful and bright and silky compared to the brownie's rich and chewy.

We...

We had such a terrible experience here today. We got seated and browsed the menu for a while before deciding. When it came time to order, I tried drawing the attention of our waiter. She had never come to greet us the entire time and I noticed her eyes kept darting away like she’s avoiding us. As she walked by with food in her hands, I just wanted to let her know we’re ready to order. Her response with attitude was “It’s really busy right now”. We did not appreciate that attitude and “I’ll be right with you” would have been great. It’s not like she came by earlier to chat with us, so I don’t know what her deal is.

I ordered the burger and my wife ordered 3 different tacos, but only 2 of them came. She then told my wife she only ordered 2. If you heard wrong, just fix the order and move on. Not sure why she had to blame my wife for the mistake.

I’m at a low simmer by this point. Not ONCE did she come by to check up on us about the food. We noticed she would talk to all her other tables. Funny. A new table of 4 sat down as we were about to pay up. It was amazing to see our waiter go up to them within a minute of them sitting down WHILE HOLDING FOOD, to let them know she’ll be with them soon. Again, funny.

This waiter really went out of her way to make us feel welcome. I literally confronted her as I was paying, asking her why she was treating us so different than other guests. She wasn’t apologetic and all she said was “I’m sorry you feel that way”. Holy sh!t, now I’m triggered. I talked to the manager and he said all the right things and seemed apologetic, but it didn’t help change my lunch experience. I left with such a bitter taste in my mouth. As the only non-white table at the restaurant at the time, I don’t know what else to think. You tell me. I’m think the word...

Absolutely atrocious lack of service has turned a long-time active fan of this restaurant into someone who will heartily tell everyone NOT to eat here. AVOID AT ALL COSTS.

Pre-face: I was one of their first patrons, took my mother here when she flew across the world and they had next to no customers at the time. I used to rave about this place all the time.

The bad, the worse, the terrible: Our takeout order was missing items, as well as our brussel sprouts being charred. They were plain bitter. No worries, this happens, busy restaurant, close to closing, so we called. The waitress who had prepared our bag answered. We explained. Silence followed by 'what do you want me to do?' A little taken aback, we replied 'well, if we could get a refund on hust the missing item (a beef dip without DIP is not a beef dip, people), forget the sprouts, we heard a LAUGH. A snort. 'You want a REFUND? another snort followed' 'Yes, but you don't have to be rude about it, we were just asking' my partner replied. 'Okay, FINE, you can come over tomorrow click'. Of course, she was well aware the place was closed the next day.

So, on Wednesday we went all the way out there personally to speak to a manager about being laughed at over the phone. After waiting the usual 10 to be seen, then another 20 for the manager to address grieved customers and finally relaying the story, we were told 'I'm sorry that happened, I'm the manager for today but I'm too busy, give me your number and the head manager will get back to you'. I watched her write the number down. We never heard back. We will never go back. We will actively discourage anyone from ever visiting the Wobbly Canoe again.

The food isn't even that good anymore. If this was Vancouver they'd be out of business. Maybe...