Ricky's All Day Grill - St. Albert — Restaurant in St. Albert

Little effort to impress. Waitress showed no enthusiasm. She's just there for a pay cheque. The 2 kids meals (chicken strips & fries) came first with both of them missing the plum sauce. My brother in law said "Not a good start". A waiter brought only 1 to the table but it was sufficient sinxe the kids dont use much anyway. My hubby ordered a burger and my brother ordered the California salad. They liked it ok. However my meal was VERY disappointing. I ordered ribs with House salad and Tumbleweed chips. My salad was good and that was about it. The chips were completely transparent with grease. I only ate 4 of them. I expected them to be like Boston Pizza's Cactus Chips - which are AWESOME! My ribs were NOT "fall off the bone tender" - more like "Gnaw off the bone tough"! The sauce was really good and the top of the ribs were the most tender but the meat in between was tough. I shouldn't have to saw my ribs apart. The waitress wasn't anywhere to be seen so I "toughed" it out. After our meals were done we waited and waited for the Waitress to come. She finally came around and my hubby told her what sauce the kids wanted on their sundaes the candy they wanted. All she came back with was the candy so we waited some more for the ice cream. No Waitress and no sundaes. We were getting tired of waiting and the kids were getting restless so we left. What a terribly managed place! It wasn't even busy! Not going back there again. We recently came back from Banff and ate at a well known restaurant and it was packed! The waiters and waitresses were fast on their feet, on top of their game, friendly, very efficient and the food was excellent! It's too bad not all restaurants can...

I usually don’t post reviews on here, but I thought I should share this.

On Wednesday, November 27th my boyfriend and I came in for lunch. When we first walked in, I had noticed it wasn’t super busy, but it still took about 4-5 minutes for the hostess to come up and seat us. When she came up to us, she didn’t ask us any questions, and I had to tell her how many people were in our party myself. She took us to our table, and 2 minutes later, our waitress came by and just asked us, “what do you want to drink?”. She didn’t give us an introduction or ask us how our day was going.

Once we got our food, which the hostess dropped off for us, she was the one who asked us if we needed anything. Once our waitress came by, all she asked was, “did you get everything you needed?” and walked away before we got a chance to tell her if we needed anything. After that, she didn’t come by to ask us how it tasted.

Once we got our bill, she just placed it on the table and left to go to another table. She came back and impatiently asked, “do you have tap?”.

I felt she wasn’t treating us very nice due to our age. We are 17, but we do know to use our manners and to treat our servers with respect. Also, as someone who works in the restaurant industry, I know this was not a way to treat someone who is under 18. The food was amazing, but the service was what made my...

When you’re living through a pandemic and restaurants are delivery only, it’s truly a roll of the dice. My fingers were crossed when ordering a late night Philly cheesesteak sandwich and yam fries I couldn’t wait to have. I wish I could say it was amazing, but all I can’t say was it was edible. I dreamed of a moist meaty sandwich with gooey cheese and worth all the guilt I was willing to live with when eating it. Sadly it was nothing close to my dream, dried meat like bits and pieces of meat similar to what I think it’d be like to eat construction paper. The cheese, well what you see in the photo was the hype and not much more. So that brings us to the juice, the sauce, if that’s amazing it literally covers all the imperfection of a sandwich we can forget as we soak it up in flavour. But....... it didn’t have any flavour at all I tried dunking that sandwich like Kobe with a slam dunk and no win it was tasteless. So as much as I would’ve loved any of the key elements to save the day, it was a total bummer. I saved myself on the yam fries I lost my hype after the sandwich. I did my best to sell it for the three stars with a great edited photo for viewing pleasure. I can only hope when restaurants reopen maybe it’s a better option dinning in. Stick to pizza worth the guilt and...