Twisted Fork — Restaurant in Vancouver

From the moment my group of 5 entered we were met with sub-par service. The host/manager seemed almost annoyed when we said we may have 5 others joining us but we wanted to be seated now because we were hungry. He said something like "well I don't have ANY way to seat 10 all togeather" ... which seemed more like he didn't want to make the effort because it would absolutely be do-able to have us close enough to talk to the potentional other party (who didn't come - good call). Next, our server seemed distracted and failed to provide the expected restaurant experience. The waters we asked for never came. We started to notice that groups who were seated after us were half way through their food, and there was no sign of ours. We had to call over our server to inquire pointing this out and she asked if we wanted to speak to the chef?? We were confused because this issue didn't seem to be the chef's fault... we hadn't had anything to eat yet. Then before finishing our repeated request for water our server abruptly turned and moved quickly (for the first time) towards the kitchen like she had just remembered our food was ready (it appeared we had reminded her of our presence in the small dining area). When she came back to serve the plates she stood at the end of the table and handed us our plates rather than walking around and putting them on the table. I have restaurant work experince, and it was immediately clear to me that all our plates had been sitting under warming lamps for so long that a film had formed on the sauces and the food was cold when it arrived. Aside from that, our food just looked unappealing and the presentation was poor (in comparison to other guests orders we saw being served... who's server was pouring them waters at a regular interval in a strangely pointed manner). A lump of boiled spinach was particularly off-putting. We ended up sending back 2 dishes. The ones we did eat were average at best. We had to ask for the rejected meals to be comped. And after complaining it appeared that staff avoided us even more rather than trying to make things right. This was just a really disappointing experience. I wish we had waited in line at Jam Cafe... which was our original plan. One positive I'll comment on is that the decor was interesting to look at while we waited 45+ minuets for our meals. I won't be returning to the Twisted Fork to pay $25 for a "croque monsieur" ... which was more of a tasteless ham sandwich and half a plate of spring mix & olive oil. The stuffed French toast looked undercooked... but it was just mushy banana. I will be checking back in to see if my review gets deleted because I have a suspicion that this establishment deletes bad...

You walk in and get served by the man I hope I am at 54 - long hair, white beard, denim button down, with a sprig of marbled chest hair peeking through. The kind of server who makes you believe in the power of aging gracefully in the service industry.

They've got Sheri Oteri's Shakshuka on the menu, which looked interesting but not interesting enough to get me to try it.

You know when you hear a song and think you know what it is, but can't quite grab hold of the string, the words get lodged somewhere between tongue and teeth? Like when you think Call Me by Blondie is Easy Livin by Uriah Heep and feel slightly embarrassed, even though you said it quietly, to yourself, you still feel like your neighbor can tell, through some sort of intuitive sixth sense, that you have these ridiculous thoughts and condemn you silently, but you can feel it.

What does this have to do with a brunch review? No idea, but it feels good to sort it all out.

The baked beans were a miss, but I've never understood British culinary culture at all.

Plus, I have a six year old's palette and just adopted the practice of dipping my chicken tendees a few short years ago, so what do I know?

But the eggs benny - oh, the eggs benny.

Ham and sautéed spinach layered like some kind of breakfast architecture that made me question my citizenship, prompting me to ask future me where the closed citizenship office is. The kind of dish that makes you want to renounce your nationality and pledge allegiance to whatever country invented hollandaise sauce.

Google gives it 4.5 stars, but they're missing the point entirely. This isn't about stars or ratings or any measurable metric. This is about finding the place that serves you a slice of who you want to be, alongside perfectly poached eggs and questionable beans.

And Twisted Fork?

They're serving exactly that.

And spinning The Talking Heads “Psycho Killer” as we exited?

That’s the kind of dessert that doesn’t go straight...

We came in as a table of 5, got seated fast, nice place, definitely the hipster fancy vibe, food presentation was on point.

I ordered the eggs Benny with bacon, the hollandaise sauce was simple but executed well, the eggs where a little undercooked, but still decent, the beans on the plate had a little too much lunch or dinner flavor to them. A 4 out of 5 on the Benny.

I also had a lemonade type drink added a booze it was simple and decent a 3 out of 5, nothing to write home about.

I also ordered the banana stuffed French toast, now this is what changed my thought on quality, dry, dry dry dry dry. I don't think I could talk about how much more it was not moist.

We also shared our concerns on how dry the French toast, now don't get me wrong I don't expect them to change their menu, which the server profusely said they would not change, lol I don't expect you to change that but take criticism a little better.

Also when we came in two people ordered ceasers, I commented to the table of friend saying I didn't like that drink, I got asked if I was American... thanks really appreciated that.

Overall, a 2 our of 5 almost a 3, the food looks great but does not meet the hype of this brunch place, service was a 3.. Taking...