Ottawa Foodies

I've eaten here several times over the past couple of years and enjoyed myself. The "manor house" atmosphere is very nice and I find the steaks good. I usually inhale my filet mignon, which is probably not how you're supposed to eat filet mignon but I can't seem to help myself. The service can be a bit hit and miss, but is certainly a step up from service you normally expect at a chain.

Wow. After being disappointed by the Keg and swearing I would never go back, the Keg Manor completely changed my view. They were Exceptional and the "old house charm" gave a chain restaurant a more private and personal feel.

Never have I been to a restaurant that was able to provide such excellent service to our large group (I believe we were about 35 people).

Everyone raved about the food. Our wine was excellent and the Sirloin Oscar with Asparagus was superb as was the Creme Brule! All of the guests in our party were served within 10 or so minutes with is great for a group of that size.

We will go back for sure! The service and the food at the Keg Manor are both first class and well worth every penny.

Finally got back to our Friday night dinner ritual after being away from it for what...4 weeks? Whew was I hungry!

I have to say that the Keg is really not my kind of place. Don't like the overpriced, lesser-quality meat and the big-box mentality of getting you in and out in a hurry. The Keg Manor doesn't quite have the same feel gladly. Been here several times and I love the old house atmosphere and loads of space around the tables. Irrespective of that, I still won't choose to go there unless at someone else's request (case in point last Friday).

I usually eat the prime rib and enquired since it was reletively early at 7:00 pm what the temperature the remaining meat on the roast was. We were told that It was mostly medium, not quite medium-rare by our less-than-experienced waiter. Well that should have been the tell-tale sign there. So I order the teryiaki steak done blue (as usual). It was pretty good all things considered. Definitely better than the other choices in my mind, more flavour than say the baseball sirloin.

Well doesn't hubby order the prime rib despite the fact that he likes his meat blue too. The meat he received was probably the rarest (all the way through too) prime rib I've ever seen at a Keg. It was red, not pink. I was pissed. This is not the first time I've been steered away from ordering it by the wait staff because it will be done 'more than you like'. Are the wait staff saving the stuff for themselves or what?!

Anyway, the food was pretty good, the salad (which I wish they gave choices other than ceasar) for the 'dinner specials' was pretty good but WAY too much, the twice baked potato was pretty good and the green beans (thank goodness the special comes with some veg) were done perfectly.

I still don't think that with the cost of sharing a bottle of wine, 1 cosmo, 2 dinners, 1 dessert, 1 coffee that the bill should be in around $130 without tip. In my mind too much. Especially since our waiter seemed like it was the first day of his service career. Next time, my backyard for superb steaks and salad, and a much better bottle of wine for our 60 bucks!!

This was the only part of my meal I did not enjoy. As you can see half of it was burnt and inedible. We really should have sent it back.