Laurier students, University of Waterloo students, families, friends and anyone who cares to listen — run, do not walk to this month’s reviewed restaurant, BBQ Village located just down the street from the Frank Peters Building at 140 University Ave. W.
We kid you not, this restaurant has it all, except for a live band. This restaurant opened recently and has become quite the topic of conversation — and for good reason.
The variety of BBQ Village’s menu is unmatched. They have a plethora of options ranging from Korean staples to sandwiches and 17 mouth-watering flavours of their signature fried chicken.
As soon as we sat down, we noticed the delicious drinks sitting at nearby tables calling our name. Considering it was dinner time, and we were both feeling coffee, your trusty duo decided to have a shared glass of their homemade iced coffee. We can’t promise you the same as it may have been a slight oversight by our kind wait staff, but this delectable drink was waived from our bill.
To start, we ordered the bulgogi fries, which were highly recommended to us. The dish had a flavour profile unlike anything we had ever eaten before, combining the natural saltiness of the meat and fries with an almost overpoweringly sweet sauce. Lizzie unfortunately wasn’t a fan of the chosen sweet-like sauce and expected a far more savoury accompaniment.
Andrew, now on his fourth straight review of eating fried chicken, got the honey garlic fried chicken as his entree. Words cannot describe how good it was. The chicken was crunchy and moist, and the sauce was tangy and rich — making for a food coma-inducing basket of food. In fact, Andrew couldn’t finish a majority of it, a testament to the to-die for flavours it packs, overwhelming your small-stomached reviewer.
Lizzie decided to opt for the bibimbap, a Korean home food classic made up of assorted vegetables such as sliced carrot, bean sprouts, sauteed spinach and beef over steamed rice. This is all topped with a perfectly cooked fried egg (for our new readers, Andrew for some stupid reason hates eggs). This dish gets an A+ in Lizzie’s book, as the mix of vegetables and tender meat made for an excellent dish as each bite granted an abundance of rich flavours and textures.
In addition to the menagerie of amazing food, we were served complimentary strawberry ice cream. The surprise end-of-meal treat had an interesting consistency ,similar to gelato, and served as the perfect cap to this extraordinary (and might we say hardy) meal.
For this special 10th edition of “LizzDrew Take On The ‘Loo”, we wanted something truly special and we got it. Normally we leave it up to the reader to decide to stop by the places we review, but today we are telling you to go. When you do, tell them LizzDrew sent you.
Ratings:
Ambiance: 9 out of 10
Drinks: 9 out of 10
Food: 10 out of 10
Affordability: 9 out of 10
