O'Doul's Restaurant and Bar

It's been while since we went to a fine dining restaurant. I wanted to choose a nice restaurant for my mother's birthday.

We had complementary crab cake on an avocado/cucumber mix along with the usual bread and butter.

We started with a seafood sampler platter. The sauces were delicately made each of the items: crab cake, scallop, and tuna tataki. You can tell they spend time making the sauce and artistically putting it on top of your food and dish. Although, I was slightly disappointed at the tune tataki. The meat seemed too soft and did not really have any "bounce" or “el dente-ness" to it.

The seafood chowder was the best chowder I’ve had anywhere in Vancouver and very visually pleasing as well. It comes with an abundant amount of seafood, very rich, very creamy.    Mean while, waiting for the food, I was able to check out the very elegant and detailed decor such as the roof where they had this historical topographic map. I’m sure there is a real history behind his restaurant.

I had the rack of lambs in medium rare (recommended by the waitress). It was very succulent and meaty, unlike cheap lamb where they make it too hard and dry. It is marinated with a good amount of horseradish and herbs with a sweet gravy sauce. It does not have any "lamb" smell at all and was very very tender.

My dad had the grilled pork chop, a weekly special. This is definitely not JUST any typical pork chop, it is the BEST pork chop I have ever tried. The meat was juicy and tender with a very good tasting BBQ sauce. However, I did not like the small orange rice looking things because they tasted a little dry. I believe it is a type of Spanish rice. On the other hand, the duck breast was also very succulent and smooth just like my rack of lambs.

     

And these were some of the delicious, eye popping and beautiful desserts. They were overall very decent, nothing super spectacular taste-wise.