My wife and I had a $100 gift certificate to the April Point Resort Restaurant. It's owned by the same group that own Painters Lodge in Campbell River. The restaurant is on Quadra Island. To get to it we took a water taxi from Painters Lodge. This is not a cheap place. It's a good thing we had a gift certificate. The certificate covers appetizers and a few drinks.
I don't normally drink but this is the kind of occasion where I'll have a few. We had a drink at Painters then an other at the April Point lounge before being seated in the restaurant. A boy came up and asked if we'd like to order something. "Order for drinks or food" I asked. He confirmed drinks. I asked him if he had a martini list besides the 'premium' list that was dropped off. He looked around then asked what I wanted. I asked if they have regular martinis. He replied "I don't know I'm only 15 you know..how old did you think I was?" He then fetched a real drink order person and I ordered one.
As we looked through the menu we noticed there was no mention of sushi (they had a sushi bar).
Next, someone arrived to take our food order. We asked why the menu didn't mention sushi. "Oh, you want a sushi menu?" I bit my lip, although I nearly said 'no we'd prefer to simply guess what might be available'.
A while later we placed our orders. I was having sushi appetizers and steak for the main course. I waited a bloody half hour for my two pieces of sushi while my wife ate and completed her prawn cocktail. I'm sitting there with empty drink, no food..and all I can hear is the pompous loudmouthed life insurance salesman and his buddies behind me. The guy not only thought he was Donald Trump he wanted everyone in the restaurant to know he thought he was.
I finally got some miniscule sushi and then my dinner (btw, they had run out of Salmon so I said to bring me what the chef liked, make it a surprise...when it was dropped off she didn't stick around long enough to explain what it was). Meanwhile the idiot behind me can't stfu. I was starting to get pissed. So I started talking to my wife about him at a fairly boisterous volume. "Doesn't that guy ever shut his effin mouth...can you imagine living with that friggin doorknob..etc". My wife was going ssh ssh. I didn't care, I was ready to punch him in the mouth. It didn't matter anyway, the guy never stopped talking long enough to make his ears work.
When it was time to leave my wife said "I'll pay for it, you go outside and look around". In other words, she knew I was going to reply to "how were things tonight?" at the checkout with "it sucked, and the moron behind me didn't help".
Anyway, April Point Restaurant - good food, overpriced, service is questionable, and appears to be full of obnoxious idiots.
I don't normally drink but this is the kind of occasion where I'll have a few. We had a drink at Painters then an other at the April Point lounge before being seated in the restaurant. A boy came up and asked if we'd like to order something. "Order for drinks or food" I asked. He confirmed drinks. I asked him if he had a martini list besides the 'premium' list that was dropped off. He looked around then asked what I wanted. I asked if they have regular martinis. He replied "I don't know I'm only 15 you know..how old did you think I was?" He then fetched a real drink order person and I ordered one.
As we looked through the menu we noticed there was no mention of sushi (they had a sushi bar).
Next, someone arrived to take our food order. We asked why the menu didn't mention sushi. "Oh, you want a sushi menu?" I bit my lip, although I nearly said 'no we'd prefer to simply guess what might be available'.
A while later we placed our orders. I was having sushi appetizers and steak for the main course. I waited a bloody half hour for my two pieces of sushi while my wife ate and completed her prawn cocktail. I'm sitting there with empty drink, no food..and all I can hear is the pompous loudmouthed life insurance salesman and his buddies behind me. The guy not only thought he was Donald Trump he wanted everyone in the restaurant to know he thought he was.
I finally got some miniscule sushi and then my dinner (btw, they had run out of Salmon so I said to bring me what the chef liked, make it a surprise...when it was dropped off she didn't stick around long enough to explain what it was). Meanwhile the idiot behind me can't stfu. I was starting to get pissed. So I started talking to my wife about him at a fairly boisterous volume. "Doesn't that guy ever shut his effin mouth...can you imagine living with that friggin doorknob..etc". My wife was going ssh ssh. I didn't care, I was ready to punch him in the mouth. It didn't matter anyway, the guy never stopped talking long enough to make his ears work.
When it was time to leave my wife said "I'll pay for it, you go outside and look around". In other words, she knew I was going to reply to "how were things tonight?" at the checkout with "it sucked, and the moron behind me didn't help".
Anyway, April Point Restaurant - good food, overpriced, service is questionable, and appears to be full of obnoxious idiots.
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