A&W

October 15, 2020

Truffle Buddy Burger $3.49

Oooo Truffle sauce! It sounds like a super gourmet and expensive burger (considering how expensive truffle oil is) for a super cheap price! 

However, the burger turned out to be super dry again and I barely tasted the truffle aioli since it was overpowered by the mustard, pickles and relish. I wouldn't get this one again even though it's super cheap. 

October 4, 2020

A&W is having a Mama Burger promotion: $2.50 each!

Burger with pickles, mustard and onions - not my favourite burger toppings, but still okay.

Overall: I felt like this whole burger was dry: the meat was really dry but the seasoning was okay, the bun was dry even though there was some evidence of butter and there just wasn't enough sauce. 

I'd skip getting this burger again.

WingBurger

 Wingburger was running a Groupon Promotion for a burger, drink, fries and wings for $11.49. 

Pretty decent combination and more than enough food for one (it could definitely feed two people)

Good juicy smash burger with your choice of condiments and freshly deep fried crispy fries! They make your order when you get there to be as fresh as possible. For the fries, I got the dry Cajun rub and it was pretty tasty with a hint of spiciness. 

Harvey's

October 15, 2020 @ 898 Don Mills Road

Buffalo chicken poutine $4.99 small

Sweet and tangy buffalo chicken on top of squeaky cheese curds, gravy, buffalo chicken sauce and fries. This location gave a much bigger portion than the other location and there was a lot more chicken. However, I found the poutine just very strange overall since it had buffalo sauce and gravy and cheese. Something about that combination just didn't work as well. 

October 14, 2020 

Harvey's is running a half price poutine promotion with their new poutine flavours such as chicken bacon ranch and buffalo chicken. 

Chicken Bacon Ranch Poutine $4.99 small size

Pretty sizable portion, but unfortunately the ranch sauce did not translate well in this box. The box was pretty salty overall with not a lot of fried chicken, but there were a ton of fries and lots of gravy and ranch sauce. I also managed to find bits of bacon and ooey melty cheese that paired well with the gravy. Aside from the saltiness (maybe from too much ranch sauce?), I was okay with this poutine otherwise. 

Mar 5, 2019

2 original burgers for $6 promotion

Good deal for hamburgers!

June 27, 2017

Now that Harvey's isn't doing their Build-A-Bowl promotion, I had to find other Harvey's alternatives. They were offering their Angus Burger combo for $5.99.

Angus Burger (just the way I like), onion rings and a strawberry milkshake upgrade 

The angus burger was pretty good with all the toppings I love on my burger. The onion rings were just fresh from the fryer and a little oily. My milkshake was really good (super glad I upgraded). 

March 16, 2017

Harvey's introduced their Build-A-Bowl recently and started running 1/2 price promotions. It's a really good deal considering the bowl usually costs around $8 and it's a pretty filling meal by itself with a base of rice, salad or fries and then unlimited Harvey's toppings and either chicken or burger (and you get a choice of crispy, buffalo or grilled chicken or angus, veggie or original burger). 

Grilled chicken bowl with fries and crispy chicken salad bowl

These bowls were REALLY good for $4. They put all the toppings I wanted including guacamole and those yummy crispy noodles. I didn't really know if I would like the fry bowl, but it turned out really well. The salad bowl was a little strange since you got all the toppings you wanted anyways - so I had lettuce on lettuce. I'd go for the rice bowl and the fry bowl. 

March 18, 2017

Angus Burger rice bowl

The angus burger was pretty good. I was a little unsure at first, but it was pretty good with the rice bowl and all the toppings. I also discovered Harvey's has tzatziki sauce!

The tossed rice bowl

They really pack a lot of rice in there and it's so good with the sauce and all the ingredients. Yummy!

Website: https://www.harveys.ca/mobile/en/menu_build-a-bowl

Woofles and Cream

 Egg Waffles and ice cream! Yum! I came a few weeks ago and there was a crazy line, so when I saw that there was no line today - I quickly put in my order.

Towering Earl Grey Milk Tea Soft Serve $5 and Earl Grey Woofle (total $10.74)

The earl grey milk tea soft serve had good earl grey flavour, but the flavour wasn't as strong as I wanted it to be, but it was sweet and yummy. 

The earl grey woofle was crispy on outside and in-between the egg waffles and the egg waffle batter was pretty tasty with a light earl grey flavour.

Website: https://woofflesandcream.ca/

Sugar Peony

 I've been craving pandan and ube desserts, so I thought I'd stop in and see if there were any cupcakes or small cakes available at Sugar Peony (unfortunately, they only accept pre-orders for individual cakes now and you need a minimum order of 24 pieces, so I picked up macarons instead). 

The packaging was really pretty! 6 macarons for $15

Such pretty pastel colours! Macaron flavours included lavender black tea, ube coconut, chai tea, durian, pistachio and almond rose tea

Durian: great durian flavour and it was nice and sweet. The macaron feet were kind of crumbly and hard (maybe due to being a little older or frozen) and there was a lot of buttercream in the middle (similar to the Korean macarons with more cream than cookie). I found the ratio was a little off for a French macaron, but the flavour was great!

Chai tea: heavy cardamom flavour and good chai tea flavour overall

Ube coconut: loved teh sweet ube in this and it came out well with a fragrant taste, there was less coconut flavour in this and unfortunately it had a crumbly foot too. 

Lavender black tea: strong floral lavender flavour and there were hints of tea as well, but the lavender really stood out with a strong perfume (like the lavender oil scented products)

Almond rose tea: also really floral and rose flavoured - Sugar Peony does floral scents really well! 

Pistachio: excellent pistachio buttercream with a strong prominent and delicious pistachio flavour

The macarons here also had some black crunchy things in the macarons which added a different texture to the macaron between the feet and the buttercream (which was kind of neat)

Website: http://sugarpeony.com/

My Sweet Tooth - Hamilton

 We got these as a gift from Hamilton:

$5 per cream puff in assorted flavours

Clockwise from top left: Salted Cookies and Cream, Pumpkin Spice, Matcha, Thai Tea, Vanilla

The vanilla was the best of the batch in my opinino, fluffy with great vanilla cream flavour and it was a really classic crispy (like pineapple bun) outside and soft whipped cream inside. The matcha was also really good with a strong matcha flavour. 

The Thai tea and pumpkin spice had good flavours (the pumpkin spice reminded me of the pumpkin spiced latte at Starbucks with more cinnamon flavour), but I wasn't really a fan of the salty and sweet cookies and cream. Pretty neat and fun flavours and something different. 

Website: https://www.mysweetooth.ca/