Jumbo Dim Sum Dining Edmonton, AB - Tasty and generous portions - Chinese 10 course dinner: appetizers, fish maw, chicken, fish, crab, lobster, rice, noodles and more!

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Rating Food 8/10, Service 8/10
For my dad's birthday, he wanted a lot of food, so what better than a 10 course meal? We headed to the west end of town to Jumbo, and our expectations were definitely met at the portion sizes here are HUGE! Probably didn't help we ordered a 10 course set seafood meal and had access to dessert buffet afterwards. Needless to say, we were quite full and brought lots of food home for lunch the next day! Decor is your standard Chinese restaurant - white linens, gold and red accents. Service was efficient and friendly. On to the foooood!

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Milestone's Restaurant Edmonton, AB - great service and tasty food - next Girl's night out!

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Rating Service 9/10, Food 8/10
After a long day or running errands around town, we stop off to grab a bite to eat before meeting up with friends for a movie at South Edmonton Commons. We wanted a place to grab a couple of appetizers and some drinks. We passed over Joey's and Lazia, to give Milestones a whirl. Dark woods, colourful lighting in reds and blues, and funky colored glass decorative pieces livened the packed and happening place. We luckily got a bar table without too much of a wait - the restaurant seating was packed and wait list was about an hour long.  A surprisingly varied gluten free menu is offered (more than just salad).  Service was totally unexpected - friendly, thoughtful, efficient and checked on us numerous times without being overbearing - while she checked on 5+other tables she had under her watchful eye.  Noise level in the bar was similar to noise in the restaurant level - must be all the drinks specials tonight!

After seeing the bartender just pump out glass after glass of bellini's with something bright at the top, we couldn't resist and ordered Milestone's original bellinis as well. Cool smooth slush of white rum, peach liqueur, sparkling white wine and Boone's sangria. Very sweet, and quite light. Whimsical touch with the little plastic animals... watched the inner child of those that ordered a bellini around the room play with their zoo animal - galloping, tossing, flying, swimming or sinking in the bellini "quick sand".

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Brewsters Oliver Edmonton, AB French onion soup and tasty burgers - its not just wings here

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After a long day at work, I felt like wings, beer and something more filling than just wings, and definitely did not want to head home to whip up something in the kitchen. So after work and finished running errands, went down to the closest place that served wings - in this case, Brewster's in Oliver. This post is more cuz the bar food surprisingly goes beyond what you'd expect, well, at a bar-restaurant.  Service is friendly and fast in this dark varnished wood decorated with wooden barrels, and beer memorabilia.

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El Rancho Spanish Restaurant Edmonton, AB - great pupusas, tacos and traditional Tortas de pescado with Torreja y chilate

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Rating Food 9/10, Service 10/10
With a craving for some authentic home cooked El Salvadoran food, we headed down to El Rancho for some of their yummy pupusas, tacos and we were surprised with a super yummy special of the night - a traditional traditional Tortas de pescado with Torreja y chilate. More on that in a bite.. err.. bit :)  Service is friendly and efficient - there's only one waitress the entire night and she was a whirlwind busing all the packed tables by herself, yet still found the time to ensure all her customers were happy.

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Hot Wok Restaurant Edmonton, AB - Known for their sticky rice stuffed boneless chicken wings and crab steamed in fragrant wine

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Sticky rice stuffed boneless deep fried chicken wings

Rating Food 7.5/10, Service 7.5/10
After a long day making wedding related things for our girlfriend, we call up a few more hungry folks and head to Hot Wok for supper. Many know it as the previous Rose Garden, which has long changed ownership since 2008 when it was closed down due to breaking some health regulations. Its clear the new management is doing something right as its bustling, its busy and its packed with people tonight as we try to get a table, and luckily, we're seated before long.  Waitstaff have varying levels of English, but are polite and efficient even if you don't have any friends that speak Chinese.

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