Ok so the goal tonight is to win enough at the casino to pay for our dinner at Gordon Ramsay’s burger restaurant in Coquitlam. As it’s a Ramsay restaurant we’re going to have to do pretty well at the casino, as it ain’t gonna be cheap.
What do you think the chances of that are? Rather than heading right to the restaurant we decided to try a slot machine before dinner. Just to suss things out.
Well lo and behold, Merilynn won $43. That’s a pretty good start. Now let’s get some food in us.
I have been here a couple times before and wasn’t a fan of the burgers. However the lobster roll was excellent so that’s what we going for again.
And again it was excellent. The brioche bun, baked and I assume made in house was very fresh.
It was lightly toasted and filled with plenty of lobster and prawn meat. A lemon aioli finished it off nicely
Excellent flavour and quality from one of the world’s top chefs.
I couldn’t resist a milkshake tonight. I’m trying the sticky toffee. In pudding form it’s one of Gordon’s signature dishes and it’s always excellent. Could the milkshake version be as good?
Turns out might actually be better.
I was expecting a very thick shake, especially with the diameter of the straw I was given. But it wasn’t at all. Very light, not overly sweet, with crunchy caramel pieces adding a nice texture.
It would be very easy to drink two of those.
Merilynn had a mock Mojito as she was driving tonight.
It was ok, but didn’t capture flavour of the real thing. You could really notice the absence of the rum.
So $75 when all was said and done. That’s not cheap for a sandwich and two drinks. We are up $43 right now, but we still have done work to do.
My turn to pick a machine, trying to get that $30 more. I promptly lost $30. Slot machines do not like me. I don’t often win much on them.
But somehow Merilynn ended up picking three more machines that hit bonuses, the last one being a $60 win.
After the dust settled we ended up winning even slightly more than our dinner cost us. So job done! Anytime you can walk out of the casino ahead of the house its a good night in my books.
9/10
