I’ve wanted to go to Ruby Watchco for awhile and finally went this weekend. Ruby Watchco is named after a sign that says … Ruby Watchco. It’s second claim to fame is that its the new restaurant by Lynn Crawford, formerly of Truffles and Four Seasons in NYC fame (and some Food Network shows). What’s unique about the place is that there is no menu. Each day, the chef decides to make something and you pay a set price for a 4 course meal. You don’t even get your own dishes, the food is family style and your entire table shares the dishes. You can order whichever wines you want though.

The appetizer was BC organic smoked salmon with greens, pickled red onions, crispy capers and rye bread croutons. Picked onions were neat, not a lot of salmon though. In lieu of bread, we received cheese biscuits with homemade butter.

The main course was slow roasted ribeye with yorkshire pudding, asparagus with lemon salt, mashed potatoes with bacon sour cream, and tomato & arugula salad with basil dressing. Surprisingly, the vegetables and potatoes were good but the ribeye was uneventful. The portions here are too much though; I don’t know if they just have difficulty with two-person dishes (our portions were consistent with other pairs around us), or whether they just like giving American sized portions!

Then we had a cheese platter with country bread and apple slices finished with Guiness. Too much cheese and not enough bread, so we packed some of our cheese to go in a little doggy box seen below.

Dessert was Dad’s Saturday sundae, which was a collection of various sweet things including a brownie, ice cream and caramel.

The food here is great value, and prepared expertly. When we went, the place was full but accepted as walk-ins. By the time we left, it was packed. It is certainly popular, especially when the restaurants around it were empty!

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