Life in the Lower Mainland (BC, Canada)

Huge mistake coming here. And I brought friends with me, compounding it into an embarrassing mistake. Last time I was at Acacia Fillo Bar , the food was decent, the price for portion (for the banitza) was really good, and the service was horrid. I thought maybe the service hiccup was a fluke or a bad day. And since the banitza portion was really good for the price, I wanted to come back and try the fillos, which were $3 more at $14. Service is still horrid one week later. It's like being waited on by a surly zombie. Any emotion we saw was annoyance at our being there (and this was BEFORE we presented Entertainment Book coupons). And self-serve water in a totally dead dinner room? Really? It's been a long time since I've had service worse than in a Chinese dim sum place. Interactions with the server actually threw a figurative wet blanket over our table, immediately dampening whatever good mood we were in. Below are pictures of the Salmon and Wild Mushroom Fillo,...

Ever since I read the article on Acacia Fillo Bar by FollowMeFoodie I'd been meaning to go, and tonight I finally did. Right away they scored a FAIL for their online menu because when I got there, I discovered they have "Burek", which is apparently Banitza with meat. A friend of mine had actually declined to come because she didn't want vegetarian food and she saw only veggie banitza options online. :-( Score another fail for the bored and bordering on surly waitstaff. Score a third fail for food arriving lukewarm. I don't know whether it's supposed to be piping hot, or if reheating will damage the crunchy fun of the fillo, but after having the spicy beef banitza, I'm pretty sure it would have tasted a heck of a lot better hot. I would normally score them a fourth FAIL for a $3 pot of tea bordering on tasteless when the flavour involves ginger, but they used a DAVIDsTEA teabag for that. Still, given the price, a teabag tea from Starbucks woul...