[2015 BD] St. Patrick's Day is Green and it's the day I was born

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Ladies and Gentlemen, please check out, the 23 yrs old ME~


OK. I know, I look as good as I did yesterday ;) lol. Anyways, I decided to ditch school (aka skip) for my birthday. We have lecture capture, and at this point, it doesn't matter if I go to class or not- I either barely fails or fail. I hope I don't fail, though hahaha. Will just cram later. Have fun now!

The day started around 10am - I head to Denny's to get my favourite breakfast (the fact that it's free makes it so much better). IHOP free breakfast coming up on Friday ;). My bf was with me, so we were able to have a quiet, sunny morning to ourselves. :P

Taste ★★★☆☆

Portion ★★★★☆

Service ★★★☆☆

Cost $$

Recommended for a full decent western breakfast. 

This location is where I've spent my last birthday (when I was on a trip to get all the bday freebies). The food has always been pretty decent. The service is always friendly. The location is easy to get to with public transit. The menu items Denny's offer are all quite savoury, lots of choices, for everyone's liking.
My mom LOVES their nachos. I found it to have too much onions, which, btw, I don't like when not completely cooked ;P.

Steak Omlette, think it's called the Meat Lover's Omlette. It was really good. The pieces of beef steak inside was well cooked and the mushrooms well seasoned. My bf said their eggs are kinda dry, though

I chose to build my own grande slam, because I don't wanna get pancake... yet ;) Still needs to go to IHOP for free hahaha. I chose my favourite breakfast items: eggs, hash brown and sausages, then there's the buttermilk biscuit (below) which I wasn't sure about. Everything was pretty good. The eggs weren't as high quality, the taste of the yolk was like... no taste, really lol. The rest of the meal was great.

 Red Robins~

Taste ★★★★☆

Portion ★★★★★

Service ★★★★★

Cost $$

Recommended for Bottomless fries, refillable drinks, Tasty burger, fast and friendly service, and reasonable pricing!!! <3

Honestly, the one Red Robin I've been to 5 years ago in Surrey's Guildford mall did not leave a particularly good impression. On my Bday freebie trip, I did not bother with them, because I didn't want to go all the way downtown. O, my, was I totally wrong. It was possibly the BEST bday freebie EVER! Good job, Red Robin, your generosity and great service has earned you two very loyal customers - I promised my mother to take her here again next month. 

Now, let me explain why I said it was AWESOME! Our waiter, Aiden was super friendly and attentive. Tending to all our needs. The manager was very nice as well. The special sparkling drinks which comes at the same pricing were interchangeable when asking for a refill, we were able to fill a different type. My mom cannot eat strawberries, so when I realized my mistake of ordering the Freckled Lemonade which my mother should not be drinking, I asked if he could refill another drink instead (without telling him my mom can't have strawberries, too) - he went to the manager and then, agreed. No questions asked. That was just great customer service and I would definitely come back again for this.

AND Guess what? Unlimited Ice cream when ordered the float. Not only is the root beer refillable, same as the ice cream - whaaaaaa~~ f*ck! I'm not shitting you! It was no crappy ice cream either - actually very tasty and goes great with the fries. I seriously LOVE this place!

We were so FULL when we walked out, we packed some left over burgers, because we were getting lots of fries and yam fries (both are bottomless). 

My mom ordered the Whiskey River® BBQ Chicken burger, which she LOVES. It has a really strong alcohol flavour, if you like alcohol in your food and BBQ sauce, you will love it. The chicken was cooked quite well, too, you won't think it's dry or old. We paid the extra $1.5 to get YAM fries.

I got the Prime Chophouse Burger, as a beef lover, this is a pretty obvious choice. It came with fried onions, which even I, who hates them, appreciated them (well, beef always comes with onions, but these ones are just delicious). The onion ring, is quite famously delicious, too. My mom and bf said it was great. I gave mine to them because... I dislike onion hahaha. The burger was juicy, beef was cooked right- slightly crispy, but none of that burnt taste. Even when I took the left over for lunch the next day, it tasted good. THAT, is something.

Bf got beef dip, can't comment on it, he said it's good. I am never a big fan of beef dip, though lol I felt like it's just beef slices w/ gravy O_O"

Refilled fries comes in a pretty good sized basket

Our second drink refill: Very Berry Raspberry Limeade. I highly recommend it. Actually VERY TASTY <3 

Unlimited Ice cream -- isn't this just every girls' dream come true?!

root beer

After Red Robins, we walked down Robson, we were all so full, so we were just walking all the way to Denmen looking at the shops and restaurants on the way.

Then we stopped at Blenz, I had a good experience w/ their macha latte yesterday, so I ordered it again... well, as usual, Blenz's only safe bet is Chocolate. I understand the barista is a newbie still in training, but this one tasted like milk with matcha powder... :/ Ah, well, it wasn't bad. Just for this freebie service alone, I would choose them over other coffee places. (SB also gave me a free drink, but then Blenz let you do walk in order so you could potentially get multiple drinks on your bday- WIN).

Blenz's macha latte.

After letting my mom go home to do her own thing, my bf and I went to Gastown.
We reserved at the Irish pub, Irish Heather to get a feel of St. Patrick's day.
I have liked green my whole life (ever since I can remember), even before I knew about St.Patrick's day (which is about 10 yrs ago). Before it become one of the mainstream colors, I was the weirdo who likes green lol. All my friends were blue lovers back when I was little. I didn't meet ppl who also love green till I was in grade 8 O_O.
 Anyhow, this holiday gave me an excuse to wear all green today LOL which I would have anyways, for my bday.
I had my green jacket on, my green long sleeve T on, my green pants on, my green socks on, and my green shoes on. - I went full on GREEN.
Good thing my bf reserved a table for us, the line up was pretty bad. I guess having a bday on St. P isn't that great... all the bars and pubs will not let you do reservation and are all fully filled.
We were originally hoping to have their long table dinner, but then it is St. P, so they ain't doing that, I guess we'll come back in the future O_O":

Taste ★★★☆☆

Portion ★★★★☆

Service ★★★★☆

Cost $$$
Recommend if you like whiskey. Not really if for the food.

For mixed beer, I chose the black velvet, and it was great. I love cider, so it was a good choice for me lol. I still feel like Guiness is too bitter for me, though. I'm more of a light beer person ;P

I might come at happy hour (3-6 pm) for their $5 Irish coffee some day ;).

I think for St. P they had a special menu, all the items we saw were more expensive than the online menu... which is quite sad :/.

the entrance- the place is larger than it looks

The room we were in

Can't remember what it's called, isn't on the online menu. It's basically a piece of very well cooked beef served with cabbages and mashed potato. The sauce is cream with herbs and lemon (slightly sour). I think it tasted decent, but I found it not as well seasoned as I would like. Cooking wise was bang on. The texture of each component was great. Some soy sauce would help LOL. well- I guess I could've just added some pepper :P.

Whew... Finally, took some time to go over everything... what matters is I capture these memories eh ;)?

See ya tomorrow, maybe. Depends. If I got into buffing up my resume, working, studying, or composing, I might not have the time to blog ... hehe... :P