Alfie’s
March 18, 2008
800 Place Victoria
Price range: Moderate
Food: Fair to good
Service: Fair to good
Décor: Excellent
The décor of this relatively new restaurant is tastefully done in warm red brick accented with the beautiful collection of antique doors that are left from its predecessor, La Vieille Porte. Alfie’s specializes in roast beef, or so says all the advertising, and as of our last visit we tend to agree. The best thing offered here and the only item on the dinner menu is the roast beef which is tender and juicy. The beef is accompanied however, by only mediocre Yorkshire pudding and insipid vegetables. At lunch the businessmen’s specials include additional choices to the roast beef, but on a recent visit they were unacceptable, and as a rule overcooked. Desserts from the pastry cart are impressive to behold, but on occasion not as fresh as desired. Service strives for correctness, but can be unpolished and abrupt — surely time will even out many of these rough spots.
À la carte main dishes at lunch $5.50 to $9; table d’hôte lunch $4.50 to $7.95, dinner, roast beef only $6.95. Open six days a week; 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. to 11 p.m. Mon. thru Fri. and from 5:30 p.m. to midnight Sat. Closed all statutory holidays. Reservations advisable. Jackets required. Can accommodate groups over 100; group lunches and dinners at regular menu prices. Fully licensed. Honors AE, CB, CX, DC, MC.
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Notes for 2008 Readers
This restaurant, reviewed in 1976, no longer exists. This restaurant appears to have been located within the Place Victoria shopping centre underneath the Tour de la Bourse, on Square-Victoria, but we cannot find any record of it there today, nor if it moved elsewhere.
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