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Foodie Experiences
Tableside Flambé at the Old Surrey Restaurant
A 1918 Cloverdale heritage house with five intimate dining rooms and a tableside flambé service that treats dessert as theatrical inevitability.
Foodie Experiences
A 1918 Cloverdale heritage house with five intimate dining rooms and a tableside flambé service that treats dessert as theatrical inevitability.
The Old Surrey Restaurant is a 1918 heritage house in Cloverdale carved into five intimate dining rooms, one of which is a library, and that fact alone sets expectations helpfully high. The real attraction is the service, which practises things nobody else in the suburbs does anymore: the Chateaubriand carved tableside, the Caesar tossed at your table, dessert lit on fire in a proper flourish of theatre you will remember whether the date works out or not. The cooking leans classic French and West Coast, and the lamb and veal come from the family's own Chilliwack farm, which makes the menu feel considered rather than assembled. Fireplaces, old-world charm, a 4.6 from hundreds who keep coming back for anniversaries. Dress up a little. The room has earned it.
