Mar
1st

This is a guest post from my little sister, Louise.

Last Friday, my sister and I decided to drive all the way to New Westminster for dinner at Gino’s. It’s an Italian/Greek/Mexican place …I think? Not really sure how to classify the restaurant since they had everything from pasta to tex mex to souvlaki on the menu. Actually, I think they’ve got an identity crisis as they had items on the menu that doesn’t fall into those 3 categories! Nonetheless, it was a good variety and at really reasonable prices.

She ordered the Friday special which was a prime rib dinner with veggies, salad and her choice of potatoes (she chose baked). I absolutely LOVE greek style lamb, so I got the roast lamb shoulder with roasted potatoes, rice, greek salad, tzatziki and pita bread. *droooooooool* Last time my sister came here she said the service was super slow so to be on the safe side, we got the fried zucchini sticks and potato skins to start. This is why I love eating out with my sister— she always wants to try everything on the menu and ends up ordering a lot. She also always gets the bill (hey, don’t judge, I’m a starving student).

Well, we were wrong for thinking the service would be slow because the everything came incredibly fast and the serving sizes for everything was huge. I think I was already getting full from eating the starters. They even gave us 3 large bowls of baked potato toppings (onions, bacon and sour cream). Definitely over-estimated how hungry we were.

My lamb had a little bit too much gravy on it. I would have preferred it plain. Other than that, it was deliciousss! I’m not much of a beef person so I only had a tiny piece of my sisters steak and it turned out to be nice and tender. And of course, we didn’t finish everything— we barely dented the huge amount of food we had… typical Asian girls. We packed everything up for my mom to eat, but I’m pretty sure my sister finished everything when we got home. She was eating a muffin in the car on the way home after complaining at the restaurant about how full she was. She is not kidding when she says she is always eating something.

Next time, if I’m ever in the area again, I’ll be sure to go to Gino’s and try the moussaka and spinach pie …mmm..

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