Thursday 7 July 2011

Globefish - Chinook Mall, Calgary, AB

I've been a fan of Globefish since their original location in Kensington.  It was a small space, jammed pack and a usual line up to get in.  Since that location they have opened up a location in Marda Loop and now the newest one in Chinook Mall.  The concept has evolved from being a sushi bar to both sushi and izakaya.

I sometimes feel as a restaurant expands into multiple locations and a more diverse menu to accommodate the masses the quality starts to suffer.  I use to be the one promoting Globefish but now after this experience it has left me with little to get excited about.  The speciality rolls that were once new, exciting, fresh and "to die for" are now lacking in quality and it shows!  Case in point, look at all the rolls below.  If you can't tell the rice was overcooked from way too much water.  The rolls, well, they were more oval or in some cases triangular - it did not make it taste any better.

We started out with some takoyaki and a rice paper roll that had tuna, tobiko, cucumber and some ginger sauce on the plate.  Takoyaki was good, can't go too wrong with it and the presentation was nice.  The rice paper roll literally did not come together as it was falling apart.  Not to mention, it did not taste good as the sauce had more sweetness than expected likely to replicate a peanut sauce that you would use for a Vietnamese rice paper roll?
  

And now the rolls that we had included some of their speciality rolls like Power of Love to the regular stuff like BC rolls.  





I find now that a lot of their rolls all tasted so similar.  Covered in sauce with either salmon, tuna, mango, tobiko, cucumber and repeated in a random combination.  If I had to pick one from that night, the BC roll tasted better on the palate just because it was simple!


Finished it all off with a slab of green tea ice cream and whipped cream?  As if it wasn't creamy enough on it's own.   I think if I just had takoyaki, bc roll and green tea ice cream I would of been somewhat satisfied if I was in a food court at a mall.  

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