Vi's for Pies

I've been hearing about this place for awhile and finally had a chance to check it out. Really nice little cafe. Mostly a place for desserts but they have some other food there too. The interior is nice and relaxing and has a fireplace. If you are a chocoholic you have to have the chocolate, almond and coconut cream pie. It is so rich and creamy and has a chocolate crumbly base. All of their portions are quite large and worth the money. Oh and the waitress was such a sweetheart.

Rating: 7 out of 10 stars

Website: none found/13408 stony plain rd

The Red Piano

What an amazing time I had at this place last night. It's a new place in West Edmonton Mall Bourbon st. You have to go to this place. It's rather upscale though. No jeans allowed. There is a red carpet that leads up to the entrance to make you feel somewhat like a vip. Coatcheck is $3 and is mandatory. It was somewhat disappointing at first to discover that there were no available tables to sit at. The only ones we found were in the back and were reserved. If you reserve a table it's $20 we later found out. We were starting to feel like it wasn't our sort of place but then the really nice door guys found us a good table with an ok view of the duelling pianos. Yes, there are two pianos in the centre of the room with some performers that can play any song that you request. (On each table there are little pieces of paper where you can place song requests. They generally prefer $20 or so but they might get to your song toward the end of the night. They played all the well known songs of everyone's generation. Lots of Elton John to my delight and the guy singing sounded almost just like him. In fact, most of the time they sounded like the original artists.
I added this post as a restaurant review because you can get food there too. They specialize in New Orleans/cajun cooking. I chose their 3 soups sampler and I have to say, those were the three best tasting soups I have ever had in my life. One was a seafood gumbo, another french onion and the other some sort of chicken or something I don't recall, but each one was flavoured so deliciously that I highly recommend it. I highly recommend this whole place. Not only do you get a great meal and 100% attentive service (the waitress always made sure we had water), but you get enjoyable entertainment w/a bit of a lightshow. Heck even their website is enjoyable. Check it out!

Rating: 10 stars out of 10
Website: http://www.theredpiano.ca