May 10, 2021 · 11:11 am

Cuckoo Trattoria, Coombs, B.C.

My treat for Mother’s Day was a trip to Coombs for an afternoon at Goat on the Roof and lunch at Cuckoo Trattoria. This, to anyone  in reading distance, is the place for extra special food.

We ordered our drinks and decided on a ‘LIGHT’ APPETIZER. After all Don had steaks at home for dinner. Well, that didn’t work out and I will explain.

Don and I thought we would share a Focaccio toast with a Mushroom Parmesan cream and Kelly ordered a Pizza (with about 6 kinds of meat) and a side of bruschetta. It came out and I have to tell you the Mushroom Parmesan Cream is to be absolutely obsessive. We dug in believe me.

Kelly’s pizza look absolutely super and she loved every bit of it. In fact a couple of pieces came home with her. We also had  to order a lovely special desert for Mother’s Day. We are beggars for punishment. So much so, we had another round of drinks. Our server was spot on terrific.

We wanted to spend even more time there on the expansive patio but thought we should waddle out. We did, however, meet and chat with Chef Fausto. He is such a wonderful man. I asked if he would share his recipe for the Mushroom Parmesan cream and he said he would come to our home and make it there. We WILL hold him to that you can be sure. I wanted to place it on my Damn I can Do This site. Perhaps another day.

As we were leaving the line up to get in was VERY long. Fabulous place for atmosphere and food.

Yes, yes, yes, we will return and the sooner the better.

Multo Bene

 

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April 9, 2021 · 9:41 am

Cactus Club, Nanaimo, B.C.

On Don’s birthday this year, Kelly and I had planned for weeks for special surprises for him. Firstly, his picture and names of all in the family were on the CTV morning News. Then we were planning on going to Cuckoo Trattoria in Coombs for an early dinner.

In the morning we had gone plant/planter shopping at a couple of places and it wore him out (don’t forget Don broke his back a year+ ago and he has to be really careful). So…the plans for dinner got changed at the last moment and we opted to go to the Cactus Club rather than stay home. (more on that later).

The Cactus Club is and always has been one of our most favourite places to go, but the Covid has made a lot of changes in what we do and where we go without fear of being infected.

We were placed in a ‘pod’ outside on the patio and it was darn chilly but we stayed the course. We ordered beverages and started with potato skins as the appetizer. Then after a while we ordered our dinner and, because we were so darn cold, we ordered another round. HA!

Don ordered a green curry shrimp dish, Kelly ordered her one and only tuna poke and me? If you know me you know it was the butternut squash ravioli. OMG! it was all so special. We were far too cold to wait for dessert so we took it home.

Our server, JOY, is a true server on the stellar level. She introduced herself to us (no one does this), asked what Don had done for his birthday, was attentive throughout, still with a smile and sincere interest in her customers.  The Cactus Club management should make her their trainer of how to serve your customers.

Of course we will return. We love it here.

 

p.s. the reason we had to go out was because a friend of Kelly had built 3 planters for him and a new base for one of them to stand on and he couldn’t be here when they delivered it. We took his phone away at the restaurant because our security was showing the delivery. HA!

Coombs? We will come out when it is a tad warmer. Far too cold to be on patios right now and we will make sure it will be okay for Don to travel. Thank you for understanding our plight.

 

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