tomahawk restaurant

overcooked. saturday night for 2. mixed grill and turkey roast plate.

difficult to find this place if you are not a local, as there is absolutely no signage in front of the restaurant. however once inside you could get the sense of the history in the building. service was fine, but the food took a long time to come out which was a surprise, as the restaurant did not look completely full.

food: one word describes the experience: overcooked. and to be honest that is indicative of a poorly managed kitchen i feel. i'm no michellin chef but even i know not to overcook bacon to the extent it turns super hard (or is that what yukon bacon is suppose to be? hard and unpalatable?). the 100%beefpattie was dry and overcooked. the turkey was dry and overcooked. the reason this grates on me so is they are all cuts of meat that are not hard to cook well. it's not like trying to cook tender chicken breast, or fish that is just right. the portions were huge, but having huge portions of poorly cooked food doesn't make the food any less poor.

tip: if you do go - get something stewed. at least then there's no way it'll be overcooked.

ridiculously overrated. a disappointing experience. i ordered thebeefdip and my companion had the club sandwich.

thebeefwas decent in flavour, having a home-cooked taste, but was overly fatty and chewy. i’m quite used tobeefdip being messy, but it was already falling apart when it arrived, having been prepared very sloppily and without care.

despite being made from fresh bread and butter, the bread ends up tasting like the kind of foil-wrapped garlic bread you pick up in a supermarket, as it was smothered in garlic butter to the point that the flavours of thebeefand swiss cheese couldn’t even be appreciated anymore.

i sampled the club sandwich, and the only redeeming quality was the generously used bacon. it was full of poorly cut dark meat and contained a large bone. we brought this to the attention of the staff who simply said “it’s because we use fresh turkey”. that’s fine and dandy, but i was not concerned with the freshness of the turkey.

the fries on both plates were soggy, which my dining partner was okay with, but if you’re like me and enjoy your fries with some crunch, you’ll be left very disappointed.

i’d also like to make mention that the staff were not particularly helpful, and would make eye contact only to turn their backs and leave.

this place is ridiculously overrated. it blows my mind that anyone would want to go here more than once.

came here after leaving vancouver island. looked up good places to eat and saw this was on ‘you gotta eat here’ so figured we’d stop. we were the only ones when we first arrived but a few more people trickled in later. we did show up 45 minutes before close. the waitress was friendly and attentive and we asked for her opinion on a few different items and she was helpful. food came out quickly. the eggs benedict was good. hash browns were in the very small cubes which i really like. eggs were cooked nicely - not too runny and deep orange yolk. ham was vinegary and had a good texture. husband ordered the cheesesteak and thebeefwas tender and cheese sauce very traditional. decor is quirky and adds to the feeling of the place. would definitely recommend!

tomahawk’s organicbeefburger was made famous on guy fieri's diners, drive-ins and dives vancouver edition, so we had to check it out. but is it worthy of all the hype?

this small unassuming structure in north vancouver is home to the greatest experience of grilledbeefyou are likely to find. inside it is decorated in native indian carvings and paintings and the staff are quite young but professional. go here at least once, you will not regret it.

i have only ever had one dish , but it always comes out amazing . tomahawk was featured on you gotta eat here for theirbeefdip . it's is tender , juicy , and the au jus is rich and compliments the meat very nicely . a must try .

bestbeefdip sandwich i've ever had!. organicbeefwith delicious homemade au jus. it doesn't get much better than this. i ordered a second one to take home, it never made it home, i ate it in the car lol

triple d worthy???. perhaps worthy of the 'dive' title. the building essentially looks like an older public park washroom, the inside entrance area is cluttered with a non functioning fish pond thing and a cheesy gift shop. the dining area looks a bit better, the menu does have what would appear to be delicious options. the prices seem to be roughly 10-15% higher of any other comparable place. $2.30 to substitute for yam fries or a ceasar salad??? i suppose that's understandable as the fries that came with my burger were horrendous and were reminiscent of frozen french fries from superstore, and not even the good kind.

the skookum chief burger or however you spell it sounds delicious, its has all the good stuff you would want, bacon, lettuce tomato, cheese, a fried egg. unfortunately it all tastes fairly bland as thebeefpatty was barely if at all seasoned, very unfortunate. not to mention the butterflied no name wiener doesn't work too well on it either. our server was fairly nice, but the main guy who we called out to a few times ignored us and just looked shady with his pony tail and dress shirt with tie. are you running a money laundering scheme in the back??

on the plus the root beer float was great, nice choice in vanilla ice cream, very tasty. but c'mon you serve pub favourites and you're not even licensed?? stop being so cheap and get a liquor licence!!

my experiences were positive. after seeing this place featured on both "diners, drive-ins & dives" as well as "you gotta eat here", my girlfriend and i decided to try it out. we've been back several times since.

i've read a lot of not-so-good reviews here, and all i can think of is that obviously both the service and quality of food can be inconsistent.

the times when we went, the older woman who was on with guy fieri was doing the cooking, and everything was cooked properly and tasted very good. i've had the steak and mushroom pie, the prime rib, thebeefdip, and a couple different burgers. i can only speak for myself, but i enjoyed each and every one of my meals - the meat in the steak and mushroom pie was amazingly tender. same with the prime rib.

service/wait times seems to have been an ongoing complaint on these boards. in our case, we went early for our dinners - usually around 5pm on a weekend night. it's before any sort of dinner rush, plenty of room, no waiting to be seated, and food came fast and hot.

i guess if i had to make a complaint or two - they undercooked the veggie side dishes a bit. a little too crunchy, could've used a few more mins in the water or steamer. and the top/crust of the steak and mushroom pie was a little dry on its own (but perfect when eaten with the meat/gravy). but that's really about it.

i'm not a stuck-up food snob, but i grew up eating rich, flavourful european cooking, so i do like to think i know legitimately "good" from "poor". i'm not hard to please, but i won't eat greasy crap that isn't properly cooked at a basic level.

so if you've seen the shows and want to try this place out, set yourself up for a good experience. don't go during a busy time, or during a breakfast/lunch changeover. this isn't a 5-star restaurant, but the number of bad reviews on here certainly doens't match my experiences over the past year (2012).

the burger itself looks like any other run of the mill burger, nothing standing out and taking my breath away. the patty is 6oz of "100% premium certified organic groundbeeffrom the blue goose cattle company!". based on this, one would think of nothing but the highest quality of patty, but i wasn't able to take anything unique away from the patty itself. the patty is served on one of their "special baked buns" which, again, left a bit to be desired. it had a bit of crunch and you could tell it was fresh, but the burger was served cut in half and whoever did the cutting had mashed the bun like a bug causing it to already be half way through the disintegration process by the time i first picked it up. prep and presentation of a burger are paramount, and i enjoy a burger that is pristine and untouched when i first spy it slowly making its way to my table. so, when you take it upon yourself to not only cut my burger, but press it down to the point of breaking apart the bun and squeezing

...i decided to go for the chief dominic charlie burger, which is described as “lettuce, organic groundbeefpatty, grilled yukon-style bacon, aged cheddar cheese, tomato and tomahawk special sauce. i wasn’t too impressed with the burger – the taste just wasn’t there for me. it didn’t seem like the commanding burger the description set it out to be – just seemed kind of small, not much to it.

okay. after watching diners, drive-ins and dives we were excited about coming to the tomahawk restaurant on a christmas visit to vancouver. we were disappointed with our meals.beefdip and roastbeefwere just blah. no exceptional flavour or unique use of ingredients. just standard comfort food that can be cooked better at home. service was so-so.

very small place and not great seating for parties over 4. wait for table was long. children's menu mac & cheese was huge. burgers were delicious! a friend had thebeefdip and said it was delicious.

surprising. it's a dive, unchanged for years and years with the same placemats, tables, narrow booths, and -stuff-, loads of it, on the walls & ceiling. the servers are still permanently rushed as well. and yet thebeefis organic, eggs are free range. the breakfast menu is hit or miss- hits are the yukon bacon (similar to back bacon), pancakes, and omelettes. your surroundings are a clue- stick with the classics and you'll leave satisfied.

very disappointing roast.... roastbeefshould be cooked, sliced and usually moist and medium to medium rare. we went especially for a roastbeefdinner, they must slice big hunks in advance, take them out and throw them on a grill or something, this roast been was like shoe leather and curled up on the edges. the waitress was great, apologized, asked us if we wanted to try again or order something else. since we had waited 45 minutes to get our meals in the first place, we tried again, another slab of meat that must have been cooked again on both sides on a grill... almost like a thin steak, very unappealing, but we kept it. it was a little better, but after beginning to eat, found the yorkshire pudding frozen inside! ... we mentioned it to the waitress, again she apologized, and said she'd tell someone.
tha'ts it, the bill came, we paid, we left, we'll not be going back nor recommending to anyone, especially for the roast beef, yuk!