I’m gonna spit a few things outta my mouth and you (who live in the Oshawa area) tell me the first thing that comes to your mind. Ok, here goes.

1. The Regent Theatre
2. The Genosha Hotel
3. The Atria

Ok. I’m done. I realize some of you may have been eating lunch - which is ironic in a way we will discover shortly.

What were you thinking of?

1. Economy class hookers?
2. Purse snatchers?
3. Places you’d want to carry a can of mace?

Good, we’re on the same page.

A few days ago I was on another web site (that I will not link) and somebody asked the question in the forums “Where’s a good place to go and eat in Oshawa?” A few people responded with Teddys which I thought was a fine choice, but several others chimed in that the line-up to get into Teddys was always long, and you could get more food - of the same quality - elsewhere. Obviously, I immediately perked up and read on.

They mentioned Euro Chef in Oshawa. What the name lacks in creativity, the restaurant makes up for in food. Where is it? See the first bullet list above. It’s on the corner of Ontario and King Streets in Oshawa right in the downtown core. I don’t know where you’d park, but happily I can walk since I live fairly close. I sauntered down there for lunch to check it out.

The decor was a little… dated… but it was nice. I walked in and out of the whole restaurant there were two tables “active”. Not exactly busy but I was a little late for lunch. She sat me down at a table for two and handed me the menu.

The lunch menu is — brief. They have a bunch of cabbage rolls and perogies and stuff - which I’m sure are great - but I was in the mood for a SANDWICH. Not being able to stomach westerns, I ordered the roast beef on a bun - unsure of what I’d get - but praying for the best, and the best arrived on my table shortly after.

Let me briefly acquaint you with the strategy used by most places these days. Throw three slabs of third-rate meat that the cow would be ashamed he gave his life for on a bun, disguise the meat even further with heavy condiments like tomatos and lettuce to conceal the absence of meat, and throw about fifty cents worth of potatos on the plate (that they charge you three bucks for) to fill you up so you don’t realize you got screwed on the sandwich.

This cow did not give his life in vain. There was no potato to be seen anywhere on the plate, but the sandwich looked big enough to possibly be a baby cow and it wasn’t bargain basement meat either. It was that nice, cooked, deli, melt in your mouth meat, piled high on a wonderful but not overpowering bun.

I threw a little bit of the provided deli mustard on the inside of the bun and inhaled the sandwich. It was delightful. Even for $7.95. It was a lot of beef. I left full and completely satisfied. The wait staff were even nice and funny - which is a rarity. Most times the entire corps of waitresses in a restaurant don’t have enough brain cells among them corporately to spell the restaurant name.

The dinner menu is much more extensive, and I gather from looking at the place that they must do a LOT more business at dinner. I intend to get back and check it out some night.

FIVE STARS BABY!! Go and check ‘em out. They are Oshawa’s best kept secret.

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