Roosevelt Food and Drink

Nice casual spot on 17^th Ave to grab a drink with friends. The best night to go would be on Friday when they have a DJ who plays a great mix of music. I have also been for brunch and lunch. The food is decent, nothing to phone home about but the food service is slow. On the bright side, the free mini donuts at brunch will have you leaving happy.

Food was pretty good here. My biggest complaint was the noise. There was a lot of echoing and it was hard to have a normal conversation. The staff were friendly though. Just not somewhere I would go again unless talking wasn’t really on the menu …

I have been here twice now and decided it’s my breakfast spot. Plenty of seating, it’s modern, good service and menu. $ 10 for bacon & eggs, with potatoes, toast and fresh fruit. The bacon is double smoked! To top it off, they give a free milkshake and mini doughnuts! The serve introduced herself than asked for my name and shook my hand. She also remembered my name. The manager came by to see how things were going. They got my order right and in a reasonable amount of time. Meal was great. I’ll be back for my Sunday habit.

Was out first stop on a beautiful YYC patio tour!
Small patio but service was friendly + fast an beer was cold!
Shared the nachos. Portion was big. Pretty much run of the mill bar nachos.
I enjoy this spot overall. Will be back!

We randomly chose this restaurant while walking. What a find. Kassandra our waitress made it 5 stars! She suggested items that were amazing. We had the beef dip, sushi tacos, club house and some really fun beer. Definitely make a trip here.

This place got a nice face lift from classic jacks but it’s not amazing. The food is average. I’m not a huge fan of an open kitchen at restaurants. This kitchen is completely in the open and you can see cooks talking, filling their cups at the bar, wiping foreheads etc. not that I find this place dirty but I don’t want to see that all the time. We came here for brunch one day and I could see the chef put up our food and it sat there and sat there… I knew it was ours, wanted to go get it myself! We get it and it’s cold. Bah!

We hit up 17^th avenue with the intentions of going to Cibo for brunch, only to discover they only offer brunch in the summer. We saw Roosevelt when we walked out and figured they would have a brunch menu for the weekend. It was Saturday around noon and it wasn’t too busy for the brunch hour, the layout is very spacious and simple. We got seated at a high top table and handed brunch menus. Alex and Liz got a mimosa while Kim and I just got water. The menu is a typical brunch menu with some benedict, signatures, omelettes and French toast options. Us ladies went with the classic benedict and Alex went with the Roast chicken cast iron frittata. After we ordered, our waitress came by with two little bags of mini donuts for us to snack on while we wait — sweet deal! They’re not as good as the stampede mini donuts but they kept us busy.
Our food arrived in good time — the benedicts came on a long plate with a side of crispy hash browns, ketchup and seasonal fruit. Alex’s frittata was a mix of tomato, spinach, green onion, and fontina, also with a side of hash browns and fruit. As we were digging in, our waitress came by with cute little vanilla coke milkshakes for us to sample — super sweet deal! The bennies were nothing out of the ordinary but still tasty, the hash browns were nice and crispy and the seasonal fruit didn’t see that fresh. Alex enjoyed his frittata with ketchup and ate it all up.
I found that after we received our meals, our waitress kind of disappeared, we had to wave her down for refills but overall it was decent. The food was good and the service was good when it was there. Brunch is served on the weekends and holiday Mondays from 10am to 2pm. The mini donuts and milkshakes were a part of the brunch deal which is cool.
I’ll definitely stop by again to try things other than the brunch menu because they looked delicious. For an inexpensive good brunch without having to wait in a line, Roosevelt is the place to be.

The food is mostly very good and the drink menu features craft brews as well as generic beers and fine bourbons. The atmosphere, however, is too much like a sports bar for me, with dozens of tv’s all showing football and no music.
We ordered the crab & spinach dip and the margherita flatbread to start, blackened chicken and chicken & waffles for our mains. Spinach dip was excellent-​you can definitely taste the crab in there. The flatbread was basically a pizza and unimpressive. The chicken & waffles are definitely worth trying, with big bacon pieces in the waffles and super crispy chicken, and the maple butter is to die for. My friend found his chicken a bit dry and we both agree that it’d be better with the skin.

In house made sushi cones are spankin delicious ! They make the candied salmon from scratch and man is it tasty. Order one kind or mix and match for a flavor delight