L2 Grill

We have been going to this restaurant for a long time. It definitely does not have enough exposure. When you go in for dinner it’s quiet but it’s one of a kind dining experience. Not much restaurants in Edmonton do what they do. We took a friend from Calgary to this restaurant yesterday night and she found it quite amazing.
First our server Wallace, he is awesome! Top notch service from him all the time. He brought out some bread and their home made lemon and raspberry butter. They change the flavor of their butter all the time. Raspberry is one of my favs. Then he brought out a spinach ravioli dish that was compliments of the chef. Delicious! They always do that, let you try something the chef created that day.
We ordered the Olive oil seared scallops. It comes in three and it was nice and fresh. Wallace brought out their home made sorbet to cleanse our pallet before we start our entrée. My favorite part of the meal. It’s these little things they do that make the experience. Since my friend has never been to L2 I ordered the L2 feast for two. It comes with two free range Cajun chicken supreme, two AAA High River Alberta Beef tenderloin medallion cooked to your liking, two baked lobster tail, four jumbo tiger prawns and potatoes and seasonal veggies. It’s a lot of food but can everything at once. My husband ordered their 16oz Alberta Bone in ribeye with truffle mash potatoes, veggies with sherry jus. For awhile they took the ribeye out of the menu, it’s nice to see it back. The ribeye is huge! All of it was amazing. My friend love the potatoes.
We shared a bailey’s chocolate cheesecake and a strawberry bombe which is a mousse with strawberry center atop almond sponge cake. To top that off, Wallace brought out their home made chocolates! They have different flavor all the time. So if you don’t have room for dessert you can still enjoy a bit of sweetness at the end. I just love this place and would recommend it for dinner AND brunch! All the pastries are made in house for brunch! The selection is huge. Must try!

Went here for the Sunday brunch-​great service and large variety of items. Everything is included in the brunch: drinks, smoothies, hot cakes, eggs, etc. The staff is super friendly!

Nice food and awesome service. I ordered duo pork and it really superised me, my father and I had a great tine dining here.

What a huge disappointment! We came here for Mother’s Day Brunch, a group of 12. We had a reservation, and were seated in the ballroom (still as part of L2 Mother’s Day Brunch event). It was a nice room, but that’s about the only positive thing I have to say.
The food was alright. It wasn’t horrible, but there certainly wasn’t anything that made you say «oh my gawd this is amazing!!». And for $ 42.95, I certainly expect some form of amazement. Even if it’s just one dish. Nothing here that tantalized even one of my tastebuds.
Where this place really loses the stars is the service, or lack thereof. A table of 12, at a buffet, you can image how quickly the plates can stack up. And stack up they did. I had to clear plates off our table just because I was sick of looking at them. Only about after at least an hour of us eating did someone come and clear a couple plates. And he didn’t even clear them all. I don’t even understand what the point of that was. I kid you not, I think I cleared plates from our table 3 times. And my coffee mug sat empty. Never once was I offered coffee or tea. What’s the point of putting the mugs and sugar on the table?!?
So at this point, I’m thinking this place deserves 2 stars. The food is definitely only 3 stars, but the lack of service drops it down. But they just had to pour salt on the wound… our bill came with an automatic 17% gratuity added on. Are you bleeping kidding me??? Even when service is horrendous, I usually still tip, but a buffet, with no service, you would NEVER get a 17% tip from me if it wasn’t forced. I understand parties of x amount or more usually have automated gratuity added. But this was a buffet brunch, with no service. You can’t tell me that deserves the same percentage of tip as someone actually being served their meal, drinks topped up, etc.
Steer very clear of this place. There are much better brunch options in this city. What a colossal rip off.

It was ok but won’t go back.
L2 Feast for 2 3 Unilocal
2 — 4oz. beef tenderloin, 2 lobster tails, 1 chicken leg with thigh and a chicken breast, shrimp, broccolini, carrots and lots of fingerling potatoes.
service 2 Unilocal
Big price but lacks true 5 star quality.

The staff were friendly and had no issue replacing my over cooked steak. That tenderloin I’ll be remembering fondly for days. Expensive meal but worth every penny.

We are staying at the FantasyLand hotel, and decided to go for dinner at L2. The ambience was great, great décor, (red and black themed) the food was excellent service was top notch. Very high class dining experience for the price, we were very very impressed! Highly recommend coming to L2 if you are staying in the area.

My wife and I came to the L2 Grill because we had two free breakfast buffet vouchers for staying at the Fantasyland Hotel. The L2 is not an ideal place to go for breakfast.
When we arrived, there was a long line extending outside of the place. Inside it didn’t seem insanely busy though. The reason for the wait was that the place has mostly booths that seat four or more people and most of the diners were in pairs. There was even one single diner taking up a booth. This place needs to have more tables for two and get rid of some of their booths and larger tables to accommodate the volume of people.
Like I said, it was a buffet and the L2 is not set up for a buffet. They don’t have the space for it. Their buffet area is a small room in the back of the restaurant with a few tables on either side filled with the usual buffet fare – pancakes, scrambled eggs, bacon, French Toast, fresh fruit, blah blah. At the end there is a counter where a server makes omelettes and waffles. This is a problem. When there is as little two people in line for an omelette, the buffet line can’t move forward. I guarantee that your living room is bigger than this buffet area so imagine how congested this gets during a busy breakfast rush.
But the biggest problem of all was with our waiter. We first got introduced to him when he came to our table and informed me that I didn’t need my coffee cream anymore. He scooped it up and gave it to people at another table. During this quick exchange my wife asked him for more hot water for her tea. He mumbled something and then took off. He never came back. About fifteen minutes later he walked by again and I asked him again for some hot water. He didn’t hear me. He was walking around in a confused fog with a thousand yard stare in his eyes. I yelled «EXCUSE ME!» so loud that half of the restaurant looked my way. I asked him again for the hot water. He came back with the water but offered no apology for forgetting about us. In his other hand he was holding a pot of fresh coffee. My own coffee was less than half full and he did not offer to replenish it. My wife still said a polite ‘thank you’ to him. He never responded with a ‘you’re welcome’ or anything else.
I’m curious as to why someone with zero social intelligence would take a job working with the public. Or better still, why somebody would even hire such a person. The L2 probably claims this guy’s wages on their tax return as a charitable donation.
Overall the food was pretty good but I’ll never return here because of the horrible «service» from that waiter. I’ve never been to the L2 for lunch or supper so I have no idea what it’s like then. But for breakfast – don’t bother.

Wonderful dinning experience! Came here for my anniversary and experienced great service along with many of the staff wishing us a happy anniversary. Service was prompt and we received many delightful samplers before we received our appetizer and entrée. We had ordered the Feast for two and found it an excellent disk to share! It came with lobster tail, steak, and chicken along with vegetables and shrimp. Would highly recommend this place as a romantic get away!

Pricey, but very good food and service. Tastefully decorated and comfortable.
The little touches like the fancy butter and chocolates (complimentary) were very nice; would definately go back there — may have to save up for a while though!

Overall they have great food, drinks, service, and décor. I wouldn’t say this place is a solid 5 out of 5 stars, but since their food is soo good, I wouldn’t be able to sleep at night knowing I only gave them 4 stars. To start they brought some really good fresh bread and an amuse-​bouche (basically a small free appetizer so the chef can show off) consisting of a really good smoked salmon with a cream sauce. Then I had a really good Caesar salad, which yes, tasted sorta like store bought Caesar salad, but I love the store bought ones so I was happy. Then I had the beef tenderloin with vegetables and garlic mashed potatoes. This was to die for! The tenderloin was literally so tender that it was falling apart on its own — why they even bothered to bring a steak knife I have no idea. My wife had the Flax Seed Crusted Elk Tenderloin with gold beets and a dark chocolate demi-​glacé. She was really happy with it, but still preferred my beef tenderloin. From there we wanted to try out one of their desserts since their chef is obviously talented and cooks everything to perfection, but with the amount of food they brought out, it just wasn’t happening (and we didn’t even finish our main course). Overall it’s a great restaurant and you get what you pay for (our bill came to $ 115 without tip and only two drinks) but it’s definitely a splurge for us so we wont be coming back anytime soon.
TIP: Get the «Dinner for 2» so you can try basically everything on the menu. And you get two beef tenderloins and two lobster tails so you can’t go wrong!

This was our first time at this restaurant.
Having the restaurant int the mall makes for a little bit of an odd dynamic. On the up-​side, its pretty convenient before a movie or after a day of shopping. On the downside you can hear people (or screaming babies) in the mall. I realize this is not really the fault of the restaurant, but it does impact my dining experience.
I liked our waitress. She made us aware when she had to make a table side Caesar at another table, so that we knew she would be occupied. But she did forget to bring us the dessert menu after we had asked for it. You could tell she was trying and spread a little thin.
The food was pretty average. We split a crab cake appie, which was a little fishy for my taste. I had the short ribs, which were really well prepared. Very moist and tender.
I did appreciate that they included an amuse bouche as well as a sorbet between courses. The amuse bouche was a prawn and crab cake salad, in which the prawn was of the peel and eat variety. Difficult to eat, and I had to disassemble the plate to deal with it. Tasty though. The sorbet was mango, and had a very vibrant flavour.
The wine by the glass is ordered by the varietal, not by the winery which is a little different than most places.
In the end I walked out of the place full and reasonably happy with my meal, but not clamouring to return.
Average.

First off it took over 20 minutes for a server to show up and bring us water and take our order. The restaurant smelled overwhelmingly like fish. We ordered the tenderloin and braised ribs. The Caesar salad tasted like a salad kit you get at the grocery store. The rest of the meal was average. For the money we spent (over $ 100 without dessert) we could had a much higher end and more delicious meal at another restaurant with better ambiance. Do yourself a favour — skip L2 Grill — go to Nineteen restaurant instead.

Average food, poor wines, decent service.

Bf and I went here to celebrate our two-​year anniversary. It was perfect. It was quiet and intimate and our server was hilarious! I had the most amazing martini to start and then we both had wine with dinner. We shared the surf and turf and we had so much food, crab, shrimp, steak, chicken you name it! Dessert was delicious as well, I probably could have eaten my own dessert if I wasn’t so full from the main course. Our server brought us some chocolates after dinner and then gave me an extra little gift from the fantasy land hotel! (more chocolate!!!) Bf and I don’t go out all that often for dinner but this was a special occasion and we wanted the restaurant we ate at to be nice! L2 exceeded my expectations and I would definitely recommend going back!

I received a great deal for this place… so went to try it out.
Went there about 7pm, First stepped into this place… I loved the design and the décor, very trendy and classy… The food was delicious espeically the lobster soup… we had the dinner for 2 it wasdelivered on a long plate with lots of meat and seafood… it was delicious meal all guys will love this dish… girls will definietly love the shrimp and lobsters.
great dish to share…
went again in the morning for the buffet… just the greatest breakfast ever… it was a buffet consist of your egg, toast, sausage, bacon, they have the fruit, ceral… the list goes on…
lots of choices and started my day with a great smile…
would of been better if i had a bowl of rice to go with it =P…
what, i love my rice haha…

Just wanted to say that in addition to the fabulous L2 Grill: on the main level, just across from Check-​In at FantasyLand Hotel, there is the L1 Lounge! This is the place where I had my very first ‘Purple Haze’. I also had a strawberry daiquri there that could really pack a punch. The service is outstanding, and the atmosphere is very high-​end and trendy. Definitely worth checking out while you’re in West Edmonton.

We went for sunday brunch and what a wonderful boutique style restaurant. the menu is slightly different to any where else we have eaten on a sunday. Entrees are help your self, beautiful breads, cakes, cheeses, fruit, continental meats salads. Then for the main you order food that is made fresh to order. Each dish is served individually on a small square dish and you are encouraged to order abou t3 items each to start with. it is good this way because then you dont waste anything and you can share. There were just the 2 of us so we ordered, white asparagus with parmesan, sauteed tomatoes with basil, chorizo sausage, scrambles egg and green onion crêpe and chicken kiev. we had time to let the entrée settle and drink coffee and juice while we waited. When the food casme it was lovely, esp the kiev. We shared everything, had a little more bread and then ordered again. This time, tomastoes again, peppered bacon and chicken crêpe. every mouthful was a delight. then there was dessert to follow. Again help yourself to decedant chocolate mouses, cakes and other glorious desserts. It is a little dearer than other places but because it was freshly made you knew it hadnt sat out for hours, we would definately go again