{"id":6701,"date":"2013-04-03T09:00:27","date_gmt":"2013-04-03T16:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=6701"},"modified":"2013-04-03T14:17:13","modified_gmt":"2013-04-03T21:17:13","slug":"noms-beach-house-tasty-but-pricey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2013\/04\/03\/noms-beach-house-tasty-but-pricey\/","title":{"rendered":"Noms!<\/em>: Victoria’s Beach House tasty but pricey"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Beach House Restaurant, located on Cordova Bay Road in Saanich, is exactly what its name implies: a restaurant on the beach. As one may expect, they do quite a bit of seafood fare, usually with an Italian spin.<\/p>\n

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It’s all fancy at the Beach House (photo provided).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Beach House is situated right on the beach with a gorgeous view of the ocean from the windows that span nearly an entire wall. The layout is quite nice, with a mix of upper-class looking areas and a lounge-style area. They definitely ran with the ocean theme, with a collection of fish mounted on the wall to appear as if going out to sea and a large metal shark\u2019s skeleton mounted on the wall.<\/p>\n

The menu offered good variety of the seafood\/Italian-style fare, as well as a good range in prices to pick from. You can choose from the burger side of the menu and eat for about $14, or go higher end and have a seafood dish for around $20.<\/p>\n

I was here on a work dinner, so I had a salmon steak (the daily special, advertised as market fresh). It was a Cajun-style steak with a lime sauce and some vegetables. While I didn\u2019t care much for the sauce (much too sour for my taste) the salmon itself was fantastic.<\/p>\n

My coworkers had an equally impressive array of foods, ranging from seafood pastas to pizza.\u0118One coworker had a clam linguine; holy cow (or holy clam?), they did not skimp on the clams. The pizza was quite good as well, and due to my gastral fortitude and my other coworker\u2019s toothache, I ate half of that, too.<\/p>\n

Of course, we also partook in appetizers and dessert. For appies, we had a blue cheese sauce and house-made chips, some god-awful mushroom thing, and calamari. The calamari was especially good with a crunch and seasoning.<\/p>\n

As for dessert, I split a gelato and doughnuts with someone while the others had a towering slice of chocolate cake.<\/p>\n

The Beach House Restaurant is a pretty solid place to eat and they hold the ocean-side theme very tightly. The decor and view are fantastic and the food is top notch. The only major downside is that if you hope to venture away from a simple burger, prepare to fork out some coin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Beach House Restaurant, located on Cordova Bay Road in Saanich, is exactly what its name implies: a restaurant on the beach. As one may expect, they do quite a bit of seafood fare, usually with an Italian spin. The Beach House is situated right on the beach with a gorgeous view of the ocean […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6702,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,99],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-columns","category-april-3-2013"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t