The Timber Room

A great way to unwind and dine al fresco after a round of golf. .. .
The Silverado Steakhouse restaurant and The Timber Room pub now have the same menu. So we choose the Silverado outdoor deck because it was higher up, with a better view of the mountains and 18^th hole.
The crab and smoked salmon cakes were two nice chubby medallions, crispy outside, tasty inside with more salmon than crab. Accompanied by pesto aioli and a small slaw. My partner really enjoyed the selection of dim sum as a starter and said it tasted like a «real» Chinese (he’s part Chinese). Evidently they are handmade by a Chinese lady in nearby Royston. The peanut dipping sauce was not authentic but he and I agreed it was a nice sweet/​salty taste to the dim sum.
My partner then enjoyed the Prime Rib special entrée, rare, with mashed potatoes, Yorkshire pudding, gravy and hot horseradish. Said it was excellent.
My Madras Curry Rice Bowl wasn’t so. .. Basmati rice, with pre-​cooked, pre-​sliced chicken breast (a la Sysco or Maple Leaf) with no taste and rubbery texture. A lot of Madras sauce poured over — no veg — some small naan bread points, and a small rolled papadum with cold mango chutney inside. It was adequate, but not gourmet like the rest of the food. Only the sauce was good.
Note cider drinkers: they only have canned Okanagan Brand cider, not Grower’s or Merridale. Bummer.
The service was excellent, and with the relaxing beautiful view, it comes back to being 3,5 to 4 star, only the curry rice bowl didn’t live up to expectations.

I’ve eaten here a few times. The prime rib is excellent! But had to give it a 1 star since I got food poisoning the last time I ate here. I ordered the chicken sandwich with fries and the Brie cheese as an appetizer. Was in bed the entire day after with non stop v***ting!

Went to Courtenay/​Comox on business, and found myself having a light lunch at Crown Isle’s clubhouse restaurant. A lovely table, in the window, with vistas over the golf course and towards the mountains behind Cumberland. The salad lunch that I ordered was delicious… not always the case, but this one was something that one would order again and again, on other visits. A very appealing & up market environment, excellent service, a welcoming attitude… I look forward to dinner here, in the future… it’s a resort, too, so maybe there’s a weekend in my future? Highly recommend.

«We HAVE to go to Crown Isle for brunch. They have the best brunch anywhere», that’s what my girlfriend said before our meal… afterward not so much. We found out later that the chef has changed and the menu is a sad shell of its former glory.
The view of the golf course from the patio is quite nice, but the food unfortunately did not live up to expectations. The bennys were passable but not what I would have expected from a higher end golf and country club, especially considering the price. Now I’m no expert but I have a hard time believing that the hollandaise sauce had been made from scratch due to its overly bright yellow colour, and the hashbrowns appeared to have been sitting under a heat lamp for some time.
The service was friendly enough but a flooded out kitchen due to an exploding dishwasher pipe earlier in the day had the staff scrambling around like mad. Our server was quite apologetic and explained the situation to us. Since we weren’t in any great hurry to get out of the place we didn’t mind the little extra wait for our bill.
It was a decent enough meal but now that we know the brunch is no longer the best in Courtenay, we’ll probably take a pass on a second visit next time we visit the area.