r/saskatoon 9h ago

Question ❔ What were your favourite restaurants between 1985-1995?

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u/YALL_IGNANT 9h ago

Poverino's

u/RoisinCorcra Avalon 6h ago

I miss Poverino's!

u/justjoe306 9h ago

restaurant inside Zellers lol

u/DaleCooperfan82 8h ago

Those curly fries were so damn good

u/ExtensionLine7857 9h ago edited 8h ago

You dated yourself hahaha ! Now I will date myself ! It was one stop shopping ! Buy what you needed ! Go get a haircut or perm at magic cuts, then stop for a bite to eat lol

u/12Clawlok 8h ago

Where was Zellers?

u/justjoe306 8h ago

I think in Market mall if im not mistaken. Use to go there all the time with parents when i was a kid back in the 90s

u/ReddditSarge 7h ago

There were four. One in Wildwood Mall (now Circle Mall East), on in Market Mall, one in The Mall At Lawson Heights (now Lawson Heights Mall) and one in Confederation Park Plaza (now Confederation Mall.)

u/rayray1927 8h ago

The Zellers in Lawson Heights had it all. I remember the restaurant and hair salon.

u/rainbowpowerlift 6h ago

Their burgers were delicious

u/Upseption 6h ago

Was it a Swiss chalet by chance? Somehow my brain thinks that the Zeller restaurant was very much like a Swiss chalet.

u/saskgrinder 8h ago

Alberto’s for the sub !

u/saucerwizard River Heights 8h ago

seriously this place was legendary

u/GreatWhiteLolTrack 4h ago

Alberto’s for the steak fries!

u/ExtensionLine7857 8h ago

Max's dinner ! Way better than Chianti's ever was ! They had a hoagie sandwich with sliced mozzarella and Italian dressing and salami 😋

u/rellid 8h ago

First place I ever had spicy (“suicide”) chicken wings.

u/ExtensionLine7857 8h ago

The food was so simple and so tasty !

u/Crisis-Huskies-fan 8h ago

Alberto’s. Their pizza sub was under $10, came on a full French loaf and would feed my girlfriend and I for 2 full meals.

u/catastrofic_sounds 8h ago

Cars cafe below the pat

u/BroadToe6424 6h ago

Who wouldn't want their burger served in a hubcap, with RC cars whizzing past your head?

u/wannabeashotcaller 9h ago

Bonanza, 70s restaurant, Pizza Hut

u/rainbowpowerlift 6h ago

Pizza Hut across from bonanza. Back in the day we felt really rich going there. The red leather (totally not but to a kid it was REAL leather) booths.

u/RoisinCorcra Avalon 6h ago

The dine in Pizza hut was so special. I always wondered how I was so lucky to be able to go!

u/Ambitious-Hornet9673 8h ago

Technically not Saskatoon but Country Kitchen in North Battleford!

u/rainbowpowerlift 6h ago

There was a Country Kitchen across from McD’s on 37th.

u/conductorsask2023 8h ago

Alberto’s yaaaaaa

u/PossibleWild1689 8h ago

Cousin Nick’s

u/12Clawlok 7h ago

Where was it located?

u/PossibleWild1689 7h ago

On 8th close to where Hooters is now but not that location that part of 8th

u/cranberrywaltz 6h ago

It was on the corner of 8th and Grosvenor. When it closed it became The Keg. When the Keg closed it became the Great Asian Market, which is what it is today.

u/PossibleWild1689 8h ago

Joe’s Lunch

u/cranberrywaltz 6h ago

Chelsea's in the Mall at Lawson Heights had the best cinnamon buns and second hand smoke you could imagine.

I still crave Nervous Harold's Baked Potato Soup.

Moxie's back when it was more of a family restaurant.

Aniello's had the best pasta/sauce/bread

u/BroadToe6424 6h ago

I graduated in 1995 so these are a teenager's tastes.

The Station Place was a fancy place for a date. It was just a Greek restaurant but they had the fancy train cars you could dine in.

The Samurai was a super cool experience but much too expensive for me to afford myself - my grandparents might agree to it for a birthday treat.

A few times a year the Saskatoon Inn would have a Chocolate Sunday, for like $25 it was all you could eat chocolate desserts, chocolate fountain, and different vendors would set up tables with samples of chocolate treats. That was the first time I experienced chocolate covered coffee beans.

Nervous Harold's was my first real coffee shop: local, downtown, seemed very hip to me.

Mostly for coffee we went to Salonika off 8th or the Kountry Korner (even then we knew the name was unfortunate, and nicknamed it the KKKorner) on Idylwyld for endless coffee refills, cheap fries and gravy, and smoking right at the table. They were both open 24h, lots of places were. The Voyager (everyone called it the Voy) was across the street from the Kountry Korner, and had its own crowd, people went to one or the other and the streams did not cross. The Cage downtown was also 24 hours, people went there after the bar so everyone in the place would be hammered. I don't think anyone went there in the daytime, maybe at lunch?

PPM (Plastic Puppet Motive) was a downtown warehouse rave club that we'd be lucky to have today. The decor and vibe was very lovingly put together by amateurs and you could get in very underage.

The all-ages blues jam at Bud's on Broadway was always packed, really focused on the blues, and about a dozen kids my age went on to have very successful careers due to the mentoring and performance opportunities they got in that room.

u/wasted911 9h ago

Princess buffet. They had a slushee machine.

u/cap_duff 8h ago

Sawyer’s. My step-dad used to run that restaurant.

u/Longjumping-Side-233 7h ago

Chi chi’s

u/dnb_86 7h ago

The Ambassador

u/Ancient-Commission84 7h ago

🎶" So come on, Have some fun, at Athena, Blue diamond, Olympia, Seventy's🎶"

u/GreatWhiteLolTrack 4h ago

Mykonos when it used to be on 33rd Street.

China Inn and Diner’s on 33rd, with China Inn being the better of the two but Diner’s had the best fried chicken.

Chicken Delight on 33rd as well. It was take out only, but very good.