Urban Grill

I’m a sucker everytime.
I always assume that I’m going to outsmart their scales, and fill up a plate of my frankenstirfry for $ 9 or $ 10. But bam! I hit a minimum of $ 12 every… single… time.
The ingredients are good. It’s a clean place. For a newbie, it’s not obvious which steps need to be performed before getting your cooked meal.
Here’s a 9 step guide.
Step 1: Take a metal plate.
Step 2: Deep breath. How hungry are you?
Step 3: Bok choy, spinach. Dry, light stuff.
Step 4: Just got paid? Shrimp, baby corn, zucchini, carrots.
Step 5: Weigh-​in. Emit a muted «DOH!»
Step 6: Take the slip of paper given to you and circle your choice of sauce. Select more that one if you wish. The weighing is done.
Step 7: Hand your plate over to a cook, and hope he doesn’t frown at you. He serves it up with sticky white rice.
Step 8: Take your new container of food and eat it up.
Step 9: Too late to complain. You built this $ 12 combo of pork, corn, cauliflower and cashews yourself.

Urban grill is pretty reliable for a quick healthy lunch. I love picking my own ingredients and sauces! For awhile they had a dish that was a standard price for all you could fit into it, but it disappeared after my broccoli towers grew in both size and imagination. I had that shit figured out. Oh well.
My only issue with the urban grill, which means I can’t come here when it’s busy, is the contamination. I’ve seen people go back and forth in the ingredient line and touch their raw meat with the veggie utensils, and the grill is just kinda cleaned off between meals with water and scraping, and sometimes they use the same utensil for 3 different meals cooking next to each other.
So, I have to be careful and ask them to use clean utensils and to wipe the grill «really well». Usually they are really good about this, but I’ve seen them get flustered and annoyed when there is a huge line, so I just come here at odd times when I won’t be causing an extra hassle.
They have brown rice for an extra charge, and you can mix the sauce options on the list as well.

This is located on the other side of Urban Sushi.
Concept is simple. You pick the ingredients — there is an array of meats, seafood, and lots of vegetables. You then choose the sauce (s). And everything gets cooked on the grill and served with rice.
For just under $ 10, I certainly got enough food, but a big eater will hit closer to $ 15. It’s definitely more expensive than the food court places Downtown, but I do appreciate the vegetable selection and there is lamb! But still, it was pretty flavourless. I picked Hot Chilli and Kung Pao as my sauces — detected neither. All in all, it’s pretty expensive for what it is.

Surprised that there are no other reviews on this place, so I decided to give this a try.
I passed by on a busy lunch weekday but its basically a pricey glorified food court type of meal.
I paid over $ 15 for a plate for this Mongolian style grill and chose 2 sauces.
After weighing in, they give you a receipt slip which you are supposed to pass to the grill guy.
They should at least have a menu visible outside the restaurant to know what damage to expect. Don’t think I’ll come again for this price. I also now have second thoughts about trying their Urban Sushi, which is connected next door.