Simply OMG Casual Cuisine

Kathy's Meatloaf is the dish that keeps a sprawling menu honest. It is a family recipe — savoury beef under a tomato-sauce topping, plated with potato and vegetables — and it sits on a dinner list that also runs to rack of lamb and filet mignon, which says most of what Simply OMG Casual Cuisine is reaching for. The Sarnia kitchen began life as OMG Poutine, a food truck, and it has never fully left that lane; gourmet poutines still anchor the menu. But the restaurant on Indian Road South has grown well past curds and gravy, into a casual dining room in Mitton Village where a poutine and a New Zealand rack of lamb share the same kitchen.

The poutines are where the original identity survives. Butter Chicken Poutine layers chicken gravy, cheese curds, and house-made butter chicken sauce; the Three Little Pigs Poutine piles on barbecue pulled pork, crumbled Italian sausage, bacon, and garlic peppercorn ranch; the Canadian Classic keeps to house-made gravy and Montreal cheese curds. Around them sits the casual half of the menu — the OMG Cheeseburger on locally sourced beef, a Loaded Waffle BLT, carne asada street tacos with house-made pico de gallo, a chicken tikka flatbread baked under mozzarella. Then the dinner menu turns serious. Surf and turf pairs an eight-ounce filet mignon with jumbo tiger shrimp; the rack of lamb is smoked over apple wood and finished in red wine; chicken piccata, scallop spaghettini, duck leg confit, and Cajun honey butter salmon round out a list few poutine trucks would recognize as their own.

The breadth could read as a kitchen trying to be everything, but the scratch work argues otherwise. Sauces are made in house, the potatoes are hand-cut, and the burger beef is local, seasoned with a blend built from garden produce. What looks like a menu pulled in six directions — Canadian, Indian, Mexican, Italian, and a full steakhouse dinner — holds together on technique rather than any single cuisine. The same kitchen that grills a sixteen-ounce New York steak folds house-made butter chicken sauce into a bowl of curds and fries.

The range also makes Simply OMG easy to use. A mixed table can split a poutine and an Orchard Salad of candied pecans, apple, cranberry, and gruyère, move through garlic butter steak bites and maple-glazed pork belly, and still seat one guest at scallop spaghettini and another at a butter chicken bowl. There are kids' items for the youngest guests, takeout and delivery for quick visits, and reservations, party booking, and catering for the planned ones. Few Sarnia menus run from a loaded poutine to a market-priced surf and turf, and fewer still cook both like they matter.

Baljit and Kathy Dhillon are the family behind it. Local reporting traces the line: they launched OMG Poutine and grew it, in 2020, into the Indian Road South restaurant, by way of an earlier stretch at Eastland Plaza. Kathy's name on the meatloaf is not marketing; it is her family recipe, and it gives a menu that could feel generically broad a specific person at its centre. The original truck never went away — it still runs seasonally, parked at Centennial Park through the warm months.

The most telling item on the menu is also the cheapest. Community Bread is warm crusty bread with real butter, and every loaf sold is donated to the Salvation Army Outreach Meal Program — a three-dollar order that points a steak dinner back at the city it is served in. The same instinct runs through the operation: a poutine truck that became a restaurant without losing the truck, a kitchen that plates duck leg confit while a loaf of bread feeds someone across town. The Dhillons never closed the door on where they started; they just built a dining room around it.