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| - I really wish I liked this place more than I do. It's close to home, decently priced and everyone here seems really nice.
The problem, after four visits, is that there just isn't enough food here that is either (1) good or (2) unique.
Take the weekend breakfast buffet. $8.95 for 14 items (you can see the list in the picture of the menus). With one exception (the French toast, which is good), everything here is OK... But there isn't anything you can't get from Golden Corral. And because GC is busier, their food doesn't steam half to death in the metal coffins.
The fresh fruit assortment looked sad-- appeared to come out of a blister-packed container of stuff sold at the GFS store a few miles east on Lorain Road. The apple sauce and cottage cheese both came out of big foodservice tubs.
I had Orange Juice. It tasted funny, so I sent it back. My wife spotted the Smith's label on the gallon jug she poured the replacement from. I'm paying $1.89 for 8 ounces of made from concentrate.
At both lunch and dinner, every single vegetable side they served-- except for the fried potatoes (which are superb)-- obviously came out of a can. You can see the sad little puddle of watery juice at the bottom of the bowl. I'd just as soon not get a vegetable.
The pies in the dessert case are Mama Jo's pies. Yes, they're good-- but I can buy those at Marc's at Great Northern.
The salads are the predictable sad iceberg mix with ice-cold tomatoes. Other than the house dressing, everything taste like it came out of a bottle. The rolls are tasty-- but they're also "heat and serve".
So what's good? What got two people to return three times? The soups are genuinely excellent. The had one or two each time and THEY were made from scratch. Absolutely worth it.
We showed up the day after St, Pat's and got some of the corned beef. THAT was good. So was the cabbage. Didn't have it in a sandwich, but I'd be willing to order that. (Although Joe's in Rocky River is better.)
The gyro and the Grecian platter were good. So was the Athenian platter. Not surprising, since the proprietors are Greek. I'd bet the Greek Salad is good-- probably the Chicken Kebabs (it has the same meat as the stuff in the Athenian platter).. Again, it's undercut by the large number of good gyro places around.
Their lasagna (a special) and chicken parmesan was unique. The tomato sauce has greek spices. I wasn't wild about it, but it was definitely original; you might love it. (It really made me wish they had a spinach or veggie lasagna-- or an eggplant parm).
There's probably more good stuff there-- but we ran out of the energy needed to keep searching. You're paying $10-15 per person (with drink, tip and dessert). That's not unreasonable, but when the results have been ordinary too often you don't feel like gambling on "Chicken-fried steak." It might be brilliant-- or it could be stringy meat with limp breading lying in a pile of library paste (that's what the sausage gravy from breakfast tasted like).
I'd sooner give someone else a first chance, rather than these guys a fifth. We'll come back for carry-outs of soup, but that'll be it.
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