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| - I agree with Jorden B. - the place is like a mini-Damon's with TV screens everywhere, sports regalia on the walls, it has beautiful hard wood floors, tables and booths, the whole place is centered around the bar, but it is wide enough that you don't feel like you are necessarily just going to a "bar." The food was good - I had a Cobb salad and my partner had blackened tilapia. Although the fish was dripping in oil and didn't really taste like fish, my meal and our appetizers were good. It is moderately priced, and definitely a community place. It's convenient for anyone in SW Champaign, and given its location, not many college students were in there (even on a Saturday evening). The lights over the booths were seriously annoying, though - they are the type that hang from the ceiling to within inches of your face so that you constantly feel like there is a hot flashlight beaming at your face from above. I literally had to do the dorky hand-over-the-brow at times because I squinted throughout our entire meal. Service was decent. Quite obviously high school students and college freshmen, but they had at least been trained the basics of serving. No stalkerish service, yet they did not disappear either. Asked how the food was and refilled the drinks, but did not try to spend the entire time at our booth (even though the place was fairly empty). Gorgeous fireplace, too. I would do it again as long as the light situation were different.
Update: May 2008
Saturday night with 3 others - it took 30 minutes to get food, although there were empty tables at 6:30pm. We had to get our own refills because our waitress never came back after the food was delivered. That being said, the food was great. BBQ chicken sandwich - huge, tender and sweet. Pasta with steak - creamy and delicious. Billy Burger - good. Some kind of oriental salad - decent. Pepsi products. Prices range from a sandwich ($8) to pasta ($11-15) and steak (to $22). Menu online at eatcu.com.
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