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| - I used to go to the Melanie Pringles that was in Pickering all the time when I was in high school, so when my birthday rolled around, I opted for nostalgia and picked Melanie Pringles as my choice for lunch. This location is right near Thickson and Dundas, tucked away in the corner of the plaza.
One of the draws to Melanie Pringles is that they have all kinds of stuff on the walls and it feels like you're walking into a 1950s diner. Each table has its own little jukebox which (for 0.25) you can play oldies songs right at your table. They have the cool sparkle vinyl seats and the matching rounded off tables. You'll spend a few minutes just looking around.
Also worth noting, this is generally considered (in my humble opinion) a greasy spoon that's got a pretty facade on it. All of the food is diner style, not much is healthy and its where you should go for those homemade greasy comfort foods we all love so much.
We ended up trying out one of the trio platters that had mozzarella sticks, pizza sticks and wings on it and I got the chicken and cheese melt on garlic bread with lattice fries (for an extra $2!). The mozzarella sticks here are probably some of the best I've had. They're not totally mozzarella but they're really super stringy and melty! The Pizza sticks were alright, too much pepperoni so they weren't really all that well balanced. But the wings! Wow! Was pretty damned impressed with the wings here, really big, well sauced and lots of tasty meat on them. My chicken and cheese melt was good, the garlic bread was what made the sandwich so yum. The lattice fries were a treat, as I can't find them anywhere anymore, but paying $2 extra for them seemed unreasonable. I would get them again, but only because I'm obsessed with those particular kind of fries.
The service was so so, nothing to write home about. Our server seemed like she was on autopilot for the entire time we were there. The place got pretty busy for a Friday lunch though, lots of people in there, so clearly this place does well.
Overall, not a bad joint to stop in for some greasy spoon food. We'll be going back to try a few other things off the menu (and probably to get some more of those wings) and to see what else they've got going for them.
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