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| - Mattie's nails it.
We've been to Mattie's 3 or 4 times now, always with the kids. This can be a bit of a monkey wrench for some restaurants, especially a small diner like Matties - trying to squeeze two one-year-olds in high chairs into a table with a couple of grown adults. Despite the small size, though, Mattie's has always been great about accomodating us.
The food is great. Like I've said in other reviews, some restaurants aim really high and fall short; Mattie's doesn't have lofty aspirations. They say they're going to give you diner food, and they give you diner food. And it's freaking fantastic. The pancakes are massive and delicious. The challah French Toast is AMAZING (try the hunka hunka burnin love if you need to burn off 4,000 calories) The coffee is great, and (for some reason, I like this) served in an assortment of mugs. You might get an I LOVE YOU mug. You might get a LITE 94.5 mug. There's something nicely homey about that.
...And that's the thing with Mattie's. It's homey. You feel like they've welcomed you into their home. We were sitting with the boys this morning and trying to wedge a menu in the window - there are thin curtains, but the sun happened to be right at the angle where it was shining in my son's face. And after a moment, one of the guys from the back came out with a cardboard box and slid it behind the jukebox unit for us. We didn't ask; he just saw it and came and did that for us. This is how they roll.
I kinda love that about them.
Oh, and if -- for some reason -- you want something gutbusting, something ridiculously decadent, something with a vaguely Epic Meal Time feel to it: Go to Mattie's. Ask them to whip you up something crazy. What do I mean by that? You can get milkshakes made with anything on the counter, including carrot cake. Or apple pie. While we were there, Mattie himself created something he called Blueberry Pie French Toast. There was whipped cream on top. It looked ridiculously over-the-top awesome.
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