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| - Woo Boy! That was not good. We stopped in at Fairway Grill tonight after mini-golf at Cool Springs. By the way, is $9/person expensive for mini-golf? Two kids under 10 and one adult, $27 was a surprise.
But the Fairway Grill, oof. We walked in and the waitress was pretty cheery and accommodated us when we requested a different table. The first one was in the sun and it was that bad evening angle. She even helped us move a chair. She took an immediate drink order, too, and brought those out in a few minutes.
Our waitress came by and was a bit harried. It seemed that all the tables had something wrong with their food. We should have lowered expectations at that point, but it was a beautiful night and I had totally schooled the kids on the course, so I was feeling good!
It was happy hour with half-price appetizers, so we got the Bavarian Pretzel to start. We ordered grilled cheese for the youngest and the kid's pizza for my daughter. I got the Pretzel Melt and my wife the Italian Melt (she joined us after mini-golf). The food took longer than expected, but not so long where you start looking around saying, "Why is it taking so long?" But I was almost there.
The pretzels were brought out by the hostess with cheese sauce. They were pretty good! Totally mediocre bar food that you would expect from a place like this.
My son's grilled cheese was not. It certainly wasn't "grilled" because that would indicate heat being applied at some point in the process and to call the two orange, unmelted squares "cheese" required a little imagination. The fries were decent, though.
The kid's pizza was cardboard with Campbell's tomato soup for sauce and a fair bit of bland mozzarella to make the name "pizza" seem true enough.
My Pretzel Melt was okay, but the waitress didn't bring the honey mustard that SHE SUGGESTED! The sandwich was dry and would have been passable with it, so I was bummed.
My wife won the night! The Italian Melt was "fine" with "tasty meats" (her words).
All in all, it was a disappointment. The view of the driving range is fun, the patio seating is great, the service was uneven, and the food was sub-par (get it?).
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