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| - Went here for lunch. The atmosphere is cool, like eating at the Crypt Keeper's living room, except that he broke down and bought a flat screen TV to catch the latest football game in HD. Everything except the breakfast menu is monster/horror themed, and the breakfast menu on Sundays runs until 2 P.M., a nice perk for those that are late risers. Prices for breakfast will run around the 7-8 dollar range, unless you get steak and eggs, which is $14.
We ordered a myriad of dishes, and started with the Children of the Corn fritters. They were probably the best part of my meal. They were kind of like a cross between a falafel and a hush puppy, filled with corn and a sweet potato batter, deep fried, and coated with a garlic sauce. I had the Sasquatch (veggie sandwich), which was decent, and made with fresh veggies, but it was a little bland. Also, the sandwich bread was cut unevenly so that the lower half was very thin, which made the bottom half of the sandwich very soggy as the juices from the veggies seeped into the bread. As a result I had to turn the sandwich upside down to eat it. I had a bite of the breakfast burrito ($8), which was OK, but nothing too special. It was basically a diner-style breakfast plate with eggs, potato, bacon, wrapped in a tortilla. For half the price, I could get an excellent breakfast burrito, at say, Los Favoritos. We had a little tyke in our group and she had a chicken fingers basket, which came in a huge portion, almost like an adult size portion! All our meals came with freshly made chips, which were huge slices of potato, light and crispy.
The outdoor patio looks nice and shaded, and they allow dogs on the patio! It's more of a regular restaurant feel outside, so if you want the creepy cool monster experience, eat indoors. I'd say for the most part, go here for the atmosphere more than for the food, unless you want to get a few appetizers to share.
Another thing to note (Which may be self-evident), if your tyke doesn't like scary movies or haunted houses, it's perhaps best not to take him or her here for the indoor part of the restaurant. We were seated next to the animatronic Grudge monster (A giant troll-like monster with sharp pointy teeth!) and the 5 year old in our group was really freaked out by it and kept repeating that she was scared and never wanted to eat here again. : p
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