SO and I went for a road trip! Rouses Point is short drive from St.Albans but long enough that I haven't been here since I was little. After reading the reviews for the places to eat in town, we settle on Gino's.
We arrive to a almost full parking lot. We head inside to place our order, a large pizza and a order of poutine. 30 minute wait. That is fine and we head out to continue our drive, 15 minutes down the road (it was beautiful!) and 15 back. Foods still not ready and we are told 10 more minutes. We get back in the car head back over the bridge and get drinks, head back to wait.
I take a spot outside with the maybe 10 folks chilling with a few dogs and some kids. It's a nice picnic area, very clean and well cared for.
Our pizza and poutine comes out it looks delicious! Being so close to the border I had my fingers crossed for some authentic cheese curd poutine, I was a little disappointed that they used mozzarella shredded cheese. I have discovered that it's really rare to come across real cheese curd poutine. The crust for the pizza was "meh" and the cheese wouldn't stay on the crust. My boyfriend informed me this was because they use a "circular method" for applying cheese. They add a lot in the middle of the pie and then work outwards using less cheese and not work it up to the crust when the sauce isn't. The cheese would stay on much better with even distribution up to the part of crust that has no sauce.
I got a black cherry creemee. I asked for it to have a vanilla/black cherry swirl but that didn't happen. Sadness. My boyfriend got a root beer float, nothing special about it. He said "It was a float."
The cashier seemed slightly agitated and I wouldn't have been surprised if I saw her roll her eyes, but she remained polite and was fairly formal. The girl at the creemee stand didn't have any personality and was just meh. The boy that was cleaning the picnic tables didn't speak much, but was nice when I was throwing out our plates and I asked if they had recycling inside for a bottle, he gladly brought that inside for me.