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| - I like Big Dog's, even though I'm not a beer drinker. This visit was our Friday Night group's choice for dinner. The food was mostly great, the service very lacking (e.g.,hree requests to the waitress for water???).
I ordered a Tuscan chicken sandwich on foccacia, which came with roasted peppers, mozzarella, and yum, sauteed spinach and garlic. It would have been outstanding if they'd only heated the foccacia to crisp it up. Instead of the fries or cole slaw, I sprang for the extra two bucks to change it up for a salad. I expected a tiny side salad, but this was really big, with lots of chopped tomatoes, cuke, cheese, and romaine. It was missing olives, but that was great: I hate olives! By the time I got halfway through the salad, I felt like I'd already eaten dinner.
My husband ordered the walleye special. I thought it was pretty high-priced at $20, but it came with the aforementioned salad, plus two sides. But when they brought out the plate, I saw the reason for the high price: the piece of fish was absolutely monstrous. It could have fed a small third-world nation, but my husband lives to eat, so he managed to devour half of it before throwing in the towel. It became my dinner on Saturday night, and I thought it was fabulous! I also appreciated the fact that it wasn't over-salted. Next time we go we'll both order it, and we'll be able to eat for a week!
One of the other couples ordered the same as us. The guy from the third couple had the burger with bratwurst and, I think, bacon, plus some kind of cheese. He liked it a lot. His wife wasn't feeling very well, so she just ordered some tuna salad on a plate.
The waitress was friendly when she took our order, but then disappeared. Luckily, the bus person was pretty efficient, and saved the day. Make that evening.
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