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  • Category Archives Restuarant

  • Apple Bees Dinner In Bloomington Mn

    Posted on July 12, 2010 by Gav

    Tonight I didn’t feel like making dinner, I am simply not feeling well. This summer has been very bad for allergies. I needed to get some groceries and beverages for the family, so I had to go out. I would have much rather stayed home and slept but that wasn’t going to happen. Well we stopped at the store and picked up the grocery we needed, and because dad wanted a hamburger, I had suggested Apple Bees.
    At first the waitress did good and was attentive, but suddenly it was like she dropped the ball somewhere. Here service wasn’t very good. What bugged me most is that when dad and hubby wanted a refill on a cherry limeaide she did not tell us there would be a additional charge. She had forgotten to bring my garlic bread with my dinner, and when she brought it out she only brought one tiny piece which last time I had the same dish I had 2 pieces. I do not know what happened between the first time and the second time where she took the order.
    We paid for our bill and lift. We weren’t exactly very happy with the service there tonight but that okay we’ve had worst waitress.

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  • Papa John’s

    Posted on July 9, 2010 by Gav

    The other day we decided to use a coupon my hubby got from Papa John’s pizza here in Bloomington. I ordered extra butter and dipping sauce they got the extra dipping sauce but not the butter. They actually gave me more dipping sauce then I wanted. I am not upset it happens sometimes, all I care about is did my pizza get her nice and hot. The pizza arrived hot and early, I was surprised when my phone rang. I had my blinds closed I wonder what wood blinds would look like, because I had my blinds closed I didn’t see him coming.
    We ordered the thin crust pizza, and it was nice and crispy. It was hot and it tasted good, but not enough crust to dip in my garlic butter. It was good and I am glad we ordered out that night.

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  • Douglas Lodge at Itasca State Park

    Posted on June 5, 2010 by Gav

    This post was wrote on vacation, and posted later .
    We ate at Douglas Lodge; I have to say that the building is impressive while the food wasn’t all that impressive to me. Now don’t get me wrong the food was good, we liked our meal their our waitress did a great job at taking care of us. We had a good experience there and the food tasted good. I guess the building made me expect something different then their menu had on it. Maybe some old style cooking, something you wouldn’t find in a everyday modern restaurant. The lodge was beautiful to look at, and it had a nice view outside where we sat. I ordered a Bison burger, which I was pleasantly surprised they had, I don’t get to eat that too often. I ordered my meat to be between medium to medium well.
    Hubby had a French deep Sandwich, which looked like it was good. Hubby said the meat was tender and it was good. Dad had a burger with bacon and where did the cheese go. I have never seen a bacon burger without cheese. I do not eat bacon but I let dad eat what he wants, however I do let the waitstaff now about my allergy so they know not to handle dad food and then put mine right next to it. With all the food I been eating I need to think about looking into getting safe weight loss pills
    The food here was good and recommended by a park employee, I am glad she recommended this little place. It was a pleasant place. The only thing I did not care for was the size of glasses they gave for water and pop. The drinking glasses were very small and good thing they gave us a server type jar to serve water.
    The service there was good and it was a clean little place. I love the building it looked old, in a good way.

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  • Big Dipper in Hackensack MN

    Posted on June 5, 2010 by Gav

    This post was wrote on vacation, and posted later. We stopped at Big Dipper for a lunch. I will say at first I was worried about what the quality of food would be and if it would be safe to eat there for me. I have food allergies so sometimes trying new things can be trying. We went in and we saw it was an ice cream shop that also served food. The reason why I was worried about the food is most places that specialize in ice cream aren’t going to make very good food. I do not like many places similar to this one. I will say it was a nice surprised. I was glad we found the place. I ordered a BBQ chicken sandwich, and fries. Hubby and Dad both ordered a roast beef sandwich; both hubby and I asked for our fries to be well done, and for dad fries tender. I let our waitress now right away, I was allergic to pork and asked if I would be safe eating there. She said I would be fine and she let the cook now.
    She brought our lunches out to us, and my chicken sandwich looked very nice, and tasted just as good as it look. I was surprised how good it looked and tasted. I was not expecting this. Hubby like his roast beef said he liked how they gave him a chunk of meat and not thinly sliced it because this way he could tell he was getting a good cut of meat. The roast beef looked good and it appeared to be juicy. I am not sure if it was but hubby and dad both liked their sandwiches.
    The food was served hot, and seemed fresh I am not sure, but the chicken didn’t taste frozen to me but I make frozen chicken all the time and not sure I can tell the different. The French fries were done well, Hubby and I would have preferred a little more cooked but they were close enough to being well done. All the food was served hot. The server did a good job taking care of our table. The restaurant was clean. I would recommend this little place to anyone traveling through Hackensack MN. At dinner I should have talked to my hubby about what he thought buy phentermine since he thinks he knows a lot of information that is useless.

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  • Avalon In Gurnee Il.

    Posted on April 11, 2010 by Gav

    Last weekend we went to Avalon twice with my granny it’s her favorite restaurant. Well we have been there often. I can not remember the last time they changed their decor. Now it’s not bad its still neat and well kept, so it’s not that big of a deal. I just hate the color of the chairs but that me personally. Avalon I would say it similar to how Dennys once was they have a bar at the front where you can order your food or you can be seated somewhere.
    The wait staff all treat granny very well and she has her favorites. I petty the wait safe who get her and don’t know her, because granny has forgotten a new waitstaff might not know what she wants and may not ask her because they do not know she don’t like the veggies of the day. The owners know my granny well, and they treat her well. I have to say I was a little annoyed with one waitress, when she said my uncle should be living on his own and not with mom. Clearly she doesn’t see my uncle is delayed and can’t take care of his self and had it not been for granny having him live with her, he’d be in a home. She clearly doesnt see my granny is not doing well mentally or physically so with out my uncle living their nor would she be able to be on her own.. She can’t drive and hell she having a hard time getting her self dress. So that kindof bug me but the waitress was a sweet heart to and I am sure she meant no harm. She likes my granny and uncle and treats them well..
    The portions were huge, my goodness you could have at least 2 meals if not three meals from there just on left overs. The food was served nice and hot, and tasted good. It is best here as a couple to share a meal. Dad had french toast, and even his meal was nice side but more of a single serving. Granny had shrimp platter my uncle had beef I can’t remember.. Normally granny makes him share what she wants to have, but I told her he gets to order what he wants, when I am down here. and then they could eat the left overs later form her. I wonder if Avalon would be found in Atlanta job search. The second day we went i ordered a fruit platter with Fruit hubby order soup. The fruit platter was the best fruit platter I have had for a restaurant. The cottage cheese tasted a little off.
    Overall the experience was okay.. They took good care of Granny and know my granny and took time to know me and my family…Granny used to take me and my uncle there when I lived with them. We used to go often, and they still go there often. I am glad they are still in business. I wonder what their large portions are doing to their budget.

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  • Great Wall Buffet

    Posted on April 3, 2010 by Gav

    We stop for dinner last night at Great Wall Buffet. This was such a better experience then that one restaurant we went to a couple weeks ago. We normally pick the raw bar, it has always been very nice there. Everytime hubby and I go there we always leave feeling good about our experience there. I think the waiters are there just enough to be helpful and not to be annoying which can be a hard balance to work out. The cook at the raw bar does a great job at making sure everyone meat is fully cooked and tastes good.. I was impressed with how careful he was to make sure any frozen pieces of meat were fully cooked and if any stucked together that it was separated to cook it.
    I had chicken, and veggies, then some of their sauces I love that I can pick which sauce I want and not have to have soy cooked in unless I want it to be. I mixed their garlic and something else can’t remember which it was, I didn’t put enough of the garlic sauce on. I like the fact they let you choose how much of certain ingredients you want to put into it.. It makes them cooking the meal closer to what the guest would like and not what they think is right. I will say this is my favorite Chinese restaurant. Hubby had beef and also noticed how careful the guy was to cook the meat fully.
    I forgot to ask the cook to clean his circle grill and ended up breaking out again from food allergies. Wow talk about uncomfortable but that was my fault. I might need to look into acne scar creams for my legs and see if it works on some of my scars form a rash that I scratched a little to much. I took the my allergies meds and was fine. Sometimes my allergies to pork products just make me break out badly and sometimes it breaks me out in horrible itchy rash.. It could also be that I been eating way to much wheat products for my system to deal with.
    Dad did not want to leave the restaurant I think this is his favorite place to stop at when we travel to Illinois. The price is also reasonable to feed a family of 3 adults.

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  • A nice experience at Fuddruckers

    Posted on March 22, 2010 by Gav

    Tonight hubby, dad and I all went to Fuddruckers for dinner dad wanted hamburger for dinner, and well I didn’t have anything to make that with at home. I didn’t really want to stop at the store, and we had a good night at the casino tonight so I didn’t see any harm in allowing dad to have his hamburger.
    We decided to go to Fuddruckers off of 494 in Edina, or Richfield, I believe it Edina. At first I was a little worried how the service would be because I twisted my ankle in the handicap parking space because there was a bunch of rocks. Good thing dad was not on my side of the car, because he would have been hurt. I would have then been very unhappy. I went to the bartender and she didn’t seem to understand what I was telling her or the location of where. My husband went to the manager with the information. This problem was cleaned by the time we got back to our car which impressed me.
    I ordered a bison burger for dad and I, and ordered it medium. It came to me wonderfully made, it was pleasantly juicy and cooked nicely. Now it took longer then what the manager had told us it would take, but I was anyways expecting it to take longer, because I let him know i have a pork allergy. He told his cook and caught the cook handling my burger right after handling pork. Instead of sending it out to me, he cleaned the grill, or something and made the burger his self which was considerate of him. I am glad he did this because sometimes my allergy to pork can get very bad, so it nice to know he was careful. It tasted wonderful too, a big changed from Friday night. In case any one was wondering if I ever right anything nice. I had onion rings and they where good too, I peel the breading off of about half of what I eat. I am very happy with the food there tonight. Dad said he loved it.
    Hubby had a rib stake burger and said it was very good. He ordered it well done and it still came back to him pleasantly moist the way it should and he enjoyed that with his fries. They looked good but I am not a potato kind of girl. He said his good was very good and ate most of it. The portion on the onion and fries where generous and the burgers were yummy. They were served to us hot, and that was good.
    I will have to say hubby and I will come again to Fudderuckers and have burgers probably not during dinner rush to make it easier on the cooks. The manager did a great job listening to any complaints or concerns to us. When he pasted us he apologize for the long wait and explained to us what had happened. I wasn’t worried why it took longer I just assumed it was because of my allergy and making sure not to cross contaminate me. We talked about some of our favorite shows that were cooking related so maybe he will watch them and enjoy them too. Might open his eyes to the horrors of restaurant industry.
    Considering they sent someone out to clean up the handicap space to make it easy safe for customers this is a plus. I will admit I was surprised that it was cleaned up. The food was served hot and it tasted wonderful. It was well seasoned. The only thing on food we bypassed was the shredded lettuce because it looked a little wet. Other was there was no concern with the food prep there, and even that we were not concerned with. It was all very yummy maybe hubby and I will go there on a date night again. I would recommend this place to anyone looking for a nice little burger joint. Now the prices are not to bad on a family of three we just spent over $30. This is a little less then we do at other places.

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  • New China Buffet

    Posted on March 20, 2010 by Gav

    Tonight hubby and I went to New China Buffet in Eagan MN. Well I will have to say I am very disappointed and I hope I do not end up with food poisoning. Last time we went it was not this bad, and I was almost shocked at how ran down the place was, and honestly I am not sure I would want to see what the kitchen looks like. I will probably have a unpleasant none natural colon cleanser done to me with out really wanting it, but I can already tell I might have troubles with the stomach. If I do then I think I will know right where it came from. Well lets get to the decor, many of the booths had tiers in the sit, and some of the chairs where in the same place. The decor hasn’t changed in many years, the wall paper looks like it was about to come down. The ceiling had water stains on the roof. At one point my husband told me something like, they need Ramsey to come here, and he have a fit. My husband tries to imitate him, which is sometimes funny. Tonight it wasn’t so funny it was more worry some then funny.
    Well we got our food extremely fast, and it wasn’t exactly very warm. I order the Chicken almond ding, hubby had the chicken curry. Lets see it came very quickly as I said before his food wasn’t even warm but he didn’t send it back. I took a bite into my chicken, and it was well simply not right, it was like geewy rubbery. It didn’t taste fully cooked neither, so I took my fork and spoon and cut it open and the chicken was pink. ow wait a minute it pink chicken meat looking almost raw is not safe. I sent it back. It looked more well cooked when they brought it back, but still tasted wrong. It still had a overly chewy texture, and didn’t taste right. I bite into another piece and found it was still to pink. I decided I would take it home and throw it in the frying pan and cook it myself. By the time I got home I decided not to cook it because I started thinking about the types of food poisoning once it spreads it contaminates everything, and I do not want to be sick and miss work because of it. Now I am hoping I will be fine but if the Toilet because my best friend tonight for the night we’ll know.
    Hubby said they had a lot of garlic in his curry. Okay I have had curry and garlic is a flavor but its never over powers the curry. Hubby wasn’t impressed with is dinner and he said we will probably not come back.
    Part of the reason we do not want to come back is because of what was said to us. When she brought back the food we where told the cook just wanted to get it out very fast so the meat wouldn’t dry out. Wait a minute, I was tempted to ask her if they where cooking, freezing and then recooking. This would explain the cold inappropriately cooked chicken meat and the beef not being exactly right. I am not sure if we will visit there again. I was not happy and honestly think if they are having troubles maybe they need someone like Ramsey to come and help them and frankly teach them how to cook correctly. I simply disappointed and I think next time we will just wait till we get home for our Chinese food.

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  • Apple Bees last night

    Posted on March 18, 2010 by Gav

    Dad wanted to go out for dinner yesterday, so we took him to Apple Bees in Edina. We got there and was seated right away, and we decided what we wanted. The waitress asked if we needed more time, well dad don’t hear well and he tries to BS his way through conversations because he don’t want to admit he couldn’t hear. Well she walked away and said she give us a few minutes. I asked dad, did you need more time choosing what you wanted, hubby said I didn’t and dad goes no this is what I want, and I said well I know what I wanted but now she gone. Okay no big deal I will just look out the exterior shutters and wait for her to come back to take our order. Dad kept looking at the menu, so I am sure that made them take longer. I wish she would have made sure she wasn’t needed but I probably would have done the same things. I normally ask dad if I am not sure he heard me what did I just say to you. This way I know he understood me. Now I know had the waitstaff done that I would have not been happy so I am not mad about it.
    Well she came for our order, and I order chicken fingers, onion rings and Mt. Dew. No Dr. Pepper so I had to go the next best thing. Hubby had the Chicken Fiesta and dad had the Rueben Sandwich. My chicken fingers where good, and the onion rings were good to, but I peeled off all the breeding. Hubby didn’t complain about his dinner neither did dad they both seemed happy. All the food was served hot and tasted good, so that made a nice little night out.

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  • Our expereince at Bloomington Olive Garden

    Posted on February 16, 2010 by Gav

    Last night hubby and I went to Olive Garden for dinner, it was to replace our date night. We have found it is challenging to eat there because of hubby mushroom allergies and my pork allergies. Olive garden is a nice restaurant, and we like the atmosphere but finding something to eat is always a challenge just like finding the
    best prenatal vitamins. I ordered the chicken Marsala hubby had the chicken pramagaina with Alfredo sauce. It seemed to taste good for hubby and mine tasted very good even as lift overs.

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