Tim P.
Yelp
I must be getting old and grumpy.. A place like this used to put a smile on my face with some coaxing from a few drinks.. But on this late night, all I had in me was some Gatorade...
It's roughly 3:30am and I just happened to be passing through the area.. I had been here for breakfast before. Nothing memorable. But I figured that I'd come back to have a meal from the full menu.... So here I am.
I have a seat, was handed a late night menu and I ordered a ginger ale... There was a daily specials menu on every on every table in a plastic display. So I decided I wanted something off of that menu.. the waitress comes back, I tell her what I'd like, and she tells me that the daily specials isn't available after 9pm... wtf??
Ok.. back to this limited late night menu.. Breakfast items, sandwiches, and a few meals to choose from. Nothing caught my eye, and now I'm really invested in this place since I've been here for about 15 minutes at this point...
I played it safe, so I thought, and ordered meatloaf with mashed potatoes and gravy.
20 minutes I sat at this table. Just me and my new date (the ginger ale).. The waitress didn't come back to check to see if I needed a refill. Maybe because she was passing back and forth, arguing with a coworker loudly as if they were at home.. In the meantime the place was full, mostly drunk folks. Some happy, others not so much.
(btw, I'm always happy when I'm drunk!)
A lot of cursing, loud phone conversations, and an occasional young lady or two would bump into me or brush up against me in my booth.. At first I thought they were flirting with me... I couldn't get that lucky. These women just lost their balance stumbling by me...
Finally my meal comes out after I had been sitting patiently for 45 minutes at this point nursing this ginger ale that hadn't been refilled.
The star of the show was placed on the table..
I couldn't be more deflated after waiting all of this time... It was a huge meal. 5 pieces of meatloaf, two scoops of mashed potatoes, no dinner rolls, no other vegetables.
The meatloaf was heated up on the grill and was slightly charred like a hamburger. It looked odd.
I tasted it anyway... It tasted like it was made with the finest 60% lean 40% fat ground beef they could find, mixed with potted meat. I guess they were out of ground pork... Straight disgusting.
Well, at least I have some hot, straight out the box whipped mashed potatoes to enjoy, right(??).
They were ice effn cold... The gravy was lukewarm and resembled some sort of brown gelatin... I would've received a better meal earlier in the evening if it was chow time and I was inmate #95863687.
Needless to say that I left everything on the table.
I left a 10% tip for the young lady... Not for the service she gave me. But for defending herself so well while arguing with her coworker.... I was kind of proud of her.
I'll only return to this place if I have an odd urge to induce constipation by eating a crap meal like the one that was placed in front of me.