Gourmet Cafe Restaurant in Bridgeport

Apr 1

Gourmet Cafe Restaurant in Bridgeport

We went to Gourmet Cafe for dinner tonight around 6:00pm.

Gourmet Cafe has a real nice menu, but we always seem to get the same thing each time. One of these days, we’ll get brave and try something else.

For dinner tonight, we each got a bowl of French onion soup. Then we split a steak hoagie and we also split an antipasto salad.

The French onion soup hit the spot this evening. It was a cold and dreary day today and hot soup was just what we needed. The French onion soup was piping hot and the broth was just right. It was a good choice!

On the steak hoagie, we got cheese, sweet peppers, and onions. Gourmet Cafe has the best hoagies around in my opinion and tonight was no exception.

The antipasto salad had black and green olives, salami, cheese, pepperoni, tomatoes, and house dressing. The salad was good but I have a complaint… Gourmet Cafe used to cut the deli meat in quarters on the antipasto and somewhere along the line they stopped doing that. It’s no big deal really, but it’s kinda’ weird to have full size slices of deli meat on the salads – wish they would resume cutting the meat up.

Other than that very mild complaint, the dinner was terrific!

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Subway $5 Footlongs and $5 Salads

Mar 31

Subway Restaurant in Bridgeport

I love Subway, but I think they’re sandwiches are a bit overpriced – glad to see the $5 foot-long is back!

I had a steak and cheese on white, untoasted. For toppings, I added provolone cheese, lettuce, banana peppers, jalapeno peppers, pickles, black pepper, and mayonaise.

The wife had a BLT salad with shredded cheese, black olives, banana peppers, onions, and ranch dressing.

Both of us upgraded to the Subway Meal and added a bag of chips and a fountain pop.

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Great Dinner at Texas Roadhouse

Mar 30

Great Dinner at Texas Roadhouse

We went to Texas Roadhouse for dinner tonight and they were packed.

The good news is that Texas Roadhouse now has a very slick way of putting you in queue. They now take your name and telephone number on an iPad app and then text you when your table is ready. What a great idea because this frees you up to wander off but know that it’s time to return!

Even better, the Texas Roadhouse app sends a link to you at check-in and the link tells you how many customers are in front of you. When we checked in, there were 30 parties waiting to be seated and we watched that number trickle down until we were called.

Very cool.

For dinner, I had some Texas Roadhouse pulled pork with a salad and a baked potato. The wife had a 10 oz. sirloin with a sweet potato and a side salad.

The pulled pork was good but there was a lot of fat to push away. I guess that’s to be expected but it was kinda’ gross. The baked potato was incredibly hot which I loved. Nice dinner.

The wife’s sirloin was to be prepared medium but it was definitely served medium well. It was dry as a bone. She ate it though and wasn’t nearly as troubled by it as I was.

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Hank’s Deli at the Middletown Mall in Fairmont

Mar 30

Hank’s Deli in Fairmont

Why do I like Hank’s Deli?

Well for starters, I needed to get on wifi this afternoon, and Hank’s Deli hooked me up. But more importantly, they have a great menu and great prices!

I got a pepperoni roll with sauce and an order of fries with ranch dressing. Hank’s pepperoni rolls are sloppy… but in a good way. Matter of fact, this pepperoni roll was so sloppy I had to eat it with a fork.

It was delicious!

Hank’s french fries are always piping hot – served right out of the fryer. Dunk them in his homemade ranch dressing and you’re in heaven.

Great lunch at Hank’s Deli!

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Dinner at the Cracker Barrel Restaurant in Fairmont

Mar 29

Cracker Barrel Restaurant in Fairmont

We had tickets to see Follies tonight at East Fairmont High School so we went to dinner at the Cracker Barrel Restaurant in Fairmont before the show.

We got to the Cracker Barrel at around 5:45pm and found the restaurant to be very crowded. We think that lots of other folks must have decided to take in a dinner there before the show too. After waiting about 5 minutes, we were shown to our table.

I ordered the roast beef with a side of green beans and a double side of hash brown casserole. The wife ordered a BLT salad.

When my meal arrived, I couldn’t get over how small the portion of roast beef was. Cracker Barrel used to serve massive portions but they have been reducing them a lot lately. I was disappointed because it was a downright dinky amount of roast beef when compared to similar places like Bob Evans or Eatn’ Park.

Nonetheless, the food was good – just not much of it.

The wife was satisfied with the BLT salad but said she preferred the Cobb Salad at Bob Evans over this one.

Sorry to say that Cracker Barrel was not a good choice for us today.

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Wing Wednesday Deal at Pizza Hut in Bridgeport

Mar 28

Pizza Hut Wingtreet Wings to Go

We went to Pizza Hut this evening and picked up some wings to go.

Pizza Hut offers 50 cent wings on “Wing Wednesday” which is a heck of a deal. Another cool thing is that the deal is available every Wednesday and you don’t need a Pizza Hut coupon to get the special price.

The flavors Pizza Hut offers for their wings are:

Buffalo Burnin’ Hot Wings
Buffalo Medium Wings
Buffalo Mild Wings
Spicy Asian Wings
Spicy BBQ Wings
Honey BBQ Wings
Lemon Pepper Wings
Garlic Parmesan Wings
Naked Wings

I got 14 medium wings with buffalo medium sauce and a side salad. The wife got 8 buffalo mild wings and a side salad.

Pizza Hut wings are really good. You should give them a try on Wednesday – no coupon required.

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Midnight Snack from the McDonald’s Drive-Thru

Mar 27

McDonald’s Drive-Thru

I went through the drive-thru at McDonald’s just now to get a midnight snack.

I got a McDouble for 99 cents and a Wild Berry Smoothie. I got the wife a hot fudge sundae.

I am always puzzled by the McDonald’s McDouble sandwich. The double cheeseburger used to be on the 99 cents menu at McDonald’s and then one day it just vanished and the McDouble was introduced.

What’s the difference?

The double cheeseburger has two slices of cheese and costs $1.29. The McDouble however has one piece of cheese and costs 99 cents. So the extra slice of cheese is 30 cents now? Uh… okay.

McDonald’s is great for midnight snacks. The food and beverages are consistent and the service is fast.

Now it’s bedtime…

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The Chop House in Charleston WV

Mar 27

Steaks at The Chop House

The wife and I had our first steak dinner at The Chop House Restaurant about 5 years ago. Nowadays we go there less frequently but we are regulars whenever we’re in Charleston.

For such a large city, there are not that many really fine steak restaurants in Charleston. For that reason alone, it’s easy to see why The Chop House Restaurant is so popular. The location is very convenient too!

I don’t want to appear harsh because I truly believe that the restaurant management and staff try to create the most memorable dining experience that they can. The menu however is extremely limited and the steak selections never change.

I also find the little service show that they do to be silly and unnecessary. For those that have never eaten here, the servers arrive at your table with all the entrees and make it a point to serve the platters to each customer at the table in unison.

All in all though, I have to say that I’ve had some really good steaks at the Chop House restaurant and have never had a bad dining experience there.

Cocktails and wine are fairly priced but the entrees are way overpriced in my opinion. It seems like some competition from a place like Ruths Chris Steakhouse would snap the Chop House Restaurant back into the year 2012.

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Late Night Snack at the Texas Roadhouse in Clarksburg

Mar 26

Late Night Snack at the Texas Roadhouse

I went to Texas Roadhouse with a friend this evening to get a beer and a late night snack.

Appetizers at Texas Roadhouse were half priced so I got two of them – a shrimp skewer and some boneless wings with hot sauce. I ordered a Michelob Ultra to drink but they were out so I settled for a Yuengling.

The boneless wing portion seemed smaller than usual and I was disappointed. It seemed like the portion was about half of the amount I usually get. They were good, just not many of them.

The shrimp skewer was just right however. there were five nicely grilled shrimp and they were delicious. At half price, the shrimp skewer is one of Texas Roadhouse’s best kept secrets.

It was a nice evening.

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Pot Roast Sandwich at Bob Evans Restaurant in Bridgeport

Mar 26

Pot Roast Sandwich at Bob Evans in Bridgeport

I had some plans for this evening so the wife and I had a very limited amount of time to go out for dinner. I also had some work that needed to get done on the computer so we decided to go to Bob Evans Restaurant for some quick food and free wifi.

We pulled in to the Bridgeport Bob Evans a little after 5:00pm and we were shown to our table right away. The waitress took our drink order and gave us a few minutes to look over the menu.

The pot roast sandwich caught my eye because it looked really appealing in the Bob Evans menu. I ordered the sandwich and got a double order of hash browns as my side. The wife ordered a Cobb Salad.

My sandwich came and it was as pretty as the picture. The bread was perfectly grilled and between the slices was a heaping portion of delicious Bob Evans pot roast and American cheese. The sandwich was definitely a knife and fork sandwich rather than a hand sandwich and that suited me just fine. It was delicious.

The hash browns were okay but not as good as Eatn’ Park or IHOP. They were kinda’ bland and required a lot of black pepper and ketchup.

The wife’s Cobb Salad looked really nice and she seemed to be well pleased with it. It was huge so she had about half of it to bring home.

I have one complaint about Bob Evans…

They seem to be rather desperate in their attempts to upsell items – particularly desert and soup to go. We were asked numerous times by our waitress if we wanted desert or soup to go and it was getting a little annoying. To make matters worse, we were offered soup to go again when we checked out.

I understand that they need to ask but once is enough. Otherwise, it was a great dinner at Bob Evans – tasty and very fast.

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