First of all the restaurant is a very nice looking place with plenty of seating. It opened on Sunday for the first paying customers, we at there on Monday. We tried the Chicken soup, Salad, Chopped (Hamburger) Steak and Spaghetti with Meat Sauce.
Pluses: great atmosphere and a nice looking restaurant. The bread was really good and they have cheese on the table in a small container that you can add to the bread to almost make it like cheese bread. The Chicken (and rice) soup was very good but had a thinner broth than I've found at other places. It would be better if the broth was thicker but still it had an overall good taste and I'd order it again. The restrooms do have child changing stations in the men's and women's areas which is also convienient.
Negatives: Food wise the taste of the Spaghetti was not to my liking. The meat sauce had a distinguishable chili taste to it but it wasn't their chili sauce. This ruined the pasta for me and I'd rate it very low in quality and taste (my preference that is). The Hamburger Steak wasn't bad but it also wasn't that impressive. There was a good amount of meat and it was cooked well done as we had ordered (always cook chopped beef well). The best chopped steaks, in my opinion, still are from Dales or Georges. Another thing I had to get used to was the "sweet tea". They bring you un-sweet tea and a pancake syrup bottle with sugar water in it to sweeten your tea. There is also sugar at each table but I prefer to have my tea sweetened at brewing time.
Another negative was that the waitress was all too eager to get us out of there. She tried to collect the catchup and other condiments and take them from the table too soon and collect the dishes right away even though we weren't completely through. This could be a problem with just the waitress we had but hopefully this isn't a trend.
Overall I'd give it a 5 out of 10 rating but also plan to visit again. They have a very good selection of offerings in their menu so there is a lot to pick from. I also know that the best time to visit a restaurant is after they have had a little time to get the cooking surfaces seasoned well. One other thing I didn't like was for a restaurant it's size to only have one stall in the men's room could be a problem and I fully believe that any restaurant should have doors on their restrooms that open out and not in. This way you don't have to use the handle to exit the restroom because as we all know many people that exit before you may not care as much about hygiene as you do and I don't like to grab hold of handles or door knobs with my clean hands when the person that exited using them before me may have not had such clean hands.
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