This past Saturday afternoon I had driven Lynda to a planning conference way out on the west side of town. After the meeting and after the torrents from the sky had abated somewhat, we decided we were getting famished and needed to eat before we headed back to the house. Last fall, a former colleague [...]
While attending a function at the recently re-launched Crowne Plaza Hotel (formerly the Executive West), Lynda and I stopped in at the Blue Horse Café — a somewhat more upscale restaurant inside the hotel than whatever was in there before the renovation. The restaurant and the hotel itself looks much nicer than the last time [...]
For my appetizer, I ordered the Bread Sticks ($5.99). Since Lynda loves these as much as I do and because it is fairly large for an appetizer, she had to help me with this order. They brought out this large pizza pan with six large bread sticks swimming in a sea of garlic butter, with [...]
Oriental House has been a staple on the St. Matthews dining landscape for more than 40 years, and unfortunately, the building looks it. The oriental-style woodwork on the outside has a tremendous amount of peeling paint and appears to be suffering from a little dry-rot. But as you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, [...]
I went with the Roast Beef Helena™ ($7.59). It is one of their cold sandwich selections with a generous stack of lean roast beef, slabs of smoked Cheddar cheese, fresh leaf lettuce, tomato, paper-thin slices of red onion and a horseradish sauce served up on their Asiago cheese baguette. Not being a big fan [...]
You enter Lynn’s through a small gift shop/store called the World of Swirl; whose main product seems to consist of kitsch. Granted, places like Cracker Barrel have similar shops, but Lynn’s sets itself apart in that it doesn’t seem to take itself too seriously as a place of commerce and in a strange way is [...]
After toying with the new laptops at the Apple Store (see the article here), Lynda and I went in search of grub. Neither of us felt like driving far, so we just tooled around to the back of Kohl’s to the Fox & Hound. We had happened onto the place a couple of years ago, [...]
The dining room was very quiet, with soft jazz playing in the background when Lynda arrived 10 minutes later. After she had time to check out the menu — while nibbling on piping-hot, herbed focaccia bread — we both started off with a pair of side salads ($4); a field green salad which had the [...]
Lynda and I both ordered House Salads ($3.75, although our salads may have been cheaper since we ordered them with pizzas) and she ordered an 8-inch Broccoli & Garlic pizza ($8.50) on thin crust. It had broccoli and garlic that had been sautéed in olive oil and baked on a white sauce and covered in [...]
Menu board at Lotsa Pasta. ©2008 Doug Rivers. I am not sure that this really constitutes a restaurant review because the main reason Lynda and I go to Lotsa Pasta is not the restaurant, such as it is, but to buy fresh pasta and sauces to prepare at home from the international food store that [...]
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