Genghis Grill-In Awe of The Master

I’ve always been a fan of all you can eat places-who doesn’t love having more food than they can possibly eat?  Genghis Grill sell their buffet as either one bowl-about the size of a cereal bowl- or all you can eat.  The result is that some people don’t want to spend another couple of dollars and do their best to get all their money’s worth out the first bowl. I tend to get about one third meats and two thirds veggies and spices.  There are 13 different forms of protein from shrimp and scallops to beef and sausage and chicken.…

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Mimi’s Cafe-There are Better Places to Eat

Mimi’s Cafe in Arlington is an overly cute, overly ornate, and at least when I was there, over crowded place. That was strike one, there was no where for the twenty to thirty people to wait their twenty to thirty minutes for a table to open up. So the six of us stood around the bar and took in the odd mixture of doll house and French country estate that makes up the decor. I’m sure the place was designed to be cute and cozy, but it just ended up being loud and noisy. We tried to chat away the…

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Steak & Ale

Steak and Ale was started in 1966, according to the back of the menu I read the other day, and it looks like they haven’t changed a thing since. Which is a good thing, mostly. I don’t eat here often, as I have never been one of those people that love steaks above all things. I had the Prime Rib and baked potato, and had the general feeling that I could have made them at home and they would have been just as good. Maybe that is my trouble with steaks in general, I want to go to a restaurant…

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