Thanksgiving week dining roundup

Tuesday
MIO'S - Tried out the new Mio's in Miami Township with the family. Glad to have one closer now than the Milford one. Has a feel that's more similar to the Hyde Park location than the Milford one, with the red and white checkered table cloths and the extra paper one that the kids can draw on (whereas the Milford one is more formal feeling). The food was good. I had spaghetti with marinara and mushrooms - melted mozarella on top adds a nice touch.

Wednesday
ASIAN BUFFET - Took a recording break and Eric and I met up with Nick for lunch at the new Asian Buffet at Cincinnati Mills. I can't help but compare all Chinese buffets to the Chinatown Buffet in Milford, which is my usual. I was mighty impressed with the quantity of different items. Probably double what Chinatown Buffet has. But some items didn't stack up quality-wise. Fried rice and General Tso's Chicken were disappointing. Some good non-Chinese options, and good desserts. Liked the Honey Plum Chicken (which was basically Bourbon Chicken, but a little sweeter). I give it a B+.

Thursday
THANKSGIVING - my favorite meal of the year. The wife's family always goes all out and makes an amazing bunch of turkey, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, green beans, etc. A couple nice additions this year were some delicious dumplings, having fluffy dinner rolls in addition to just crescent rolls, and the wife's Pumpkin Cake was pretty awesome.

Saturday
PIZZA HUT - Yep, got my pizza hut fix. They've changed the menu a bit. Got mac and cheese for the child, and it was just a portion of the Tuscani bacon macaroni and cheese, which is decent, but not ideal for little ones. Place still looks like it was forgotten about in the 80's.

Sunday
KANAK INDIA - Met Ben for lunch at this little Indian place in Montgomery, after having quite a time finding much that was open on Sundays. What's up with that? Nothing out of this world, but their small lunch buffet got the job done, with a lot of chicken dishes and good Pokaro. Got my Indian fix for a while, but I'll keep this in mind next time I'm in need of something different for lunch in that area.

Pearls Breakfast

Met with a friend, Keith today for breakfast, and was pleasantly surprised. I orderd the cheese omelet, which came with a square hashbrown, and toast for $3.99. However I couldn't go without an order of sausage patties for $2.10, which was way too much for sausage, so I know for next time to hold off. It was very tasty though. The omelet tasted amazing, only second in taste to Waffle House omelets. Everything was as good as expected. The service was with a smile as usual, with no mistakes, and quick service, with multiple refill offers (at least 4, and I took her up on 3). One of my favorite parts of Pearls is DIET MT DEW. On a scale from 1 to Mr. Jesus Hat, I give this experience a 9.

Pearl's

So last week was my first visit to Pearl's Diner in Fairfield in a long time. It was after band practice, and I was sure hungry. I ordered a turkey club sandwich and potato wedges. I was amazed that the waitress actually got the order correct, since after everyone ordered, she went back through it and had managed to have something wrong on every single person at the table. Props to Chris for eating the cottage cheese - you're a braver man than I.

The potato wedges were everything I remember. Tasty and just a whole pile of them - it was like 4 whole potatoes cut up. The turkey club was disappointing. It was all mayonnaise.

This was one week after the famous Jesus-hat-man incident, that I missed and had to hear all about. Mr. Jesus hat was there again! But no incidents this time. I actually thought he was wearing a UK hat until I saw it up close and sure enough, it said Jesus. Needless to say, the atmosphere of Pearl's is in tact. And maybe even enhanced by the fact that there's now a bar next door called Beer:30.

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