Misc restaurants

Foods St Louis trip

Chester’s Kitchen and Bar, Rochester, poor service. I started the meal by ordering a flat bread Lavash Margaretta appetizer. Shirleen’s Filet was great, my parmesan walleye was flat tasting, but had good garlic – Asiago cheese mashed potatoes. Mary Ann had a deep fried walleye sandwich, looked and tasted good and Steve had  a salmon delete the sauce, don’t bring the green beans and potatoes. Well they brought it as the menu stated and he returned it and got the same without the sauce, not exactly as ordered but gave up as we were all done with ours. Then the check, he noticed both dinners went on my card and then the manager was summoned, they deleted Steve’s meal and straightened out the billing that charged me for the substitute of fries. Don’t think we will ever visit this place again.

After an eventful ride to Iowa City at 1030pm, finding out the hotel had overbooked the room and now what?? We ended up staying at it after they called a no show and he said rent it. They gave a discount price which I am sure was the over 60 rate anyhow. Received a questionar about the stay, will settle down and write it. No breakfast.

Four Corners, Hwy 218/92 south of Coralville was where we ate breakfast.

Lewis and Clark’s restaurant in St. Charles was recommended by a couple walking down the street who frequents it when in town. Three stories tall sitting in downtown Historic Old Town. The deep fired California onion rings were nicely arranged small sliced lightly breaded accompanied by a mild Jalapenos ketchup sauce and easy to eat appetizer. As we overlooked the park area below we sipped a glass of Clos  Du Bois cabernet ($8.25), Shirleen’s House salad was just fine and my Chicken Quesadilla was medium, not the crispy outside I remember at other places.

Cyprus Lounge, Embassy Suites Convention Center restaurant. Noon lunch, with a Bud because of the high heat and hot asphalt where the cars were shown. Shirleen had a hamburger with cheddar cheese and bacon, lettuce and tomato slice, I even thought it was deliciously fried and prepared. You should have seen the size of it. I had the Crab Cake Spinach Salad with house vinegrate. Real tasty but the cake was bland and mealy, don’t order these unless in a crab cake area. Would go back for more food – good.

Vivians Vineyards, 1409 N 2^nd St, St. Charles MO. A real eclectic restaurant. They have a baked portabella mushroom, face down on a bed of cream cheese covered with asiago cheese and baked, three sizes. Shirleen had a           I had a sirloin steak covered with fried onions and a hot chipotle sauce. To finish the meal we had a small spoonful of sherbet and a shot of champagne on it.

Grappa Grill, 1664 Country Club Plaza, St Charles MO hard to find when the GPS set us wrong. I had asked if they could do a half order of Hand-breaded fried green olives served with marinara sauce, but she could not accommodate. We had a nice dinner, good slightly sweet firm rolls to accompany the CHICKEN SPINACH STRAWBERRY SALAD, Grilled chicken, tomatoes, strawberries, mozzarella cheese and candied almonds. I had THE TUSCANY a Blackened chicken, Andouille sausage, crab meat, shrimp, tomatoes, mushrooms, asparagus, broccoli, green onions and bowtie noodles in a Cajun Alfredo sauce 13.49 but tonight 9.99. I opted for the Spring salad, nice presentation. Had a glass of Blackstone merlot, had somewhere b4 not bad. Decent but not over the top restaurant, go across the rivers to The Hill for Italian food, Consetta’s. Would visit again.

Champagne’s, 315 E Main St, West Branch Iowa, home of Herbert Hoover. What a delightful experience, a Cajun restaurant in the middle of Iowa. It turns out the lady who owns the restaurant was flooded out with hurricane Ivan and then Katrina. Her brother lived in Iowa City and said he would bankroll them in a 10 seat restaurant, which ahs grown to a increased seating and banquet room for hundreds of tour buses. The shrimp robe Shirleen had was to her taste, my Crawfish Etouffeé was heavily spiced and just downright good. The owner’s husband came in and grabbed a quick couple snorts of tequila. I would surely visit this place again. And to think we almost ate at a Pizza joint but an obnoxious bar patron drove us out.

Ronneburg Restaurant, Amana Iowa. They offer for $9.50 a family style breakfast, need to try sometime. People next to us had it and the pancake was larger than the plate and looked really nicely done, not thick and puffy. We opted for eggs and bacon with there delicious pan fried thinly sliced raw fries. The waitress said they have 3 pans cooking at all times. I had a ham and cheese omelet with the potatoes. Next time I would order a side of grilled ham, this had the regular thin sliced ham. Worthy of a stop at any time.

Ret Iowa City ‘The Mill’ restaurant downtown, not a show stopper but a bar to eat at. 120 E Burlington. Hamburgers and a pretty full fare. The french fries come sprinkled with salt and pepper.

Eden Avenue Bar & Grill

www.edenavenuegrill.com

5101 Arcadia Ave

Edina, MN

952 925 5628

Nightly specials, have ate breakfast, lunch and dinner their and recommend

Kopplins Good Taste

490 Hamline Ave S.

St Paul

Good coffee and rolls, did not try sandwiches because of next door.

The Nook

419 Hamline Ave. S

St Paul

http://www.crnook.com/

Great hamburgers and fries were great also. Will try their Juicy Lucy someday.

Going south:

Wiederholt's Supper Club

Highway 61 (in Miesville, 10 miles from Cannon Falls)
Miesville, MN 55033

651.437.3528

http://www.wiederholts.com/

old time service, they bring a veggie tray and rolls before salad, will stop there again

across the street is:

Kings Place

Not eaten there but heard it is worth the stop for hamburgers

http://kingburgers.com/index.html

Travelling south to Rochester stop at the

Daube’s cakes and bakery

Civic Center Drive, one block east of Highway 52

Breakfast only on Sunday

http://www.daubesbakery.com/

Cosi Cucina

West Des Moines

1975 NW 86th Street

Clive, IA 50325     

http://www.cosicucina.biz/

great homemade Italian food.

Hi Roger,

I found a couple restaurants I like besides the one in Stevens Point.

They have a horseshit website but good food. They had a vegetable and breads before dinner. Food was good.

Michele’s Restaurant

513 Division Street

Stevens Point, WI 54481

(715) 341-3363

http://www.michelesrestaurantandcatering.com/

went to this one last summer and ate outdoors, decent.

Maynard's

685 Excelsior Boulevard

Excelsior, MN 55331

(952) 470-1800

http://www.maynardsonline.com/

This was a great dinner experience, not a lot of seating, spendy but good.

Traditions Restaurant Catering

201 Main Street

Onalaska, WI 54650

608-783-0200

Onalaska State Bank building

http://www.traditionsdining.com/index.php

Tuesday through Saturday evenings 

River Inn in Hanover with Roger

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This is great or was.

Pepper Sprout Inc

378 Main St, Dubuque, IA 52001-6944

(563) 556-2167 ‎

peppersprout.com

Captain Merry Guest House

399 Sinsinawa Avenue, East Dubuque, IL 61025-1222

(815) 747-3644

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September 15, 2011

Shirleen and I were in LaCrosse a couple weeks ago. Found this restaurant downtown; knowing you are doing the suburban run, here is my info:

The Freighthouse Rest; on 107 Vine St  : http://www.freighthouserestaurant.com/

It has two big parking lots. Outside patio, big inside bar area. I had halibut with drawn butter - simply delicious; Shirleen had a filet, soft and tender; house Cabernet was shitty out of a box but Shirleen said the cheapest other wine was 17$ a glass.