Puckett's Grocery Downtown Nashville, TN

This was the first time I visited the restaurant for a Sunday Sunday Brunch and this will be my last time here. On a scale of 1 to 5 stars
I will give it a - NO - what am I saying it doesn't even deserve a star. Stars are what you get when you do something right, even 1 star deserves doing something right not halfway or close.
Very poor selection of choices, and cold pancakes, the one thing I was hoping for was great coffee NOT yet is was warm brown water, the waiter was very poorly trained, I trained at all.
1 glass of milk my friend had was $3.25 all I had to do was walk to the cooler and buy a half of gallon in their reach in cooler for $3.49 - 24¢ more and this would have given me 3 more glasses what a concept.
My quote is when I have a bad experience is to say.
" I choose not to spend my money there"
I travel a lot and have the opportunity to visit any restaurant on any level 2 to three times a week, Nice concept but poorly executed. I will most definitely visit a Cracker Barrel or a Waffle house when looking for hot breakfast with consistent food and they thank you when you leave.
Puckett's is another fern Bar atmosphere.
Again It is so sad that Nashville has allowed this type of behavior in a so-called restaurant to remain.

I guess the owners banked on making it on the liquor business and over charging, and more than likely they will, but the real truth is if it was to make it on the food business I would give them 3 to 4 week tops unless they are have Very Deep pockets.
In New Orleans it would last 2 weeks tops, then gone.

Never again will I spend my hard earned money there.

Snow Ice cream

This is the first snow I've seen since about 1963 on Christmas day in Nashville, TN

Tip of the day collect the snow and make "Snow Ice Cream"
Scoop away the top 1 inch scoop into a bowl then put in the freezer
Add sugar then a flavoring of your choice.

use a mixer and abra ca dabra a Christmas treat that's pretty darn cool and the texture is awesome

Snow ice cream originated from the Romans, but I still feel that poor share croppers had a hand in making it a little more simply in the kitchen at the turn of the century
due to the lack in money and the availability to products. ie Snow, vanilla extract, then sugar.

Click here to view the history of how it all started
http://webinstituteforteachers.org/~cbmallare/History1.htm

Enjoy and stay warm

Outpost Cafe in Oak Hills CA

Since 1961 the magic has been going on at Newton's "Outpost Cafe" This little gem is next to a Pilot Truck stop on Hwy 395, and still privately owned. Very Cool

I have been to several places on the road but here they are doing it right with old school home cooking from 9 different burgers that will melt in your mouth to the basic fried chicken.
You have to understand that there is a lot of love going into the food along with good taste.

But when it comes to a dessert this is a place near to my heart - uh - stomach FRESH fruit lattice tarts and they even make there own pastry dough. Now this is what I'm talking about I came away with a piece of Cherry pie, and later I was wishing I had a piece of the Blueberry, and the peach of course. Well maybe next time this will be the case.

Taste (8), as for presentation because it was wrapped very particularly on a Hot bun I’ll give it a (10) out of a possible 10.
For me personally it had too much shredded lettuce it kept falling off.
Remember I had the basic burger with Swiss cheese, as far as the rest of the burgers I understand they are quite a few burgers that are on the local favorites list.

When you stop in ask for Sherry and tell her that Blair sent you!
And leave room to sample some of their home made fruit pies

Thank You Sherry Considine

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Hollywood Cafe in Tunica MS

I thought I would stop over in Tunica MS and try my hand at the slot machines at the casino.
Turns out I won a little money, I now have more money coming out than I did going in so this is a good time to call it quits. And move onto the mission at hand of searching for good food.
Today is Friday October 16th 2009 and need something to eat very soon because I'm pretty hungry, and I have been on the road for the last 3 days.
According to the word on the street and of course the GPS looks like it is "The Hollywood Cafe".
When I arrived the outside looks like a place that I would use in a Video or a album cover shoot, nice vibe, But how about the food. It's 1:30 and I guess the lunch crowd has went back to work, because there is only 2 tables occupied at the moment.
I'm greeted by a friendly waiter named Andy, the special today is minute steak with gravy on the side, Frozen Okra (as per Andy) And fresh cut potatoes, with cornbread.
The meal came quickly and it showed the minute steak was dry and tough, looked as if it was deep fried a little too long, the gravy was bland, the Okra was all clumpted together and sitting in grease, and the fries were cooked before hand and held under a heat lamp. And the cornbread, well I don't know NOT GOOD. Lord only knows how a place has made it so long on bad food.
I mentioned that the steak was over cooked, and Andy's solution was to give me a choice of a dessert, so peach cobbler was the ticket.

On a scale of 1 to 10 ten being the highest
Waiter I'll give him a (6)
the food over all a (1)
but I will say the cobbler is a (7)
and the southern sweet tea is a (8)

Well the question is would I be back ................................... only if I was on a date and I wanted to have a beer and listen to a band play or if I wanted to pay $8.00 for a order of fried green tomatoes.

I really think the vending machine at the local rest area would have been better, so I guess the thought would have been to just stop and play the slot machines. And then move on to Memphis.

Cafe 501 Edmond OK

Today's date is October 06, 2009

And the search goes on for lets say just Great food, along with the hamburgers scare looks like It's back to Chicken and what a treat. I just met the owner of Cafe 501 and Bakery. Sherry Holloway in Edmond OK 1-405-359-1501
They also own Boulevard Steak House and Martini.


The dish of choice is the Coyote Chicken on fresh baked focaccia bread, that was baked to perfection and bow tie pasta. It looks like they are in the hottest spot in Edmond OK and the patrons are prof enough.

The caramelized onions set it off and the fresh jalapeno peppers, for my taste I would like to had a more juicy chicken breast and some more of the mayo for dipping.
But the owner was super nice and giving of her love in the food and her hospitality.
This is a must stop place my only problem is I'm leaving town and want be here for a week end brunch because the menu looks great.

The price was 15.00 plus a dessert.
Taste (8), as for presentation because it was on a fresh baked focaccia bread I’ll give it a (9) out of a possible 10.

Until the next stop the food critic is signing out check out my other blogs on coffee to deserts, and whatever else is hot for the area that I'm visiting.
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Ted's concrete Frozen Custard

The vision got a little off track from "hamburgers" because I'm in St Louis MO, and anything old along with nostalgic has my attention and besides it's ice cream IE. Frozen Custard pretty cool concept I thought so.
The evening is muggy and I just had to have something cold and creamy so I went off in search of the famous frozen concrete custard and the winner is (cardinal sin) chocolate and cherries over the frozen custard.
The place is a throwback to 1929 and the little walk up window had the charm along with the goods.
If you live here in St. Louis it is a must have and yet it is super creamy and rich and a treat that one has to enjoy for years to come, because I will come back to savor the other varieties on my every return.
On a scale of 1 to 10 I'll give it a 9 cause I'm not sure what is a 10 on the Ice cream scale except the Mango Ice cream that I bought 3 years ago from a Indian food store or the time that me and my sister sat upon the hand crank white mountian Ice cream churn that my father cranked for the 4th of july years ago, I want tell if you don't

St Louis Newstead Tower Burgers

Well Dana is the server for today and the sitting is in a Historic section of town known as Oak Grove MO. that has been on the upswing for the last 3 years.
I'm in sticker shock $9.50 for the grass fed burger .50 extra for the tomato and .50 for the onion, yet they make their own mustard, and ketchup, pretty cool.

The anticipation is killing me ................. well here it is "bite" "bite" ...... chew chew ............. great taste and just the right seasoning very juicy but i need more onions "only three rings.

But the pickles are to die for but again only one slice ?!@#$%^&*()_ this pickle I would always put on a burger, but I'm scared to ask for more pickles maybe it will be EXTRA.

$13.84 plus a $3.00 tip way too expensive for a hamburger and chips.
The price should be a little higher say around 6.95 plus all the works
Taste (7), as for presentation because it was on a local bakery bun I’ll give it a (9) out of a possible 10.
The server is probably is the highlight for the restaurant and of course the pickle SLICE I'll give the pickle a solid 10 score.

Overall worth the visit but bring your American Excess card.

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