Sunday, September 13, 2015

This Week's Counter: The Red Chimney

We saw a Facebook post from some friends who were eating at a place we had never heard of in Slavic Village -- The Red Chimney.  Fortunately, they included a picture that seemed to show it had a counter.  A little bit of further research validated this, and so we dropped in on Saturday.

This place is in a very old building in a very old part of town -- a little bit beat up and rough on the outside, but very comfortable and welcoming.  Their counter is pretty big -- maybe 15 or so seats -- and so we had not trouble finding a spot.  The waitresses were very friendly, calling everyone "Hon" and "Sweetie".

After getting drinks (coffee was good, but Cam's grape juice wasn't), we made some choices from the large menu.  Ted had his usual but with turkey sausage -- very good and this is one of the few places that can correctly make well-done potatoes.  Cam had chicken and fries -- a large plate that he easily finished.

We disagreed a bit on quality of the food and atmosphere, but was worth the trip. Maybe not the best place in terms of location, but not bad and pretty good value for the money.



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Cam says: "Good food quality with a comfortable counter.  Both service and cleanliness were below average. I give this counter 5 frying pans."



Ted says: "Nice large counter, good menu selections and very good quality of food -- one of the few places that can do the potatoes right. I would go back -- it's worth a solid 7 frying pans."