I take it back! I take it back!

Okay so I may have sort have been extremely wrong about Broadway Diner. Maybe they have different cooks in the day than they do at night, but oh my goodness.

After having a blast with my 4804 family in a non-journalism capacity, a bunch of us decided 2 a.m. was a great time for breakfast.


The game changer was the coffee. It was good. Like really good. And the waitress kept my tiny cup full. This gave me hope for the food, and I wasn't disappointed.

I ordered the exact same order, but it was so much better!

So here is my conclusion. Go to Broadway Diner at night. In my limited experience it is exponentially better between midnight and 8 a.m.

Steak on the Bosses

I love our company holiday dinner. Mostly because I love food and I love food even more when my bosses pay for my $24 steak. It truly is a happy holiday.

I had never been to 44 Stone before, but I will be sure to go back. Even though my meal was pretty expensive, it looked like there were some reasonable chicken based entrees on the menu. We sat in a private dining room, but the main dining room was very spacious with more than enough room between tables.

Nothing annoys me more than when you go to a restaurant and you can't use the restroom for fear you are going to bump the elbow of the person behind you when you get up causing a cartoon like chain reaction ending in humiliation and regret.

But back to the food.

My steak was cooked to perfection. Medium well has a variation of interpretations depending on the restaurant, but 44 stone has the correct interpretation. Not only that but they kept the coffee coming. Not once did I have to ask for a refill. Once they were so quick I didn't even see the waitress fill my mug. It was like the coffee cup magically refilled itself.

I would definitely go again. 

Coffee, and Gulash, and Rain Oh My!

While walking down 9th Street earlier this semester I overheard a guy say Cafe Poland has the "best chicken noodle soup ever". I made a mental note to visit the tiny stand alone
storefront, but I would wait until the perfect rainy day. A day so cold and dreary only a bowl of chicken could lift your spirits can warm you. Today was that day...but I blew it.

I have restaurant anxiety. If a waiter asks me what I would like to order before I have have a chance to look at the menu, I have this bad habit of just ordering the first thing I see instead of taking all of 30 seconds to read the menu.

I walked into the Cafe and was surprised to find the restaurant was actually smaller than it looked. Yes, smaller. There were only two other costumers chatting in the corner so my presence captured the waiters sole attentions. Perfect.

Even though I fully intended to order the amazing chicken noodle soup the random guy on 9th street unknowingly recommended to me, the first thing that caught my eye on the menu was gulash. I see now the chicken soup is right above the gulash on the menu and it's half the price. Obviously I need to be supervised when trying new restaurants. 

After stumbling through ordering and paying for my meal I took a seat and awkwardly took pictures of the restaurant. The two girls in the corner started making fun of me in Korean. I would just like to point out to anyone who cares enough to read this that just because you are speaking a different language does not mean your teasing goes unnoticed. The teasing continued as I took pictures of my food


I was very surprised by the presentation of my food. I am by no means hating on the paper plate. It's probably one of the greatest and laziest developments of the last half century. That said, I was not expecting my food to be presented on one.

The food was okay. It's nothing that, if taught, I couldn't make myself, but I don't feel right making a judgement seeing as I freaked out and ordered the wrong thing.

The coffee, however, was delightful. I consider coffee a staple in my diet. It's basically a food group.




I'll have to get back to you on my final judgement of Cafe Poland. For now, I recommend their coffee. Definitely their coffee. I'll have to wait for another cold rainy/snowy day to try their soup. Seeing as it's now December and we live in Missouri, that shouldn't take long.