Restaurant #3: How Do You Eat An Elephant?
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How do you eat an elephant?
One bite at a time.
How do you break a bad habit?
One day at a time.
How do you eat at every restaurant in your town?
One street at a time.
Some things in life are overwhelming. School, work, family, finances. How do you handle it?
1. Step back
2. Take a deep breath
3. Break down the situation into small parts that you can tackle one at a time.
For our Cuisine Quest to eat at every restaurant in our town, I was feeling overwhelmed, until I looked at the small picture. I looked at one street.
This one-mile-long stretch has strip malls, auto repair shops, a church, apartments, businesses, and 12 restaurants!
There are chain restaurants: El Torrito, Starbucks, Subway, El Pollo Loco, and Yum Yum Donuts. That’s 5 restaurants we can skip.
There is one catering place that is open for lunch, and one pancake house that isn’t open for dinner. That’s 2 restaurants we can skip.
That leaves 5 more restaurants that we are supposed to eat at. Restaurant #1 and #2 are on this street, so we already checked them off the list.
Only 3 restaurants left! That is very manageable!
Restaurant #3 is a “pizza and grill”. It seems to be mostly for takeout, but they do have a nice small dining area in front of the order counter, with tablecloths and a TV to watch the game.
I assumed they would basically have pizza and a few sides. But they have an extensive menu of sandwiches, pastas, salads, and sides. It was hard to choose, so we went with their recommendations.
A simple salad came with the dinner.
The garlic bread was also included, and perfectly tender and had good flavor.
The chef recommended his cheese steak. The photo isn’t attractive, but in my husband’s expert opinion, the sandwich was tasty!
Would we come back again? We have to, so we can try their pizza! But, even though the dining area was pleasant, we would probably get it to go. Two forks up!
