Tag: Route 66
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Palms Grill Cafe Review – On Route 66, Atlanta, IL
One of the original U.S. highways, Route 66 (US Highway 66), was established on November 11, 1926. A few years later, the Palms Grill Cafe opened on the “Mother Road” in Atlanta, IL, about equidistant between St. Louis and Chicago (now just off I-55). Not much has changed since then, in Atlanta, or at the […]
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Hodaks Restaurant and Bar Review, St. Louis, MO
Geez, I can count on about three fingers the times I have not been disappointed when I’ve tried a restaurant that is a perennial favorite in a given city. If it’s won “the best of” multiple times, for some reason, it won’t strike me the same way. Much to my delight, Hodaks does not fall […]
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Dell Rheas Chicken Basket Review – Route 66 Illinois
Dell Rheas Chicken Basket Review – on old Route 66, Chicago Based on my personal consumption, I’m thinking their slogan should be “come for the biscuits, stay for the chicken.” One of the original highways across America, Route 66 ran from downtown Chicago to the Pacific Ocean at Santa Monica, CA, a total of nearly […]
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Maid Rite Review – Springfield, IL
Maid Rite is the brand name for a franchised group of restaurants that sell what is generically referred to as “loose meat sandwiches.” Created by a butcher in Muscatine, Iowa, there are plus/minus a hundred outlets in the Upper Midwest selling Maid Rite type sandwiches, whether they are paying to use the name, or […]
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Countryside, IL – Country Cup Diner
Give me a home, where the….oh, wait. Give me a diner, on Route 66, and I’ll be one happy camper. In a distant suburb of Chicago, the town of Countryside, is the Highway 66 exit route from the Loop, and on it, inside a bowling alley, with little signage to let you know it’s there, […]
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Marios Pizza and Restaurant Review, Albuquerque, NM –
(Editor note – I am currently traveling and will be mostly posting reviews that I left unfinished for one reason or another, while building up a repertoire of the new places I hit! There will also be reviews from some new reporters we have signed up). Local favorite, going on 50 years, I was delighted […]