Mimi's Café

VERDICT: Bring your own butter...better yet, bring your own food.

I don't get this restaurant at all.  What is it suppose to be?  A family restaurant?  A French restaurant?  A New Orleans restaurant?  Because it fails with all of that.  The menu consists of rather bland café fare.  There is Chicken Cordon Bleu on the menu.  Rather than actual Cordon Bleu, it is deep-fried chicken served with a bright yellow mustard sauce that they have the guts to call Dijon sauce.  The room we were in was decorated as if we were in a New Orleans café, ironically painted with the names of fun, Cajun dishes that were not on the menu. 
I ended up getting the ravioli...I know, I know, how French is that?  The sauce would made Chef Boyardee seem gourmet and the ravioli seemed fresh from the freezer. We went with Greg's mother, who I refer to as the Dairy Queen.  She became absolutely disgusted that they didn't serve real butter with the bread.  It tasted as if it was Promise, a butter substitute..  You may remember her bringing her own butter to the Tournament of King.  She, after finishing with her unbridled disgust, decided to bring her own butter with her on any future trips to Mimi's Café.  I, on the other hand, was not offended by the butter substitute, but will not be returning to Mimi's ever again, with or without my own butter.

Café Verdi

VERDICT: Cheap, but good pizza (that will kill you)

This is cheap pizza.  By cheap, I mean not expensive.  OK, maybe it isn't the best quality.  The pizza is really greasy, which is a sign of inferior ingredients. But yum!  I think the flavor of the sauce and the quality of the pepperoni make a pizza.  They make up for the inferior cheese by giving you a lot of it.  $6.99 for a one topping 16" pizza for pick up only is all I ever need.  They also have specialty pizzas including greek and spicy buffalo pizzas.

But there's more, I tried the garlic balls.  These have got to be the worst thing for you.  They deep fry dough and cover it with garlic and butter.  You get 20 of these artery clogging pieces of buttery heaven for only $2.99.  What??!?!  I know, I know, usually killing yourself with obesity induced diabetes is a little more expensive.  These are a must try.  They are to die for...literally.

They also have philly steaks, sandwiches, calzones and hamburgers, but I can't ever get past the pizza.  Why order anything else?

Atmosphere:  OK, this is where we run into problems.  It's an undecorated beige and white blah-scape in a strip mall.  It also has a strange smell that comes and goes.

All the workers appear to speak some Eastern European language that I can't quite make out and they have anti-evil eye protection on the walls.  They are all extremely friendly and well, they make damn good pizza.

5861 W. Craig Road
369-9511
Mon-Wed 10-10
Thu-Sat 10-12
Sun 12-12