The Bay Street Grill is located on scenic Bay Street, in a section called "Old Town", is our fave local restaurant. The staff is efficient and friendly, the decor is top-notch with great old wooden floors and booths, alot of old prints and metal-work decorations on the wall, and a cozy fireplace. In the winter months we call to reserve the fireplace table; it feels really luxe to have a leisurely dinner in front of a fire. The food is excellent. They make an excellent vegi-burger (their own recipe for the burgers) with really good cheese,really fresh veggies, and a really nice Ciabatta bun and excellent homemade fries. They also have excellent fettuccine with your choice of veggies, a really good salad with homemade dressing, and a nice salad. They also make the best Midori Sours, and a splendid Death By Chocolate. It's close enough for us to walk in good weather, and we find ourselves heading that way quite often. What's your local favourite?
Death By Chocolate? Oh my goodness, that sounds heavenly! Locally we don't have much, so I'll name a few favorites in our "second home" of St. Augustine, Florida. Borrillo's is fabulous... as are Sonny's Real Pit BBQ, and New Century Buffet (Chinese buffet... YUM!) The hot sausage with sauce, peppers, and onions at Borrillo's is wonderful... be sure to get cole slaw ON your BBQ sandwich at Sonny's in true southern BBQ fashion, and I don't even know what to say about New Century... it's so much fun filling that takeout container.
There is a Chinese buffet in the nearest town, but unfortunately, the food is awful! I'd love for a really good buffet to open, because the idea of walking through, picking what you like, and having a nice mix/match sounds great!
The one we go to is actually three long rows of food and it's a Chinese/Japanese/American buffet. Those who want beef or fish and mashed potatoes, veggies, etc. are just as happy as those who want sushi (me!) and dozens of Chinese dishes. There's also a full cold salad bar.
It's really a great restaurant. And I was given a $40 gift certificate to there for Christmas. Bought us three takeout meals!
We have several good Chinese buffet's around here. I especially like their fried chicken wings which I think are better than KFC. Only trouble is, buffet's cause much weight gain. Another favorite is Sicily's pizza. This is a pizza buffet that has all varieties of pizza on the menu. Very inexpensive, but again very fattening. Of course there are all the casinos on the Ms gulf coast that feature all-you-can-eat buffets. Imagine, all-you-can-eat lobster, crab, shrimp, oysters, in addition to meats, chicken, etc. Prices vary from $10 to $18. If you think that is expensive, check the price of seafood at your supermarket. We also have a barbecue place called "The Shed" which was featured on a TV food show. Probably the best deal around is the fresh gulf shrimp you can buy from roadside vendors. 8 to 12 shrimp to the pound sells for about $4 to 5 per pound. Similar great prices are for crawfish and oysters.
We have a casino here, and they have the huge buffet (which we try to avoid at all costs...it's too good!) and a really nice sit-down restaurant which is a bit pricey, but the food is yummy.
These do indeed sound like great places to eat, Ron! Those prices are very reasonable. I've seen some specialty buffets that were like $28 a person, or even more. It's fine for a person or two, but more than that and you're really running into an expensive meal at nearly $30 a pop. I've never had crawfish but I do so like oysters! Can't get them much around here at all.
