Thursday, March 10, 2011

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The Littlest Lunch Guru with one of his mama's new business cards, YAY!

Wednesday, March 9, 2011

The Red Olive

Not your run o' the mill generic coney island, The Red Olive offers big portions fit for big appetites at reasonable prices.

I've been a regular here since they opened their doors, and the food has always been great and enough to eat later a second time around.

The Littlest Lunch Guru is a well known super star here, and loves stuffing his face and making a mess of the place.

I switched things up and ordered an appetizer of fried zucchini, and it was delish.
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for my entree I had the greek salad with grilled chicken. Enough to feed an army, and I'm almost positive the secret ingredient in the greek dressing is crack.
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Don't take my opinion as fact, try it out for yourself.

The Red Olive is all over the metro-Detroit area
visit www.redoliverestaurant.com for details

Al's Famous Deli

Self coined "Da best", Al's Famous Deli eats, sleeps & (positively) reeks Detroit's finest.

Only using and selling products local to the area, Al's is a must for hungriest of food connoisseurs. They carry an awesome assortment of desserts, Faygo & pickled products. The spot is small and seats are very limited, but regardless of if you have to eat while standing or sitting you will leave satisfied and yearning for more.

The menu is outrageously bottomless and overwhelming to choose from. Here is what the fam had during our victorious trip;

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picky eater had the roast beast, not the prettiest of choices but he ate the whole thing!

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pregnant sister from another mister had the turkey melt. Mmmmmm....baby likes.

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And of course they had to make us jealous with their order of sweet potato fries

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My homie had the corned beef with slaw

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Big J had the the pastrami on rye

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I ordered the turkey & ham stack with swiss.

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and the Littlest Lunch Guru gorged his sweet cheeks on some fresh pickles

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Momma approves :)

DON'T WALK, RUN TO AL'S! You won't be sorry, I promise!!!

visit http://www.alsfamousdeli.com/ and get yo lunch on.

Fuji Japanese Buffet

Be as large and in charge as you wanna be here, but don't come not hungry- cuz you'll be pissed.

The Fuji buffet has endless belly ache options to choose from. I can't help but warn you, you may leave slightly upset.

If you must, go solely for the sushi. While the average sushi extravaganza may cost you over $30 of your hard earned skrilla, for $11.99 a person here you can eat 'til you need to punch out a new notch on your belt.

We dined amongst the average, the savvy and starving. The first plate of food seemed promising that we made the right choice by eating here, but by the second plate we wished we went somewhere else.

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vegetable tempura, an array of seafood sushi rolls, seaweed salad, fried whole shrimp & calamari. I picked around most of the food and left 50% of it on my plate. The second time around as follows;

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Clockwise around the plate; baked fish, eel tempura roll, more shrimp, broccoli, inside out california rolls, something odd labeled "egg tart"and fried tofu chunks. The star in the center was misleadingly labeled "stuffed scallop". If by "stuffed scallop" they meant "dough stuffed with coleslaw" then they are correct.

I was incredibly unhappy, and swore I would never be back. I then went to take some pictures of the food troughs but was scolded like a child with the first picture I took. "NO PICTURES ALLOWED!"

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Don't worry brosef, I'm not a Oakland County Health Inspector- but I will be reporting you for high levels of customer un-satisfaction.

The Fuji Buffet is located near your favorite Big Lots at  32153 John R. Rd, Madison Heights

The Chicken Shack

During the great Northeast black out of 2003, this place was my home base. The humming generators powered this well known eatery and supplied the masses with greasy deep fried goods when nothing else was open, and the crowd rejoiced.

Open for over 50 years, they have their methods to madness down and produce the same consistent crunchy battered fair that keep their fans coming back again and again.

Their food is pretty self explanatory, and you get what you expect as far as fried chicken is concerned.

I went for the fish, because I have never had it there...I was content.

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The homie gunned for the chicken bites, and for a ballin' $5 lunch you can't go wrong.

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I have left here many a time feeling gross, usually due to the over consumption of oil one ingests in a short period of time. I will say however, that this time around I didn't leave feeling that way.

If you want to play "fat guy" for the day go for the broasted potatoes, but if you want to play it safe indulge in the super tasty fries instead.

There are 18 locations throughout Michigan, visit www.chickenshack.com to find the joint closes to you.