Archive for the ‘home-cooking’ tag
Lizard's Thicket, 818 Elmwood Avenue: 5 June 2017 (open again) 2 comments
Wow, there's "remodeling", and there's "tear out everything down to the bare walls, and some of those too". This is the latter.
The State says:
Once renovations are complete [in fall 2017], the location will include increased parking, new exterior siding, state-of-the-art kitchen equipment and a remodeled dining room with new booths, Wi-Fi access and USB chargers.
Somehow Lizard's Thicket has never seemed like a USB charger kind of place to me..
Fran's, 4855 Forest Drive: Janurary 2008 11 comments
Fran's was a small meat-and-three on Forest Drive almost across from Trenholm Plaza. They always appeared to me to do a good business though I only went there a few times myself. My opinion is that they tended to run out of most items very early in the evening. If you weren't there by 7pm, there was probably no point in going (seniors found it ideal..). Combining that with the fact that the layout was very crowded and that they had no booths, I decided years ago that Lizard's Thicket was preferable when I wanted down-home cooking.
The new restaurant going into the location will be called Zoes Kitchen (but with the little European dots above the "e" in "Zoes"). Looking at their web site, it appears that they are a regional chain and will be serving a "healthy" Greek-inspired menu. To be frank, I didn't see anything there that really looks appetizing to me.
UPDATE 6 Oct 2010 -- Well, Zoe's is open, and has been for a while. As I said above, the menu doesn't appeal to me in general, but the Greek salad is good (if pricey), and with the closure of Zorba's on Decker I do visit here for that every so often. The patio is nice in the spring and fall as well.
UPDATE 1 September 2022: Change date year from '08' to '2008' in title. Update tags and add map icon.
