Rock City Grill

My sis came to visit and on one of our treks we visited Rock City Grill located in the downtown mall at 808 W. Main.  I am really glad we went, I liked this place.  My sister liked the idea of it being Italian, but we didn't order any pasta anything.  In the end, besides having a fun day at the mall together, we ate some great tasting food.



She ordered a Blue Moon beer....

It just so happened to be "Happy Hour" and we ordered some apppetizer-types of foods on sale.

I think we were hungry....
We enjoyed a Thai Pizza... well, a couple of slices from it...
(We actually ended up with a LOT of food and took some home!)

Asian Lettuce Wraps...

and enjoyed also some of the Dungeoness. Crab Spread on Pita Bread...

I enjoyed looking out the window to watch the Gondolas from Riverfront Park in operation.  I seemed such a Spokane kinda thing to do!

The service was great, the food was plentiful and yummy.  We even had leftovers to be enjoyed the next day.  They packaged our food neatly for us to take with us and we had a nice visit with each other  too.

Life is good.

One thing i like about this place too, is that THEY WANT TO HEAR from customers.....
like me and you.

 

The Otis Grill

Otis Grill is a new favorite on the breakfast scale for Geo and I.  Have you been here?

This restaurant, located in the Otis Orchards area, might be a little far for you if you are not looing to take a drive, but it just a hop, skip, and a jump from the freeway if you are traveling between Spokane a Coeur de Alene, (or anywhere in-between.)  Otis Grill, located at 21902 E. Wellsley Avenue... in Otis Orchards, WA, specializes in "hometown" cooking... and is open for breakfast, lunch and dinner and in the spring summer, autumn or winter, too.

The day we went for breakfast, there was snow on the ground.

It was indeed a beautiful biscuit and gravy, eggs and bacon... and pancake day, 

 made complete with maple syrup.

And who does not love Rosie the Riveter, Marilyn Monroe and old cars?

I did say, "hometown"... right?
It's not a fancy spot.  In fact, when you arrive, they invite you to pick your own seating, (in other words, seat yourself...) and evidently the people here feel right "at home."

 If you are wondering about the menu.... here's an idea of what is served:

 And.. if you are adventurous, like James T. Kirk, pictured here on the menu, you can order the quadruple Otis Burger....

 ...at the Otis Grill.

Satellite Diner and Lounge

Where will YOU go out for food when you are out and about and it is after... say, "10:00 PM" in Spokane?  Well, just when you thought you'd just go home and have a bowl of cereal... you can think again about going out.  You can try the Satellite Diner, located at 421 E. Sprague Avenue;   they are open till 4 AM!  They have great food and a fun menu to-boot!

The Satellite Diner, while new to me is not the new kid on the block either.  I was told by my server that it has been in business about 15 years.

It wasn't too late when we found ourselves there, but it's wan't the breakfast hour either.  Still all repent had breakfast foods and it was great.  The service was great, the food was great...and the crowd was friendly that lingered outside.  The only problem we  had was in having a hard time finding the door on the way in! We almost found ourselves in the lounge! we discovered that the lounge and diner have separate entrances.

(You can order the same great food from inside the lounge.. you just will be carded going in.  You won't be carded walking into the diner though.) 

One highlight for me was reading the menu.  It is truly very clever.  For example... instead of "milk" they offer Cow Juice... (even our family's favorite pink kind!)

They offer to cook your food to order... anyway you like .. and give you adequate warnings about the risks you take in that:

  There is a lovely selection of Omelets....

 And they offer some "EXTREME EATING OPTIONS" of interest too:

We ordered....The Satellite Stacker...

 With some super thick (and yummy) pancakes!

One of the EXTREME Eating Options...The Biscuit Stacker...which is "cheesy hashbrowns, homemade biscuit, sausage parry, bacon, two eggs and gravy.  Yes, it was served like this!

Our other dish was one of their yummy Omelettes.... The Meteorite.  Boeing here, loved the German Sausage.

Loved that diner!
How about you?

Canaan Buffet

Just when you thought there was enough buffet restaurants in our city..."Whalla!" Another one appears! And it's specialty is Chinese!

Tonight we visited the Canaan Buffet.
It took us a while to find this place and all the while it was right before us.  Maybe it was because it  is located in the same spot where another restaurant of it's kind, (this would be the Black Jack Buffet,)  had closed?   Maybe it was because Geo and I already have so many favorite places to go already?  I do not know for sure, but I sure am glad we tried this one.  It's great!

Canaan Buffet is located in the North Point Shopping Center..  I love the beautifully ornate wood carved decorations in the dividing panels of the booths, and the overall atmosphere... it's a very pretty place with a lovely water feature.  You can count the goldfish and hunt for the turtle while you wait to be seated.

Canaan offers a Mongolian grill, a sushi bar and a vast array of pan Asian and American Cuisine.   The presentation of the food on the buffet was very welcoming.













Our first stop was the sushi bar....
I couldn't even tell you what it was that we ate. Geo just picked out some for us while I got the condiments and we ate it all.  Everything was delicious!  The sushi bar was beautiful, but then, I tend to look at sushi more as a work of art then food.  How great it is to eat such art.

The most spectacular thing for me was these beautiful dumplings...  I have never seen anything like this before.  On the upper left, you can see some kind of banana leaf cooked rice package, and I have only seen that once before.  Geo really liked the banana leaf one.  The rose looking dumpling was similar to a bean ball that I have had before that I really like, and the other one has some kind of meat inside of it.  I thought them both to be amazing!  Another work of edible art!

As you can see, we tried a lot of different dishes, and some Hot and Sour soup.  Geo's is the one with the crunchies....



I am picky about Hot and Sour soup.  This one passed the test.  It was very tasty hot and sour soup, not too hot and not too sour and not too salty, and so, it got our approval.

Little steam coffee cups on
the cappuccino flavored cake

Butterflies on the Black Forrest Cake

 I just had to take a picture of the decorations on these cakes!

We had some tea and dessert too.

For dessert, I had some fruit and Geo has a conglomeration of his favorite things.   Geo fed me a bit of his apple pie... a-la-mode and this resulted in me having a little bit of my own.  Now, for the record, I don't particularly like the idea of self-service hard ice cream at buffet restaurants, but I made an exception.

The pie was still steaming by the way.  Delicious!

We did not see any Kim Chee and that was sad, but I saw that in their selection of food they served rice noodle chow mien.  Also, there is the Mongolian Grill area.   This is where you select your meat, veggies, spices, and they cook it up stir-fry style for you, right on the spot!


There certainly is a lot to like about this place.

Their advertising says, CHILDREN UNDER 5 ARE ALWAYS FREE any time. And on Tuesdays, CHILDREN (12 and Under) EAT FREE with a purchase of two (2) adult meals. They they have take-out (you pay by the pound) and they offer catering as well as a banquet room you can reserve.