Restaurant Review

Brick Oven

Ok, I know I panned the place the last time we were there, or at least the last time we talked about going there. On Monday, we decided to go out to eat for Mary's birthday. Mary's birthday actually was Wednesday, but I had Stake Presidency meeting then, so we went on Monday.

Anytime you ask Mary where she wants to go out to eat, her first pick is Chuck-E-Cheese. This is always voted down. Her second pick is always Brick Oven. It being her birthday, and not wanting to go to Chuck-E-Cheese, and Monday night being free root beer when you buy pizza night, we went to Brick Oven. We also had 3 coupons for free kid's meals.

We got to the restaurant, the guy in line just ahead of us asked for a table for 7, the hostess nearly panicked. It turns out the place was full, and they had to do some fancy footwork to get the guy his table. When I asked for a table for 6 and a high chair, the manager had to get involved. He asked if we would might sitting way in the front, in their little room where no one else was, and have us sit at 2 tables, across the walkway from each other. The manager must have known that Tara and my dream is to be in a nice quiet area of a restaurant, be able to sit without the kids hanging all over us, and actually be able to carry on a conversation. It was nice. (The girls were well behaved, but we pretended to not be sitting with them anyway. It was the next best thing to going out to eat by ourselves.)

Their special pizza of the week was a "buffalo chicken pizza". Tara and I both got this one. It turned out to be strangely good. They didn't have a tomato sauce on the pizza, and it wasn't too greasy. The cheese was some sort of something with blue cheese mixed in. I couldn't quite get what kind of cheese the other was, but it could have just as easily been a mozzarella of some sort. (It tasted a little salty to me, but that could have been the blue cheese mixed in it.) When I saw the chicken on top of it, I thought I wouldn't like it. It was some sort of breaded chunk of chicken, but it ended up being strangely ok. The breading was very light, and the chicken wing sauce they used tasted good. They ended up also drizzling on sauce onto the top of the pizza, so you tasted wings through the whole thing. The pizza ended up being too rich to eat the whole thing, so we took some home. I think Mary and Kate ate the rest for lunches.

They sang their little happy birthday song to Mary, and we left. The Hales were coming in as we were going out, they ended up in the same little area of the restaurant where they spanned 2 tables. It seemed like they were getting there kind of late for dinner, it was dark out and it seemed like we were in there for a long time. When we got to the car, it was only 7pm. I hate Daylight Savings.

It's still a better pick than Chuck-E-Cheese.