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    Jim's Halfway Bar

    5.0 (1 review)
    Closed 11:00 am - 2:00 AM (Next day)

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    Milty-Wilty Drive-In Restaurant - Grilled cheese

    Milty-Wilty Drive-In Restaurant

    4.1(33 reviews)
    11.0 mi
    $

    Milty-Wilty is the real deal drive-in restaurant. It's real, not retro...good food, service, and…read moreexcellent prices. Their menu is extensive, custard cones are great, it's like a Wisconsins version of Mel's Drive In from American Graffiti. They even have miniature golf too!

    My family and I were passing though Wautoma around dinner time and wanted something to go that…read morewasn't the usual fast food chain restaurants. Milty Wilty Drive-In is on the way out of town heading east, so we stopped there and placed an order to go. One kid got two hot dogs, the other got chicken strips and regular fries, my wife got a plain cheeseburger and regular fries, and I got a plain double cheeseburger with seasoned curly fries. She and I also split a grilled cheese. The regular fries have absolutely no salt or seasoning on them. Even with being straight out of the fryer they weren't the most crispy, so being bland too was very disappointing. The curly fries were preseasoned, so that couldn't be screwed up, yet I could oddly taste a hint of onion rings from them being fried in the same oil. Like the fries, the burgers were completely unseasoned. The double cheeseburger was maybe slightly bigger than a double cheeseburger from McDonald's, so I don't think it was worth the extra cost when size is similar and taste isn't as good. The grilled cheese had enough cheese to cover a single layer inside the sandwich with no thickness to it. It was better than the burgers, but that's not saying much. The kid with the hot dogs said they were "fine" and the kid with the chicken strips said they were "ok", neither of which are ringing endorsements. There were only two chicken strips in the basket and not a ton of fries. Maybe for a elementary school kid this would be enough, but for a 12 year old boy it wasn't.

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    Langfords - Homemade desserts - like Raspberry freddo

    Langfords

    4.3(8 reviews)
    10.0 mi
    $$

    Food was OK. Seated at 5:30 - ordered right away. (We all ordered the fish fry - nothing fancy…read more nothing extra). 6:30 waitress had no idea when our food would be served. At 7, we finally (had to ask) for a snack - and all she could offer was some dry rye bread. At 7:15 she (finally, did offer another round of drinks. Which, the sodas already came with free refills). Just what our pregnant guest needed. We finally got our food at 7:20. We won't go back. (Oh, in addition to the unacceptable service) - those who ordered potato salad were disappointed - while the quality was good, the portion was so tiny, we remarked, oh, this must be a sample of what their potato salad would be if they gave you a regular portion.

    Let me begin by saying that $16.99 for prime rib is not terrible, but sometimes a $16.99 prime rib…read moredisappoints. As I continue to learn more about butchery and cooking, I more often than not find myself disappointed with restaurant fare - especially at a value price point. Prime rib starts with an excellent rib roast. That rib roast should have four distinct muscles. In inferior cuts of meat, these muscles get separated by sinewy, hard fat rather than thin fat that renders during the cooking process. This is super-important in prime rib because each of those muscles can sit at a different angle, changing the chew mid-steak. Also in inferior cuts, the ribeye cap - or spinalis dorsi - consists mostly of fat. In good cuts that cap if the best part of the prime rib. That did not happen here. The steak was OK as far as tenderness, but not great. It's actually such a small piece of meat that it really needs the bread and salad they do not serve just in order to leave feeling full. The fat and sinew between the individual muscles did not render well, and even the soft fat was inedible. I have eaten prime rib where I ate every single piece of that steak put on my plate. Here, I had to essentially cut out the heart of the ribeye (longissimus dorsi) and eat that alone. My wife reminded me that it was affordable. In the future, if the goal is affordable I'll just have drinks.

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