more food...

went to brunch at Pete's Greektown Cafe today. once in a while, ya just gotta have gyros, eggs, and hash browns (or fries, in my case). it should be a mandatory meal every month ;)

it had been some time since we had last eaten there. for one, the ventilation system is not very effective; non-smoking isn't that much different than smoking. ah well. we go for the food and nostalgia. see, this restaurant was a Sambo's in the seventies. in fact, not much of the original place was changed. the roughly hewn rock at the entrance, ancient cash register, wood laminate tables, light fixtures, counter - everything is 30-50 years old. our parents would sometimes take us there to eat as kids. i remember their kids' pancakes with chocolate chips...the blue t-shirts that they sold, with the Sambo tiger in tights and caped regalia...hah

oh yeah. in the seventies, there was also a Red Barn across the street. anyone remember their fried chicken? better than the colonel's... sure, it has been over twenty years since both Sambo's and Red Barn disappeared from the restaurant radar, but good memories linger. so we were quite stunned to look across the way and find out that the old Red Barn building has been transformed into a *$$. whoa! it's gotta be one of the first ones on Colfax...weird.