Breakfast on the island was usually cereal and lunches were frequently turkey sandwiches, but evenings were for going out to eat. Here are the highlights:
1. Cracker Barrel. The food was okay, but the clerk in the country store was inhumanly cheery. I couldn’t stand her, and she kept stalking me. I suspected she was developed in a vat of “down-home country cheer”, but that did not excuse her behavior. I was grateful to have escaped and would not be – as she suggested – “coming back around to see them soon”
2. Pizza from the local pizza place. Two pizzas = $38.50 They were good, I think. We were all so hungry that they might have been terrible – but even if they were “good”, they weren’t “$38.50” good. Dang.
3. Outback. I got the burger and we all split an order of tuna ahi that was amazing. I added a little of the wasabi and soy dipping sauce to my burger – it was really good.
4. At the Harbor Burgers and Brews (I had the chicken), we got attacked by an errant Frisbee. I did my best “Get off my Lawn!” old man scowl at the kids that came around the shrubs to retrieve the errant disk. Didn’t get even a half-heated “sorry” when I handed it back to them. I vowed to de-rezz at least one of the little jerks if they tossed it back at me, but they had better aim for the rest of the meal. The food was good, but the portions were a little small – think we were all still a little hungry after we ate. Fries were good though.
5. Fudruckers was really pricey, but they had a University of Akron pennant on the wall.
6. Had to go to organic foods store to find any peaches. Really? I thought that they just handed those out in the South.
7. Triple chocolate brownie and an orange soda at Starbucks. Made metalkreallyreallyreallyfastaboutnothingimportantforafewminutes.
8. Old Oyster Factory. There’s more to this story than the $40 tab for two appetizers, but that is better served for another entry.
9. Reilly’s had really good food and the outdoor patio was great.
Overall, I ate pretty well, complained about the cost quite a bit, and got enough exercise that I didn’t feel bad about the occasional gorging.