Double Dose of Old-School Delish

I'm coming to believe that if you walk into a restaurant around here and the chairs are plastic, the decor shabby and they've been around for a long time...the food must be pretty darn good! Certainly the two restaurants I'm reviewing today meet that bill.

 To celebrate our first payday in a while, Super Hero took us all out to lunch at Flamingo Joe's off Thomas Drive. He knew I had been dying to have a good shrimp po-boy, and I was certainly not disappointed. Our Little Mermaid was pretty impressed with her first introduction to shrimp as well. It wasn't exactly fast food, in terms of speed, but the wait wasn't bad and it was worthwhile. They know what matters there: the food.



Roy's Original Chili Dogs and Burgers, off of R. Jackson Rd. in the Edgewater Mall, has a similar understanding (with a cheaper price, but no po-boys). When I dropped by last Saturday for some food and some wifi, there was one guy at the open grill flipping burgers and another guy at the register. The menu displayed behind the counter consists of: the hot dog menu, the hamburger menu, the fries menu and the milkshake menu. I can attest that the single with cheddar, for $3.69, is very tasty. And it pairs perfectly with a chocolate milkshake.

As a side note, however, I was frustrated by the fact that no one in the restaurant knew the username to access the wifi. Just the password. Not helpful. And there are only a couple tables with access to outlets...maybe not a problem if, unlike me, your laptop battery lasts for more than ten minutes.