Amores Grill & Spirits

This is a bit out of my local dining range, but was right on the way to our destination last night.  I had a coupon for half off the second entree, so it worked for me and my friend to try a new place.

We shared a breaded mushroom appetizer.  They were obviously frozen, dumped from a bag to the deep fryer, mushrooms.  Tasty enough, but nothing special.  

We both ordered the lake perch, pan fried.  First came a nice size side salad, with tomatoes, cukes, onions and decent croutons.  The serving size on the perch was generous enough, but the quality of the fish was lacking.  It had a tasteless, bread crumb breading.  Worse yet, the breading was burned on every piece.  I had a couple of pieces that tasted "off".  I suppose i could have sent it back, but we had a play to attend, so I opted not to.

Service was attentive and they did a great job of refilling our iced tea and pop.  I  bumped the review up to 3 stars for the service, but the food was closer to 2 star quality.

We shared the apple tart with ice cream for dessert.  It was plenty large enough to share.  It was quite tasty, and we thought it was a nice end to the meal.

We had to ask for a knife to cut the tart, even though we said from the beginning that we intended to share the thing. The server quickly brought a knife and two small plates.  Why don't servers do that automatically when they know it's a big dessert and it's being shared?

It's really more of a 3.5ish. Here comes a longer-than-it-should-be review.

I got takeout and decided to get the smokehouse burger and the chicken pot pie soup. I uploaded a picture, so take a look if you're curious to see what it looks like (it looks a LOT bigger than the picture suggests).

The smokehouse burger with fries and a pickle spear is $10.59 and described by the site as, "1/2 pound burger, topped with our in house smoked pulled pork, sautéed red onions, bacon & melted cheddar cheese, Served on an Artisan roll."

The chicken pot pie soup I've had before, and is $4.29 for ONE CUP. It's definitely pretty freakishly expensive for a single cup of soup, but I guess that's the price you pay for a home made soup.

The burger was, as I thought it would be, decent. For the price, it's about what you'd expect to pay. The burger itself, like the last couple times I've had it, seemed to have really no seasoning at all. Additionally, I wanted it cooked medium, but it appeared to be well-done. On the plus side, it wasn't dry at all, and was surprisingly juicy. The pulled pork was just alright. The pork seemed to be overcooked almost to mush, and there were four bites in my burger where I got a chunk of cartilage from the pork. I know it's pretty much unavoidable to not get a piece in there, but that much? Quality control, please... the BBQ sauce wasn't horrible, but it was a bit too sweet for my liking. On the plus side, the bacon (which was actually really good) countered it nicely. I'd probably give the burger a C rating... big in size and tastes pretty good, but I wasn't welcoming those mouthfuls of cartilage. The fries were almost completely soggy from being in the box (it wasn't a long drive home, either... I should have probably poked holes in it), but tasted alright. The pickle spear was fine by me -- not too salty/briny.

The chicken pot pie soup, despite the cost (that I didn't realize was so high in the past), is worth it. It's everything you'd expect it to be, and tasty every time.

Amore's is pre' good given its location, but there are better places a little bit out of the way. If you want a BBQ sort of burger, try out Bad Brads -- it tastes better and for the same price and amount of food.

Not a bad place to go.  It was a quiet and relaxing place from my friend and I to talk.

Don't order the chips and salsa appetizer.  They are store bought and you can get better at the local Meijer.  However, their Chicken Cesar Wrap was good.  It was lightly dressed (possibly could have more but I didn't mind it) and the chicken was moist and delicious.  It came with homemade chips that were wonderful.

Be warned that the water/tea come in a very small glass but they had free refills.

We had a good waitress and the hostess was fabulous.  I would definitely go back.