An Apple A Day Catering & Meg's Cafe

we wanted so badly to like this place- unfortuately we did not.  Surprisingly busy for lack lustre food.   My husbands chicken was dried out and tasteless and sitting in a watery pool of pasta. My husband bitched all day that it was the worst lunch he had in years. My chicken salad was loaded with more raisins than chicken and boring.  No rolls, just crappy sesame covered crackers.  Not worth the money, totally and completely boring.  Reminded me of a church basement with lots of little old ladies who pick at their food.  Yuck..

R u kidding?! Reading the menu we thought were in for some culinary treats.  Wow - throwing a bag of chips on top of a turkey on whole wheat and charging $10?!  The soup selections sounded interesting, yet nothing to write home about when a (half-filled) bowl of black beans in broth with some sweet peppers and onions is $6.  

Really disappointing since they're catering is decent.

I'm still wondering why the North Shore of Chicago still struggles to maintain anything other then mediocre restaurants.  Case in point - Meg's.  This place wouldn't survive 6 months in any urban locale.  The only reason I can see that it's survived so long in Glencoe is a) it's clean, b) it's food doesn't taste bad, c) there is no viable alternative dining establishment in Glencoe.  I view this as more of an indictment of the clientele in Glencoe then of Meg's - why change if its working for you?

So here we go - the food is dull.  The ingedients mediocre (I ordered a chicken dish which came topped with a canned pineapple ring - a crime that I believe was banned by the Geneva Convention), and the room was meh.  Oh, and the service is slow and inattentive.  

Nothing to see here, move along (to another place that will do more then put boring, bad food in front of you).

Pass.