Since moving to Hobart six years ago, we've only stopped here about three times. Â I don't know what compelled me to stop in today but I was in the mood for some lemon rice soup and a roasted turkey dinner which is typically available in many Greek dining establishments in our area.
The soup was just ok but it hit the spot for the meantime. Â Then the turkey dinner. Â It was pretty terrible. Â Thin slices of turkey almost none existent. Â The dressing, cranberry sauce, and mashed potatoes were tasteless. Â It was all slathered with a bright yellow gravy that wasn't so good.
I left there with a headache and a very uncomfortable feeling in my stomache. Â As I'm typing this review, I feel the need to make myself a smoothie full of leafy greans full of fiber to flush this mess out soon!
Oh Lord, why didn't I listen to my own advice? My mother and I went to Lake Park at lunchtime. That was a big mistake; it encouraged me to read the menu and look for a lunch item, instead of eggs.
The menu is about 8 big pages long, and each page is full. If you added up all the items, you'd probably come up with about 300 or more. Math was never my best subject, so I'm not going to say this is an accurate number - 300 may be on the low end. This place might be halfway decent if it eliminated 90% of the menu items and tried to make the 10% actually taste good.
So anyway, here goes. Mom ordered sunny-side up eggs and corned beef hash. Simple. Midwestern. Hard to screw up. She ate all of it, and was very happy.
I, on the other hand, foolishly looked away from the final 2 pages of the menu, which listed the breakfast items.I ordered a vegetarian panini, with grilled vegetables and cheese.
First came the soup. I asked for the tomato rosa angelina or rosa marina or something. My mom said, I should have had the lemon rice soup, since it's a Greek soup, and Greek people own this restaurant. But no, I had to have tomato.
Tomato soup - Campbell's. Thin thin thin. A few small pieces of teeny pasta thrown in. Bad.
Panini - it actually looked good, grilled properly. Appearances can be deceiving. The peppers and mushroom came from a can. Weak, wilted, no flavor. Awful.
French fries - Frozen, from a bag. There were served hot enough, but any kind of flavor they might have had, must have been surgically extracted. Tasteless potato. Salt and ketchup helped a little. At least I could taste the salt. I think I might have eaten six french fries. Left the rest.
A cup of cole slaw - probably not from Jewel, since there aren't many Jewel food stores in NW Indiana. Van Til's, maybe, or Wise Way. Awful. No flavor. Creamy.
Basket of saltinecrackers with one bread roll - the roll had no taste. It was only a little stale. I put on some of the fake butter, wondering if that would add flavor. It didn't.
Coffee - decent.
Service - fine.
Would I go to Lake Park Restaurant if my mother didn't live a few blocks away, or if Lake Park didn't offer Corned Beef Hash? I'd rather be waterboarded than eat here again.
Will I go again? Â **heavy sigh** Â If Mom wants to, probably. But I'll order eggs, sunny side up, and whole wheat toast. I think Lake Park will get that right. If I stick to simple breakfast items, I may survive any future meals.
This place is horrible.
There is one good thing about it (the one star it gets) and that is the breakfast. I have never had a TERRIBLE breakfast here.
The few times I have ordered something besides breakfast has been down right nasty.
Their Fillet, which I ordered Med-Well, came out Med-Rare and when asked to be put back on the grill, it came back WELL!!! The Chicken Caesar Salad was a mess. It didn't have anything that resembled a real Caesar Salad. Most of the lettuce was regular lettuce, very light in color. There were no croutons, instead it was garnished with an egg, cucumber, and tomatoes. If you have ever had a Caesar Salad you would know and expect it to be made with nothing more than Croutons, lettuce and that cheese they sprinkle on it. The chicken was hard and  flavorless. This $9 Salad, $30 lunch for two. Was not worth it. I would have been way more satisfied with McDonalds. I would even say that gas station food is prepared better than this place!!!
Plenty of options is right. Â Definitely an identity crisis going on here. Â I'm betting they buy everything Sysco has to offer. Â From breakfast to Italian to Chinese to Fried Fish on the diet selections this place has it all and in abundant mediocrity. Â I would recommend sticking with breakfast but even my omelet was swimming in butter. Â
Tons of food, definitely affordable and friendly small town service. Â You still may go hungry even after soup, salad, dinner and dessert because it is hit or miss as to the quality of each.
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