N & T's Restaurant

I've gone here a couple times for lunch with coworkers.

First time: BBQ Bacon Cheeseburger.  Fries and soup.  Not bad.  Satisfied my desire for meat.  The burger wasn't anything special.  It had bacon and bbq sauce, which yay.  But the actual meat?  Meh.  Fries were cooked well.   Soup was good.

Last time: Chicken strips.  Fries and soup.  Loved the chicken and dumpling soup -- taste like an old family recipe.  The rest of the meal tasted like I could have gotten it anywhere.  Wasn't bad, just wasn't special.

I'd come here again, but give the other options in Zion -- I'd much rather save some money for some diner food.  Particularly, I'd probably pick Bill's first.

Excellent food. I love their sandwiches. The environment is very friendly. I work at a nearby power plant and sometimes go there for lunch. The waiters and waitresses are extremely friendly! I love this place and will comeback again to try more things.

American and Thai. WTF.

I gotta say, please pick one, because by picking both, you're definitely doing it wrong. All wrong.

STAY AWAY from the Thai omelet. They will try to tell you that it's their most popular dish. Probably because they recommend it to everyone and like dumbass lemmings, everyone agrees to try it. Not this dumbass! I hate omelets so it wasn't hard to JUST SAY NO. My friend was not as lucky, the omelet was watery on the inside and really too spicy even for someone who likes a lotta spice.

I have had dinner here, and I have had breakfast here. Granted, Thai food for dinner during Lent is inviting disaster. And disaster RSVP'd with front row seating and its whole dysfunctional family in tow. Tom Yum soup? Blech - boring and missing the complex flavors this soup should have, it was more of a tomato-ey broth. Pad Thai? Blech - noodles were mushy and again, this dish was too spicy to really enjoy, even for someone who ain't no wimp. Vegetarian stir fry? Double blech - bland and the veggies were way over-cooked.

But even the American breakfast is strange here. I don't know why. Bacon tasted a little off, I mean BACON, fer cryin' out loud. Potatoes were kinda plastic-y tasting. Coffee - don't even get me started.

It's family owned and operated and I'm all for the mom-and-pop's. Wait staff and bussers are charming and very polite too. But the food is just not good at all. At all. I wanted to like N & T's and I gave them 3 tries before finally striking completely out.

Um, sorry, but... no.

Just... no.