Purtell's Restaurant & Ice Cream

Best place for dessert in this town!

I've been to Purtell's twice.  On my first visit I ordered the hot turkey sandwich and received a plate COVERED in food.  You couldn't tell where the mashed potatoes stopped and the turkey sandwich started, with a mound of stuffing wedged somewhere in the middle.  Purtell's doesn't serve up gourmet anything but the food was still very tasty.  The mashed potatoes reminded me of the one's they used to serve in the high school cafeteria (which I used to love); I think they may use flakes.  Either way... Personally, I liked it.  Couldn't eat all of it but I liked it.  The service was just okay.  I would have given it three stars based on that visit alone.  A-OK!

On my second visit I ordered a BLT and french fries.  When I saw the waitress coming with our food i thought "HOLY CRAP!  What is this?  Another Tony's I-75?"  That BLT was HUGE.  The lettuce was more like a wedge rather than some leafs so I took off the lid and removed half of the lettuce.  I didn't inspect the rest of the sandwich but after two bites I was noticing that it didn't have much of a bacon taste.  Again, I took off the lid but this time I looked underneath the lettuce and found, sitting atop three slices of tomato, one full slice of bacon and two half slices.  TWO slices, in total?  Is that all?  With all that lettuce and tomato?  Even the bread was large.  (By the way... the bread was DELICIOUS.  Not sure if it was homemade but it was darn good.)    Thinking the rest of the bacon must have migrated to the other side of my sandwich, I took a peek.  I couldn't believe my eyes!  TWO HALF-SLICES of bacon on one half of the sandwich.  What?  When I asked the waitress if I could please have a little bacon with my BLT I thought for sure she would think I was a liar.  Who would believe there were only three slices of bacon on that entire GIANT sandwich?  Well... She believed me because I was told they only put THREE slices on each sandwich.  If you want more, you have to pay extra.  :O  WHAT?!   After I inquired about the bacon our service seemed to get noticeably cooler, immediately.  :/  Whatever.  Based on this visit alone, I give Purtell's one star.  

I'm torn about my overall rating.  The food is A-OK taste-wise.  Portion-wise?  Well...  It seems like that depends on what you order.  The service?  Meh.  I've experienced better.  I split the difference and decided to give it two stars.  Personally, with other places to choose from on our route home from camp... I won't be going back to Purtell's.

Oh!  Also... Each time we were there we walked in the door and stood there, without being acknowledged by ANYONE, long enough to start getting those should-I-just-stay-here-or-should-I-seat-myself and which-choice-makes-me-look-like-an-idiot feelings.  So we just sat ourselves.

Good small town eatery,  food and service was just fine.  I would have no problem coming back