Fractured Prune

Rating: 3 stars
Price- not online (i will be calling cus I don't remember)
Portions- smaller then your average donut
Parking- not very much, but some to the right of the building, and behind it.
Seating- None- except out side of
Website: http://www.fracturedprune.com

When your broken, bruised, maybe even (dare I say it) FRACTURED, these little round wonders would put a smile on your face.

I had the Chocolate Covered Cherry: cherry glaze, mini chocolate chips it was delicious. It was warm and its texture was so soft it melted-in-my mouth. It was very messy. Joes food was taking forever (i;ll get back to that in a minute) It was a catch 22 I have had their donuts a cold, and let me tell you, I don't recommend it. FP's donuts are WAY better warm. Almost not worth it cold. So i new i had to eat it then, before it was ruined by time. Since the FP does not have seating inside and it was far to cold to sit outside I was stuck siting on a ledge to eat my donut. It was sticky and worth the mess it made of my fingers, hands, and some of my face. I am a very neat eater, but even i could eat this with out making a mess. If you are not familiar with the FP they do donuts differently from most of your traditional bakery's. They use the traditional method of making the donuts. Only they make them all like plain cake donuts. Then comes the fun part. they "create" each donuts individually by"dipping" the donut in glaze and topping. A wonderful prosses, BUT as the "wheres the beef" women sounded that battle cry I ask almost the same question of the Fractured Prune. Wheres the filling?

Joes sandwich, I would say fail-wich, but I believe the fail-ness of this "sandwich" will be demonstrated enough in the following passage. First of all,it took forever. As we order we saw the boy behind the counter get out a little round "egg" out of the refrigerator and place it on the counter. (sanitary? not quite.) My donut was finished before his sandwich was started. (a lengthy proses as I explained above) "Started" is an odd word for it because the method of "cooking" the egg was really heating it up in a microwave. This method created a rubbery egg with inconsistent heat placement. Not quit what we were looking for. The sandwich came with ham and bacon on your choice of bread. Although I respect choices, i was not impressed with this sandwich.

BOO on microwaving.

Pita Pan (a second helping)

I will be the first to admit when i was wrong. I only gave Pita Pan 3 stars. Last week if proved to me once and for all that it is a 4 star establishment

I was impressed.

The service was ok, I think the women was overwhelmed but the amount of people who decided to dine at Pita Pan last week. That night there were only 2 staff members there and, well, things were a little behind. I thought to my self. "OH GREAT, not only as there food "so so" now there service is lacking.." BUT after we ordered is was not long before our food was up. I was impressed at how fast these two worked.

I got the Pita Pan Burger. It was, Awesome.
Onions, mushrooms, avocados, and cheese ... these are a few of my favorite things.
I pride my self on my own creativity with ingredients but i have never thought of combining my favorite things and topping them on a burger GENIES! I mean it was one of th best burgers i have ever tasted... it was almost magical.

Joe had the gyro and although we cannot agree on the correct pronunciation of the dish we can agree that it was delicious. He said that is was the best one he had had in baltimore. Which is speaks volumes. It was really good, and i don't even really care for gyros. This one had so much meat and sauce, it was almost 2 meals!

Then there was the desert. I am a nut for cheesecake. It is my favorite food. They had the best cheesecake money can buy. It was only a little bit behind Ms Bassits cheese cake, and that is a TRUE compliment. It will be harder to start my diet knowing that something that delicious is so cheep and available any time.

I can admit when I am wrong; and in this case I was wrong. You have won my heart Pita Pan.

The Chameleon Cafe

Rating: 4 stars
Price- 20-30$ an entree
Portions- Average
Parking- We parked at the Safeway, but i don't know if your supposed to. We were not towed, so i think its cool.
Seating- Medium-ish (on the smaller side) dinning room.
Website: http://www.thechameleoncafe.com/

Karma Karma Karma Karma Karma Chameleon
You do come and go, you come and GOOOOOOOOOOOOO

OK- I'm done.

In an attempt to make up for a not as trilling Valentines day, Joe and I voyaged out in search of a nice meal. The whole day had been very disorganized and it had all the makings of a horrible evening. I was in a bad stressed mood. We entered the chameleon as it was opening for the evening. We were their first table. It was odd because we entered the restaurant from the front door which appeared to be in the work station of the wait staff. Next time we know to come in the door near the Safeway. The staff seemed very nice. We happened to be so early that our waiter was not even at work yet. (we saw him come in as someone poured our water) At first i was worried that it was awkward that we came so early but within the half hour the whole restaurant was jumping and i was glad that we had gotten there early. They do take reservation, and i would recommend making them. The workers seemed to know most of the people in the restaurant. They were very personable.

The menu was limited, they only had about 10-15 things to choose from. Although limited, the menu had a variety of unique foods. I was surprised at some of the combinations of ingredients and cooking styles. I had the duck. quack. It was fantastic. It was grilled with broccolini (i think) served over risotto with sausage and cider reduction. Let me brake it down, The duck was awesome, it was a VERY generous portion and cook exactly to my liking. Some places skimp on duck, here I was served almost a large chicken breast sized portion; I was very impressed. quack. I could have sworn that the menu said it was served with squash, but it was served with what appeared to be broccolini. I honestly don't know why I didn't ask, but it was a nice restaurant and I did not want to appear stupid. (which was silly, but I'm sure most of you have been in that kind of situation) The sausage was nice but as many of you know, my friends and I make our own sausage and although there sausage was good, it was not as tasty as ours. Not to be a sausage snob, but I like ours better. The cider reduction and risotto were out of this world. I wanted to lick my plate. The way the flavors of the reduction mixed with the duck juices made the plate almost irresistible.

Joe had the salmon. It was kind of a smaller piece of fish, but I think it just looked small and was thick. You could tell by the striations of the fish that it was of nice quality. The salmon was pan seared (my favorite method of preparation when I am cooking it at home) The menu said it was pan seared with a branade crust, the crust was so minute that it was almost nonexistent. The sauce was there, and the flavors were nice, but I wouldn't call it a branade "crust". The lentils were smooth and tender. (they were by no means mushy) I was impressed how the sorrel butter really brought the whole dish together.

Atmosphere was relaxing and comfortable. It was apparent that this place is a favorite in the neighborhood. I would love to be one of the regulars here, but, alas, it is a very expensive place. It might be the nicest place on my little mission. I would recommend it for someone who wants a high dinning experience. I was impressed by how well the Chameleon combined fancy with relaxing. It was expensive, but you got alot for your money.