Tuesday, April 8, 2014

Dave and Buster's


Dave and Buster’s is an American restaurant full of entertainment that includes video arcade games and outdoor activities for guests. The two locations near the Auburn Hills area are located in Livonia and Utica, Michigan. The address to the Utica location is 45511 Park Avenue, Suite D and the address to the Livonia location is 19375 Victor Parkway. The website is very user friendly which makes it very easy to find different locations around your area to enjoy. The menu is full of many delicious food and drink items to choose from while playing video arcade games or watching your favorite sports teams at the bar. The burgers and sandwiches portion of the menu includes items such as the south Philly Burger, the Black & Bleu, Dave’s Double Cheeseburger, Buster’s Cheeseburger, the BLT Turkey Burger, the Gardenburger, The Boss Chicken Club, The Philly Cheesesteak, Buffalo Bar Chicks, and the Roasted Turkey Avocado BLT. The starters, snacks, soups & salads part of the menu offers calamari, poppin’ potatoes, mountain o’nachos, soinach dip, buffalo wings, pretzel dongs, cheesesticks, potato skins, appetizer trio which includes Buffalo wings, potato skins, and queso dip with tortilla chips, and chicken quesadillas, loaded queso, and soft pretzel bites. The entrees offered on their menu are New York strip, teriyaki sirloin steak, chargrilled sirloin steak, peppercorn sirloin steak, BBQ ribs &buffalo wings, BBQ chicken & ribs, BBQ ribs, Cajun shrimp alfredo, parmesan chicken alfredo, mac and cheese, and baked chicken & shrimp alfredo. The kids menu consists of linguine pasta with butter or marinara sauce, grilled chicken served with rice, cheeseburger served with fries, pretzel dogs served with fries, grilled cheese sandwich, cheesesticks, mac and cheese, French fries, and a small Caesar salad. The restaurant also offers Belgian chocolate fondue, triple chocolate cake, hot sugared donut holes, ginormous brownie sundae, bananas foster pie, and New York cheesecake for kids. The drinks for the kids are juices, sodas such as coke products, handmade shakes with flavors such as chocolate, strawberry, and vanilla, and milk. The scrumptious desserts include hot sugared donut holes, bananas foster pie, triple layer chocolate cake, Belgian chocolate fondue, ginormous brownie sundae, and New York cheesecake. Dave and Buster’s also offers a eat & play combo where you can choose one of eight of the entrees off the menu and get a ten dollar game card for only $16.99. The eat & play combo is only available Sunday- Thursday from open to close and Friday and Saturday until 5 p.m.  The drinks that can be ordered at the bar include margaritas, long island iced tea, mojitos & sangrias, frozen concoctions, snow cones, signature cocktails, martinis, beer (domestic & import), wine, non-alcoholic, and frozen drinks Costumers  can enjoy half price games on Wednesdays from open till close. The video arcade includes games such as Mario Kart Arcade Grand Prix Deluxe, Monopoly, Simpson’s Soccer, Snow Down, Typhoon, Temple Run, Blackout, Milk Jug Toss, Dream Raiders, Harpoon Lagoon, Dark Escape, Cut the Rope, and many more. Dave and Buster’s offers event packages to bring your friends and family or even a business meeting to enjoy the some food, drinks, and have some fun with the many arcade games offered at the many locations available around Michigan.

Tuesday, April 1, 2014

Italia Gardens



Italia Gardens is an Italian restaurant that serves pasta, ribs, and vino that is family-owned since 1931. Italia Gardens is located in Flint, Davison, and Oxford with a lot of awesome Italian items on the menu. The location that I always go to is located 1076 South Lapeer Road, Oxford, Michigan 48371. The phone number is 248-628-4112 and the fax is 248-628-5652. The business hours are Monday-Thursday from 11a.m. - 9p.m., Friday- Saturday from 11 a.m. – 10p.m., and Sunday from Noon- 8p.m. Customers can also sign up for their free birthday dinner meal by subscribing on the website which is http://www.italiagardens.com/ . Italia Gardens have a regular restaurant menu for dine in and a catering menu for costumers to order food for their gatherings with friends and family. Monday kids eat free with dine in only and for every full-priced dinner entrée purchased kids ten and under receive a free meal from the kids menu. Tuesdays are two for Tuesdays when customers receive a free meal from their select menu with the purchase of an entrée and two beverages. Wednesday is thirty-five cent pasta night with a purchase of any dinner and gets an original spaghetti dinner for just thirty-five cents. Thursdays are rib fest with a purchase of a full-priced full or half slab dinner and receive a second one for half price. Friday, Saturday, and Sunday’s customers need to call for that night’s chalkboard specials. The appetizers on the menu are garlic bread, bruschetta bread, barbecued ribs, Sicilian sausage, patate, e cipolle pizza, mussels bianco/marinara, and dipping sauces for homemade bread like tomato sauce, meat/marinara, and alfredo sauce. The pasta choices are spaghetti, fettuccini, or mostaccioli with the choice of sauce including tomato sauce, meat sauce, marinara sauce, alfredo sauce, blush sauce, diavolo sauce, or gorgonzola sauce. The wood-fired pizza/ calzone include items such as margherita, barbecued chicken, patate e cipolle, pesto pizza, sausage diavolo, vegetarian, chicken Florentine, or create your own. The oven baked choices are lasagna classic, mostaccioli alforno, eggplant parmigiano, ravioli alforno, and manicotti. The seafood choices are lobster pasta, grilled salmon, salmon piccata, shrimp tetrazzini, seafood alfredo, seafood marinara, and parmesan encrusted whitefish. The delicious items on the steak and sausage portion of the menu are grilled rib eye, sausage siciliano platter, and sausage arrabbiata. The barbecue rib combinations are rib and chicken parmigiano, rib and lasagna, rib and sausage siciliano, and rib and boneless quarter chicken. The chicken lovers portion of the menu includes items such as chicken tetrazzini, chicken alfredo, chicken piccata, chicken parmigiano, lemon basil chicken alfredo, chicken con broccoli, and chicken Florentine. The featured specials include chicken marsala and house mac-n-cheese. The choices for catering are parties for families or open houses which can be served as a la carte or served in pans with paper supplies. Customers can watch our television spots explaining our specials during the week and weekends. The open house menu includes such as pasta, fresh salads, and extras. The delicious items to choose from on the family pans to go menu are lasagna, mostaccioli  tomato sauce, mostaccioli meat sauce, chicken alfredo, or chicken tetrazzini.