Friday, January 30, 2009
Foods / Fun and Games / Restaurants Short and Sweet: The Melrose Keeps Its Menu Simple
Posted by Carrington Fox on Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 6:17 AM
This week's dining review features the short and sweet menu at The Melrose, the low-brow pub project of Bar Twenty3 founder Austin Ray. Located on Franklin Pike across from the bygone Melrose Lanes bowling alley, The Melrose offers an everybody-knows-your-name ambiance--complete with pool tables, Super Shot basketball game and Ms. Pac-Man table.
Kudos to Ray for keeping it simple as far as the food goes. The chalkboard above the bar lists a succint roster, including chili, nachos, quesadillas and wings, which means you can save your decision-making energy for the array of 75 beers.
Here's the question: If you could build your own short menu of bar fare--desert island dive dishes, if you will--what would be your top choices for pub grub?
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Nachos are great bar food, really soaks up the booze. Also, I'm a big fan of warm soft pretzels at a bar. Standards: Burger, chicken sammich, some type of beer cheese, etc.
If it's a bar it doesn't need a menu. It just needs a picture show popcorn popper. No butter, just popcorn. Lots of bowls. Free.
and goldfish crackers.
and one greasy bag of stinky pork rinds for the two people still on the Atkins diet.
and celery with tofu dip for 'the ladies'.
I'd say peanuts but I'll get clobbered by someone with an allergy. And I can do the math - cashews are out of the question, even if I buy them at Aldi. Would walnuts be okay with everyone? You can crack them yourself. Keeps the hands busy when you wish you could smoke while you're waiting for the next batch of
popcorn.
fresh, picture-show popcorn. That's really all you need.
and a well paid cleaning staff outfitted with high-quality long-lasting brooms...
Burgers, cheese fries, Chicken sandwich with avocado and honey mustard, more cheese fries.
I'm particularly partial to the desert-island style food at the Villager. If it weren't smoke-infested, it would be my favorite bar. The menu is incredibly small: 2 or 3 po'boys and Snickers. The wet roast beef sandwich is one of the sloppiest meals ever, but I have to get it at least once a month.
