Allin's diner - St. Charles Missouri

September 8, 2012

We were in Charles for my dad to do some genealogy research.   After doing some research of my own, I thought this place sounded alright and was in the area. There soup was supposed to be good so I wanted to make sure to try some. I decided to get a sandwich to go with the soup. After going over the menu I decided on the grilled ham and cheese and chose American for my cheese and I decided to get a cup of soup which I picked potato and leek off the day’s soup list. They asked if I wanted to substitute that for the chips, which was what I decided to do. My mom also got the potato and leek soup with her BLT sandwich.

 

My dad decided to have a Reuben and had chips to go with. All the food came pretty quick.

 

 

The soup I thought was kind of bland and boring and needed something. I added some salt and thought it helped quite a bit and made it taste all right.

 

 

My grilled ham and cheese sandwich was just that a grilled ham and cheese sandwich which I didn't think was all that exciting. It was good but was nothing too exciting, and that was pretty much what everyone else thought of the meal as well.

 

130 North Kingshighway Street St. Charles, MO 63301
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A’mis pizza - Webster Groves, MO

September 7, 2012

We stopped here our first night when we got to St. Louis. It was a little late around eight o'clock or maybe a little later and raining hard when we got there and it was mostly full inside.  not long after we got a table and cleared out pretty good. They took our drink order pretty quick which was three Pepsis. It seemed to take a little while before they came to take our order which we decided to get a pepperoni Chicago style deep dish which the menu said could take up to 40 minutes and a medium New York style sausage and mushroom.

 

They also brought out a basket of dinner rolls which were good. Really not too much time later the pizzas came out at the same time which wasn't close to being 40 minutes. 

The Chicago deep dish was okay but I don't think I'm too big of a deep dish fan.  It had all the basic parts of a chicago style pizza.

 

The New York style sausage and mushroom was good and I thought the better of the two, but I didn't think it was anything too great or exciting. When we were done they came to check to see if we needed a box which we took one but it didn’t fit in our fridge in the hotel so that didn't help much. Then we went ahead and paid up at the counter and left.

This was not the most exciting pizza but it was all right just about average in my opinion.

 

 

9824 Manchester Road, Webster Groves, MO

 

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Red Barn Cafe & Hen House Bakery - Mount Vernon MO

September 7, 2012

This day we were traveling to St. Louis, so I searched on Google and on the internet that morning and found this place.  I wasn’t exactly starving, so I didn’t want a huge lunch.  Mom and I both had the soup and salad bar and dad went with the cheeseburger with fries.  After we ordered we headed for the salad bar. This was a pretty good salad bar everything appeared fresh and had all the basics you would expect on a salad bar. With a few other salads as well including one that looked alright with broccoli and various other things but after I found the raisins in it I wasn't too excited about. We returned to the table to find a plate of huge rolls and butter that came with the soup and salad bar. Then we had to go check out the soup bar which wasn't with the salad bar it was around the corner from it. There were probably five or six different soups.  I decided I would start with the chicken noodle and my mom found a vegetable beef soup to try. After we got back to the table with my soup and salad, my dad's burger arrived.

 

The salad I got was just a salad a good salad but still just a salad.

 

I really like the chicken noodle soup with nice thick noodles, good chicken, and a really good broth. This was the best chicken noodle soup I have ever had. My mom really liked her beef vegetable soup as well. After I was done with my soup I went back and tried another kind this time sausage gumbo. I don't know if I ever had gumbo before this but it was nice and spicy and delicious and I'm not exactly the biggest sausage fan. Then I thought I better get some more of the chicken noodle soup.

 

The dinner rolls that came with were huge, they were about the size of four normal dinner rolls. The butter that came with it was honey butter which was good but I would have preferred just regular butter. My dad thought his burger was really good as well, and he is still talking about. It was like a good burger that you could get in his younger days.

 

 

As we were paying at the counter I noticed the pies and cinnamon rolls which looked amazing.

This was a good old time restaurant with great homemade food.

107 W Mount Vernon Blvd

Mount Vernon, MO 65712

 

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