Lemongrass Café – Moline Illinois

August 8, 2016

After a day visiting some of the John Deere attractions around the area including the harvester works factory and the John Deere pavilion, which was a couple blocks away we stopped in here for a bit early of a dinner. We parked back behind the restaurant and walked around to the front door which when we got there we found out it wasn’t wheelchair accessible. So we went back around to the back where they had the wheelchair accessible door. So we went in and were seated right away. After looking a bit at the menu we all three ordered a Coke $2.50 and I ordered the pad woon sen with chicken for $11.95 as did dad and mom got the pad Thai with chicken for $11.95. Then we sat and waited for a while and watched some of the staff interacting with a couple little kids that were there. They were very excited to see kids including our waitress carrying one of them around for a bit. Eventually our food came.

  

I thought my pad woon sen was pretty good. It had a glass noodles and vegetables and some sort of sauce. All of this tasted pretty good, but I have had better similar dishes. Dad seemed to like his too.

 

 

Mom enjoyed her pad Thai and I sampled it and I think it was better than when I got. I enjoyed this Asian place and wish I could go back and try some of their other things. Since they had many different Asian items from Thai to Korean to Chinese to Japanese and Vietnamese items that sounded good when reading the menu.

 

 

 

 

Address: 1419 5th Ave, Moline, IL 61265

 

  

Jimmy’s pancake House – Bettendorf Iowa

August 8, 2016

We stopped in for a late breakfast.

 

 

I got the one egg breakfast with bacon this came with hash browns and I chose toast to go with it. Mom had the same breakfast, but with pancakes. Dad had the two egg breakfast with sausage and pancakes. This was a nice little local breakfast place and it was a good solid breakfast nothing too crazy just a good breakfast. I liked how this place had different sized breakfasts and the one I got was the perfect size for this day.

 

 

 

 

 

Address: 2521 18th St, Bettendorf, IA 52722

 

Bierstube – Le Claire, IA

August 7, 2016

 We arrived here for dinner just after six after a day of exploring the Quad cities. When we arrived we were seated right away and had our drink orders taken; we all three ordered a Pepsi ($2 45). Then we had some time to look at the menu. After looking online previously at their menu I was intrigued by their Ruben rolls. So I kind of had an idea what I wanted, but still wanted time to look at the menu. Eventually we were ready to order and when our waitress was back I ordered the Ruben rolls ($13) with Spätzle and a side salad with creamy garlic dressing as my sides. Dad also got the Ruben rolls and mom got the salad and soup ($7). Then we had a little bit of a wait for our food to arrive.

 

The first thing that arrived was my side salad which I thought was pretty good; with red onions, cucumbers, a little bit a cheese and croutons. I had the creamy garlic dressing with it and it had some kick to it from the garlic and so did the onions in the salad for that matter.

 

 Before I got too far along with this the rest of our food arrived. The Ruben rolls were cut diagonally in half so there were six pieces and some thousand Island on the side along with my side of Spätzle. The Ruben rolls I thought were a great idea and these were pretty good. These were an egg roll wrapper filled with corned beef and Muenster cheese and some sauerkraut, but I thought it could’ve used some more sauerkraut, but it still tasted very good. And the thousand Island on the side was good and perfect to dip these in. My side of Spätzle was all right, but not the most exciting thing. This place was kind of a German place although probably not authentic, but I was glad we ate here and got to try out Ruben rolls and had a pretty good meal.

 

 

Address: 1001 Canal Shore Dr SW, Le Claire, IA 52753

 

 

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TC’s point after – Dewitt Iowa

August 7, 2016

Apparently pork tenderloin sandwiches were a huge thing in Iowa so I had to make sure to try at least a couple of them out. So this day we drove up from Davenport which is about 20 miles. This was a Sunday morning and when we arrived fairly early sometime after 11, the place was completely empty. We were able to sit wherever we wanted. We checked out the menu, but didn’t need too much time because I already knew what I was going to get. When our waitress was back to take our orders we all three got a pork tenderloin sandwich which came with fries and coleslaw. We sat there for a bit, me with great excitement for my first pork tenderloin sandwich. Right before our sandwiches came, coleslaw arrived in little dishes for me and mom, dad told our waitress he didn’t want his coleslaw when he ordered.

Soon after three plates arrived filled with a pork tenderloin sandwich and a pile of fries. The Sandwich came with lettuce, tomato, pickles and onion or whatever combination you wanted. Everyone else had a packet of mayonnaise on their plate except for me. I didn’t care so much, but it might have been good on this sandwich. This was a really good sandwich although it wasn’t as big as most pork tenderloin sandwiches are but it was still really good. It was breaded and the breading was tasty and salty and it was almost perfect with the pork. The one problem with this was the breading quickly got soggy so it wasn’t so crispy of a pork sandwich. The fries were all right kind of a bit thin and needed a bit of salt, but they were all right. I was very happy with my first try at a pork tenderloin sandwich, but I still wanted to try at least another one or two to see how this stacks up against other pork tenderloin sandwiches.

 

719 6th Ave, DeWitt, IA 52742

 

Harris pizza – Rock Island Illinois

August 6, 2016

I kept reading about Quad City-style pizza, so I did a little more research and found out that these pizzas have malt in the crust, usually the sauce has chili flakes and is a tad spicy, the sausage is ground and goes under the cheese, and these pizzas are typically cut into strips instead of slices.  I also found that there were many places that have Quad city style pizzas.  So since this seemed like a popular thing to get in the area I figured we ought to try it out. From what I found it looked like Harris pizza has been around for quite a while so I figured it was the one to try. When we arrived they seated us pretty quickly and took our drink orders which mom and I both ordered Pepsi’s and dad got a Hanks root beer in a glass bottle which they also brought out a cup with ice. We looked at the menu for a little bit, but since a Quad cities pizza seemed like sausage was the most common type we quickly decided to just order a large sausage pizza. So soon after when our waitress returned that’s what we ordered. As we waited I thought this place seemed like it’s probably a very popular local pizza place.

 

We waited for a while and then our waitress brought plates and then not too long later our pizza was delivered.  It was quite big probably a 16 inch and cut in strips like Quad city style pizzas should be. Some of the strips were long which made them a little bit harder to eat but it was doable. The sausage was ground and under the cheese.  The sauce didn’t seem too different to me but tasted alright.  I thought my first try at a quad city pizza was good and we had a decent pizza, but I don’t think it was as different as it sounded, it basically tasted like a good pizza and it was just cut differently. I won’t exactly go out of my way for a quad city pizza, but I would be alright with eating another.

 

3903 14th Ave, Rock Island, IL 61201

Machine shed – Davenport Iowa

August 5, 2016

When we arrived the place was absolutely packed and they said a 30 to 45 minute wait so we figured we might as well wait. So we waited out front and checked out their tractors they have parked in front and watched them shuck corn. Eventually our buzzer went off and we headed in. When we finally got to our table we had quite a bit of time to look at the menu. I decided to get the two-piece fried chicken dinner with mashed potatoes and gravy ($9.99) and so did mom. Dad ordered the meatloaf dinner ($13.49). We had a waitress and a waitress in training. When we ordered the waitress in training made it sound like just me and mom got our choice of family-style sides.  The choices were coleslaw, cottage cheese or apples we chose coleslaw and apples. But they didn’t really ask dad what he wanted even though his dinner came with the same things, but I don’t think he wanted any of them anyways.

 

 

Soon after our waitress in training delivered a bowl of coleslaw and apples along with basket of bread was to our table.  I really enjoyed all of these, the bread was warm and homemade and I also enjoyed the apples which we had warm.  After we ate all this we were offered more, but we declined.  In a bit after this our meals arrived along with corn on the cob. 

 

The fried chicken was good, but I’ve definitely have had better.  The mashed potatoes and gravy were very good to go along with my meal.  The corn was very fresh and tasted very good, which you would expect in Iowa.  Mom I think thought about the same as I did. 

 

Dad’s meatloaf was piled high and he really enjoyed his meal.  At Machine shed you’ll get a good meal and won’t leave hungry all at a reasonable price.

Address: 7250 Northwest Blvd, Davenport, IA 52806