Pig Park BBQ

Always great tasting food, Hot ready to go. Prices are well within reason…read more Only 5 minutes from my house. Staff is always helpful and friendly, will be going there for lunch today.

If there was a single example of what "fall from grace" means, it's this restaurant. My family and…read moreI used to love coming here. We looked forward to every summer when Janine's would be open and at least 2 meals a week would come from here. Since the new owners took over, genuinely every single aspect of the business has been downgraded. The food, quality, consistency, operations management, and even the employee experience are all drastically worse. I'll list some specifics to illustrate my point... When the new owners took over, they swapped the pickup and order food windows. If you've ever worked inside the building or seen the layout, you know that this makes no sense. It hinders operations and ruins the natural flow of work when fulfilling food orders. It still confuses customers this far into the season. And that's not the only thing that ruined the experience for employees. Previously, employees earned minimum wage plus tips, and now under the new management, the employees get the service worker wage where tips are used to fill in the gap between what they get paid by the owners and minimum wage. The net pay went way down because of this. The three times I've eaten there since the owners changed, it has been a massive disappointment. The food quality is worse. They changed suppliers for staple menu items like fries, tangy gold sauce, and some of their meats. It's noticeable that the new stuff is significantly lower quality than before. And all these negative changes have come without a price decrease, but in fact higher prices year over year. And here's a direct story from the experience that led to this review: we got dinner from there tonight (for the last time), and the service was embarrassingly bad. Our order included a ceasar salad, which was meant to come with no dressing due to an allergy to the ingredients. Despite explicitly communicating and confirming with the employee on the phone (they read the order back), the salad came with ceasar dressing. So we had to call back, and explicitly state that we want the salad "with only three ingredients: lettuce, chicken, and croutons." After going back on the 20 minute side quest to pick up that new salad, it had no croutons and came with cheese. Unbelievable. And finally, the ice cream I ordered with the meal was grainy and disgusting. I've never had a single grainy ice cream from Janine's until this year. I really blame everything on the new owners. They ruined everything about this place. If they know what's good for this business, they'll sell it to competent people who care about its success.

Whoopie Pie Sundae

Burgers and sausage with fries. Burger for me was disappointing.

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Lobster roll with the macaroni salad

Hunan Garden

3.4(61 reviews)

4.0 mi

Our favorite Chinese place!! It's not called hunan garden!…read more Food is always fresh, reasonable prices and very friendly staff!!

FYI ~ This restaurant is now called Hunan Garden, and used to be the old Lin's Garden…read more Silly me on New Year's Eve I was so excited for dinner I took no photos. Tonight I went back for more vegetable Mei Foon and snapped a photo. Absolutely so yummy! The owners are very pleasant and the food is always ready, hot and yummy. They are only take away since Covid so don't plan on eating in. I do miss eating in.

Ivory Shrimp

Hunan Style Fish Filet

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Tropical Vibes &Grille

4.7(3 reviews)

3.3 mi

Awesome food. Great service... Ribs are crazy good! Salmon so perfect... sides are surprising and…read morespecial! We will so be back!!!

Honest, good food. Try the ribs for sure, they fall off the bone and the sauce is sweet & tangy…read more Also the chicken and rice plate is good too. Very kind people as well. A great nice spot in a small town.

Deep fried jack fruit, plantains

Wilson's choice, Caesars salad

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Caeser's salad

Salem Cross Inn

4.0(232 reviews)

3.0 mi

•$$$

Incredible experience. From Cindy at the desk who got us a window seat as promissed, to our…read morewaitress all very professional, even funny. The food was incredible. To die for lobster bisque with meat and a bread built in! Portobello mushroom as a solid cap side dish! I've eaten around the world and I can say... "I just had the best swordfish I have ever tasted in my life." The chef is Wayne Taylor. I am very picky about my gimlets. Rebecca knew the bartender nailed it when she saw the look in my eye before I even tasted it. My wife had the shrimp linguine it was delicious and there was so much of it she took it home! We're going back next week. I'll let you know. BTW, this is on the historical register. It's an old working farm, country estate. A true treasure! You might want dress nicely. I noticed most folks did!

We purchased tickets to the fireside feast at Salem Cross in November and have been looking forward…read moreto it since then. We arrived at 5:30, went downstairs, checked in. Checked out the fireplace and roasting jack, and immediately went outside for a sleigh ride. It was fun, and lasted about 10 min. We headed back in and had some cheese spread and crackers which were good and a drink from the bar. Soon it was time for warm mulled cider and wine. It's cool how they heat them up, with a plunge of a hot poker from the blazing fireplace. The mulled wine was very good. Shortly after the mulled wine the prime ribs came off the roasting jack, the fire built up, and the cauldron put on for the seafood chowder. All the ingredients went in, and people were offered the opportunity to stir it. Things wrapped up downstairs and the crowd headed upstairs to the dining room. I'd say there was ~150 people. Tickets were $90 each. It's communal dining which I typically like. It's cool to talk to different people and see where they come from etc. Not tonight. The person sitting next to us was like a radio you wish you could turn off for 2 hours. Not the restaurant's fault of course, but it did distract from the evening. Bread was served, white bread rolls and sweet potato muffins, I didn't try them but they looked nice. The seafood chowder came out, it was very good. The main course was brought to the tables, it was prime rib, 2 salted roasted potatoes, and a healthy dollop of mashed butternut squash. Unfortunately this is where the real disappointment started for me. My prime rib was so tough that I couldn't cut through it with a steak knife, and raw. I ate one of the potatoes, and it was fine. The butternut squash had thanksgiving type spices and the taste I had of them was nice. The myoglobin from the raw meat turned everything red and watery so I didn't eat apart from that. Dessert was hotel pans of apple pie, I didn't try it. Not being a quitter I took the prime rib home and after cutting off the hard fat with a proper kitchen knife was able to salvage ~4.5 oz. I tried to coax some tenderness into it with a quick sear and it worked. Unfortunately it was livery so into the trash it went. In my humble opinion the experience was very nice, with the food taking a back seat. That said, other people seemed to enjoy their meals, mine may have been the outlier. I won't be back.

View from our table

Pumpkins Muffin. Someone must have taken a bite!

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Exterior entry

Ware House of Pizza

2.4(20 reviews)

1.7 mi

After this place being exceptional something happened a year or two ago and now it's horrible. Last…read moreyear I ordered a pizza, paid in advance, and was told 30 minutes. I arrived in exactly 30 minutes to see my uncooked pizza still sitting on the rack ready to go in, and it didn't go in until I said I was there for that. So I waited another 15 minutes, and they had no other customers or orders to prepare but still a wait for a prepaid pizza. I vowed never again. So this year I decide to give it another try. I order a Warehouse pizza with no sausage. Guess what I got? Lots and lots of sausage. Then on top of that it was burned. I should have trusted my instincts and never gone back.

My brother works as a chef and I wish I'd taken a picture of the look of disgust on his face when…read morehe lifted the top bun of his chicken sandwich. That facial expression would tell you everything you need to know about how appetizing the cuisine is at Ware House of Pizza. Since I have no photo, I'll just highly recommend going somewhere else for food.

My order when I pickup it up. Bags and boxes are clean. Great presentation.

Greek salad with grilled chicken just out of bag.

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Chicken bone I found in my calzone.

Northeast Pizza

2.3(44 reviews)

3.5 mi

Love their pizzas! The buffalo chicken pizza is so good, perfect amount of chicken and not too…read morespicy. Always had good service and a clean restaurant.

Fantastic flavor with lots of cheese. Crust was crispy and light on the inside…read more Service was fast and accurate. I will return!

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Mexicali Cantina Grill - Ware

3.9(120 reviews)

1.3 mi

Went for a friends birthday. Was not disappointed in the food. Service was slow and took time…read morerefilling water. I got the pork tacos. Came with cabbage and cilantro and tomatillo sauce. That sauce had excellent heat. Served with black beans and rice. Don't remember the food my friends got but have pics.

The food was absolutely amazing!!! The flavor and portions were well worth it. The service was…read moreimpeccable! Our waitress was super sweet and amazing. She did an absolutely amazing job!!! The restaurant was clean and had a great ambiance! We love Mexican food and frequent many locations and we've got to say this one by far moved to the top of our list! New to Ware so we're so excited to have a place so close!!!!

Bar area

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Inside

Subway

2.4(5 reviews)

1.2 mi

I went to subway with my toddler I and got a tuna sub with jalapeno peppers and tuna on his and the…read morelady wasn't wearing a hair net or hat (important) then I got a all veggie sub and was surprised when they didn't have peanut butter. The food was fine except for the 2 foot long hairs I'my suns sub I was worried he would of choked on them (very scary). The workers were fine I guess but the floor was so sticky I could barely lift my foot. But despite all of that the food was great would recommend.

Always fresh, great food, although their new "we slice meats in front of you" initiative only slows…read moredown production and cuts some menu items. Great building, always clean and quiet.

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McDonald's

1.9(22 reviews)

1.1 mi

Over the 3 years of me going to the place, its pretty nice. Ive been inside, in the drive-thru, and…read moreyeah- the service is good. Im lovin it and its menu options too. They keep it relatively clean, and Obama would definitely approve. Theyve changed over the years, lemme tell you that.

20 minutes for old cold fry's and sloppy thrown together food then had to wait for drinks while 2…read morekids or workers fold around poor management Time for A change start going to Wendy's

Cheese, egg, bacon and biscuit

Obama would be disappointed in this horse crap palmers McDonald's is better and they have a play place

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Michael B.

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12 years ago

I have a traveled the country and eaten at many restaurants of all ethnicity. Came across this little roadside stand and was completely satisfied with the brisket, beans, coleslaw, all which are out of sight. Give it a try. Who would've thought this type of food was available in a small town in western Massachusetts? read more

Chris B.

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13 years ago

Been there many times, everything is excellent and always consistent. They usually run out of ribs in late afternoon, so get there early if that is your craving. read more

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