A sparkling clean little greasy spoon (in the endearment sense of the term) located right on the hiway and yet called Shady Acres, this is associated with a gas station and convenience store next door. A small menu of breakfast (think french toast, eggs, bacon, pancakes, hash browns) and lunch (think burgers, 'baskets' like chicken fingers, hot and cold sandwiches) appears over the counter where you order. The food, which is both good and value priced based on our first visit experience, is brought to your table when it is ready. Bus your own when you're done. We liked this little place. We'd go back sometime.
THE EATS
Shared a BLT on toasted sourdough. Both the bacon and the toast were perfectly done, the tomato was nicely sliced and the lettuce was fresh green leaf, not the woeful iceberg some places want to throw on. The hardworking cook herself delivered it to our table and split it for us in the kitchen so each half arrived in a red plastic basket lined with parchment.
The piece de resistance is the homemade milkshakes. We chose huckleberry and it arrived at the table in a paper beverage container with a straw. But we needed to ask for a spoon to eat/drink it and that's a good thing because as all great milkshakes should be it was too thick for a straw. A small was only $2.70 'ish'...a bargain. And my hubby who thinks in the main that shakes are not worth the calories nearly arm wrestled me to be sure he got his half after he took the first taste.
Burgers seemed to be the big seller and although I don't eat beef, they did look like good ones coming out of the kitchen in their red plastic baskets to be delivered to the tables around us.
THE BILL
Sandwiches all lean under five bucks unless you add "the full meal" deal which includes tater tots or fries and a medium soda and then the prices run about $6.50. We did not choose the "full meal". Our shared sandwich and shake, plenty for the two of us, was under $7.00, tax included.
THE VIBE
Seating is at formica topped tables and chairs or booths. A handful of 'soda fountain' counter stools are at the counter; you know the cool 'takes me back to childhood' kind. At lunch time on a weekday the place was doing a brisk business of people who were clearly regulars and who included insurance salesman from a local office as well as lots of guys from construction trades, some of whom brought in lunchboxes supplemented with ordering from the Shady Acres menu.
THIS N THAT:
1) PARKING: A few spaces in their private lot. Now that we've been in we can see why the parking spots are very often full.
2) ACCESSIBILITY: One van accessible spot of parking in the lot. Level in the door and throughout. Almost all seating is standard height. Didn't check the loo for access.
3) MOVIE TRIVIA: I hear a scene from a Clint Eastwood movie was once filmed in this little place. read more