Phipps Feeding Fiasco

The experience
I’m writing this over a week after actually going there, so my recollection of the experience is not going to go so well.  I know that Ogre and Mina love this place and in the past, I’ve been a little bit “iffy” about reviewing it for childsplate.  Afterall, it’s Hooters.  That just doesn’t seem [...]

The experience
We we looking for a quick meal this day and I had a sudden craving for a hot dog.  I suggested Wienerschnitzel.  Grace had already eaten but she could have ice cream.  The kids approved of the choice, so off we went.  We pulled up and noticed the Zoo Cuts next door.  Grace had [...]

The experience
Today, the plan was for Ogre and I to drive separately to dinner as Grandpoo and Oma would be joining us to celebrate Grandpoo’s birthday and then everyone except Benji and me were going to see the new Star Trek movie at the IMAX theater in Mesquite.  Well, Benji was out as he was [...]

The experience
Today was another day with Dr. Mom away at work.  So me and the kids would be on our own.  Mina said she wanted to try the place she saw the day before.  I recalled she had noticed Grandy’s.  Yep, that’s what she wanted to have.  Hadn’t been there in eons, so what the [...]

The experience
Tonight we were meeting our very good friends for dinner.  One couple has two children, aged 5 months and 2 years -both girls.  The other couple is newly married and sans children.  We anticipated quite the fun evening, but we decided that at least the number of adults still outnumbered the number of kids [...]

The experience
Today we decided to eat Indian food.  I know, JC’s Burger’s House does not sound like and Indian restaurant.  That’s because it’s not.  The restaurant we planned to go to was closed.  We find it random, but they are closed every Wednesday.  We asked Mina if she’d rather have burgers or pizza and she [...]

The experience
I wasn’t really in the mood to go out to eat this evening an Grace was just well enough to tag along.  It was already getting late and we still had to pick up Benji who still wasn’t eating.  We opted to grab something nearby and I had just the place in mind; Hot [...]

The experience
As Mina and I were headed home to pick up Ogre for dinner, I got paged by the hospital.  Looked like I’d be doing another admission tonight.  Unfortunately, that meant a quicker, closer dinner than what I had planned.  I gave Ogre some choices and we headed in that direction.  As we neared one [...]

The experience
Mina decided that she wanted to eat “American” food tonight.  Ogre translated this into “Burgers.”  He looked on line to see what the buzz was with Burgers these days.  We chose a restaurant that received Reader’s Pick kudos in, I think, the Observer and happened to have a location nearby.  Ogre invited one of [...]

The experience
It was a beautiful day and a beautiful night so Ogre wanted to eat out by the lake in Rockwall.  Sounded like a plan.  We knew there were several restaurants out there, so we just headed out there with reckless abandon.  We ended up going to Agave, one of the first places we saw.

We [...]