Jul14

Fat Guy Eats: Steve’s Grilled Cheese and Quesadilla Company

by tonyd on July 14, 2018 at 12:01 am

Restaurant:  Steve’s Grilled Cheese and Quesadilla Company

Address: 804 N White Horse Pike, Stratford NJ

Food:  Grilled Cheese and Quesadillas

Price:  Slightly Above Average

Portions:  Average

Taste:  Great

Service:  Hipster

Atmosphere: So Steve’s is the latest franchise of fast food places.  The angle is grilled cheese and quesadillas.  The sandwiches are big sized Texas Toast bread served with either tomato soup or fresh cut fries.  (They had me at fresh cut fries.)

It’s good and I would eat there again.  I got the signature sandwich, which is a chesesteak on a grilled cheese sandwich.  The butter bread paired well with the meat, which was of top quality.  The fresh cut fries were exactly that.  For the fries alone, I would go back.  They were delicious.

While I’m sure the locations down the shore are a bit more presentable, the one in Stratford has a sign that’s out.  They really need to fix that.  I mean, I thought the place was closed and I was super close to driving past.  The inside features sketches of various characters holding grilled cheeses.  It’s a fun little place, but the outside doesn’t reflect that yet.  They put all the signage to face East and West, but the front of the store is South.

It’s weird for me too, as the building was a Friendly’s, then a couple of other things, an Indian place and now this.  If they just fix or remove that empty sign, it would look so much better.  And they should really have some of their fun pictures facing outside to make it look more inviting.  But hey, if you’re in the area and need a tasty buttery sandwich, it’s pretty good!

I give Steve’s Grilled Cheese and Quesadilla Company 8 out of 10 keggers.

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Jul13

Rewritten Headlines: Anti-Trump Aliens to Whipped Dude

by tonyd on July 13, 2018 at 12:01 am

Even Aliens Dislike Trump

Social Media Finally Useful for Something

Burglar Super Careful About Skid Marks

Artist Needs a Hand

Jet Ski Can Now Be Eye Sore Somewhere Else

Woman Robs Hogwart’s

Paddington Shocked

Car Repair Costs Even More

Yogi Takes a Break

Whipped Dude Wins Prize

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Jul11

Fat Guy Eats: Tomo Sushi

by tonyd on July 11, 2018 at 12:01 am

Restaurant:  Tomo Sushi

Address: 806 Delsea Dr, Glassboro, NJ 08028

Food:  Japanese

Price:  Okay

Portions:  Good

Taste:  Decent

Service:  Great

Atmosphere:  Average

We were looking for one last all-you-eat-sushi before my friend headed back home, so I looked for a new place.  I had never been to Tomo, so we drove out there.  The place is a little hard to find.  It’s in a massive shopping center and kind of towards the back.  But no worries.

It has a decent atmosphere, but for some reason they were playing Sports Center in the middle of serving customers.  Seemed like an odd choice for an Asian restaurant.  Usually it’s mellow instrumental music, but it wasn’t too bothersome.  Just kind of odd.

The all-you-can-eat-deal is pretty standard.  It has a decent amount of rolls and sushi on the list.  The white tuna was the best and the spicy tuna roll was good.  Seaweed salad wasn’t included, but the Ginger salad and Miso was, along with Edamame.  I tried something called spicy kani salad, which I wasn’t too enamored with.

Overall I think the sushi was good, the deal was solid and the iced tea was okay.  I wouldn’t go out of my way to get here, but if I was in the neighborhood, I certainly wouldn’t mind going again.  Decent, bros.

I give Tomo Sushi 7 out of 10 keggers.  Not bad.

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Jul09

Frat Boy At the Movies: Sicario 2

by tonyd on July 9, 2018 at 12:01 am

Sicario 2 is one of the worst movies I’ve seen in a long time.  And that includes Solo, which I kinda hated.

It’s because there’s a real budget here that I give it such a low rating.  When a low budget misses the mark, you can point to the lack of funds as a factor.  Obviously, that’s not an entire excuse for a movie, but it’s definitely a factor.  You can’t get the talent, you don’t have the time, you don’t have the resources—  But in Sicario 2?  A sequel to a hit movie?  The budget is $35 million dollars.  Low by Hollywood standards, but still no excuse for the problems of this movie.

Not the acting or the direction—  It’s the script.  The script is bad, I think.  It’s almost like the person who wrote it only saw the first movie and did zero research for this one.  It’s weird, because it’s the same writer.  Looking back at the first one, the research is just enough.  Since most of the movie is about Emily Blunt’s character and her journey, it works.  Without her in the sequel, there’s nothing to balance out the bleakness.  It’s like the producers said, “Well Josh Brolin and Benicio Del Toro are popular, therefore they should be the main characters of the movie.”  But that doesn’t work.

Brolin’s character was basically a side character in the first one.  And well Del Toro’s hitman is cool, by the end of the first movie, he’s basically irredeemable.  This movie tries to go back on that.  And on top of that near-impossible tasks stacks a series of improbable events that rely on both Brolin and Del Toro’s characters suddenly developing a conscience.

The third act is just ridiculous and the ending is just dumb.  I was expecting an action-packed assassin movie and instead I got the first movie’s bleakness without an context or Emily Blunt.  And to be honest, I was kind of sick of Emily Blunt by the end of the first movie.  I guess the writer kind of just squeaked by with just enough info in the first screenplay.  This one delves into the CIA and the DOJ and the relations with Mexico—  It just didn’t ring true.

I give Sicario 2 only 2 out of 10 keggers.  Avoid it, bros.  Watch the first one.

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