We're Back!

First of all, I'd like to apologize to everyone for not having a blog post last week and not posting about not having a blog post last week.  It was my birthday and I was too busy abusing my friends for free lunches to go to lunch for the blog.  Second, thanks to everyone for asking where we were, it makes us feel all warm and fuzzy inside.

Now that's out of the way, on to our destination this week!  Nearly Famous Deli was where we traveled all the way to the south side of town for this week.  It had made some strong showing in the polls and we decided to give it a go.

Nearly Famous serves pretty much standard deli and pasta fare.  We went for lunch as usual and it was actually a bit of a drawback this week as Nearly Famous only has about half of their menu available for lunch.  I wouldn't classify this as a bad thing since we were there for lunch, but it is definitely worth noting.  The lunch menu consists of a ton of sandwiches and relatively standard pasta dishes (spaghetti, lasagna, fettuccine alfredo, etc.).  I ordered the spaghetti and meatballs and Sarai ordered a BLT.  Overall, it was a great light lunch.  More on that below!

The restaurant itself is a pretty big place.  It is significantly larger than the old location.  There is plenty of seating and we had no problem just walking in and being told where to sit.  The atmosphere was pretty nice, they had local art on the walls (something we are suckers for) and it was a pretty charming place to sit down and grab lunch.  They were very busy but there was plenty of seating and servers to keep up.

Our server was great.  She was always there when we needed her and was very conversational and fun.  Overall, we had a very good experience there.  We'd like to head back for dinner so we can see what is different.  The dinner menu looked really good and definitely warrants checking out at least once.  Nearly Famous definitely ranks up there as far as a destination to get a light, delicious lunch that won't make you feel like you can't move for the rest of the day.

Overall Experience:  ★    ★    ★   ½   ☆  

Food:   ★    ★    ★   ½   ☆  

Service:  ★    ★    ★    ★    ☆  

Atmosphere:  ★    ★    ★    ☆   ☆  

Justin's Impressions:

I really enjoyed Nearly Famous.  I ordered the spaghetti and meatballs and was not disappointed.  They make their sauce and meatballs in house and they were very good.  The sauce seemed like it was missing a little bit of flavor, but it was still good.  I'm not a chef and don't have a very refined palette but it just tasted like it needed a little bit of oomph (I also really wanted to use the word oomph).  That isn't to say I wasn't happy with it, it just didn't have a taste that really stood out.  The meatballs were definitely getting it done though.   Overall, it was a great dish.

Sarai's Impressions: 

I thought Nearly Famous Deli was pretty great! I wasn't sure how it was going to be, since their main focus seemed to be on basic sandwiches and simple pasta dishes. 

I ordered the BLT on pumpernickel bread. It was an excellent choice, for sure. It had six strips of bacon. There's nothing wrong with 6 strips of bacon. The bread was fresh and delicious. Only downside to the food (and a personal complaint about places who do this...) no ranch dressing for my side salad. Luckily, they had a special replacement dressing called green goddess that did the job. 

The server was really friendly. She was always ready for us no matter what we needed. She always smiled and had great eye contact.

I would definitely visit this place again for a light inexpensive lunch.

See you next week :)