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Billy Sims Barbeque
We have another BBQ restaurant in town – Billy Sims Barbecue (BSBBQ). They opened up in mid July on South Glenstone near the Supercenter complex where the Boston Market restaurant used to live. I love BBQ and there are only a couple of places here in town that are my go-to places for this simple, [...] -
Farmers Gastropub
Farmers Gastropub has been on my list to visit for a while. Danny, Steve and I finally got a chance to have lunch again (which has been sort of a rare occasion lately) and we decided a trip to Farmers Gastropub would be in order. I’ve heard mixed reviews from people I’ve know that have [...] -
Wayo Sushi Bar & Grill
Wayo opened up on South Glenstone in the spot formerly occupied by Beano (and Burger King before that) earlier this year. The week it opened I made a visit with my brother and his family and decided against doing a review at that time as they were obviously working out many kinks. I drive past [...] -
Lola’s Pastries & Eatery
I recently got a gift certificate to Lola’s Pastries & Eatery in Nixa from a good friend. Naturally I needed to go spend it, so last week my wife and I headed south to Nixa for lunch. We arrived around noon and found the parking lot to be just about full – which is typically [...] -
Bee-Stro Café
The Bee-Stro café is co-located with the Honey Heaven store on the Lawrence photo strip center on South Campbell. I’m still not exactly sure why I visited the Bee-Stro except that I was told that I was taking my wife, sister-in-law and mother-in-law out to lunch and that was where they wanted to go. We [...] -
El Sombrero
Friend Kelly said there was a new restaurant in the Dillions strip mall on West Battlefield road. My wife and I were driving by at dinner time the other night and discovered it was Springfield’s newest Mexican place call El Sombrero. There were only a couple of tables occupied when we arrived and we were [...] -
St. Michael’s Bar and Grille
I finally made it downtown to St. Michael’s for lunch last week. My companions for this visit were friends Steve and Kelly. Kelly is a downtown groupie and ended up being our ordering guide. The menu at St. Michael’s is Italian influenced with pasta’s, salads, sandwiches and burgers. The special of the day on the [...] -
Marinade’s Steakhouse & Lounge – Lunch
This is a review of lunch at Marinades – as of this date they have been open about a week – but only on the “Lounge” side. The sit-down restaurant side doesn’t open until May 13th. Danny, Steve and I met for lunch this week at Marinade’s. There are two sides to the place – [...] -
Pickleman’s Gourmet Café
I noticed 2 weeks ago a newish restaurant in the nook shopping center along South National where Shultz & Dooley’s 2 is located. The name was Pickleman’s Gourmet Café and from just driving by I couldn’t tell exactly what kind of place it was, but it must be special to have ‘Gourmet’ in the name. [...] -
Rosie Jo’s Café
My sister-in-law who lives in Ozark suggested a visit to Rosie Jo’s was in order. I had some trepidation about trying another home-cooking style place after our recent experience at Patrick’s in Nixa. But, this is what I do, so Steve and I had lunch at Rosie Jo’s this week – purposely leaving out Danny [...]