Three national chain restaurants have or will make their South Sound debuts. Last Monday, Buffalo Wild Wings opened near the Tacoma Mall. Read more about it here. Today, Dickey’s Barbecue Pit opened in Bonney Lake. On Saturday, Five Buys Burgers and Fries will open in Puyallup. Click “read more” for details. Read more »
I sat in a booth across from a group of four men. As my dining partners and I waited for our burgers and steaks at Bonney Lake’s Midtown Grill, I watched the table of men with their eyes glued to different flat panels. One had his eye on a soccer match; another watched the daily sports highlights. They talked, ate and kept their eyes on the scores.
Steaks, burgers, sandwiches and seafood in a setting with a stylish environment – Bonney Lake’s newest sports bar seems a win on a lot of levels. And dig a little deeper into the background of Midtown and it makes sense that the restaurant feeds the sports-loving crowd. Midtown is the sibling restaurant to the more casual Bonney Lake Tavern, which long has been home to sports and burger fans alike in this East Pierce community. Read more »
Burgers with fries. Anyone who follows this blog knows how much I’ve written about that combo in the last year. If not, just click here, here, here, here, here and here (did that make you dizzy?)
The last few months, I’ve encountered a few burgers served with house-made chips worth a mention. I was starting to suffer from fry fatigue, so the burgers at Hop Jack’s and the Spar, both served with crisply fried, thinly cut potato chips, found a fan in me. Read more »
When the weather warms, I know where I want to sit and sip pinot noir: The patio of Al Lago Ristorante, a lake-view restaurant with a rich and flavorful Southern Italian menu brushed broadly with Northwest ingredients.
The design of the cavernous restaurant might not make much use of the Lake Tapps view, but the stylish and warm décor in autumnal hues of sage and copper and cushy, deep booths near the flickering rock fireplace do entice on true Northwest days. Read more »
Oh, how things can change in just a few years. Bonney Lake long has sowed its culinary seeds deep in fast-food chain restaurants.
But during the past five years, restaurants such as Sushi Town, Old School Custard, Puccini’s Venetian Subs and All Spices Thai have added much-needed variety in the East Pierce community.
And 2009 continued that trend, but with more grown-up offerings. Andre’s Bar & Grill, which opened in May 2009, and Hop Jack’s, new in August 2009, both gave Bonney Lake diners a decidedly more sophisticated experience.
And now another restaurant has joined those ranks – Zato Grill. It’s a handsome restaurant with an urban vibe. And tucked into a strip mall next to the movie theater, it’s an unexpected find. It opened Dec. 13. Read more »
TNT Diner reader Barley Jim posted in this thread on the new Hop Jack’s restaurant in Bonney Lake that he was chagrined to be served a beer slushee at the restaurant. More specifically, he wrote, “The kid behind the bar took a VERY frozen glass and poured beer from a tap that had a 1 inch thick coating of ice all over it! The result was a beer slurpy! You Know… SLUSH! My beer foamed momentarily, gasping it’s last breath then turned to slush 1-2inches deep! DEAD! My beer was now DEAD, DEAD! ANYONE WHO LIKES BEER WOULD TELL …