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The problem with some, though not all, nostalgic restaurants is that their menus can be rather dated and unrefined. Roma Cafe is a good example. While they do provide a solid, filling "red-sauce" type of meal, it seems a tad overpriced for what you get and some of it feels a bit mass-produced. For example, the side of spaghetti that comes with a lot of entres has the look and feel of stuff you might get in a school cafeteria, and I know for a fact they use frozen vegetables in at least some of their dishes in spite of their location in Eastern Market because I had a meal once with side veggies that were still half frozen. They took it back and gave it another 30 seconds in the microwave. But the Roma salad is a very good, well-tossed basic salad that is very hard to find nowadays. The service, on the other hand, is usually excellent. And their wait staff is unionized with full benefits, so unions may not always be all bad.
There are good examples of nostalgic restaurants, though. I can think of two good German examples. Stepping into the Dakota Inn Rathskeller up in the fashionable neighborhood around John R. and 6 mile is like being beamed into Bavaria complete with costumes, umpa music and good, cheap, homemade German food, and Jacoby's behind the county building downtown has some really good rib-sticking German food and beer. And of course there are those Polish gems in Hamtramck.
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I agree on Roma...a little pricey for what you get. I like unrefined, just not unrefined and overpriced. Too bad about Vince's...I also used to like Santia's. They had a really salty pizza....They went under new management and are not closed too I think. I still run in to the delivery guy who used to deliver to my house 20 years ago. Ate a lot of pizza from there. Very unassuming place. Gracie See's is still open although I don't think they're as good as they used to be. I think the next generation took over.
The Red Devil is still in the Yellow Pages. They must have changed owners by now.....I think Gregg's Pizza is still on Livernois, just down the block from their original location. They used to be pretty good and were open late.
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02-20-2008, 11:40 AM
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