Review #19: My Way Tavern (Holly Springs, NC)
Michael’s Review
Made “My Way,” with provolone, grilled onions, banana peppers, pepperoni (Look At Me!)
As I was trying to write my review, my mind kept going back to My Way as sung by Frank Sinatra. So, I went with it.
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"We might have been meant for each other. To be or not to be. Let our hearts discover." Alas, it was not to be.
Michael’s Rating: 3.5 out of 5
John’s Review
Red Wine sauce & sauteed portabella mushrooms (Snooty Beauty)
At My Way, I broke from a long stretch of Classic Rocks burgers to try a Snooty Beauty. What can I say? It was just okay. Honestly, I’m finding it hard these days wax poetic about the latest slightly-better-than-average burger. There are so damn many of them! Good enough, but nothing special.
What the hell is that on my screen? I’m always cleaning this thing and it’s never clean! Then you try to scrape off a little speck with a fingernail and you leave a big fingerprint on there. Geez! And my keyboard is a dust trap, look at that.
Oh, right. My Way. Sorry. Okay, so this thing had red wine sauce and portabella mushrooms. Came on another &#!@$%*@#&#& Kaiser roll, but as least it was on the more moist and less flaky end of the Kaiser spectrum. It tasted okay, but no burger magic. No endorphins. I just wish.
Sweet! Jaws is coming on! Welp, I know what I’ll be doing for the next couple of hours. What a flick! Just kind of takes you away, you know? Kids are napping, dear wife’s on the Triangle Mommies chattin’ away, and we’ve got beer and chili cheese Fritos! This is the first one, of course. All of the sequels should be burned, deleted, erased, eradicated. But the first one! Shhh. Sssshhhhh. SHARK! Can’t beat the characters, the dialogue, the menacing and surprising plot iterations of calm, chaos, consternation, camaraderie. The wonderful crescendo to calamity! Then, of course, ultimate victory, if at a price, and the denouement to our two heroes kicking ashore in the distance on a couple of yellow buoys tied to a deck board. So cool how they step ashore as the very last credit rolls. Quint! “Farewell and adieu to you fair Spanish ladies…” “Here’s to swimmin’ with bow-legged women!” “Not a bad record for this here vicinity!” The inimitable Robert Shaw, and the ONLY man who could’ve played that part. Jaws is high art, and that’s final.
That's no candy-gram. You're that land shark, aren't you?
Huh? Burger? Sorry. Another 3.25
Scott’s Review
Made “My Way,” with cheddar, lettuce, tomato, bacon (Classic Rocks)
Meh.
Scott’s Rating: 3.25/5
I used to live down the street from this place in HS and the only reason we would go was because we could walk, they have the market cornered on that in HS. The food, pending that they were not out of something was always….. meh. There was nothing that I ever wanted to order again after eating. Everything also seemed to come out way overcooked no matter what it was. I will say that it had a “nice” beer selection.
I agree with your sentiment. However, the crab stuffed portobello mushroom was pretty special.