Post XIII - Longway's Diner

Before I start, I want to tell a quick story.  A few years ago (never mind how many!) I stopped here with some friends.  We got some of the best food I've ever had at a diner.  Fantastic chicken fried steak, hash browns, and then homemade doughnuts....like FRESH. Like "you mind waiting?  They're still frying them."  Just really delicious and a great cap to a great meal.  The waitress was friendly and cheery (despite it being something like two in the morning).  Also, there was an Irish Lumberjack and possibly God.

We were driving there and in the opposite lane, there was a DWI checkpoint.  So we started joking that maybe we died and those were the officers investigating.  We further supposed that the restaurant was the waiting room for Heaven....just then the door opened a dude who was 6 feet tall and rail thin.  Also, he was wearing all black - including his cowboy hat.

It was a touch trippy.  Just a skosh.

Anyhow - back to the review.

I actually had two visits, and this deals with the first.

It was Lent, so a meatless Friday....no worries though, odds were good there would be fish fry. EVERY diner has fish fry during Lent on Friday.  They had a seafood platter which sounded good - shrimp, scallops, fish - all in all a good choice and they had cocktail sauce.  The shrimp and scallops were pretty good, slightly over what I like, but DOH standards are rough to deal with,and that might be part of it.  The breading was nice and crunchy,but lacking a little "oomph".  It was almost like a plain breading with no flavoring. Not unforgivable, but hard to recommend.  The fish was....being generous, not good.  It was a very thin piece of fish, and kind of chewy.  Definitely not a future eat.

It came with applesauce, which was a double whammy.

1. It came from a can
2. It did not come with a spoon.

Have you ever tried to eat canned applesauce with a fork which was also used to eat seafood with cocktail sauce?  Joy, it ain't.

It's a shame because this used to be a great place to eat....I did give it another shot (which will be dealt with a little later), but you'll have to wait on that.