Not much happening here today. Slept in (missed the Sunday service at WHC of course), blew a couple hours on video games, and spent the afternoon with my wife running a few errands, ate at Green Mill [ooh, there's something I've gotta blog about] and watched a little Sunday evening bube tube.

So we went to dinner at the Green Mill in Oakdale (I-94 & Century Avenue) and all I have to say is this…. GHETTO. That place was such a dive, that I can hardly believe that Green Mill allows them to run the place like they do.

When you first walk in, you’re greeted with the stench of stale, smelly, greasey restaurant and most certainly reinforced by the dingy carpet which leads the way. The air was so heavy and stuffy, that it was literally hard to breathe in there; and when you did, you inhaled the combination of several-week-old-grease in tandem with second-hand cigarette smoke and what smelled like rotten cheese and/or milk spilled underneath the booths.

If that wasn’t enough to turn you off, playing overhead in the PA speakers was some sort of heavy metal / hard rock satellite feed or CD mix playing. In a pizza restaurant??? I asked them if they could change it—they humored me and changed it to techno. (rolls eyes)

The food was okay—the wings sorta tasted like they were mass-manufactured. The batter was kinda powdery tasting if batter can taste powdery. They just weren’t crisp like other wings I’ve had at other places. And the pizza? Well, we ordered something we thought would be semi-normal pizza:

Il Primo Pizza
Spicy Italian sausage, pepperoni, roasted mushrooms, red sauce and Quattro Fromaggi of Mozzarella, Provolone, Parmesan and Gorgonzola

Well, we got the pizza and it looked like something a high-schooler made—certainly not what I’ve come to expect from them in the past. When I bit into it, I tasted something reeeeeeeeeally unusual for a pizza… I had a huge chunk of bleu cheese in my pizza. There was BLEU CHEESE in the pizza. Funny, I don’t remember seeing bleu cheese on the description. Well, turns out that they use the fancy name “Gorgonzola” instead of just saying “bleu cheese”. So we sent the pizza back and had them make a new one without the “gorgonzola” cheese.

The wait staff and manager were very nice and accommodating, don’t get me wrong—but the restaurant was a DIVE and the food only so-so. So if you find yourself in Oakdale, MN and tempted to stop at the Green Mill, don’t bother. Keep on going to Woodbury and eat somewhere there instead.

Okay… end rant.

September 25, 2005, 9:38 pm

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