Sammy's Food Service and Deli - New Orleans, LA

Sammy's was a neighborhood restaurant that served their food cafeteria style. It was a pretty nice place but definitely fit the category somewhere between diner and dive.

Service was good if not a bit slow.  They must not make your meal until you order.  I'm not sure if that is not just a laid back NOLA thing because the patrons didn't seem to be in any big rush either.  People were hanging out at their tables forever.

I saw what looked like a Flintstones brontosaurus rib being carried by my table.  I asked one of the people working there.  She said it was a short rib order and seemed to get excited about how good it was.  I believe her.  I'm going to try that next time if they still have it.

They seemed to have a lot of specials.  I ordered the ultimate roast beef po' boy special with  a side of cornbread dressing.  The roast beef was more like roast beef and gravy plus some kind of creamy onion sauce.  No sense in over-thinking it.  It was a really good, calorie intensive sandwich.  I'm writing this as I'm skipping dinner to try and keep my daily caloric intake for the day to a four-digit number.  I got it "dressed" which means with lettuce, tomato and pickle.  Only I ordered it without pickles.  You can see from the photo that someone was clearly messing with me because they put the Godzilla of pickles on my plate anyway.  The po' boy bread was average.

The cornbread dressing was what you would expect if you grew up in the south.  (I didn't) It was kind of like Thanksgiving dressing only with the cornbread base instead of a bread base.  There were some trace cajun flavors in there as well but, I couldn't quite put my finger on them.  It was nice and moist, too.  The Texas cornbread salad they call it is usually pretty dry.  I like the moist version much better.

I'm guessing that they're known for their fried chicken. I'd say 80% of the other patrons including the skinny people were eating the fried chicken.

Overall, I'd say that Sammy's was good.  I'd rate it an 8.3.

Sammy's Food Service and Deli
3000 Elysian Fields Ave
New Orleans, LA 70122
504 947-0675

Slim's Last Chance - Seattle, WA

Slim's Last Chance was a pretty cool place.  It was kind of a bar-restaurant with heavy emphasis on bar.  I was there for lunch so, it was almost unfair to judge.

I got the sense that this would be a really fun place to come after work and hang out for a while.  There was a nice beer garden style area outside that probably gets a lot of use in the evenings.  The atmosphere was definitely a little bit honky tonk.

I got the crawdad po-boy salad.  It came with some jalepeno corn bread.  I can see how this would be an exotic meal in Seattle but, for me coming from Texas, it was just pretty good.  Again, this is probably a little unfair.

I struggled coming up with a rating.  My gut says 9.3, so that's it.


Slim's Last Chance
5606 1st Avenue South
Seattle, WA 98108
(206) 762-7900
www.slimslastchance.com