India House

1473 W Schaumburg Rd # 1521 (Cross Street: Ellington Drive)
Schaumburg, IL 60194
(847)895-5501

* Mon-Thu 11:30am-2:30pm, 5pm-10pm
* Fri 11:30am-2:30pm, 5pm-11pm
* Sat 12pm-3pm, 5pm-11pm
* Sun 12pm-3pm, 5pm-10pm

The buffets are available Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights.

India House was strongly recommended by my brother. The buffet is affordable and a great way to try various India dishes. Seating was prompt and the service was ok. The waitresses were nice, but seemed overwhelmed with clearing tables (which they did very efficiently). For more reviews, click here.


The meat was tender and flavorful.


Indian bread! We have such a thing for Indian bread.


Not knowing what most of the stuff was, I just grabbed random dishes. My favorite was the tandoori chicken which is laying on the rice.


J's plate.


This was the moment of the night. This restaurant has this table set up at the back end of the room. Seeing the little puff balls there, I got curious and inquired the waitress about them. She replied, "oh these? You just fill it with this sauce here and pop it into your mouth." To which I replied, "cool, let's try some." So I went back to the table and shared my findings with my brothers and J. Somehow, the guys thought I said that these puff balls were deserts so they got rather enthusiastic. We thought it would be cool to pop them into our mouths at the same time, kinda like downing shots. 1, 2, 3 and the looks on our faces were indescribable. I'm not going to say anything more about them here except that everyone should try it "FILL WITH SAUCE AND POP INTO MOUTH" as an initiation rite for this restaurant.

This place was fun. I think we will definitely be back.

Rizzata's redux

See our original post here.

Last time we were rushed. This time, we were still rushed.


Deep dish pizza with pepperoni, italian beef and canadian bacon.


What makes Rizzata's pizza great is the cheese... see how cheesey it is? And it's also the tomato sauce, which always taste wonderfully fresh.


Calzone with italian beef and pepperoni. Again, their low-fat mozzarella cheese is sooo good.

We did try several other items, such as the BBQ beef sandwich and the sausage lasagna. However, the sandwich was just average and J did not like the lasagna.

So our advice is to stick with Rizzata's CALZONES. Best, calzones, EVER.

Pegasus redux

See our original post here.

We didn't get quality photos of the entree during our last visit. So here's to making it up...





The food was great, as always. The only complaint that we would sometimes have is about the service. Sometimes, the service is great. Sometimes, you have to ask for the bread. We'll be back.... eventually, maybe.

Next up, the Parthenon.

Happy Belated St. Patrick's Day

This is Paula Deen's Easy Corned Beef and Cabbage recipe. We've made this many times, and it's simple and tasty every single time. However, you must be warned, this recipe is not suitable for those with high blood pressure or coronary artery disease because of the butter and bacon.



This is the perfect celebratory meal for St. Pattie's Day. Bottoms up!

Fun with Slow Cookers

We had a busy weekend.


First try - Beef and Beer Stew. We choose Guinness for the beer and the beef turned out very flavorful. The sides were creamed spinach and sweet potato fries, which provided nice contrasts to the meat.


Second try - Pork Barbecue. This came out really good too. We used Famous Dave's Sweet & Zesty BBQ sauce.


Asparagus is one of our favorite sides. This was sauteed with olive oil and a splash of vinegar.


The sides assembled. In addition to the asparagus, we had whole grain rice and macaroni salad.


The finished product

Mitsuwa

Normally, we tend to avoid food courts like the plague. However, we were willing to make an exception for Mitsuwa. The food court has about 5 separate booths along with an ice cream stand and sushi bar. Out of the 5 booths, one stand served Korean fare, one stand served Chinese fare and three stands served Japanese fare. This day, J set his heart on ramen and I craved bibimbap.

100 E. Algonquin Road,
Arlington Hts., IL 60005
(847)956-6699
9:00AM - 8:00PM


Mitsuwa's liquor shop with a large selection of sake. It's too bad we aren't really into sake.


These food court displays are like window shopping, for food!


There was so much stuff to look at.


Today's special - juicy pork cutlet using top quality Berkshire for $8.95


Today's special - Mixed Vegetable Soba for $5.00


So many choices... still taking it all in.


It really took us a good long while to decide


In addition to the ramen, the small katsu-don set for $3.90 caught J's eyes.


I found my selection. Apparently, bibimbap in a stone bowl is called dol sot.


J's small ramen, which he enjoyed and reminded him of Naruto


My dol sot, I like the stone bowl because it keeps the food warm longer and makes the rice crunchy


My dol sot all mixed up


J's small katsu-don set as is


I rearranged it and opened the lid. He also liked this set with the exception of the egg on top of the katsu and the miso soup. The egg was runny and the miso was bland.

Overall, we quite enjoyed this experience.

Famous Dave's Bar-B-Q

1101 East Dundee Road
Palatine, IL 60067

Phone: 847-202-2213
Fax: 847-202-2214

Once in a while, we just need BBQ! You've probably seen these places around. It's decent enough, I suppose.


Sauces! I have a thing with sauces and since Dave's has a nice selection, we visit often. Our favorite, this time around, was "Sweet & Zesty".


We were frakkin' starving. Wings for appetizer. It wasn't really anything special, but like I said, frakkin' starving!


Ribs, ribs, ribs sated our hunger. Although this time around, the ribs on the end were really dry and tough.


Not from Daves's... we finally got that table-top tripod!


It looks... silly, hopefully useful in the future endeavors.

We received a little constructive criticism. Apparently, our photos need more commentary... ... ... FINE!