Lexington restaurant memories: long gone favorite places to eat.

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A few stick out to me: The Ground Round (on Southland Dr.) Wing's Tea House (in Gardenside. that one is VERY old school), and Lexitalia (pretty much a given that it was Mafia owned/connected)

Ground Round is a great call. First place you could eat peanuts in the restaurant. Southland Drive was thick with good places back then. IIRC the original Joe Balognas was there, Sir PIzza, Godfathers, Kellys Milk Jug, Szechuan Garden, the original Long John’s Silver when it was actually really good. Hell even Sageser drug store had a mean cherry coke.

 

[*CatinIL*]

Ground Round is a great call. First place you could eat peanuts in the restaurant. Southland Drive was thick with good places back then. IIRC the original Joe Balognas was there, Sir PIzza, Godfathers, Kellys Milk Jug, Szechuan Garden, the original Long John’s Silver when it was actually really good. Hell even Sageser drug store had a mean cherry coke.

It's hard to find places like that anymore.

 

[CaptainBoogerBuns]

I remember the sign on the wall of the Ground Round--"Don't eat yellow snow"

 

[GrandePdre]

I worked there also. Waited tables there maybe 93-94. The crew that worked there loved to party.

You all came over to Darryl's because we kept the var open as late as the law allowed.

 

[WayneDougan]

Ed and Fred's Desert Moon 😂

I had my first date with my wife there.

 

[cole854]

The original Taco Tico on north New Circle was an after school staple back in the late 70's.

 

[PickSixKing]

You all came over to Darryl's because we kept the var open as late as the law allowed.

I would set the over/under on pitchers of Beer I drank after work at Darryl's at somewhere around 775 😅 amazingly I still can remember the guy that was usually bartending. I think his name may have been Charles.

 

[Hank Camacho]

I would set the over/under on pitchers of Beer I drank after work at Darryl's at somewhere around 775 😅 amazingly I still can remember the guy that was usually bartending. I think his name may have been Charles.

Was Charles gentle?

 

[WillGolf4Food]

Absolutely. They would bring them out on a pizza platter. It was insane.

If memory serves, it was a large pizza platter. We’d usually have the same waitress every Monday night and she knew to bring out a decent size bowl of bleu cheese.

MNF was a thing at that time, great deals all over town.

Restaurant in the Idle Hour shopping center, Banana's Tavern maybe? Had a killer reuben at one time.

 

[megablue]

Ground Round is a great call. First place you could eat peanuts in the restaurant. Southland Drive was thick with good places back then. IIRC the original Joe Balognas was there, Sir PIzza, Godfathers, Kellys Milk Jug, Szechuan Garden, the original Long John’s Silver when it was actually really good. Hell even Sageser drug store had a mean cherry coke.

The LimeAde drink at Sageser, with those skinny fries, was always a treat !!
Plus, I remember when Cottrell's Bakery had a Maple-Iced Long Johns (unfilled) for only six (6) cents.
Lastly, it was always a treat to smell the Jumbo Cashews roasting in the nut display inside Woolworth's. I rarely could afford them !! 😎