Pizza Palace

On our last day in Massachusetts visiting my husband's father and assorted cousins, we had lunch at Pizza Palace, the family-owned and family-run restaurant.

We shared a whole lot of mozzarella sticks.

This was really excellent: a beef kebob with American cheese
on Syrian bread.

Olympia Restaurant

On our last night in Massachusetts, my husband, father-in-law, and I had dinner at the Olympia Restaurant.

appetizer: feta cheese

appetizer: charbroiled Greek meatballs

appetizer: grilled garlic pita bread

entree: roast lamb

side dish: Zorba fries

dessert: baklava

China Star

Tonight's dinner with my husband and my father-in-law was at China Star.

Appetizers included an egg roll, beef teriyaki,
and crab rangoon.

Also an appetizer: the hot and spicy chicken wings.

my entree: half a Peking duck

The duck came with pancakes and plum sauce.

Heritage Farm Ice Cream & Restaurant

After stopping off at Pizza Palace for dinner, my father-in-law took my husband and me to Heritage Farm Ice Cream & Restaurant for dessert.

I, not to the surprise of my husband, had the strawberry shortcake, which although originally came with vanilla ice cream, was replaced with strawberry shortcake ice cream. You can't tell under all the yummy whipped cream, but it also came with a shortcake biscuit and more strawberries. And a cherry.

I may have a thing for strawberries.

Pizza Palace

My husband and I are up in Massachusetts visiting my father-in-law, who bought a house in the area over a year ago, but which we haven't yet managed to see. We rectified that and are in town for about five days to visit with my father-in-law, admire his house, and visit some family and friends who live in the area (or who happen to be in town at the same time - a rare occurrence).

We left this morning after nearly two weeks visiting my parents in eastern Pennsylvania, and had an easy drive, arriving shortly before dinner time. Ed's cousin owns and operates Pizza Palace, so we drove over, visited with some cousins, and had dinner.

I had the meaty chicken wrap, which came with
grilled chicken, ham, bacon, blue cheese, lettuce,
and tomatoes

Garcia Brogan's Cantina, Pub & Restaurant

An Irish-Mexican pub sounded incongruous, but after the huge (and delicious) meal we'd had for the Greek Orthodox baptism (lots of food!), we were none of us especially hungry, but my I wanted something light, and my dad said he could eat a burger, so my husband, my parents, and I went to Garcia Brogan's Cantina, Pub & Restaurant. It was loud, which made talking rather difficult, but we had a good time anyway.

I started with the chips and curry (skin on potatoes, sea salt, grilled scallions, curry sauce), which were quite tasty.

I also had the pulled pork panini (red onion, monterrey jack cheese), which was good, but a little sweet for my taste.

Olympia Restaurant

This morning was the aforementioned Greek Orthodox baptism for my husband's cousin's baby boy, who really was quite adorable. He was really well-behaved, except for the obligatory bawling when he was slathered in chrism and dunked (completely naked) into the baptismal font, when he wailed. Afterwards, the whole lot of us went to the New Olympia Restaurant.

There were appetizers on the table - pita, shrimp, feta, olives, and calamari - before the salad came.

We were given the choice of chicken or lamb, but everyone at the table ordered the lamb, which was really tender and delicious.

These were crumbly cookies that were served after dinner, but before dessert.

We were given the choice of baklava, rice pudding, or a type of custard for dessert, but...baklava!