The Original Grand Park Cafe & Pizza — Restaurant in Ross Township

TLDR: This place has a nice and homey atmosphere and the food is delicious! Check em out!

Hello everyone! I wanted to write a review of this small cafe here! I wanna first state how wounderful the service was. Our waitress was very kind and helpful, and was quick to make sure we had a wounderful time. Albeit, we did come in when there wasn't much people. I know she worked hard to make sure to keep things running and doing her best!

Today, we ordered their lunch special: Patty Melt Deluxe, with our side being cittage fries. It comes with their soup: Lemon Rice.

Now, I'm a big sucker for Lemon Rice soup and their Lemons are great! You can taste the zestinesa from the lemon mixed with the contents of the slightly salted soup. The rice is perfectly cooked, no hard rice here! Their bread rolls aren't as soild on the outside as your typical roll, but they were easy to tear apart and dip into the soup! No bread bowel, but soup dip is also a favorite!

The Melt though, was the dish to get. The Pattu Melt comes with carmalized onions and cheese. At this time, we are unable to tell you the chese as we ate the patty quickly due to it being delicious. The cottage fries were very delicious as well. Soft and salted to perfection. We may have ate a bit to much, but we were satisfied.

My Italian cheif friend here agrees that you should come over and support this small little place and...

Ugh, another disappointment for good breakfast options in NW Indiana. It's tiny, so be prepared to sit in the lap of your neighbor--they've made no physical concessions for Covid in terms of seating capacity.

The coffee was weak and watery. I had corned beef hash with over-easy eggs, what should be a simple order to excecute. The corned beef was a cold clump of unrecognizable meat with leftover hash browns mixed in. The hashbrowns on the side were floppy and most likely reheated. Eggs were fine.

I also had lemon rice soup which was inexplicably watery and VERY sour. Husband had steak and eggs, mediocre at best. The one upside was that the steak was cooked to med rare as he requested.

The bathroom was dirty, the decor was very dated and I can assure you, no deep cleaning has ever happened there. Oh, and our check was hand calculated and off by $.53, so watch that if you decide to ignore this review and take your chances.

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We love trying new family restaurants, so while we were out of town, we decided to give this a try. We expected bland food but were pleasantly surprised!

The soup (tomato rosa marina) was perfectly seasoned with the right amount of salt. My lemon pepper pork chop was huge, and the seasoning was AMAZING. It was definitely the star of the show, due to my side of grilled vegetables being lackluster (not cooked long enough, and no seasoning). The rice had a unique lemony taste to it that was good. My husbands food came with gravy that was also unique in flavor but so good! We were also surprised that the dinners came with a dessert, so that was an added bonus!

The service was also amazing. Kim was very friendly and helpful. I didn't know what to get, so she was able to give me recommendations, and she answered all of my questions. She made sure we had everything we needed.

We know where we will be coming next time we...