Whitewater’s a small Midwestern town.  Part of the charm of that way of life is finding a simple, small-town grill.  Nothing fancy, nothing pretentious – all very traditional, familiar, and comfortable.  Rick’s Eastside Pub & Grill is that sort of place: pub food, beer on tap, in an open, rectangular dining room. What will you find?  You’ll enter on the right, with the grill…

View Larger Map Warm & Welcoming Sign A quick and happy declaration: I really love diners, their food, their atmosphere, their very American tradition. There’s a way of defining a diner that requires that it be a freestanding establishment, but to me, Jessica’s Family Restaurant at 140 West Main Street is a diner. It’s a…

Whitewater has a few Mexican restaurants, and now has another: Taco Fresco, at 175 W Main Street. For those who are wondering whether Whitewater can have too many Mexican restaurants, I’ll suggest that the answer’s no, as long as the restaurants are good ones. Taco Fresco is a new one, and happily a good one.…

On the west side of Whitewater, near Daniels Sentry, one finds the Los Agaves taqueria truck. It was gone for a bit, not long ago, but it’s back regularly now. It’s a simple white truck with Mexican fare: tacos, tortas, burritos, tostados, sincronizadas, chiminchangas, gorditas, and quesadillas among one’s choices. Most of these selections have…

I wrote two weeks ago that I’d review two restaurants in succession, and Chef Tyler Sailsbery’s Black Sheep, at 210 W. Whitewater Street along Cravath Lake, is the promised second of those two reviews. And yet, it’s odd to write about Whitewater’s Black Sheep as the second of a series – it’s a fine establishment…

I’ve upcoming reviews next Wednesday and the week thereafter of the Black Sheep and Randy’s Restaurant & Fun Hunter’s Brewery. I’ve completed both, but still each leaves me with points to consider, of establishments that are different in just about every way. For today though, two observations about what matters for a restaurant or restaurant…