05 | December | 2009 | Mid-Michigan Dining

Bell’s Greek Pizza – M.A.C. Avenue

5 12 2009

225 M.A.C. Avenue
East Lansing, MI 48823
(517) 332-2355
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After spending the afternoon killing time before work, I was now faced with a longer than usual lunch break. Now, I had another couple hours to kill. Since I had just eaten an hour or so ago, a big lunch was out of the question. I wasn’t even really sure I wanted anything at all.

I went to Barnes & Noble first to look for a couple things then I just started walking around downtown East Lansing. Didn’t really know where I was going, but when I ended up on M.A.C Avenue, I figured I could use a slice of pizza..

Bell’s Greek Pizza has two locations in East Lansing and they’re not very far apart. I’ve eaten at the Grand River Avenue location before, but never the location on M.A.C. Avenue near Albert Avenue.

The downtown location is a small street front building. There are a handful of tables in the front of the space. The order area and kitchen is in the back.

I’m a huge fan of pizza-by-the-slice locations. It’s one of my favorite things about college campuses. You can get just a couple slices for under five bucks. I love it.

Of course, Bell’s has other options, but pizza slices was all I wanted. I ordered two pepperoni slices. The lady working pulled them right out of the display case and put them on a paper plate. Now, usually, those slices would go back into the oven before being handed over, but these didn’t for some reason. I thought it was a little wierd but I didn’t say anything. The pizza was still pretty warm. Read the rest of this entry »

Taco Bell – Grand River, Okemos

5 12 2009

2030 W. Grand River Avenue
Okemos, MI 48864
(517) 349-6451
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Time to kill and no place to go. It can be a dangerous thing. I had to check out of my hotel at noon, but I didn’t have to be to work until noon. I decided to hit up the Meridian Mall in Okemos. I thought maybe I could kill some time, but I was wrong. Mall’s don’t do anything for me.

After I left the mall, I headed to Best Buy. Since it was the middle of the afternoon, I thought maybe I could actually play their display DJ Hero. I hung out with a pretty popular Chicago club DJ while I was in college and he taught me a little bit about mixing. I don’t want to buy DJ Hero, but I wanted to see how the game worked.

It wasn’t all that fun, so I only played a couple songs then checked out some other Wii games. Scoped out some titles for myself and for my in-laws for Christmas.

After I left Best Buy, I still had over an hour. I was a little hungry and not in the mood to go hunt something out. In the Best Buy parking lot was a Taco Bell and a Burger King. I picked the less of two evils.

Okemos has two Taco Bell locations. I was closest to the location on Grand River Avenue just in front of Best Buy near the Meridian Mall. Nothing unusual about this location. Typical cookie cutter building. Typical cookie cutter menu. Read the rest of this entry »

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The Original Big John Steak & Onion

5 12 2009

3490 Okemos Road
Okemos, MI 48864
(517) 381-2465
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Back in East Lansing and there’s a little bit of nostalgia this weekend. I had to be in town a couple days, so I went looking for the cheapest hotel I could find. Usually, the two Red Roof Inn’s are the cheapest and recently, I’ve been staying out in Delta Township because it’s five bucks cheaper. This weekend, however, I decided to stay at the East Lansing Red Roof Inn.

I say there’s a little bit of nostalgia because two years ago, J and I made a frantic, last-minute trip to Lansing to find a place to live. We had been in Bristol, TN for the Nextel Cup Race the weekend before. She got the phone call on Tuesday that she had been hired in Lansing. We were at her parents in Chicago because we didn’t have to be back to work in Peoria until Thursday. We packed up the car again on Tuesday and drove to Lansing to find a place to live. We only had a week and a half to make the move.

We had stayed in a Red Roof Inn in Johnson City, TN and were happy with it, so we found one in Lansing and we spent our first night in what would become our new home at the Red Roof Inn on Dunkel Road. This recent trip was the first time I had stayed at that hotel since that first night.

We were given a pretty long lunch break, so I decided to go check in and drop my stuff off. Before that, I wanted to grab a sandwich or something somewhere so I could eat while watching ESPN in my room. I couldn’t really think of much other than fast food chains along Jolly Road so I started driving towards Okemos. Read the rest of this entry »