Gilbert & Blake's on Okemos Road in Okemos
I’ve always been afraid of Gilbert and Blake’s. I had only read one review of the place and it wasn’t exactly glowing, but the thing that really scared me off was the “seafood” part of the branding. We don’t eat seafood. I know, they have steaks, but I don’t order steaks at a restaurant. They’re never as good as I make at home and really expensive. J and I are sandwich people. I love a good burger and there were no burgers on Gilbert and Blake’s dinner menu, so I never considered it an option for us. For some odd reason, I was looking at restaurants last night. I came back to Gilbert and Blake’s and decided to look at the menu again. Again, the dinner menu didn’t do much for me. It’s a little too fancy for a regular night out, but the lunch menu actually looked really good. J and I were discussing lunch options and I figured…let’s give it a try. There were enough options that both of us should be happy.
Gilbert & Blake’s is on Okemos Road not far from I-96 in Okemos. Like I figured, it’s not your average night out kind of place. I would put it in the fine dining category for this area. There are couple different dining rooms. When you walk in, you’re met by a hostess. We were shown to a table in what looks to be their main dining room just off of the bar. Gilbert & Blake’s is a white tablecloth, black napkin kind of place. The decor is subdued and dark. Most of the light is natural lighting coming in from large windows that run along one wall of the dining room. What little lighting they have are track spot lights. Read the rest of this entry »
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