The Small Planet at Chandler Crossings in East Lansing.
I was never around for the original incarnation of The Small Planet. Apparently, it was pretty popular and people are excited about this new version. I get hundreds and hundreds of hits every week from people looking for information on The Small Planet so we figured one of these days, we need to go check it out for ourselves.
I don’t know if it’s because I’m getting old or what, but I hate paying cover charges. There are very few places that I will pay a cover and not bitch and they’re all in Chicago. They’re not in Lansing. Plus, the bands that play at The Small Planet really aren’t my kind of music. I’m a country music fan. I’m going to see Taylor Swift in two weeks and I’m excited about it, so it probably wouldn’t be a good idea for me to go to a bar that gets a lot of rock bands.
So, instead, we decided to check out their dinner menu. We went on a Saturday night, but early enough the nighttime crowd hadn’t started coming in yet. It was about 6:00 and the place was pretty empty. From the beginning, J had a bad vibe about the place. Small Planet is not a good place if you’re just looking for a meal. The place is huge and very open. There’s no comfort to it at all. When you walk in, there are short tables leading all the way to the bar. In the back, there are higher pub tables back by the video games and pool tables. We chose one of the pub tables all the way in the back corner. We did this very intentionally.
I know Michigan hasn’t passed a smoking ban yet and I know it’s up to the owners to decide how much smoke they want. The Small Planet management must not care at all. There was no one seated anywhere near us. There were people at the bar smoking and on the other side of the restaurant smoking, but it felt like someone was sitting at the table next to us blowing smoke in our face. Like I said earlier, The Small Planet is not a good place if your just looking for a meal. Read the rest of this entry »
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