restaurant week

Bones makes no bones about taking pride in being able to digest a large amount of food. He also makes it pretty clear that he does not like paying a large amount of money or traveling far distances to do this. This is one of the many reasons the fan in Richmond is the perfect place for him to live (other reasons include his love of Art, PBR, museums, tattoos, piercings and bikes with skinny tires.) In addition to having the most tattoos per capita in the country one would also assume Richmond tops the list for Restaurants. It seems that there are almost as many restaurants as people in this great city and many of them are within walking distance of your loyal narrator. The problem for these restaurants is that the fan is overrun with wooks (For non-richmonders a wook is someone who likes or pretends to like Art to fit in, loves PBR, likes or pretends to like museums to fit in, loves tattoos, hates or pretends to hate the goverment to fit in, loves piercings, likes or pretends to like terrible music to fit in and loves bikes with skinny tires).  These wooks are not going to spend their hard earned money, or goverment handouts, on expensive cuisine. Because of this many of the restaurants are forced to run absurd specials to stay alive. Because of that the website www.rvaspecials.com exists. Because of those Bones has not spent over $8 on a meal in quite some time and is a happy, well fed, love machine.

As he has stated time and time again, Bones is about helping his loyal followers every chance he gets. So for the next seven days he will frequent a special on the website, eat as much as is humanly possible and then write about the experience. He will be eating most of the meals with a man who will be referred to as the Pit and whose eating exploits are world renown. (The Pit once destroyed Kobiyashi in a mutten eating contest and then attempted to eat the man he just defeated for desert). The restaurants will be rated on a scale of 1 to 5 Bones for value of special, taste, service, and overall experience. On Monday, Bones and four of his compadres headed to Lady N'awlins to see what their $5 Po Boy special was all about.

Value of Special: The food at Lady N'awlins is easily among the best in the fan. Their barbecue shrimp and grits should not even be legal as it is better and more addicting than any known drugs on the streets. The Po Boys are also delicious. Considering that all of the Po Boys are at least $10 and some more the value of the special cannot be questioned. The sandwiches also come with fries. It is tough to beat a delicious sandwich and fries for $5 but this was not good enough for Bones and definitely not for the pit. The pit managed to get down 3 Oyster Po Boys, normally priced at $13, and three heaping orders of fries. If my math served me right he saved an astounding $24 and admitted he was "kinda full."
Value: 5 Bones

Taste: Everything at this restaurant is absolutely delicious. The Po Boys are fried perfectly and served with the perfect amount of tarter sauce. The fries are also delicious. The only weakness was that they were out of gator and Bones had just watched an intense Gator Boys marathon.
Taste: 4.5 Bones

Service: As everyone who lives in the fan already knows the service at the majority of the restaurants is atrocious. Not just bad, atrocious. Requests for refills result in eye rolls, requests to change the channel to a game are met with laughter and inquiries about what is taking so long lead to being drug out back and beaten. The service here is no exception. Every time the Pit told the waitress that he would gladly have another he received a glare reminiscent of the one fourth grade squeeze Catherine Carter gave Bones when she saw him give a signed JTT picture to 6th grader Jaquelyn Jones. Refill requests seemed confusing to the staff. Also, on his third sandwich they tried to pull a fast one on the Pit by substituting pasta salad for his side instead of fries. He pointed at his stomach, state "Do I look like a man that eats pasta salad?" and politely asked for the freedom fries that were rightfully his. This was met by laughter from the table and the disappearance of the Pit. We're looking for you big guy. However, I have been to this restaurant before and it is usually better than most places in the area. This is kinda like saying wee man from Jack Ass is pretty tall for a little person but it is only fair to compare them to their competition.
Service: 2.5 Bones

Overall experience: As previously stated Lady N'awlins in is a nearly perfect restaurant. It is not to expensive, there is a wide variety of delicious cusine (jambalaya hash is best brunch meal in Richmond and only $9, gumbo is phenomenal, barbecue shrimp and grits is unreal, Po Boys are great, etc) and it is an awesome atmosphere. The staff is not the friendliest but it is not to the point where it greatly affects the experience.
Overall experience:4.5