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Thursday, Sep. 25, 2008

Dining out: Thursdays Too in Rock Hill is cozy, offers good food

This column offers a sampling of dining experiences in the area. It is not intended as a review of the restaurant other than to provide the reader with one diner's experience.

Thursdays Too

Location: 147 Herlong Ave., Rock Hill

Hours: 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Monday through Thursday and Saturday, 11 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. Friday; bar open late

Phone: 366-6117

Web site: thursdaystoo.com

Ambiance: relaxed setting for any occasion It was a cool, rainy day when I met a friend for lunch at Thursdays Too, easy to find at the end of a shopping plaza, with plenty of parking, on Herlong Avenue and Ebenezer Road. I walked into a large dining area with a bar, and met her in the smaller, smoke-free dining room where we were quickly seated in a booth.

The menu covers a lot of ground from 16 appetizers ($3.95 for homemade chips to $10.25 for tender steak bites), nine salads ($4.75 for Caesar to $10.25 for steak), pasta, sizzling stir fry dishes, sandwiches and hoagies, soups and chili, as well as specialties like a ribeye steak dinner for $12.99 or diet chicken dinner for $10.99. There's also grilled servings of steak, burgers, chicken, hot dogs and tuna melt ($4.75 to $7.75).

Looking for something to stick to the ribs, our waitress recommended the Thursdays Taters, a five-item listing that includes chicken salad tater, veggie tater, taco tater, justa tater and the “famous” grater tater ($2.95 to $6.99). I'd never made a potato a meal, but figured a grater tater stuffed with ham, beef, mushrooms and onions and topped with cheddar cheese, sour cream and bacon would surely be filling. At her suggestion, I ordered the Lesser Tater ($5.75). Thank goodness I did. The “lesser” is still quite great — both in size and taste.

My friend ordered of the quiche of the day menu, which offers meat or vegetarian ($7.99). Her vegetarian dish was light and fluffy, and still just as filling as my great “lesser” tater.

Still, we made room for dessert. Now, there is a full dessert menu that runs six items long including ice cream, peanut butter pie, apples ’n cream, brownie supreme and fried cheese cake ($2.25 to $4.75). But we decided to try an appetizer as dessert: fried apple sticks with whipped cream ($6.50). My friend took the first bite. Her eyelids shut as she savored the taste. She, and I, couldn't get over how good these slices of apple pie tasted — warm and delicious.

Thursdays Too also is child-friendly, caters and hosts private parties. With this menu, there's just no way even the pickiest diner won't find something they like.