{"id":1099,"date":"2011-08-11T01:02:53","date_gmt":"2011-08-10T17:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/?p=1099"},"modified":"2011-08-11T01:02:53","modified_gmt":"2011-08-10T17:02:53","slug":"nicelys-restaurant-lee-vining-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/2011\/08\/nicelys-restaurant-lee-vining-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Nicely’s Restaurant – Lee Vining – Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

We just came back from a short “vacation” to Las Vegas.\u00a0 We made our way back to the Bay Area through Death Valley and the eastern sierra.\u00a0 Yesterday, after a visit to Bodie<\/a>, we had a late lunch at Nicely’s in Lee Vining<\/a>.\u00a0 Nicely’s is your typical coffee shop sort of restaurant, serving all-American coffee shop food at reasonable but standard prices.\u00a0 What we had was fine, not great, but then again, we didn’t expect it to be so.<\/p>\n

The restaurant itself looks like your all-American coffee shop: tables, booths, outdated decor, the sort of thing you’d have encountered 50 years ago and can still encounter at countless little towns in this country.\u00a0 They serve breakfast, lunch and dinner, and they have both a dining room inside and outside seating under umbrellas. Even after 2 PM it was quite crowded.\u00a0 Service by our veteran waitress was efficient, though not terribly friendly.<\/p>\n

Both kids had the Kraft mac & cheese kid meal ($4, including french fries, 2 oreo cookies and a small drink).\u00a0 They were quite happy because they love Kraft mac & cheese. Mika substituted her french fries with mashed potatoes ($1 extra), but she didn’t like them very much. She was unhappy about the pool of melted “butter” on top of the potatoes.\u00a0 Mike and I shared a NY steak sandwich (~$10) and onion rings ($1 extra as a substitute for fries).\u00a0 The steak was on the thin side, but tasted good enough.\u00a0 The onion rings were also quite good.\u00a0 I ordered a slice of bread pudding ($4), but I was less happy with that. The pudding was pretty dry and tasted overwhelmingly of cinnamon. I wouldn’t order it again.\u00a0 Mike and Mika shared a slice of banana cream pie, which was pretty good. It came directly out of the fridge so it was a bit cool. Our sodas tasted fine, the glasses were refilled appropriately. The kids ordered lemonade and it tasted home made with real lemons. Mika liked it, Camila did not (she prefers the fake kind).<\/p>\n

In all, it was a very typical coffees shop meal experience, nothing to write home about (unless you are a foreign tourist and want to experience the “real thing”).<\/p>\n

Nicely’s Restaurant
\nHighway 395 at Fourth Street
\nLee Vining, CA
\n(760) 647-6477<\/p>\n

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