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About The amplifier. (West Linn, Oregon) 1921-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 1, 2009)
Famed restaurant attracts hungry customers C hrisann K im ________________ With over 400 restaurant awards, Famous Dave's has arrived locally at the Tualatin Mall, attracting many customers craving the award winning barbecue food. From the moment you enter through the doors, the scent of warm barbecue sauce fills your nose and satisfies your hunger at least momentarily. The restaurant ambiance is quite appealing and looks as if you're at a restaurant down in the south. Their decor is wooden and almost like a cabin or a lodge. The light and playful atmosphere give you the sense that the restaurant staff and the restaurant itself are tied together. The service is incredibly welcoming. The waiters and waitresses are professional and are confident in their service, doing everything they can to ensure you enjoy a decent meal. The waiters and waitresses ask you for a refill before jumping ahead without permission. They talk to in you in a way that almost feels like a regular small talk conversation. The food at Famous Dave's is mostly barbecue food: ribs, steak, chicken, burgers and various sandwiches. This restaurant is well-renowned for its succulent ribs. Clearly, the chef prefers spicy and tangy sauce over his delicious concoctions. Most of the Photo by Chrisann Kim Famous Dave's displays their famous trophies in the main entrance. This restaurant has won numerous awards for their food for over 14 years. selections available are included with a zesty sauce of some sort. If you aren't fond of meat, or are a vegetarian, I strongly suggest to avoid dining in this restaurant. Famous Dave's has some good bargains on a decent amount of spectacular food. A jumbo salad costs $9.99, and a burger is $8.99. Prices range from $4.99 to $12.99 for appetizers and $2.29 to $7.49 for lunch specials. After perusing through the menu carefully, you can be sure you'll be happy with your selections. Their menu is rich with descriptions that tempt you to order more than you can eat. The descriptions sound very loose and bouncy, almost like a conversation, and there are some comments you normally wouldn't hear in an ordering menu, like "a real mouthful of hollers," or "a sweet pie, though not as sweet as Mom." The personal touch on the menus immediately grabs your attention and you soon find yourself reading every corner of the menu to see what you could've missed. Their food is perfectly tender and juicy. Caramelized with a buttery coat of piquant sauce, the salad served with a sufficient amount of chicken emitted a vibrant aroma. The meat was fresh and crisp, and the vegetables crunched under my teeth. The flavors rolled off my tongue. It was the best barbecue food I've ever tasted. One feature in Famous Dave's restaurant is that they display their recent trophies of best nominated barbecue restaurant in the center of the room as you walk through the doors. They are proud of their achievements and are confident that their service and food are excellent. With satisfied customers leaving the restaurant, according to www. famousdaves.com, "folks like us made Dave 'Famous'." With country styled decor coupled with a magnificent selection of foods, Famous Dave's is sure to satisfy any hungry customer who walks through their doors. Surrogates: hopeless, dreary future lies ahead for all alongside his partner Peters, played by Radha M itchell, to discover the W hat could be worse secrets of the robots and than a movie with uncover the mystery of the mediocre acting, an homicides. uninteresting story line, This movie was and poor special effects? entertaining but more Nothing. The movie could have been done to "Surrogates," however, got make it a better film. Some pretty close to breaking of the computer generated that streak. It left me images (CGI), seemed a tad bored, m aking me wish hokey and fake. Watching that I had spent my $9.50 it made me feel that there on a frontal lobotomy. was a low budget. The "Surrogates," which best aspect was the realism stars Bruce Willis, began because it demonstrated by explaining the birth of good camera angles that special androids that live made the audience feel the lives for their human like they were a part of doppelgangers. It takes the movie. The story line, place in a futuristic time which had a few confusing possibly decades away details, was loosely based from m odern day. The off of "I, Robot". "I, Robot” invention of the Surrogate had a m ajor im pact on the - is another futuristic movie that involves a m ystery world. linked to androids. Willis is a detective Som ething that caught named Greer who is my attention throughout assigned a case that results the movie was the fact in two dead citizens and that Willis needed a shave. their surrogates. He works M arshall M iller Badly. His scruffy goatee alongside with shaved down sideburns distracted me and directed my attention to his facial hair for the remainder of the movie. Willis did a good job and was perfect for this role. The best role was played by Ving Rhames, an excellent actor because he kept you wondering whether he was a good guy or a bad guy. The other actors w eren't spectacular, but they got the job done. On a scale from 1-10, 1 being like watching paint dry, 10 being pure awesome, It would be a -1. Everyone who participated in the movie gave an effort but it could have used a lot more elbow grease. It was entertaining and a good popcorn flick. If you are bored and have nothing else to do, then this movie is probably for you. ■
