Live, from East Peoria, it’s Saturday Night Cheeseburger, starring this week’s host, Jonah’s 2601 Oyster Bar and featuring special guest stars, Amber, Joe, Niki, Joey and The Bruce and Kelly Mehl family.
Now please welcome this week’s host from East Peoria, Jonah’s 2601 Oyster Bar!
Here we are at Jonah’s Seafood House in East Peoria. However we’re going to be dining next door at The Oyster Bar. We’re doing another Saturday Night Cheeseburger episode tonight and I’ve heard good things about the cheeseburgers they serve up in there.
Let’s go inside and let this Saturday night begin!
Normally I’d sit over at the bar, but we’ve got two special guests we’re dining with tnoght and I think I see them at that booth over there…
It’s my friends and frequent guests on the MBIP blog, Amber and Joe!
They’re looking fabulous as always and I’m always happy to have them as special Saturday night dining companions!
You definitely need to check out Amber’s blog, “For Sale Peoria.” The blog is a visual guide that asks, “You’re Selling What?” She just had a VHS weekend with ads for VHS players, tapes and even blank tapes!
It’s updated daily and you can follow along on her facecrack and Twitter pages!
We now return to the MBIP blog, already in progress…
Our pretty and friendly waitress for the evening was Niki. We ordered and this Saturday Night Cheeseburger evening has officially begun!
We started off with the Crab Tortilla Dip and it was amazingly tasty!
The chips were crispy and fresh and the rich dip is topped of with Pico De Gallo. This was a fabulous start to our Saturday night dinner!
Now it’s time to take a few photos in here.
Right after I took this photo of this case in front, someone called my name out…
And it was none other than Joey Heid! It was wonderful to see him and he said everyone in the Heid family is doing great! I’ve been friends with Joey’s older brother Jim since grade school and if you see this Jim, I hope you’re doing fabulous these days!
Love that Grateful Dead t-shirt Joey has on!
There’s another shot of the bar and comfortable booths line the walls in here.
Someone else called my name out while I was taking photos and it was none other than Bruce Mehl! He was having dinner with his wife, Kelly and their family on this Saturday evening.
Bruce and Kelly were the owners of Wee Tee Golf Center for years and they were featured on this blog when I went there for the last day of that legendary Peoria Golf course.
Bruce and I were neighbors when I was a kid and it was wonderful to catch up with him after all of these years have gone by!
Meanwhile, back at our table…
Our main courses have arrived!
From the top: Amber got the French Onion Soup, Joe ordered the Ahi Tuna Burger, I got the Cheeseburger and we all split an order of the Fat Fries.
Everything looks amazing, time to dig in to our Saturday night dinners!
There’s the obligatory, unflashed, fuzzy photos of Amber and Joe enjoying their dinners.
They both said the food was delicious and wonderfully prepared!
I started off with one of the Fat Fries and they are deep fried potatoes dusted with parmesan and salt and served with a homemade remoulade dipping sauce.
Very tasty and now on to the star of my dinner…
This week’s Saturday Night Cheeseburger!
It’s going to be tough to wrap my big mouth around this gargantuan burger, but I’m going to try my best to take a bite!
Wow, this is one delicious and satisfying cheeseburger.
The burger is nicely seasoned and tasty and it’s topped with rich, melted cheddar cheese! All the good things I heard about this burger are true!
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CHEESEBURGER RATING
This is a first class and a fabulous cheeseburger and the bun was bakery fresh!
I’ll give this delicious cheeseburger a high and well-deserved rating of three and three quarters Wimpy’s!
Cheeseburger List: Mike’s Tavern, Clink Bar & Events, Silver Bullet Food &. Drink, Blue Duck Barbecue Tavern, Agatucci’s, Peoria Pizza Works, Five Guys, Oliver’s Pizza & Pub North, Jack’s On Adams, Lou’s Drive-In, Big Catz BBQ, Oliver’s Pizza & Pub North, Alwan And Sons Luncheon Grill and Jonah’s 2601 Oyster Bar.
Thanks to everyone at the Oyster Bar for the fabulous service and food and thanks to Amber and Joe for joining me for dinner and being the special Saturday night guest stars!
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2601 N. Main Street
East Peoria
309-694-0946
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