Why hello again. It's been what? I believe last April was our last post. Anyways and yada yada. Our life got busy with new jobs and vacations. And more than likely our postings will be scattershotted here and there too.
I've had this bucket list destination floating around my head for a few years now. My fall road tripping leads us usually north. This trip we headed about 80 miles south.
That said let's go!
The new I-74 Bridge over the Mississippi River going to be great when it's done.
As I said. I've had this bucket list Tenderloin in my head for awhile now. This beautiful fall day it was time to check it out.
Out west of Peoria Illinois is the Spoon River area.
A neat bar n grill out in nowhere.
Okay let's get to the meat of this post.
We went to Spoonies Bar and Grill in London Mills Illinois for a breaded tenderloin. Now Spoonies is a quite unassuming bar from the outside but the inside was pretty nice.
We did a little sight seeing too.
Shall we step inside? Spoonies has a real nice vibe and obviously we were outsiders,but our waitress was really friendly and efficient. It was pretty quiet when we got there around noonish but soon started filling up.
I did not take pics of the mens room and that's a good thing. The mens rooms was trashed,but the wife said the womens room was really nice. Go figure.
The menu.
Moll wanted some fried cheese curds. They were great.
Having fun with the food.
Sher got a small side salad.
A musical intermission while I gather my thoughts. You should have guessed I would play this song.
Let's get down to why we drove a bit for todays blog post. Hopefully I don't come off as a Debby Downer.
As usual the kid ordered her standard chicken strips and fries.We started this blog six years ago? Moll has been a consistent chicken strip kinda girl from day one. She found her thing.
The wife and I ordered Spoonies legendary breaded tenderloin. Sher got pickles. I got onions. We all got fries.
The part of this post I have been struggling with is at hand. While this tenderloin looks awesome and it is impressive in person.
The taste. It had a nice cornmeal breading and it looked great. From my first bite, I knew. There was no taste. Sure I could taste the onions and bun. I really couldn't taste the meat or the breading.Eye contact with Sheri was all it took for her to agree with me.
I so wanted for this tenderloin to live up to the hype I have read about on various blogs and Facebook postings. Alas. Today was one of our days where we were let down. Don't get me wrong. Spoonies tenderloin wasn't bad or nasty. It just had no flavor to it. I could have ate till I was stuffed,but there really was no point to that.
We weren't even really sure how we would give this a 1 to 10 rating.
Was our day wasted? Hell no. The drive down to Spoonies from the Quad Cities was nice as we had never been to that area. The kid was in an agreeable mood. That's something coming from a sixteen year old girl.
I will say. The hamburgers coming out of Spoonies kitchen looked tasty too so they might have that down , I don't know.
Sometimes although very rarely do we visit a place that doesn't live up to our expectations. I hadn't pumped up Spoonies, but I read enough about them to want to check it out. You can go there and judge for yourself. The wife and I might just be spoiled with some awesome tenderloin joints closer to home. And I do love to get in the car and see what's over the horizon.
As an aside. We stopped in Milan Illinois at the new Meatheads and wasted a twenty dollar bill.
We will be back. Probably be a pizza in our future.
As always dear readers.
Scotty.
