Billy Wardle Happenings

Chili's has long been a family mainstay.  Tony and Miranda love the chicken pasta while Sheri and I usually go for the fajitas.  I also get the burgers at times.  Their smash burger is great and on the less expensive menu..  This time I was in the mood for ribs.  They were delightful.  I got the full rack, and it literally fed me for four meals.  They fries were good fresh, but not so great reheated.  Tony had the volcano dessert.  They also have cheese cake and cookies with ice cream on top.   Still a family go to but a bit further now, although Papillion is only a few miles away.  (Actually in La Vista on 84th just north of Giles.)

Famous Dave's has a terrific smell when you enter the restaurant.  They have a varied menu but their mainstay are barbecue ribs.  I enjoyed them very much.  Their chili was also very good.  I also tried the catfish which was nice.  I wouldn't give this restaurant raving reviews, but they were nice.  A bit pricey, but I think ribs always are.  

 Don and Millies is a local fast food restaurant.  I noticed something for sale called a Frenchee.  I did not get one, but I did get the loaded potatoe soup advertised.  The soup was the high light for me.  I also had a hamburger, onion rings and a shake.  The shake was good, the hamburger just so-so and the onion rings fine.  I wish I had tried a Frenchee.  I looked them up online afterward and discovered it is a breaded, deep fried cheese sandwich.  That sounds good. Don and Millie's is a bit pricey.  They are located on Cornhusker almost at the corner with 25th.

 Little Caesars are every where.  A great place for a quick pizza.  They have expanded their options.  They now have a pepperoni pizza that is like Mountain Mikes, with lots and lots of pepperoni.  My daughter, says our local Little Caesars has the best bread sticks around.  (She thinks the breadsticks at most Little Caesars have fallen off.)  But not ours which is on Cornhusker just east of highway 75.  I asked her why and she says because they have the most butter and parmesan cheese.  She is right, they do.  

 I frequent the dollar store, which is now the Dollar twenty five and up store.  There are at least three in Bellevue.  I mostly go there for cookies and candy.  They have movie theater candies, nerd gummy clusters, as well as some very good cookies for $1.25.  The cookies at a regular store are $3 or more.  I want to commend the Bellevue store, across from Walmart, as they had all the good flavors of cookies which you can hardly find anymore.  Fudge stripes which are known as Grandpa cookie, as well as the peanut butter cookies, the mint cookies and the graham cracker covered with chocolate.  I like other favors as well, the lemon creams and the coconut bars and the ones that say yes or no on them.  You can havre a good time but now you have to be wary because they also have higher priced items. They have cheap toys, paper products (a good place for poster paper) and seasonal products.   Grandpa cookies

 The Davenport westbound rest area off of the I-80 informs about the advantages of river shipping.