Betty's
Sunday, May 4, 2008 at 04:07PM 
"What Betty's lacks in fine dining and class they certainly make up for with character and amazing food." This is typically my pre-dinner speech when I take out-of-town guests to Betty's. The 70 year old woman from the west coast loved Betty's, as did my conservative Uncle in his mid-60s. My college friends loved the food and the prices and said they felt like they were seeing a cooler, hidden side to Columbus.
Nevermind that the ceramic statues look like they're coated in nicotene, circa pre-smoking ban; the air filters in the wall sit lifeless and sad; and the seats often wobble dangerously. It doesn't matter, there's always a line out the door and often people at the bar are two or three deep.
My favorite dishes are the surly girl salad and the tortilla soup. I always have those together with a couple of Betty Fords (Pink lemonade and vodka). Steve's Afternoon Delight is a great appetizer to start with and I recently tried their brunch on a Saturday afternoon. Before becoming a Betty's regular, I would rather have died than eat a breakfast dish called Huevos Rancheros. But now, it's my newest favorite dish for brunch. And to be fair, because I was with a conservative Uncle, I even ordered plain lemonade minus the Betty Ford treatment and it was almost just the same. And I could drive home right away!
My only complaint with Betty's right now - they're re-doing the women's bathroom and have removed all of the funny pictures with women from the 50s spouting horribly modern and uncouth things like "I'll have a cafe mocha vodka marijuana latte, to go please."
Reader Comments (1)
Damn you YUM members without kids. You're all happily eating Korean and I am online reading old YUM reviews. LAME.