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Genghis Grill

March 10th, 2011

Genghis grill is a new Mongolian stir fry restaurant which has recently opened a location here in Tyler at 3709 Troup Highway. This is a buffet style restaurant where you make your own bowl by choosing from a very large selection of vegetables, spices and protein such as chicken, beef or even tofu. Each customer is given a small metal bowl and a challenge to fit as many vegetables into it as physically possible.

The vegetable selection is wide and therefore it is important to carefully browse your options before getting carried away with your selections after only seeing some of the variety of ingredients. If you are more comfortable doing so there are small instructional cards to guide your bowl to a traditional style or feel free to be creative and do what looks best to you.

After piling your vegetables up high move on to choose your seasoning spices and sauteing sauce for your meal to be prepared in. Now you are ready to exchange this heaping mound of personalized stir fry for a number.

Take a seat and await for the traditional Mongolian style cooking method developed originally for use in battle on the warriors shields. After a fiery display of vegetable grilling and a few gong rings your food will be brought to you and you will be able to experience your creation.

One piece of advice some might appreciate would be to go easy on the sauce when preparing your selection, it is much stronger than one might expect. Genghis Grill also has a bar and even a selection of wine as do most restaurants in Tyler’s pseudo-dry community.

Genghis Grill is a new restaurant and the service is enthusiastic as you might expect from a fresh crew and place. It has a enjoyable atmosphere with no overbearing music or stressful crowds.The showmanship of the cooking provides a subtle entertainment for while you wait for your food.

Genghis Grill also provides the self proclaimed healthy options, in fact they are so confident in the benefit of their health options they’re currently hosting a subway style exclusive diet contest between three contestants who will eat nothing but this menu for three months, while following a hospital recommended exercise and nutrition plan to demonstrate exactly how life changing eating healthy and eating at Genghis Grill can be.

The prize will be ten thousand dollars awarded by the public’s choice of their favorite contestant, a somewhat confusing judgment process that doesn’t necessarily directly account for the relative health or improvement of the contest participants. But no matter how this riveting contest ends it is good to know that Genghis Grill is a responsible as well as delicious source for Mongolian stir fry in Tyler.

Juanita’s Mexican Buffet

January 18th, 2010

Juanita’s Mexican Buffet is located on Hwy 110 in Lindale, which is close to Tyler. My friends took me there once for lunch and I thought the food was pretty good. It is buffet style restaurant which I prefer most of the time because you can choose how much you eat and when to stop. The menu selection was good…Spanish rice, fajita meat with onions and bell pepper, chicken fingers, some type of stew, rolls, muffins, salad stuff and peach cobbler for dessert.

Our waitress wasn’t that great but I think she was busy with all the other tables. Like an attentive waitress, she did stop several times at our table to ask if we were OK…but did not take our plates away very quickly. Not a big deal…I still enjoyed my meal and I would do it over again if I had another opportunity. As long as the food is okay and the company great I can overlook some of the other stuff. The restaurant is on the small side and you can tell they probably had some regulars who often like to go have lunch there. We took my 21 month old daughter and of course she draws attention everywhere we go.

People love baby’s for the most part. It makes for a great conversation starter to have a child go out to eat with you, especially if you are shy and have a hard time saying something worth while your children always have something funny or smart to say. Never a dull moment. Juanita’s is a great place for a buffet style mexican restaurant and the price is reasonable. It is not gourmet food…but good reasonable quality and price. For what you pay…this is worth it

Atria Assisted Living

August 31st, 2009

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Atria assisted living is something different in senior care. Their purpose is to offer independence, community, care and companionship to area seniors. The staff of Atria Tyler is top notch and provides round the clock care to the aging. The maintenance department offers assistance for any technical issue no matter how small at any time of the day or night.

The facility offers several levels of care. Independent living is for those who desire to live an active lifestyle in a close knit community of individuals at a similar stage of life. The staff is there to offer assistance with things like laundry, transportation and social events. There is also a cafeteria style restaurant and a twenty four hour café. Assisted living offers a higher level of care to those who require it. In addition to the services provided to independent residents, assisted residents enjoy help with dressing, bathing and medication. Memory care provides continual care for those experiencing memory loss and disorientation. Atria also offers short term visitations for those who would like to investigate the option.

The activities the community offers go toward developing and sustaining the whole person. They include arts and crafts, board and card games, bingo, book clubs, gardening clubs and many many other opportunities. Atria residents are also invited to form their own groups around any activities not currently available. According to their literature Atria offers over two hundred different social opportunities for residents per month.  Again, the goal is to provide a rich full life in the company of other senior adults at a similar stage of life.

Atria is not a nursing home or a hospice center for the elderly, it is a community that provides for the medical and practical needs of seniors while they enjoy the comforts and convenience of a close knit familial environment. In everything Atria does for its families it strives for excellence and dignity. From the foods served to medicine it practices, the residents come first. And the results are evident in the testimonies of the people who live there.
 
The company is headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky and has facilities in twenty seven states including Texas. For more information see their website at www.atriaseniorliving.com, or call their Tyler office at (903)509-9575.