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2 people, 1 restaurant, 25 bucks
Meals for people with big appetites and small wallets
Meals for people with big appetites and small wallets
I first noticed Peaches Café a couple of weeks ago while walking around Webster Towne Center, but I didn't go near it. I was seasick — having just cut short an afternoon of boating on Irondequoit Bay — and had no appetite. So once I'd been on dry land for a while, I went there for an afternoon bite with my friend, Miranda.
The mood
Given its cutesy name, I figured that the café — whose dishes are made from scratch — would be decked out in country paraphernalia, but that's not the case. This place has personality, especially given its strip-mall location. The walls are done in shades of rust, moss-green and straw-yellow, the wood floors are a warm brown, and the lighting includes funky, colorful glass pendants.
The food
I adore grilled cheese and usually can't turn down a panini, so I was pumped to try the Roma Panini ($7.45). It came with thick and juicy tomatoes, hefty slices of mozzarella cheese and fresh pesto bursting with basil and was served hot on lightly grilled focaccia bread.
The pesto was no mere condiment — it was thickly layered and competed graciously as a main ingredient of the sandwich, which came with crisp, homemade chips.
Miranda ordered the Patty Melt Platter ($8.75) — a ground steak patty topped with grilled onions and choice of melted cheese on grilled rye bread (a recent change — the menu reads "sourdough") — served with french fries and coleslaw.
When Miranda asked for Monterey Jack cheese, an ingredient she noticed in other dishes on the menu, our server said she could choose only between American and Swiss, but that she could have Monterey Jack for an extra 30 cents. She also agreed to her burger medium-well, because the restaurant doesn't serve them medium, as she'd requested. It all worked out: The burger was thick and loaded with cheese and onions (not dry as she'd worried), the fries were hot and fresh, and the coleslaw surprised with chunks of pineapple.
Peaches also serves salads, melt, steaks, seafood and Italian dishes.
The drinks Sodas, juices, teas and coffee range from $1.75 to $1.95. Jumbo milkshakes made with Breyers ice cream cost $4.25.
The damage: $21
Next time ... I like what they do with cheese and tomatoes, so I'd go for the Bacon, Tomato and Cheese Melt ($6.75) – "bacon strips, sliced tomato, Kraft melted American cheese grilled on a choice of premium bread," served with a pickle and chips.
