The Omega

basics for the challenged: 9100 Golf road, Niles a block away from Golf Mill (847) 296 7777

The extended food posse. It was new year's. Left to right: Jeebus, Eric, Sean, Queenie, Jen

TC: This is an old fashioned family style pancake house. Warmly lit, big round booths, good food in HUGE portions. And my god, the dessert bar.  The shakes are monstrosities (although the strawberry I had was not the quality of Clarke's, nor did it have whole berries in it.) A whole dinner with all the courses could feed three people. Try this: a root beer floar, but instead of root beer, strawberry, pinapple, or cherry phosphate. Rating: 8

Below: Jeebus, TC, Eric.

Jen: I personally liked this place. The moment you walk in, you see this giant pastry counter of goodies.

Samples of the fresh baked goods from the cake bar. That's boysenberry fudge swirl and mint chocolate bar cake. They also make these HUGE cookies and taffy apples with caramel so thick it looks like peanut butter.

Sean: Good food, bad service. Rating: 6

Jeebus: I liked the milkshake. Stupid waitress. The busboy poured water all over the place. Rating: 7

Queenie: The service was slow. Our waitress didn't even remember half our order.  I had to remind her and she looked at me like I was crazy. Rating: 6

This has to be the coolest dessert there.

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