My new favorite restaurant is the Red Cedar Grille. Menu here. Deb and I ate there for the first time after seeing Music & Lyrics yesterday afternoon. Now, we like to gab when we get together, so we were enjoying our soup (she had the tomato, I had yesterday's blackbean) and chatting. The waitress apologized that our food was late coming up: Deb's steak salad came up first, then got cold while they were waiting for my Cubana sandwich to come up. We didn't care, we were relaxing. Next thing we know, the waitress is apologizing again, and says: "I've talked to my manager about this wait, and he said we could do one of two things. Either you can have dessert on the house, or I'll take the price of the soup off your checks."

Dang, but we felt almost guilty! We hadn't realized anything was amiss. Minutes later, the manager came over and introduced himself. We decided, after our wonderful entrees, to continue with the carrot cake dessert. It's a shared dessert. Ha! It's a baby carrot cake! We each had ample servings, and half was STILL left over. Deb took it home for her husband Joe.

What a place. It's been years since I've felt so pampered at a restaurant. If you're in the mid-Michigan area, I heartily recommend it. There is one at the Lansing Mall and one in Williamston. You're in for a treat!