Frisch’s Hot Fudge Cake is Sinful

We all have them, we all need them… guilty pleasures. As we get older, we try to eat healthier, but once in a while, you gotta splurge. Dayton is a great place to do so. Sure, there is fear in seeing the calorie count, and scary scale readings the following week… but sometimes you gotta have a ghastly, full blown Food Adventure.

So without further ado, we present present our list of the Top 15 Guilty Food Pleasures of the Dayton Area:

15) THE FOOTLONG CHILI DOG at THE ROOT BEER STANDE: Long and strong, we came to get the friction on. This wiener is a mouthful of goodness and a ruined shirt waiting to happen. Eat it in your car, roll up the windows so no one can see,. But we know… this is one of your guilty pleasures.

14) FRICKER’S RIBS & WINGS DINNER: This huge meal comes with a half rack of ribs, those famous fried chicken wings, cole slaw, roll and an side. Finger lickin’ good, and a naughty belt buster for sure.

13) THE PEANUT BUTTER SUNDAE at JET FREEZE: Homemade peanut butter sauce, ice cream, whip cream, nuts and a cherry on top. The peanut butter sauce alone is so sinful that it catapults it onto the list.

12) THE BROOKYLYN BRAWLER PIZZA at JOHNNY’S SLICE of NY: When you serve a giant, stuffed pizza as big as a spare tire, it has to be a guilty pleasure. Big eaters of the Miami Valley come from far and wide not only to eat this giant creation, but to see if 2 of them can finish it in 30 minutes or less to get on the wall of fame. Filled with various meats and cheeses, this guilty pleasure is for serious eaters.

11) THE SEAFOOD PLATTER at TREASURE ISLAND: Deep fried scallops, a cod filet, frog legs, fried shrimp and stuffed crab on a plate with 2 sides. You can taste it all, but don’t test your cholesterol that day. The over the top moment of this dinner is when they serve you some drawn butter for dipping. Oh, behave !

10) ALL-YOU-CAN EAT FISH at the HASTY TASTY PANCAKE HOUSE: For just $7.25, you can literally fill yourself to the gills. Breaded and crispy, it is one of the best ‘bangs for your buck’ as far as sinful meals go. The fish is Alaskan pollock, and when you add the sides, rolls and butter slabs, the wheels come off the diet train.

9) BROASTED CHICKEN at GEORGE’S FAMILY RESTAURANT: Deep fried in a pressure cooker, this stuff is guilty fun for the while family. Moist inside, the chicken is always cooked to perfection. Get some heavenly comfort food sides and complete this trip to dream street.

North China’s Crispy Shrimp: Rich, Spicy Flavor with a Touch of Sweetness

8) CRISPY SHRIMP at NORTH CHINA: One of our favorite Chinese restaurants serves us a sweet sauced, deep fried shrimp dish that will knock you on your socks. The taste, the crunch, the bites of sauce mixed with rice. Overdone richness? Guilty as charged.

7) POTATO SKIN CUPS at ANGIE’S FIREHOUSE: Stuffed with chili, bacon, onions, tomatoes, cheddar cheese, green onions, jalapenos and sour cream they are a beautiful piece of work. You will find yourself eating an entire plate of these and passing out in a food coma.

6) BISCUITS & GRAVY at TANK’S: Delicious, artery clogging goodness. Although this legendary spot on Wayne Avenue has many treasures, we find this to be our most guilty pleasure.

5) THE HOT FUDGE CAKE at FRISCH’S: We know, this is semi-local and more of a regional treat, but it deserves a spot on our list. Hot, steaming fudge, hitting the cool cake and ice cream. The feeling of the whip cream and hot fudge on your lips is worth every calorie.

4) THE PANZAROTTI at MAMMA DISALVO’S: This is pretty much a calzone that is the size of a small kid. Imagine an extra large pizza full of toppings and cheese, that has been folded in half. Served with dipping sauce, it is like cutting into a turkey to begin eating. Go all out and dip your forkfuls into marina or ranch. It is absolutely delicious.

Click to Enlarge: Broasted Chicken from George’s Family Restaurant

3) THE HOG BURGER at VOLTZY’s: Voltzy says he named the burger after his ex-wife. All we know is that this mammoth 20 ounce burger melts in your mouth, and you find yourself saying “I can’t believe I ate the whole thing.”

2) CASSANO’S BIG CHEESE PIZZA: Like Vic Cassano Sr said “It’s one heck of a pizza.” That famous Cassano’s crust and sauce, loaded with pepperoni, sausage, mushrooms, onions, green peppers, olives and finished off with a m0und of cheese. The proof is in the taste.

The Big Bo BJ Breakfast Sandwich from B&B Carryout

1) THE “BIG BO BJ” at B&B CARRYOUT: Get your mind out of the gutter, this is a breakfast sandwich. And it is one helluva guilty pleasure. This craziness is a bun with sausage, a fried egg, a hash brown patty, American cheese,strips of bacon and hot pepper cheese. You won’t feel that guilty, because the every bite is just so darn good. A handful of greasy, gooeyness, with great flavor. If you haven’t tried the Big Bo BJ, you need to grab yourself one.

Do you feel guilty yet? Naughty nibbles indeed. Honorable Mention to : Paragon Supper Club’s Paragon Supreme Dessert- a peanut butter and chocolate ice cream mousse, Marion’s Super Cheese Pizza – delicious, Tank’s Chili Cheese Fries-out of this world, and Submarine House’s Super Duper Cheesesteak– triple the meat and cheese & 16 inches long.

DID WE LEAVE ANY OUT? WHICH OF YOUR FAVORITE GUILTY PLEASURES SHOULD WE HAVE INCLUDED IN OUR LIST??

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Not a Restaurant, This is a Supper Club

A dimly lit dining room, 1970’s furniture, hustling staff and bustling patrons. This is not a restaurant, this is a Supper Club. Treasure Island is everything you could ask for in an old school eatery. Located in the heart of Moraine, Ohio, it has great service, great food and classic ambiance. This place is like a scene out of the movies “Saturday Night Fever” or “Looking for Mr Goodbar.” When you enter Treasure Island Supper Club, the carpeted lobby has a metal railing staircase that leads to bathrooms and a party room on the second level. What other place has that? But it doesn’t end there, we are just getting started. As you pass from the lobby into the eating area, you notice a room with lighting so low that you cannot tell if it is noon or midnight. The bar area is a low seat bar with the bartender working in a “pit” even lower than the bar patrons. The bar is adjacent to a walkway that leads to the dining room. The walkway is lined with wooden spindles that were hand carved by the restaurant owner. In fact his woodwork is throughout the supper club. We were expecting to hear “bow chicka wow wow” music, but that did not happen.

Baskets of Butter and Lance Crackers at Every Table

A hostess greets you near the walkway and puts you on the waiting list, or seats you promptly. You will be seated in a leather 70’s style booth or some old school table and chairs. Even the water glasses are old school, and we love it ! On the table in a wicker basket, are various types of Lance crackers and butter packets. We ate a lot of melba toasts, crackers and captain’s wafers leaving our table strewn with Lance cracker wrappers. Our Food Adventure Crew lives for unique places like this. Our server who waited on us was fantastic. She was a throwback to the days when waitresses were career waitresses for decades at the same restaurant. She brought our salads and a basket of poppy seed bread that was still warm, so we put the butter packets to good use.

We were then served a shrimp cocktail appetizer that stayed in theme with the 70’s nostalgia. The huge shrimp were served in a silver goblet lined with green decorative lettuce. the shrimp were already partially dipped in the cocktail sauce inside the goblet. These were some of the largest and best tasting shrimp we have ever eaten. Make sure you don’t miss out on this old school shrimp cocktail or you will be squirming in your red leather chair.

The Best Shrimp Cocktail Ever

We saw a customer being served a large corn fritter that looked good, so we decided to order one too… good move. The homemade, handmade corn fritter is served with maple syrup packets and simply melt in your mouth. We sat their enjoying the appetizer feeling like we were in an episode of “Starsky and Hutch.” The fritter was cooked perfectly, nice and moist on the inside and golden brown on the outside. In the restaurant lighting it looked like a brick of gold from Fort Knox.

After stuffing ourselves with crackers, bread, butter, salad and appetizers, our main entrees arrived. One of us had ordered the baked halibut dinner. It was served old school style with dunking butter! It also came with a baked potato, decorative parsley, and large sides of butter and sour cream. Again 70’s additude toward cholesterol and fat! The fish was firm yet fluffy and absolutely delicious. The baked potato was perfectly cooked as well. The Big Ragu’s entree was the seafood platter. How old school is the name of that dish? The dinner was served with frog legs, fried shrimp, crab cakes, fried scallops, and fried oysters. The dinner was very rich, but tasted incredible. It was served with a side of hash browns that didn’t disappoint. After finishing our meal, we thanked our waitress and the assertive busboys.

Perfectly Baked Halibut

As we walked out of the restaurant we joked about coming back for a picture outside the restaurant dressed in 7o’s Afro wig, terrycloth shorts, and pulled up white socks with stripes. It was another successful Food Adventure! Our visit here was fantastic, truly enjoy Treasure Island Supper Club and had one of our better Food Adventures here. If you have not been here to try the great food you are missing out on a taste bud experience! It is a fun place to dine with some of the tables hollowed out with golf or Vegas decor behind tabletop glass. The Big Ragu and Crew highly recommend that you visit Treasure Island because they do things right, and have not changed their successful formula. The simplicity of good food and good service is timeless, no matter what the decade. If you visit this supper club and you see a couple of guys with cheesy 70’s mustaches, or Dirk Diggler haircuts, it just may be your Food Adventures Crew and the Big Ragu, incognito!

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