Restaurant Reviews

Reviews and more from The Grub Hound

Restaurant Reviews header image 1

Banquet Hall Frisco – Mattitos Tex Mex

August 13th, 2010 · No Comments

I just came upon the Dallas Tex Mex restaurant, Mattitos, and by the looks of their site, I would say Mattitos would be a great place to dine if I was in the Dallas or Frisco areas and had a craving for some delicious Mexican food.Mattitos Logo

Mattitos Menu

At the top of the Menu page, visitors to their site are told that Mattito’s has Extrodinary Mexican Dishes. I really like their online menu, as it contains not only pictures of some of the favorite Mexican entres, but the menu also has descriptions of food items. From my last post on restaurant menus, I mentioned that online menus need to not be graphic representations of the real menu, but a real text menu, that is updated regularly.  This menu gives the potential patron enough info to give them the ability to determine ahead of time what they would like to eat. Kudos to Mattitos for their online menu.

Banquet Halls Frisco

Viewing the Mattitos site, you can just tell Mattitos would be a great place to have a banquet. According to the site, they can handle banquets for groups of 20-200 easily.  Looking for Cheap Banquet Halls in Frisco or a banquet restaurant Dallas? You should surely give Mattitos a call. Banquet menus for lunch, dinner, and happy hour are available for both banquet hall Frisco and Dallas locations.

Mexican Favorites

If you check out past posts here on thegrubhound, you can tell that I really am into Mexican food. I would say that in a typical month, I will indulge in some sort of Mexican food atleast 2 times a week. From fresh Guacamole to quesadillas I have yet to have a Mexican meal that I did not enjoy.

Returning to the Mattitos Menu, I see many of my favorites including fish tacos or tacos de pescado and sopapillas..oh I am so hungry for Mexican right now.  But to tell you the truth, the Chocolate Carmel Nachos, really have my interest piqued..they sound delicious.

What about You?

What Mexican Foods do you love? Have you ever been to Mattitos? What are your favorites at Mattitos?

→ No CommentsTags: Mexican · Uncategorized

Restaurants Websites Need to Add Menus

July 2nd, 2010 · 3 Comments

Being a Search Marketing Consultant, I need to keep up with what is going on in the SEO industry, and I was just reading an article in one of our Search Marketing Journals, and the topic of restaurant menus came up and how they can cause a restaurants website to be affected in the search engines. To make sure your restaurant menu affects your site positively, read and implement the suggestions below.

Restaurant Menu Tips

  • Don’t have a scanned copy of your physical menu. This would be considered to be a graphic, and it would need to be a large graphic for potential customers to see it. Graphics that big slow a site down tremendously.
  • Create a PDF of your menu, so customers can download it and print it out and PDFs can be indexed by the search engines.
  • Link to your menu from your home page, don’t make customers search for it.
  • Avoid small print.
  • Avoid putting rules such as minumum purchase required.
  • Avoid using Flash menus..Flash looks pretty, but can not be downloaded and is not search engine friendly.
  • Update your menu frequently. When you make a change to your actual menu, make changes to your website menu.
  • List your specials if at all possible. This could be a special section of your site, if you don’t want to include it on your menu.
  • Display your prices please.
  • Distribute your Menu to various menu sites to get even more exposure for your restaurant.

These are just a few suggestions for giving your potential customers and the search engines a menu that will meet the needs of both, and potentiall bring in more foot traffic.

If you would like to implement these suggestions but are unsure, please leave a comment or visit our SEO site by clicking the link at the beginning of the menu article.

→ 3 CommentsTags: Restaurant Marketing

Mack and Manco Pizza

May 12th, 2010 · 1 Comment

Thin delicious thin crusted pizza is what you get at Mack and Manco Pizza of Ocean
City NJ.

→ 1 CommentTags: Uncategorized

Pizza Hut Hot Wings

April 19th, 2010 · 2 Comments

Pizza Hut Hot Wings or Wing Street hot wings are ok wings. Initially, maybe because it was dinner time, I was thinking about giving them a 4.5 star rating. However, as I ate them the flavor began to ware on me. They taste like there is a lot of sodium in the hot sauce. Usually hot wing left overs might make it until morning as left overs, but the box of Pizza Hut Hot Wings was still in the fridge Sunday night. Several young lads I talked to said they were not a fan of Wing Street Hot wings.

The hot wings had an acceptable amount of meet on them, but nothing like my favorites over at Union Jacks. Pizza Hut does offer multiple varieties of wings starting at 8 hot wings and then 14 and up.
I would like the wings to be a little less salty and also be a little bigger.
In addition to the varieties, I would like to have the ability to order different temperatures.
The wings did come with a choice of blue cheese or ranch dressing, but no celery.

My first initial reaction to the wings was a 4.5, but after truly tasting them and weighing the options I am giving them a 3.5 star hot wing rating.

Rating: ★★★½☆ 

→ 2 CommentsTags: hot wings