Youngstown Travel Guide

My wife and I had seen the signs on the highway for Bob Evans Restaurants but had no idea what they were. We were in the area visiting friends and they had suggested we all go to Bob Evans for breakfast.

Bob Evans is sort of a country style restaurant/IHOP type place. The food is homestyle country cooking seving breakfast, lunch and dinner. We went inside and the place was hopping with customers. There was counter seating as well as tables and booths. The hostess seated us at a booth for four in the far side of the restaurant. The menu is pages and pages of delicious looking and sounding items. We had breakfast on the mind so we perused countless, pancake, french toast, pastry and egg options before making a decision.

The food here was incredible and the portions very large. I picked up the tab and was shocked that breakfast for four people including drinks and side dishes was only $36. Wow, what a bargain and for such incredible food. I can't wait to have breakfast here again.

Favorite Dish: I ordered their Strawberry Banana Cream Stacked & Stuffed Hotcakes, side of bacon and an unsweetend iced tea. Wow the portion was huge: Two buttermilk hotcakes stuffed with fresh banana slices, stacked with vanilla cream cheese and covered with fresh strawberry topping and more banana slices. The taste was incredible, the strawberries were sweet and fresh. The hotcakes were light and fluffy...excellent. My bacon was cooked perfectly and crisp the way I like it. I finished eery last bite of food and stil wanted more of these delicious hotcakes.

My wife had the Cinnamon Cream hotcakes and a side of bacon. It was two hotcakes that had cinnamon chips inside. Inbetween the two hotcakes was a cinammon cream sauce taht tasted like cinnamon bun icing. On top was a cinnamon cream sauce. Everyone at the table had to try a bite and God was it good. The portion was too big for her and she barely finished half of the hotcakes.

Bob had eggs and plain hotcakes and BArb had the same. They love their breakfast here and are regulars at this establishment.

Great ambience and good bartenders make this a good dance club in downtown Youngstown. This is an upscale club and I was impressed with my first visit there. It felt like something out of a big city. The music isn't too bad, either.

The Core is open until 2:30 AM every night except Monday and Tuesday.

Dress Code: The crowd is well-dressed. No sneakers or sports clothes with symbols. Jeans are ok.

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Favorite thing: What a great area to grow up in, just not in the city proper itself. Downtown is trying to make a comeback with a new entertainment stadium, the Chevy Centre. It is home to YSU college, home of BJA's Phantom Fireworks, has a hospital but no hotel or gas station with in the city limits.

The surrounding suburbs are great with the exodus occurring as the Steel Mills closed and continue to grow. Be sure to check out Mill Creek Park and the Butler Museum of Art.

You must come here hungry. Hundreds of local restaurants are about with lots of traditional homemade ethnic foods from pigs and chicken on a spit, to Briar Hill Pizza, to homemade perogies, meatballs, etc..... it's got to be the home of, "the way mom used to make it"

Fondest memory: The food