GRAND BLANC TOWNSHIP, Michigan -- Ten years ago when I reviewed Damon's, it was a place to eat and be entertained. It still is, and the food it offers is fresh and often original.
Patrons can sit in the dining room called the "Clubhouse," and watch sports or news or play a trivia game on four large television screens while they eat. It's been called "eatertainment." For those who want some quiet, there's a traditional dining area.
A four-page menu has been broadened to include lunch and dinner specials as well as weeknight specials. Lunch combinations of endless soup and salad are $10 for two persons, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday.
Salads are iceberg wedges, Caesar, Cobb, chicken salad or house salad. House salad was marvelously fresh with soft croutons, leaf and iceberg lettuce, purple cabbage, carrots, chopped tomatoes and two kinds of cheese, Monterey and Jack.
Lunch sandwiches include chicken, veggie burger and fish with lettuce, tomato and onion. Entrees at lunch, from $7.99 to $9.99, include rack of ribs, pub-style fish with fries and flame-grilled Alaska salmon with fresh pineapple salsa and scallions.
I had a bacon-wrapped eight-ounce grilled pork chop with garlic-mashed redskins, thin onion straws and a salad. The bacon was crisp and the chop was tender and nicely grilled. A six-ounce sirloin was more well-done than I like but still good eating, and I liked the sweet potato with brown sugar and butter that came with it.
A large menu includes slow-roasted prime rib on special at $9.99 on Thursdays and all you can eat, at $14.99, on Tuesdays, served with fries and baked beans.
Sizzling chicken skillet, at $11.99, is sliced breast on a bed of red peppers, mushrooms, onions, melted pepperjack, corn salsa and potatoes, a large dish that can satisfy most hungry diners.
Sometimes the service can be erratic. A waitress never brought bread and butter, and she brought the check without asking if anyone wanted dessert. But on the whole, you'll like visiting Damon's for food and entertainment.