Q: positive

A: I will definitely go back here! The prices are a bit higher than the other nail places around this area, but overall a good experience. My massage chair was broken:( but these things do happen. I had a great pedi and they totally up-sold me on callus removal. Not sure if I really needed it but I think I might do it again once summer is over. The staff is friendly and the place is CLEAN! Also the hours are great! They seem to be open most holidays and the place is always packed.

Q: negative

A: The only thing that is like a diner here is the decor... First of all, I couldn't help but notice the foul smell that filled the restaurant when we sat down. I don't know if it was a bathroom issue, or the food just smelt like poo...The service is so-so. The jukebox at the table we sat at didn't even work. The food was a little over priced, and not many vegetarian options. I usually enjoy a diner for it's music and interesting crowd. But this place was dead on a saturday, the service was mediocre. I had a simple grilled cheese. I didn't think anybody could really mess that up, but it was not even warm on the inside and the fries were stale. My friends had breakfast for lunch, the food was so greasy and looked like it was from a cafeteria lunch room at summer camp... I probably won't ever go back here again.

Q: positive

A: I have to tell you, the Manager Don is shaping this place up. Service is much better....food more consistant. My only concern is their buffets and they love buffets. They're up and down. But their pizza last night was great! Drinks are always good. And they seem to be using fresh food - not frozen. We're going back more often!

Q: negative

A:
The Beautiful Carin and I have never been confused with health food enthusiasts. Nevertheless, in effort to broaden our horizons, we decided to give Nourish a spin at lunch a few weeks ago, and see if it might "change our point of view". I was a little disappointed, frankly. But then again, I freely admit that I might be an outlier to their target demographic! Located in the ruins of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon...I mean the Optima Camelview...the place is definitely going for a hip feel...but it just doesn't quite succeed. Nourish is just so aggressively healthy...from the colors of the decor to the too eager menu to the very strict tables and chairs and the meager portions...all of them as warm and inviting as a rap on the knuckles from the teacher in the one room schoolhouse where I spent my first few years in the educational system. The patio, while nice enough, overlooks the desperately deserted inner atrium of the OC on one side, and the street on the other. We gamely settled into the rock hard and posture correcting chairs (subtly telling us to "sit up straight and eat our veggies...act healthy dammit!") and perused the menu. We looked and looked and looked, but I couldn't find the chicken fried steak and mashed potatoes (which I consider health food) and Carin looked in vain for some of her favorites (or at least some salad dressing that wasn't essentially flavored water). We start with a shared bowl of "chili"...all I have to say about that "chili", is that it wasn't. I ordered a "Salmon Burger"...which I (silly me) assumed would constitute salmon and a bun...but when the menu says "served on a bed of greens" they mean "you just get some lettuce under this thingy...no buns". I suppose that wouldn't have been so bad if they had given me an actual slab of salmon, like I can get at AJ's grill for $3.00 less...but this was a "salmon pattie"...ground up salmon and fillers (bread crumbs, green onion, chopped pepper, and assorted other crap). Why did they do that to a perfectly good piece of salmon? Unless of course it wasn't a perfectly good piece of salmon, but a perfectly good can of salmon! I don't know...it was just fishy...and not in a good way. At least it was gluten free! Carin's "Kitchen Sink" salad was also a disappointment...unless by "Kitchen Sink" you mean a small salad consisting almost entirely of sliced peppers, shredded carrot and cucumber, onions and a little bit of romaine, in a small soup bowl...maybe they have a very tiny kitchen and the sink is quite small...I just don't know and I didn't bother to investigate. The service was perfunctory, but fine (we didn't get a lot of interaction with our server...he was working pretty hard for the attention of the young lady behind the bar, as well as chatting with a couple of his friends who happened to drop by). The good news for us is that place was essentially empty from the time we showed up (at 12:30 on a pleasant Saturday afternoon) until we left, so we had a waiter all to ourselves (even if his attention was split between us and his potential hook-up). All-in-all, this little repast cost us about $40...and we walked out of Nourish feeling not so much "nourished" or "nurtured" or "healthy" as we felt "corrected", "admonished" and "hungry". Oh well, I tried to be healthy...it's just not in my DNA!