The Review Ballerina

Jungle Burger: Official Facebook When you find coupons in your local paper, you're going to want to try new places! We decided to try out Jungle Burger in Sherman, Texas and I just had to write this review even though this wasn't a review opportunity!

Roscoe's NY Diner & Sports Bar: Official Website  (Grapevine Location) Roscoe's NY Diner & Sports Bar: Official Facebook  (Grapevine Location) Note: I read the Google reviews before we went to the restaurant. My review is not paid for, and I truly don't know what those people were on when they came here because I do not agree with ANY negative review I saw. I'm an honest reviewer, so get ready for the ride. When we pulled up to Roscoe's I was very nervous. After the horrible experience we had at Lonesome Dove Bistro I was worried that another experience would occur that would completely make me want to stop blogging. After we came in I was immediately impressed. The name is "Diner" but this does not look like a diner it looks really fantastic. It's big, open, airy, they have the sports bar on one side and the diner on the other.   The bar area looks great with a large bar, televisions, an awesome electric jukebox that I wish I'...

I have been a blogger now for over a year. I have been lucky to have gotten some incredible items to review and giveaway and more recently began getting opportunities to go to locations, restaurants and attractions and review. I contacted Lonesome Dove two weeks ago when we were going to be riding the Grapevine Vintage Railroad to see if we could come and have lunch while there and I'd write a review. As a blogger, we are not to purchase anything . So I spoke with the hostess twice and the manager once in the last two weeks and repeated myself repeatedly that this was the case. The day I called and asked, the manager was more than eagerly willing to have us come in. I repeated in that conversation about no purchase, and she was completely fine. We spoke about this being my first restaurant review and it was going to be great. We drove out to Ft. Worth (about a 20 minute ride for us), paid $5 for parking and walked half the block and got to the restaurant. Going in, the place ...