Good Dining at Inexpensively?

I would say the "Brick Oven Restaurant"

4 Locations:

'Downtown' 1209 Red River 477-7006

'Arboretum' 10710 Research 345-6181

'South' 9911 Brodie 292-3939

'Central' 1608 W 35th 453-4330

Lunch Features

Available 11am-4pm daily

(full menu also available at all times)

Extra Large Slice of Pizza - A huge slice of cheese pizza with your choice of two standard toppings served with a garden salad. 7.50

Minestrone Soup and Salad - Our house recipe Italian soup and a garden salad served with toasted garlic bread. 6.50

Slice of Italian Stromboli - Served with a garden salad and marinara. 6.95

Soup and Half Sandwich - A bowl of soup with half of one of our large sandwiches 6.95

Grilled Chicken Sandwich - Oven grilled chicken breast, mozzarella cheese, fresh mushrooms, onions, green peppers, with ranch dressing on toasted oat bran bread. 7.50

Open Faced Meatball Sandwich - Homemade meatballs with fresh marinara sauce and melted whole milk mozzarella, served open faced over garlic sourdough bread. 7.50

Fresh Vegetable Sandwich - Mozzarella, tomatoes, green leaf lettuce, mushrooms, carrots, onions, and green bell peppers on natural oat bran bread with ranch dressing and vinaigrette. 6.95

Smoked Turkey Sandwich - Smoked turkey, mozzarella cheese, tomato, green leaf lettuce with lemon garlic and ranch dressing on natural oat bran bread. 7.50

Starters

Minestrone Soup - Homemade and hearty, a traditional Italian soup of vegetables, red beans, chicken broth and pasta 2.50 cup

3.95 bowl

Toasted Mozzarella Garlic Bread - Fresh daily baked sourdough garlic bread topped with mozzarella. 3.95

Meatball Appetizer - Brick Oven baked meatballs topped with marinara and mozzarella cheese, served with toasted garlic bread. 6.95

Bruschetta - Toasted garlic bread topped with a tomato, basil, garlic & olive oil mixture 5.95

Seafood Stuffed Mushroom Caps - In a sweet onion cream sauce 6.50

Oven Baked Portabello Mushrooms - Feta cheese, Roma tomatoes, white onions in a wine sauce with with mozzarella baked on top and served with toasted garlic bread 6.95

Spinach & Artichoke Dip - Served with our toasted garlic bread 7.50

Salads

Garden Salad - Salad with your choice of ranch, blue cheese, honey Dijon, creamy Italian, tomato basil vinaigrette or peppercorn Parmesan dressing 3.50

Caesar Salad - Classic Caesar dressing over fresh romaine lettuce topped with Parmesan and Romano cheeses and croutons

Add chicken - 2.00

3.50 - Small

5.95 - Large

Caprese Salad - Fresh mozzarella and sliced roma tomatoes with fresh basil, drizzled with extra virgin olive oil and a touch of balsamic vinegar 5.95

Cranberry Gorgonzola Field Green Salad-Field greens with dried cranberries,gorgonzola cheese,and pecans tossed in a rich balsamic vinaigette. 7.95

Greek Salad- Romaine lettuce with marinated roasted red bell peppers and artichoke hearts,feta cheese,red onion,mediterranean olives and a red wine vinegar. 7.95

Pasta Selections

Capellini Pomodoro - Chopped fresh Roma tomatoes, basil, roasted garlic and extra virgin olive oil over angel hair pasta. 6.95

Spaghetti Marinara with Meatballs - Our authentic Italian house recipe. 7.95

Pasta Primavera - Spaghetti pasta tossed with olive oil, fresh herbs, artichoke, mushrooms, zucchini, yellow squash, onions, red peppers a in marinara. 7.95

Pasta Rustica - Strips of sautéed chicken breast and bowtie pasta in a rich sun dried tomato pesto with fresh mozzarella chunks, roasted garlic, black olives and fresh basil. 8.95

Chicken Rigatoni in Chipotle Pesto Cream - Grilled chicken, rigatoni noodles, mushrooms, tomatoes, and green onions, tossed in chipotle pesto cream sauce sprinkled with parsley and Parmesan cheese. 8.95

Fettuccine in a Basil Pesto Cream Sauce - A classic sauce of cream and Italian cheeses, with fresh basil pesto tossed with mushrooms and tomatoes. 7.50

9.50 w/chicken

9.95 w/shrimp

Shrimp Fettuccine Picatta - Shrimp, mushrooms, tomatoes, and capers, in a lemon garlic butter sauce over fettuccine pasta. 9.95

All Pasta Selections served with a Garden Salad and Toasted Garlic Bread

Oven Baked Entrees

Lasagna - Multiple layers of pasta with lean ground beef and Italian sausage, ricotta, mozzarella, Parmesan, Asiago, and Romano cheeses, topped with a rich fresh herb marinara sauce. 8.95

Chicken Formaggi - Multiple layers of pasta with roasted chicken,five cheeses, fresh herbs & marinara. 8.95

Baked Spinach Ravioli - Raviolis filled with spinach, herbs, ricotta, Parmesan and Romano cheese over marinara sauce with mozzarella baked on top. 7.95

Cannelloni - Roasted chicken with spinach, mushrooms, fresh herbs, ricotta, Parmesan and Romano cheeses, all rolled in fresh pasta sheets and baked in a tomato cream sauce. 7.95

http://www.brickovenrestaurant.com/menus.html

How about Las Palomas in Westlake? It's great interior style Mexican food with a really nice atmosphere. Most dishes are between $9.95 and $14.95. Don't expect Tex-Mex, it's very unique but the food is really excellent! Sometimes they have a Mariachi band playing too.

believe it or not Indian food usually has a buffet and its usually very nice atmpsphere. the food is delicious.

here in NYC we have one that serves a buffet dinner for $9.00 and it starts with an appatizer, all you can eat and has desert.

try looking up buffets in resurants. but go to restuarants that only offer it once or twice a week! those are the higher end resturants you want.

Olive Garden!