Batavia’s “so called finest”… The Pok-A-Dot.
I went there the other day (all because of Ethan’s inability to choose a place for dinner!) around dinner time. Now see, the Pok-A-Dot isn’t the first place you’d tell your friends to go out to on a saturday night typically, but my guess is, if you asked 20 people around town who have been there, if they have had a good experience or bad… all 20 would say good. Its almost odd! And I will have to give the place some credit. With no more than 6 tables inside and a counter top that maybe seats 8, with the view of the fryer and flat top grill… I suppose you would consider it one of those small town, quaint little eaterys.
You have one lady who is in the place and does all of the greeting (well, something like that!), ordering, cooking and delivering! Sometimes there might be 2 ladies there. But thats good stuff! People might knock the Pok-A-Dot or shy away from it, because of its “greasy” looking, small building on the corner, first impression. BUT, it really is a place that provides one with the satisfaction of a good meal, breakfast, lunch or dinner, for the cheapest prices in town.
In conclusion of this very odd “ode” to a diner… we had friends visit from Italy this summer (their first time to America), and they went to the Pok-A-Dot. They fell in love! The onion rings did them in! So you have to think, it must be some sort of good when the palate of a true Italian is begging to go there again!
AND… the best thing is, thanks to The Batavian - I have recently had the joy of laughter after discovering that there is a “cyber Pok-A-Dot“!!!!! There you are friends… IS your picture on there!? Who knew!
seriously, i think we should start going there instead of Sporto’s or Denny’s.
you in?!
Oh, it’s way better than Denny’s.
Try it for breakfast!
I used to go there when I was in high school in 1956.
I stopped by last summer and had a couple of white hots and they were just as good as I remembered.
I sat at the counter and I swear the grill and everything looked just the same.