Okay, so this sandwich sounds pretty good, but it's totally unoriginal. bleu cheese, bacon, avocado, and grilled chicken do not a revelation make.

That aside, I have to say that I really hate the food at the Comfort Diner. The only quasi-decent meals to be had there are during breakfast, but it's SO overpriced, everything ends up leaving a bad taste in your mouth.

I have not read their cookbook, but I would assume that they would use the same recipes in their restaurant, and the food is TERRIBLE, if not very bland & boring, at best.

Their desserts are just about the worst atrocities ever conceived. They would have done well to have adapted any semblance of a mainstream Cook's Illustrated/Martha Stewart/Joy of Cooking/Betty Crocker recipe for the abomination they call their Mile-High Apple Pie or a name something to that effect. It looked exciting, since it was a pretty tall, thick piece of pie, but when my boyfriend and I bit into it, we both involuntarily spat it out at the same time. It was impossibly dry, impossibly all-white pie that was flavorless, bizarrely apple-less; DISGUSTING! and I like eating plain pie-crust, but this stuff was so strange and insufferably thick, dry, and NASTY! It honestly felt like hardtack going around in my mouth with partially dehydrated apples that had the flavor sucked out of them. And we had actually tried this pie twice, and both in the fall during peak apple season!

Also, what they call "macaroni and cheese" is everything that it says it is, but nothing of what you'd expect it to be. It's merely some overcooked cavatappi tossed in butter and sprinkled with greasy, unimpressively mild, shredded orange cheese; no topping, no bechemel, no eggs; nothing. I'm very curious as to what they concocted in the way of a written recipe for the cookbook b/c trust me, that was it folks, and for $10!

I would recommend that you save your money and stay away from both the restaurant and the cookbook, especially if you're in need of good comfort food (recipes) for special company. that is, unless you despise your in-laws and would delight in the look of pained horror on their faces as they bite into your "carefully" prepared meal, or something like that. but that would be evil. and that karma's a naughty one, you know.

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