This restaurant used to be inside the antique store on Speedway and Rosemont. Now its moved to its own building on Campbell and Fort Lowell. The best words to describe the atmosphere is cute, darling, precious, feminine, frilly. There are antique decorations throughout and vintage and art deco like pictures on the wall. And a big display of tea cups and saucers because Amelia's serves high tea in the afternoon.
You go up to the counter and order and they bring the food to your table. Cosmo and I had a great table in a small nook of the place behind a wall which helped to lessen the din which got to a pretty high decibel level around noon.
The menu is large with a good selection of salads, soups and sandwiches. Unfortunately, all their offerings have names like Aunt Thelma's tuna and Brother Dan's buffalo chicken and daddy david's corned beef; a little too cutesy for my tastes.
I had a chicken salad sandwich on a croissant (thanks Aunt Becki) which came with a small mound of kettle chips and for a dollar extra i got some potato salad. The portions were big and my sandwich was brimming over with the chicken salad which was very flavorful. All white meat and it wasn't swimming in mayo and there was a nice addition of grapes and chopped pecans. The potato salad was ok.
Cosmo had an albacore tuna melt. she liked it but wouldn't order it again. The cheddar cheese was not melted enough.
We also got dessert which was a big disappointment as it looked so attractive in their prominently displayed dessert case by the cashier. The piece of key lime pie was only identifiable by the brilliant green coloring. There was maybe a hint of lime in the bite right at the center of the cake. I ordered a pumpkin creme puff. The pastry was too thick and chewy and the inside was just pumpkin pie filling.
Because the prices were reasonable and the lunches quite good, i would come back here again to try some other entrees. They are open from 7 am to 5 pm and have a few breakfast selections.
I'm in agreement with Maggie, you see, I am Cosmo and was there with her...indeed a pleasant
ReplyDeleteplace to meet a friend, have snappy conversation, and the food was pretty good...leaning towards could be better...the albacore tuna was tasty, but not sensational..also, billed as a " tuna melt ", it came out to the table as toast, tuna, and a slice of not melted cheese. The key lime cake
was a nice rough textured cake, which I love, but no flavor.....we were able to chat with Amelia, a lovely and very busy lady. With fine tuning of the recipes and preparation I think Anelia Greys can have a long and happy go on Campbell.