Ruston Eating Places

[eddawgfan]

Monjunis.

Muffaletta.

Milky Way Cake for desert.

Greatness.

Love eating at Monjunis but it never fails that I am way too full after eating to enjoy the Milky Way Cake. I think I may have to go and just get the cake sometime. It just sounds so good!

[Bigdog13]

Love eating at Monjunis but it never fails that I am way too full after eating to enjoy the Milky Way Cake. I think I may have to go and just get the cake sometime. It just sounds so good!

It's real moist. Good stuff and I usually don't like cake.

[qng001]

Monjunis...eww, if you like that sugary spaghetti sauce. Salads are pretty good. I avoid their red sauce, it's disgusting.

[Dirtydawg]

Monjunis...eww, if you like that sugary spaghetti sauce. Salads are pretty good. I avoid their red sauce, it's disgusting.

I agree about the sweet spaghetti sauce. I usually get an entree with a white sauce like the shrimp fetuccine. They serve huge portions. Enough, in my opinion, for 3.

[Bigdog13]

Funny after all these years I have never had the red sauce maybe back when I was in school but not for a long time.

I get the same thing everytime. Start with a house salad, then the muffaletta and then the cake.

[Mean Gene]

Yep, the late 70's & early 80's had Ruston with the local eateries. Gonna have to check the Blue Light out sometime this year ( great food & SUPER sweet ladies running it!! ). I recall Stows & Fargo's both ( Stows for hard-core drinkers & Fargo's for disco!! Griff's was a staple for us poor college jocks & we'd make a dent or 2 in some BBQ @ the Hitch ( think it's a furniture place now ) & also a small place downtown right by the RR crossing ( it was a green building which served 3 BBQ chopped beef sandwiches for .99!! ). For our sweet tooth we had Pete's Doughnuts. Pizza was either Pioneer or Johnny's.
I well recall driving to West Monroe to eat at McDonalds & now all the big name fast food places have invaded Ruston.
Man, I'm getting both nostalgic & hungry!!!

Gene

[skilldawg]

Funny after all these years I have never had the red sauce maybe back when I was in school but not for a long time.

I get the same thing everytime. Start with a house salad, then the muffaletta and then the cake.

Try the Tomatoe Shrimp Cheese Toast some time. You may not ever get the Muff again.

[Bigdog13]

Try the Tomatoe Shrimp Cheese Toast some time. You may not ever get the Muff again.

Trust me I'll still get the Muff. :icon_wink:

[TECH88]

Ciceros has the best muffaletta in town.

[Dawgfan71227]

Ciceros has the best of a lot of stuff in town...

[champion110]

Yep, the late 70's & early 80's had Ruston with the local eateries. Gonna have to check the Blue Light out sometime this year ( great food & SUPER sweet ladies running it!! ). I recall Stows & Fargo's both ( Stows for hard-core drinkers & Fargo's for disco!! Griff's was a staple for us poor college jocks & we'd make a dent or 2 in some BBQ @ the Hitch ( think it's a furniture place now ) & also a small place downtown right by the RR crossing ( it was a green building which served 3 BBQ chopped beef sandwiches for .99!! ). For our sweet tooth we had Pete's Doughnuts. Pizza was either Pioneer or Johnny's.
I well recall driving to West Monroe to eat at McDonalds & now all the big name fast food places have invaded Ruston.
Man, I'm getting both nostalgic & hungry!!!

Gene

I remember all those places. That Green building by the railroad had great BBQ deals. I still preferred The Hitch, though.

All the chain places are a dime a dozen in my book. I just don't get it. I would never eat at any chain in Ruston, if I am there visiting. I can have the same exact cooked meal anywhere in the country. The Blue Light rules in my book. Dowlings for BBQ. When I go out of town, I want to eat somewhere that I can't eat at anywhere else. Just my thing.

I live in Tyler, Texas now and talk about your chain food explosion. All moving toward my house in Bullard too. I drive right past them and head to Bruno's Pizza close to downtown or hit some other local establishments around the old part of town. I can go to all those look-a-likes anywhere. Driving in South Tyler is the same as any suburb of Dallas now - you wouldn't know the difference, if someone blindfolded you and let you out. I hope Ruston does not become that, although along I-20, it is already resembling it.

When are they going to complete the park between campus and downtown. I remember seeing those plans one time. That will help downtown a LOT. If some new (non-chain) places could open up downtown and there were bike and walking trails to and from, it would be very successful.

[Mean Gene]

Champ - Ya know, if ya can get the two of us away from the Lady Techster forum , we actually see eye to eye on quite a few things!! When I'm out of town I prefer to eat someplace that I don't have back home as well. I'd forgotten about Dowlings - still out on the north service road of I-20?? Of course, my directions have probably faded like some of my memory BUT the taste buds don't die!!

MG

[Dawgfan71227]

Dowlings has moved to Cooktown Rd just North ofthe interstate.

[champion110]

Champ - Ya know, if ya can get the two of us away from the Lady Techster forum , we actually see eye to eye on quite a few things!! When I'm out of town I prefer to eat someplace that I don't have back home as well. I'd forgotten about Dowlings - still out on the north service road of I-20?? Of course, my directions have probably faded like some of my memory BUT the taste buds don't die!!

MG

Well, actually, if you were in recruiting, you would see that we are closer on a LOT of things.

[bluecrew]

Ciceros has the best of a lot of stuff in town...

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