Pa Pa’s Restaurant

I’ve seen this place and have been wanting to check it our for a while now. The place itself is an old fast food place– maybe DQ so the décor is wayyy outdated. But nonetheless we walked in and walked over to the cafeteria table area. They had a decent selection of home-​style food. We had the Salisbury steak, Chicken fried steak, mashed potatoes, macaroni and veggies. The waitress came and brought us our drinks, silverware and our choice of cornbread or rolls. The taste for the main entrees were on point, the mac and cheese could have used a little more seasoning, mashed potatoes were good and the price was even better. Lunch for 2 was under twenty bucks. Will have to come back to try the burgers which we overheard was their «Go To Item».

Easily the worst restaurant I have ever eaten at. To start, people were smoking cigarettes left and right. The waitress that said «everything is great here «must have meant relative to cardboard. I would now pay good money to be able to throw up everything I ate.
Yes, the prices are good but save yourself the trouble and go to McDonald’s, or anywhere else for that matter.
If you do somehow get tricked into going, please save yourself the hassle and just get one of the simple breakfast plates. Less food means less regret here.

This place is good and cheap. I recommend either their breakfast, bacon cheeseburger or their pork chops. I haven’t had a complaint about there good yet.

At this intersection of two «Aldine _​_​» streets, you would think a restaurant would be named «Al’s Diner». Ha-​ha!
The building is a modified vintage version of an old fast food chain that I can’t quite recognize, but I think it’s from the Pleistocene era. It’s old enough to name it «GrandPa-Pa’s»
Pick-​up trucks dominate the parking lot at lunchtime (ya-​ya).
This place and Tony’s Country Kitchen are practically next door, and they are next to the Aldine Middle School baseball park, the M.O. Campbell Education Center, and WW Thorne football stadium. I suspect they get a good before and after game crowd (rah-​rah!).
Owner is friendly and gave me a sample of cake after my meal. Customers that I saw are loyalists and mainly from nearby industrial parks and the neighborhood.
It has a small, cafeteria-​style selection of traditional home-​cooked foods. I have not tried those, but they don’t look that appealing to me. (nah-​nah)
I had a burger. It was better & bigger than you could get at the McD across the street, but a dollar more. Fries are typical and good. Maybe I’m just old, but I like eating here much more than McD. (ta-​da!)