The Heights Cafe & Grill

Sam: From Wok Village to The Heights Cafe all in the same week! That's the kind of rollercoaster ride we like. I think it's important that we start this post with a big thank you to the Eisenbergs for making this restaurant trip possible. Thank you. Also, we agreed that it would be a little inappropriate for me to lug my gigantic DSLR into such a fancy establishment so we used a mixture of images from The Height's website our cellphones and stock photographs for the post. And with that, the review will begin!

Tom: The Heights Cafe is a regular favesie of ours, since it is literally 1-2 blocks from my house and consistently delicious. Since it is a bit upscale, it usually requires some kind of parent figure to be present, so my parents happily came along. We got a waiter who we had had previously, who had been quite enamored of Sam for going to IC and being involved in radio. He was similarly strange this time, often making loud jokes in response to anything we said.

A running joke in my family is that the list of ingredients for each dish at the Heights Cafe is endless. Everything is plated with some kind of potato, some kind of eggplant, and some kind of cheese (not literally). There was plenty of that to go around this time, but I found some of our dishes to be pleasantly simple compared to our past experiences.

Sam: We were also pleased to hear a pretty great muzak cover of Smash Mouth as we were going over the menu.

(sometimes people like their waiters)

For those of you who haven't had the pleasure of dining at The Heights you should know that deciding to dine there is deciding what you're going to be doing for the majority of the evening. I wouldn't suggest planning a "dinner and a movie" date night with the heights in mind as eating there takes between 2-3 hours.

(a selection of breads with hummus and oil)

Dinner time meals always begin with the above. And all entrees are preceded by your choice of either a ceaser salad or a house salad. I'm pretty sure that we all opted, with the exception of Mr. E who ordered two appitizers as his entree, for the ceaser this time around.

We all ordered the following;

I got the Pan Roasted Chicken & Potato Gnocchi.


Tommy got the Brazilian Grilled Skirt Steak.



Mrs. E got some sort of fish, we think maybe trout?


And Mr . E ordered the Old School Meatball.Overall we were all pleased with what we got, at least I don't remember hearing anyone complain. The two senior E's also ordered a bottle of wine which can be seen below.

(Wineing it up yall)

And what better way to end this glorious meal than two chocolate lava cakes split 4 ways? I think that every time I've gone to the heights i've gotten a lava cake and I've got to say that this time it was the richest and most filling. Usually it's served with some fruit or cream (sometimes more chocolate sauce) but this time it had a scoop of the creamiest ice cream i've ever tasted. Not complaining, it was delicious.


I think this is probably the best meal that the two of us have had since starting this project and it's going to make going to places like Friendly's and The State Diner that much harder. Oh well... At least we have each other.