Bertie and Huck's

                Bertie and Huck’s Restaurant looks exactly like what it is, a neighborhood place like grandma would run. With a quaint décor and attentive servers, you get the feeling that heading to 15 E. Foster-Mainville Rd., in Mainville, OH could easily be a regular drive. And it is a drive, unless you live near Mainville or Loveland or one of the other burgs in that part of the state.

Burger

                For this one I went alone since Josh had other plans (that included some girls but hey, he’s a high school kid so why not). The menu boasts a number of down home cooking kind of items, the kind of comfort food that you think of when you think of when grandma comes to mind.

I ordered up a double cheeseburger that, as promised, was hand patted from fresh ground chuck. I wasn’t given a choice on how it was to be cooked but when it arrived at the table, with melted American cheese, crispy lettuce, ripe tomato, a dill pickle spear and a generous helping of potato chips, the burger wasn’t charred the way many restaurants seem to think we should all eat them these days. Rather it was more on the medium side and each bite provided me with all the expected flavors.

                While the bun was rather mundane, seeming as though it came from the local grocery store rather than a bakery, it was the only thing about the burger itself that wasn’t very good. The pickle spear was kind of bland and the chips tasted like Lay’s. They definitely weren’t homemade, that’s for sure.

                One of the only other tables in the restaurant when I was there had their order all screwed up. Two of the four got the wrong sandwich but both went ahead and ate it rather than wait for the proper meal to be fixed. They then were treated to some homemade desert that they were still raving about when I left. Overall, it was worth the drive and warrants a recommendation to come back another time.