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CloverPicks: Ann Arbor’s BD’s Mongolian Grill
BD’s Mongolian Grill is on one of the Main St. corners, and every time we walk by, I can smell the grill and hear the sizzle of food being stir-fried. Similar to Flat Top, BD’s has several lines of food and sauces. Once chosen, the ingredients are taken up to a giant stone grill and served steaming-hot! It’s a good type of restaurant for picky eaters, as each bowl is completely customized.
Fred’s strawberry daiquiri, and my root beer. I love how pink the daiquiri ended up being.
BD’s Mongolian Grill seemed tasty enough, but it wasn’t particularly delicious. Go there and get unlimited bowls if you’re super hungry, or if you’ve never been to a Mongolian Barbeque restaurant! Check out its official website and Yelp page!
CloverEats! delicious stir fry and roti at Evanston’s “Flat Top”!
Back in the day of IMSA Mentorship, we used to come here all the time. Flat Top is styled as an Mongolian Grill, with a giant heated plate on which your food is cooked. There’s a nice variety of sauces you can add, as well as contents of the actual food itself.
The grill!
The Experience: Basically, you write your name on a stick, and mix what you want to go into your stir fry. Then, you add any of six different colored, indicatory sticks that can do everything from change your stir fry into soup to add a piece of delicious roti bread. The food (and name-stick) will be brought back to you, and you can go up as many times as you want! During Mentorship lunches, we used to make another bowl as soon as our first bowl came back; this way, it would cook while we ate bowl #1, and when we finished, bowl #2 would arrive hot and steaming right away. Yeah, we might have been fatties back in high school, but we sure were efficient fatties.
Our bowls.
The Food: The stir fry is not bad at all, especially the meat. It beats the stir fry at Plex Dining Hall, that’s for sure. My favorite part is definitely the roti bread (it’s absolutely amazing), and I also really like the wide array of sauces. You can either hit or miss with your food; sometimes things mix really well, and sometimes they don’t. Flat Top used to have little recipes written on cards that you could make, but I always find myself putting the same things into my bowl – a little bit of noodles, peppers, onions, garlic, and pineapple. Yum!
Chalkboard info.
Noodles; food.
The Bill: Flat Top is a lot cheaper if you come for lunch, and also has Wildcard Advantage (show your school ID, get a discount). Drinks are also quite expensive; our final bill came to around $27, but that’s including a $7 mojito.
ROTI!
Overall: Flat Top is a nice restaurant to go to, especially if you’re hungry and can take full advantage of the all-you-can-eat option. Official website; Yelp!
