Out to Eat with Dancing Girl and Messy Boy: The Corvette Diner

We always get stuck in a rut when we decide to go to a restaurant because we're choosing at the last minute and end up going to the same places again and again.  But, we live in San Diego. There are so many delicious restaurants to explore.  Tonight we went to one that we had heard had awesome burgers and that the kids would enjoy.

The Corvette Diner is located in the NTC (the old Naval Training Center) area of San Diego.  It's modeled after a 50's diner, complete with fun music, girls in poodle skirts and beehive hair, and of course an old corvette!  There was a DJ playing oldies music, and the servers would sporadically  break into song and dance.  The kids were both perplexed and amazed by the balloon artist who quickly sculpted a sword for Messy Boy and an adorable pink and purple (her favorites!) butterfly for Dancing Girl. The restaurant also has an arcade that older kids I'm sure would enjoy, but we didn't check that out tonight.

Aren't the eyes on the butterfly adorable? 

Dancing Girl and Messy Boy loved all the entertainment of the diner, and the food didn't disappoint either.  I had the Brenda Burger (pretty much a bacon cheeseburger...how can you go wrong with that?), Bruce had some sort of spicy burger (which he claimed wasn't spicy enough), and the kids shared a hot dog plate.  My burger was awesome, and the bun for it was ahhhh-mazing.  It was soft and fluffy and tasted so fresh.  Oh...and the upgrade to waffles fries is totally worth it. Dancing Girl even gave them a thumbs up.

I didn't taste the hot dog, but between the two munchkins, it all got eaten.  I wish I had a picture of HOW they eat their hot dogs though. Instead of eating it from the side like every other person you've ever seen eat a hot dog, they both eat theirs from the top.  So strange.  Anyway, the hot dog was consumed, and they were even serenaded with a hot dog song and dance from some waitresses.  Bruce and I laughed while they just tried to hide during the song, and Messy Boy even looked quite angry. To be fair though, he had just woken up from a car nap (don't you hate those?) when we got to the restaurant.

We finished off our evening with a peanut butter and chocolate malt shake.  Anything with peanut butter and chocolate is a favorite of our household so those were polished off pretty quickly.  

Messy Boy drank practically the whole thing. Help! Someone come get him to sleep for me?

At the end of the night, Dancing Girl proclaimed The Corvette Diner her new favorite and begged to go back every single day.  And, while we won't be going that often (I don't think I could ever run enough to support those kind of calories), I'm sure we will return.