This time around 2 lucky couples will get to go to Italy with the owners of Mamma Mia and spend quality time at Casa del Lago. Wow, talk about beauty!
and this time around, every evening the lucky couple will participate in the fine are of Italian cooking–No Experience Necessary–Classes Included!

Additionally, ApexSpecials is giving away a $25.00 Mamma Mia’s gift certificate to a lucky Apex resident, so you can go and experience great Italian food, meet your potential traveling compains and even start learning how to speak a bit of the language.

To enter to win the $25 gift certificate, leave a comment below this story – make sure you use a valid email address so we can let you know if you win.

A group of 6 of us went in about 6pm on a Friday night, it was just starting to fill up. We were shown to the large circular table that looks out the front window.

Peak City Grill

The waitress came over and was a bit hard to hear over the piano player, who was only about 10 feet away. She suggested their specialty appetizer Peak City “Bleu” Chips (Homemade potato chips, crumbled bleu cheese, sweet red pepper jelly & Gorgonzola sauce). I now know why they are the specialty, they were awesome! I only wish they brought more.

Between us, we ordered salads, steaks and chicken followed up by coffee. All of the food was excellent, we were all very pleased.

One slight downside was the length of the meal, which was about 2 hours. The other was that our table was so close to the piano player that it was hard to carry on a normal conversation and hear our waitress.

The bill for 6 adults with drinks and desert was just over $300. Figuring about $50/person for a great meal seems about right to me.

The Peak City Grill is the place to go in Apex when you want real good food and want to support a real local business.

The News & Observer food critic reports:

Gordon’s BBQ (700 E. Williams St.; 387-7288) specializes in eastern Carolina style pork barbecue. Owner Sonia Beasley named the restaurant for her father, Elvin Gordon, who owned Galaxy Foods, a neighborhood grocery store nearby, for some 20 years before selling it last November. Gordon, who earned a local reputation for the whole hog barbecues he served from time to time in the store’s parking lot, is retired now. But Beasley says “he comes by all the time now to tell me how to do things.” The restaurant, which also serves Calabash-style fried seafood, fried chicken, sandwiches and a full breakfast menu, is open for breakfast Monday-Saturday and dinner Thursday-Saturday.

Not much of a review in my opinion, so I won’t hold back – it wasn’t worth the trip. Slightly expensive, the food tasted like it was bought from the local frozen food vendor and served up with no love at all. The high school waitresses were about what you’d expect as far as service.