Millard Roadhouse

     Stephanie and I are fans of nose to tail eating. No part of the animal is a bad part to eat. I love cartilage, marrow, tripe and am willing to try any part of the animal. When we saw that the Miller Roadhouse serves one of our favorites, chicken gizzards, we had to check it out.
      As we arrived, we noticed the restaurant was packed - with mostly retirees which we lovingly refer to as the "salt and pepper crowd" due to this groups tendency to avoid any herbs and spices beyond the two most common table top flavor enhancers. We were greeted and seated immediately and our waitress was quick to get our drink and appetizer order which, of course, was the aforementioned chicken digestive organs - Yum!

     The gizzards did not disappoint. They were far and away the best part of the meal as far as I was concerned. They were flavorful, just the right amount of chewy and there was a full POUND of them! The brown, spicy Roadhouse Gravy served with them was delicious and was easily Stephanie's favorite part of the meal. The breading on the gizzards was much tastier than that on the broasted chicken that Stephanie had as her meal. I'm not sure if they're supposed to be the same but there definitely seemed to be a difference.
     As for the meals, Stephanie ordered the 2 Piece Chicken Dinner and I had the Blackened Chicken Alfredo. The Chicken Dinner came with a side of coleslaw, a biscuit and mashed potatoes with gravy. The chicken, advertised as "...The Best Chicken In Town Since 1997", was not fried, but broasted. Would that it were fried because the chicken was basically flavored with flour, salt and pepper and nothing more. Plain is an understatement. If this is the best that Omaha has to offer, we should all stop eating fried/broasted chicken in this town because it's a waste of time.

    My meal, I'll admit, was a mistake from the get go. Stephanie warned me, "This isn't the type of place where you want to order pasta." Haven't I learned by now that she's always right? No. It sounded good and that was all that was good about it. I'll save you the time of describing this disaster and just say that what I was served was more Alfredo noodle soup than anything that resembled Blackened Chicken Alfredo. Tasteless and soggy...and terribly disappointing. Don't let the pic fool you! There is a soupy mess under those noodles.

     Our mission to find chicken gizzards? SUCCESS! They were great. No complaints. Our attempt at a good meal featuring "the best chicken in Omaha"? Complete and utter failure. The service was good, the prices decent, the food...left a lot to be desired.