Restaurants in Roseburg

Dinners Done Right liberates families from the time-consuming task of menu-planning by offering ready-made dinner ideas and the recipes and ingredients to make them. Customers bring home and cook seasonally rotating grub packages that could include fresh seafood, pasta, or comfort-food entrees. The food factory also invites patrons to attend build-your-own meal sessions, which are more hands-on than a patty-cake tournament. A series of workstations create an in-store dinner assembly line stocked with the tools and ingredients to help create multiple meals to stock empty freezers.

“Every sort of person populating these parts can be seen at the cozy Glenwood Restaurant,” the New York Times says, nodding to the eatery’s popular menu of hearty breakfasts, sandwiches, and other American food. The chili verde brunch burrito—lauded by Sports Illustrated as “worth getting out of bed early for”—greets the day along with fruit waffles and denver omelets, and lunchtime brings tomato-cheese soup and paninis. Tempeh stir-fries with peanut sauce and brown rice join pasta genovese and steak and mushrooms at dinnertime, complemented by glasses and microglasses of wine and microbrews.

When brothers Omer and Dave Orian moved to America after spending some of their childhood in Belgium, they started to dream about opening a shop that served the Liège-style waffles. Today the curly-haired duo—dubbed “Eugene’s Waffle Imperialists” by the Eugene Daily News—prepares their yeasted waffles across two Eugene locations.

To make Liège waffles, the brothers fold Belgium-imported pearl sugar into a brioche-like yeasted dough, caramelizing the batter in a cast-iron waffle maker before it’s crowned with sweet and savory toppings, like the goat cheese, avocado, and eggs of the shop’s Goat in Headlights waffle. The menu also includes sweet waffles, such as The Ol’ Banana Split. For the adventurous eater, try an “In-between” waffle like The Sweet Funk Machine, with pear, gorgonzola, cinnamon, and wildflower honey. Omelets, salads, and organic coffee round out the menu.

Fresh, never-frozen beef constitutes the hamburger patties that the cooks of Burger Lovers sizzle in a kitchen smelling of tasty Americana. The staff crowns the philly cream-cheese burger ($5.99) with melted swiss and an eponymous spread, and the beef of mega-size cheeseburgers ($7.50) underlines cheddar cheese. The kitchen team further solidifies its dairy bona fides by flipping grilled-cheese sandwiches ($3.99) that unite slices of sourdough with a dynamic duo of swiss and cheddar. All burgers and sandwiches arrive with an entourage of fries, the item that burger joints' mascots most often use when signing autographs in ketchup. Burger Lovers also prepares po boys and a teriyaki-drenched hawaiian burger packed with pineapple and ham to diversify its culinary portfolio.

Noticing few options for Mongolian cuisine in the region, Lee of Lee’s Mongolian Grill decided to give the area a taste of what it was missing. Mongolian fare, derived from the influences of Russian and Chinese cuisine, features grilled and stewed meats along with veggies and dumplings, with a conservative use of spices and a liberal use of shizzam. To sate a hearty appetite, diners can dig into all-you-can-eat options with meats carved fresh daily, all served in a casual family-dining environment.

Smokin Joe's BBQ hands off freshly made breakfasts and barbecue fare to on-the-go diners at its speedy drive-thru-only location. Homemade breakfast burritos blend cheese, potatoes, and eggs, and barbecue lunches showcase succulent morsels of pulled pork and spare ribs. All of Smokin Joe's meats flaunt smoky flavors and tender textures thanks to their prolonged exposure to applewood, hickory wood, and character actor James Woods.:m]]