Best of Medford 2009 - Restaurants

RESTAURANT WITH FRIENDLIEST WAITSTAFF

It’s a classic tale of two cities in a restaurant. Outside in the dining room, mellow music is playing and everything seems sedate and organized. Then you venture back to the waitress station and kitchen, and total chaos reigns. Orders are flying everywhere, the cooks are feverishly playing with oil and fire, dishwashers are like perpetual motion machines, bus people are bringing in the old and taking out the new, and the waitstaff are only praying that nothing breaks down or that they run out of the Meatloaf Special.

Our readers named 24 different restaurants in this survey, reserving their number one accolades for the folks at Sophia’s Soup Factory.

Others dear to their hearts were:

• Kaleidoscope Pizzeria & Pub.

• Grilla Bites.

• Vinny’s Italian Kitchen.

• Black Bear Diner.