What's your favorite restaurant?

[Cookiebaker]

We've had a lot of food threads lately, and I was just wondering how often you go out to eat on average, and what your favorite restaurant is???

We go out about once a week on average, sometimes twice. My favorite restaurant is Fridays; but unfortunately the closest one is 1+hours away from here. Second best is a local place called Jesse's. They are an upscale steakhouse, with the most awesome salad bar anywhere. They have a fireplace right in the dining room. Whenever we have anything to celebrate, we always go to Jesse's.

But "normally" we got to a local diner called the Hitchingpost. They have great burgers, and have the jute boxes on every table. That's a really fun place to go.

What about you??

[ILoveMyAbbyGirl]

Zhou's Mongolian Chicken...

Mmm...

[wolfsoul]

I only get to go out once a month, because my mom only gets paid once a month. We usually just get Macdonald's ro Wendy's, but my favourite place to eat out is Ruby's. I LOVE smorgs. "D

[Pam]

Red Lobster! YUM!

[Rachel]

For cheap eats, my husband and I like Boston Market, Panera's and Fazolis. There are a couple locally owned breakfast type places that are just pretty good too but you wouldn't recognize the name inasmuch as they are not chain restaurants. Every once in a while I do get a craving for a McDonald's or Wendy's too although getting a tasty burger is not as reliable as it was when they used to make them fresh off the griddle. It really upsets me to see them stick a burger in the microwave. If I wanted something reheated in the microwave, I could eat at home.

We try to be judicious in the number of times we eat at a more pricey restaurant but there are several that we enjoy.

Pam, I have never eaten at a Red Lobster but there is one opening up in my area fairly soon, and I am going to try it.

[lovemyshiba]

I suppose the restaurant where I work doesn't count, because I bring home food from there every day--it is fabulous though--wood fired pizzas, home made pastas, oven baked grinders, and wonderful salads--yummy!!!!

For celebrating things, we like to go to a few local places The Gamble Mill, The Victorian Manor are two we have been to lately.

We eat out a lot, but I just love Otto's (another local place), Allen Street Grill (local again), and Mario and Luigis (local again). I'm really not a big fan of chain restaurants, and we have a lot of locally owned places here.

[Cincy'sMom]

About once a week we will get take out, either a pizza, Chinese or chicken wings.

My favorite resteruants are thankfully not one's I can go to often ( I could never afford it!) They are Emeril's (we've been to the 2 in Orlando and have reservations at one in Vags for Nov) and Fulton's Crab House, also in Orlando.

Another Favorite is Uno's, but the closest is Ann Arbor ( about an hour away) For Ribs, my favortie places are Burbanks (Cincinnati) and Corky's (Nashville/Memphis).

Locally, if we go out, it is often to local resteraunts, not many chains. The include Mancy's (Steak House/Italian), The Real Seafood, Cousno's ( Steak House), Dolce Vita (Italian), Koto Buki (Japanese), El Camino (Mexican), and I could go on ;)

[Kfamr]

I don't really have one. :p

I'm not much of a seafood person, and my parents ALWAYS want to go to Crabby Bills. I always just order a small salad.

[neko1]

I love Golden Sakura- the hibachi tables are so much fun! And I also love Panera's.

[shais_mom]

I love seafood so Red Lobster is right up there. We have a local place that makes awesome salads. Its called Mugsy's.
Joe's Crab Shake.
Cheddars
Subway.
Findlay (where the dog park is) has 2 fabulous Japanese restaurents that have AWESOME sushi.
And Quizno's.
That is all I can think of off the top of my head!! ;)

[mugsy]

Logan's Steakhouse and Outback Steakhouse.

[ParNone]

I don't eat out much anymore, but there are some incredibly
good restaurants around here, which is probably one reason
for our number 1 fattest city rating.

When I do eat out, my favorite is Mexican food... well Tex-Mex
really. I find the chain ones a lil' too yankeeified, so although
I'll eat at them, they don't rate as faves. I also find it best to
steer clear of Mexican food, once leaving the Texas area, because
you never know what you're going to get. We ate at a place
in Arkansas and the meal had a Soy sauce flavor to it. Yuck!
Also tried a place in Boston that was suppose to be one of
the best in the city. Oh my gosh! Knew I was in trouble when
the chips and salsa, consisted of Doritos. This place would have
been lucky to get 2 stars out of 5 in Texas.

Anyway, my favorite Tex-Mex restaurant is "Mamacita's". No
Doritos here. They make their own flour tortillas and chips
fresh. Mmmmmm.... Love the "Fajitas" there.

On vacation a few months ago, I had an awesome "Tostada", at
a restaurant between Houston and Austin, but can not remember
the name of it. Gonna have to search that place out again on
my next trip towards Austin.

Par...

[Foam]

Areba (sP?) is good..I heart Mexican Food...:p
Uhhhhhhhhhh..............I don't know :o

[aly]

I'm a single college student so I eat out too often :p

I like Olive Garden (Italian), Chick-fil-A, Boston Market, Super Bowl (local Chinese), Guadalajara's (Mexican), Subway, and pretty much all the fast food chains :D

[dukedogsmom]

Boston Lobster Feast in Orlando. All you can eat Lobster and everything else. They even have steak. Second choice is Olive Garden.

[GoldenRetrLuver]

Hmmmm......
Quizno's
Bubba Gump Shrimp Company (its a themed restaurant with the movie, "Forrest Gump")
Subway
Wendy's
Chinese Food

Theres more, but I can't think of any. :p:D

[Tina]

We eat at a local Pizza Place called Gino's here about every other week. They do make other stuff besides pizza they are pretty good.

Other places I love to go eat but don't go but maybe every 2 months or so.

Applebee's
Rio Grande (mexican restaurant)
Ryan's (family restaurant)
Subway
Arby's

[Fox-Gal]

We have this little hole in the wall place down the road from us called Annie's. It look like a dump but has the best food. There are people that come all the way from West Palm and Orlando just to eat there, its that good.

Then the the club house at Club Med, I eat there a lot. The foods good, great seafood, but I love the fact that we can go in there and they know right away what we want. There just something about going to a place and as soon as you sit down your unsweet tea is on the table and my father's Bourbon/water in on it's way.

[Kater]

My favorite is an all vegan restaurant called "Peacemeal" on State Street in downtown Madison. :D

[Sevens]

My favorite places are:

Strawberry Street (a little something to satisfy everybody...local restaurant)

Galaxy Diner (1950's/alien theme diner...great burgers and banana splits..local)

Village Diner (great blueberry/banana pancakes and fun to people-watch....local)

Legends Brewery (delicious seven-layer dip and local brew beer....local)

Nacho Mama's (Americanized mexican food and mango margaritas....yum! local)

MEXICO (REAL mexican food....local)

As far as chain restaurants are concerned:
Wendy's
McDonalds (breakfast food only)
Chik Fil A
Ruby Tuesday's

[K9karen]

Geesh! As if our Logan isn't busy enough, a pup named after her, she has a restaurant too? Logan..how do you manage??? LOL! No wonder it's Mugsy's fave! :D I used to do monthly restaurant reviews with a newspaper columist friend of mine so everyplace was different. I just plain love to eat and have favorites at different times. Now I'm hungry.

[anna_66]

Where else...RED LOBSTER (of course it helps that I work there;))

[Dakota's Mommy]

I like a lot of restaurants and miss a lot that we had in Findlay or the surrounding area but don't have near us here. I'd have to say that my all time favorite is Olive Garden though! It's kind of expensive, but I love the food, ummmm italian! So, that's my answer this time!

[Chinadoll]

My favorite restaurant is Tony Angelo's. It's a very nice local Italian restaurant. Awesome food. We never look at the menu; we just order the "Tony's Feed Me" It's about 10 courses of all the specials...marinated mushrooms, chilled shrimp in a yummy dijon sauce, eggplant tina(awesome eggplant parmasean), softshell crab, crawfish patsa, oyster and lobster cake, stuffed shrimp, the traditional pasta and tomato sauce, veal and much much more. All the servings all small, but there are so many courses, you are so full by the last few. It's a great night out..we must spend at least 2 hours or more there eating course after course.

My next favorite is Pascal Manale's I love their crab cakes and fettuccini alfredo and home made chocolate mousse.

For steaks, I love Houston's. Yummy Hawaiin steak.

The best frozen margaritas are at Landry's or Cucos.

mmmmmmm.... I'm hungry now!

[slick]

I never eat out unless it's a special occasion. Most of my money goes to a mortgage and RRSP (and the cats of course).

[RubyMutt]

it's a local resaruant called "Scuttlebutt"
ohmygod it's soooo yummy!! :D and it's right on the Everett waterfront so it has beautiful view of the bay & marina.

My favorite restaruant chain is probably "Olive Garden" I love Italian food! :)

[PepperRSM]

Originally posted by GoldenRetrLuver
Bubba Gump Shrimp Company (its a themed restaurant with the movie, "Forrest Gump")

I've been there! I had the baby back ribs..........yum were those good! When you went there, did your waiter ask you trivia about the movie, Forest Gump? Ours did and I think we got all but one right lol Oh yeah they have Dr. Pepper floats their too! It's good but I think I like root beer floats better.:P

I really like Champps too. Their burgers are really good and I like their waffles fries.

I like McDonalds and all those places too, but lately if we go to one of those fast food places, I want to go to Burger King cuz they have frozen Cokes there and I really like those :) :p

[*LabLoverKEB*]

Well, I do like McDonald's, every now and then, but I really like Chilie's!

[GoldenRetrLuver]

Originally posted by PepperRSM
I've been there! I had the baby back ribs..........yum were those good! When you went there, did your waiter ask you trivia about the movie, Forest Gump? Ours did and I think we got all but one right lol Oh yeah they have Dr. Pepper floats their too! It's good but I think I like root beer floats better.:P


Hehe, yep! We got all the 3 questions right. My dad is a HUGE Forrest Gump fan. :p There building a few down here soon, when I went there, it was in Hawaii. :) I *LOVE* their shrimp!! *drools*....:D

[carole]

We have a restaurant called VALENTINES, its a smorgasborg or buffet type place, and it is brilliant, heaps of delicious food , all you can eat for 26.95 a head, we always take our overseas visitors there for a meal, and have family celebrations there,everyone raves on about it.

Good value for money and yummy food too.

The desert bar is my favourite (unfortunately)