Your favorite Resturants

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Me being hungry inspired this topic (though it may just make things worse).

What are your favorite resturants. It can be anything from that little mom-pop deli on the corner that thrives on regular customers, or it could be that huge multi-national chain. So list the name of the place, where it is located (if it is one city, say the name of the city, and "[Inter]National" for others), and your favorite meal from there.


In no real order:

Spoiler: Subway-International

Healthy AND tasty. I am starting to go here more often to get meals since I am trying to lose weight, so this will be my normal "eating out" place to go with others being a "I am craving X, lets go to X" kind of thing.

Favorite meal: Black Forest Ham w/American Cheese on Footlong Italian, with baked Lays chips and a lemonade as the side

Spoiler: Texas Roadhouse-American National

And right after having Subway and its healthyness, I turn right around with this monster of a place. Texas Roadhouse is exactly what you would think for sterotypical Texas (which makes it strange it was started in Kentucky). The music is country, the waiters and waitresses linedance, they serve endless peanuts and rolls with your meal, and if you leave without anything left on your plate, you must have been dying of starvation.

Favorite meal: Country Fried Steak w/Seasoned Steak Fries and Mashed potatos, Rolls w/ cinnimon butter, peanuts straight out of the shell.

Spoiler: Arthur Bryant's-Kansas City, Mo

Do NOT let the size fool you. This place is legandary. It has held host to many a famous people, including but not limited to: John McCain, Steven Speilburg, Jimmy Carter, Jack Nicholson, and many others. It is considered to be the best Kansas City Style BBQ joint in the country, and depending on who you ask, the best BBQ joint in the country PERIOD, regardless of style. Their specialty is Burnt Ends, however:

Favorite meal: Pulled Pork "Sandwitch" (<----is an understatement to use the word "sandwitch") and french fries.

Spoiler: Kites Bar and Grill-Manhattan, Ks and Junction City, Ks

Again, big things come in small sizes. Continually voted within the best sports bars in the country, Kites is very good about maintaining a family friendly atmosphere dispite being a bar. They are strict about carding thier customers, they will keep them from getting too drunk, and will otherwise avoid the same pitfalls others do.

Favorite meal: Willy Burger (<---Just a plain double cheeseburger named after university mascot) w/ curly fries and a lemon-lime soda.

Spoiler: Vista Burger-Manhattan, Ks

This place has been in business here since 1964 (they even have a Ford Mustang on thier work shirt). It may not look like much, but they have stayed around that long against other burger places because they care about quality. They have a good atmosphere that seems to have been lifted right out of the 1960's, and the staff is friendly and helpful.

Favorite meal: Texasburger (<---again, just a plain double cheeseburger) w/ french fries and a lemonade, with a Brownie ala mode for dessert.

Spoiler: Orange Leaf-National America

Self-Service Ice Cream. You get a bowl, but in however much you want, with the flavors you want, then put on your own toppings, then it is weighed and you pay by the ounce (something like 60 cents per ounce). I like the idea a lot and always go there on dates with my girlfriend. However, I dont really have a favorite, as they rotate the choices so its hard to get the same thing twice.

Spoiler: Pizza Hut-International

My favorite pizza place, and the oldest one in the world is in my home town (its the one pictured). Not much to say really. I like pizza, Pizza Hut was started in Kansas and caused the takeoff of Pizza, and they have really good stuff.

Favorite meal: Pepperoni personal pan w/ Breadsticks and pizza sauce for dipping (the slices AND the sticks)

I was right...All this did was make me hungry. Escapist, tell me yours while I go and get something to eat.

 

[Rylot]

Most of my family really likes Texas Roadhouse; I really like it too it just really bugs me that even where I'm living in Texas now they're still called Texas Roadhouse, shouldn't it just be Roadhouse?

To actually get on topic: I just recently moved to Austin Texas and not too far away from me is a somewhat upscale burger joint called Hopdoddy. Their burgers are freakin' amazing. I usually go with the Buffalo Bill which has: Bison, Blue cheese, bacon and some 'hot' sauces (I'm a wimp with spice and I don't think they're hot at all)

As for other restaurants: I really miss Zips back in my native Inland Northwest. They're a local burger chain that serves up some terrible looking but great tasting burgers and fries.

Well now I'm hungry too... and home sick, thanks!

 

[PsychicTaco115]

Capriotti's Subs

It's so delicious and stuff!

If you like subs, subs are here and great and awesome and adjective for positive meaning!

 

[davidmc1158_v1legacy]

I really can't make any comment on chains, because every store is different. For example, the best pizza place I have ever eaten in was a Godfather's Pizza in my home town. The toppings were generously heaped on and the staff knew what they were doing. Every single Godfather's I've ever tried since has been a grease pile experience.

So, with that caveat in mind, here's my (local) list:

Subway - barring the one downtown where the servers are stingy with the toppings. With very few exceptions, these guys keep the same quality levels in most of their stores.

Olive Garden - The one in my town is actually very good, so I don't get all the jokes about the chain. Perhaps others are mediocre, but the one in mid-Missouri is quite good.

Papa Murphy's Pizza - you have to cook it yourself, but they produce the best pizzas I've had in years.

Golden Corral - I've been to a few around the country that were at best "meh", but the one here is quite good.

D & G's - A local joint owned by a Greek family of immigrants (granddad is 80 and still comes in every morning to cut the steaks for the day). Excellent food and the best gyros I've ever had.

Sadly, the best oriental food place I've every eaten in has closed down. The wonderful woman who ran it passed away and here family was unable to keep the place open. She cooked everything fresh to order and was quite happy to produce any Korean, Japanese or Chinese dish she had the ingredients for. Damn, a lot of us around town miss her.

Great, now I'm hungry, homesick AND sad! I'm going to go cook up some stir-fry and raise a toast to her memory.

 

[MajorTomServo]

Highbrow: Elderberry Ponds, this uber snooty fine dining restaurant. Food is sooo good and sooo fancy.

Lowbrow: Taco Bell. The most vegetarian-friendly fast food establishment I've come across.

 

[soren7550]

Me, my favorite place to go is this Japanese place called Ginza. They do habatchi there, and the food is most excellent. Also, they serve the perfection that is Fried Ice Cream.

 

[Scarim Coral]

Out of the Chinese resturants I've been to (I been a few) my favourites are Tai Wu and The Pacific both located in Mancherster.

Both resturant had great food althought I like The Pacific more for not being a sterotypical Chinese resturant.

While other Chinese resturants have Chinese decoratives of the Phoenix and dragon, dark interior with dim lights and aswell playing Chinese music, The Pacific had an ocean theme (blue painted walls and paiting of the waves) and use natural lights to light up the insides.

Out of the big chain resturant, I guess that would be KFC as I do love fried chicken and the chips aswell (soggy and not too salty.)

 

[username sucks]

La Costa, I know it's all over in California, I don't know about other places. The reason I like it is because it has friggin Giant burritos for extremely cheap. And the burritos are made nice and fattening, even better.

 

[Fiz_The_Toaster]

There's a Mexican restaurant near me that I love called Garcias, and it has the best chips and salsa ever. They even give you bean dip too, and that shit is delicious. There's been a few times where I ate so much of that stuff that I could barely eat my entree.

There's a local Greek place called Zorba's that's pretty good. Has the best lamb I've ever had, and they have Greek wine that's really good.

 

[an annoyed writer]

My friends and I used to frequent places like Applebees and TGIFridays, but that was when I had my car. When I lost that we weren't able to do that much anymore. I'm kinda surprised that we haven't gotten kicked out of either place: together we can be really goddamn goofy. Like this one time we were at TGI Fridays and we were doing this mobster act, you know, talking in the stereotypical Italian accents and the like: I was quoting Jakie Estacaado from the Darkness and when I got to the point where I was talking about a special "Magic trick" Jackie used to intimidate some guy this old woman who was walking by our group went wide-eyed and fuming. Many larfs were had that day. Another example is random thing my friend does whenever we're at Applebees: He actually has all of the staff convinced that he is a Russian immigrant by the name of "Sergei Badanov". He comes up with some of the craziest shit with that character.

 

[SckizoBoy]

My favourite restaurant is a delightful little place in Snaresbrook, east London called 'Loon Yee's', which roasts/bakes the best duck in the world regardless of style, particularly crispy aromatic. Of course, I and my family/friends immaturely call it 'Looneys'...

 

[Thaluikhain]

I read that as "Your favorite Restraints" for a moment

 

[capper42]

Healthy AND tasty. I am starting to go here more often to get meals since I am trying to lose weight, so this will be my normal "eating out" place to go with others being a "I am craving X, lets go to X" kind of thing.

Favorite meal: Black Forest Ham w/American Cheese on Footlong Italian, with baked Lays chips and a lemonade as the side

I was going to post a comment saying how subway isn't particularly healthy, but now I'm not so sure. According to their website, a footlong ham sub is 580 calories, and that's without cheese, so add at least another 100 on top of that. The chips are 130, so in total maybe 800 calories, depends how much the cheese is. This is pretty far from being healthy, comparable to the number of calories in a big mac, fries, and diet coke (780). Levels of fat and things are much lower in the sub though, but there is a huge amount of sodium (1660mg in the sandwich alone).

I don't really understand what the point of this post is, other than I started looking so thought I'd mention what I found. I guess subway, out of all the fast food places, is healthier, but if you're planning on losing weight I'd stick to a 6".

Not that I mean to be preachy, I'm far from healthy and am now considering ordering a subway.

 

[Lilani]

Gotta show some love for my own Lambert's Cafe.

Home of the throwed rolls! Seriously, they've got a person that comes out with a cart filled with freshly baked rolls. They shout "Hot rolls!" And if you want one you raise your hand and they'll throw it to you. Freaking awesome. And they've got "pass arounds" which is free side dishes they come around and just give to you (like fried potatoes and fried okra). And after all that the meals themselves are enormous. You seriously can't eat for like two days before you go to Lambert's, lol.

Man I'm hungry now...

 

[Cry Wolf]

SNIP

Heh, I'm usually indifferent about big food chains (there places you eat when nobody can decide what they want for lunch) but I loathe Pizza Hut. I'm been to multiple different stores due to friends, always awful pizza and food poisoning twice.

Anyway. My favourite restaurant is Pacific Thai, in Manly (thats near Sydney, Australia for those of you not familiar with the area). It's this little place on the second floor by the beach side. Entering is really awkward, but once you get up there you get the best food with view of the beach. Pretty awesome.

Spoiler: I actually found a picture!

Spoiler: This is Manly, for those curious.

Great place to live.

I haven't live there in awhile, so I'm not sure it's still there. It was also pretty pricey, but damn was it worth it. Other than that, I just like pub food. It's never fancy, but it always tastes good at a reasonable price, with a laid back atmosphere and drinks.

 

[Headdrivehardscrew]

Hmmm... gots to be Khan's Restaurant, 13-15 Westbourne Grove, London.

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I don't get the purpose of most pizza, sandwich or asian places, as the stuff they sell costs me very little time and much less money to do myself, and an average 90% of it can be prepared in advance for microwave nuking later.

For 36 years now, eating out at Khan's makes everybody happy. You can assemble your Indian menu any way you like and you can always order another tin/cup/dish/bowl of whatever as you're munching away. You can have the most delicious butter chicken, you can have everything as hot and genuine as you like... it's just the perfect place for eating yourself silly. Just the very basic Naan bread is to kill for.

Don't get me wrong, I enjoy McD and Carl's Jr. and White Castle and Pizza Hut (etc. ad infinitum) chain food from random, more successful POS systems for the food service industry every now and then, but it's just not proper food for me; it lacks the soul and personality of the family-run places they - sadly enough - more often than not directly compete with. I like the convenience of being able to walk up to some random person in a not too offensive uniform and snipe warm, readily assembled food items straight from the chrome slides spending less than a minute and just a fistful of bucks, but that only happens about once a month.

 

[CrimsonBlaze]

Let's start with Applebee's. They've got a good environment, it's always busy, they have a lot of tasty appetizers and entrees, and it's generally a great place to take friends and/or family.

BJ's is another one of my favorite outings, as they have an AWESOME selection of beers on tap and it also offers great food that complements the beer we purchase.

However, Dave & Busters is my all time favorite outing. It's like Chuck E. Cheese's, only with better food, better games, and there's alcohol.

 

[Ljs1121]

There's a little cafe in town that I really like, called the Landmark. It has amazing food, really friendly people, and all-in-all a nice cozy environment.

If I had to go with a more well-known (and affordable) place, though, I'd say Applebee's. I used to go there with friends about every two weeks and it never really disappointed.

 

[Fluffythepoo]

If im by myself and i want to stuff my gob: Wendy's

If i want to have a drink with friends: Rock'n Firkin.. "remember is ur not rock'n firkin, ur not firkin rock'n"

If we/i want a pizza: Domino's.. student discount, never greesy even if the chef is terrible and i once saw a domino's pizza delivery boy on a scooter weaving in out of traffic on the wrong side of the road; these people will get you your pizza on time or die trying

 

[Dangit2019]

Hullabaloo's. It's an amazing diner down the road from me. They have the best french fries. It even got on food channel: