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Your 2 favorite restaurants??

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rt49andellis

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What are your 2 favorites? First fast food... and then a nice place to dine?

I'd pick Long John Silvers for fast food. But they'r sort of expensive when you're feeding 6. So McDonalds is more in my price range. ;)

Around here we don't have any really fancy restaurants. Nothing that requires suit & tie or a reservation. So I'll go with Garfields. It's a nice quiet place. Low lighting. Great food. Nice romantic place to go...although they do the birthday songs and are located in the mall. *laughs*
 
1. Bella Notte's in Lexington, KY - it is an awesome awesome italian restaurant and their bread + herb oil for dipping is to die for!

2. Indian Restaurant in Vancouver, BC. I don't know the name of it, but we went there on our honeymoon and it was one of the best meals i've ever eaten.
 
For everyday run and and grab a quick dinner we like Chili's and Outback. We don't have any great places around here. For fancy we like The Melting Pot, but the best food we've had was Emeril's in Atlanta.
 
For aquick -pick up sort of thing we prefer Subway .
for a nice place to dine in , is a Mexican restraurent EL SERRANO in our local area.
 
Subway is great for a walk in and grab it. Also there's a sandwich shop in Vancouver BC call Bo Jangles. WOW! YUMMY!!!

For good fancy food.... Our favorite is on a corner in a Greek village.
Closer to home. The local steak house.
 
My favorite place to eat is the Smoker's Pit Barbecue in West Ocean City. It's run by a retired couple and they make everything from scratch. Everyone that goes there tells them how good their food is. Last time I went, I heard them talking about someone shipping their food to Canada. These guys make both sandwiches, ribs, pork chops, tuna, everything home style. It's cheating, but this place fits both fast food and a real restaurant. But if I had to pick a fast food place that's my favorite, it's Roy Roger's restaurants. They're a local place that was started by the Marriott family, then sold during the Marriott troubles in the 1990's to Arbys, that thought they could convert them to Arbys. They tried, and then refitted them back to Roy Rogers. Then sold them to McDonalds, who really wanted the locations, and tore most of the down. But a son in law of the Marriott's had a franchise, and so there are still about a dozen left. They make great fried chicken and roast beef sandwiches. My favorite is the Double R Bar Burger, which is a hamburger topped with ham. It's best with the special BBQ sauce and topped with LTM.
 
Fast food would be Long John Silvers and nice restaurant around here would be Olive Garden or Jean Bonnet Tavern. Jeanbonnettavern.com It is a historic place and people have even claimed to have ghost sightings there (though I never have). ;)

We dont have any real "fancy" places around us. Closest city to me is about 2.5 hours away for that. :rolleyes:
 
i don't have the names of these but they are mexican and chinease.
 
Favorite fast food restuarant would have to be Wendy's... Hubby got me started on them when he was a trucker & I rode with him for about 6 months.

Favorite fancy dinner place is this Italian place up in Oklahoma City, about a 1 1/2 - 2 hour drive from here. Everyone I know actually orders dessert first there because if you eat the whole dinner you order, you won't have any room for their desserts & their triple chocolate cake (I think that's what it's called) is to die for.

Favorite close sit down restaurant would have to be Fire Mountain. They mainly do buffet, but even their buffet food is delicious. Maybe I'm just biased because I don't get to eat out very often :D
 
Oh my Dh and I do not do buffets. Dh was a food snob when I met him and I guess it rubbed off one me :p
 
BensMom said:
Oh my Dh and I do not do buffets. Dh was a food snob when I met him and I guess it rubbed off one me :p
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No buffets for me either. I ate that way in the Navy for 3 years, and that filled me up on the buffet food. When I go out to eat, I want the food cooked for me and not just in bulk.
 
rt49andellis said:
I'd pick Long John Silvers for fast food. But they'r sort of expensive when you're feeding 6. So McDonalds is more in my price range. ;)
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I watch the "race for the roses", the Kentucky Derby, on ESPN and LJS is probably paying for half of the advertising on the horse racing coverage. I've been following the qualifying races for about 4 years, and since then I've noticed that the Long John Silvers restaurants are all located near race tracks in my area. Anyone else see that? I wonder what relation is ...
 
I like to eat at this Vietnamese pho soup restaurant near my office. They have lots of neat Vietnamese meals. If you haven't tried Vietnamese food, you really ought to. It's a unique taste. Not everything is what Americans would want to eat, but there are many, many items that taste great and are made with what Americans would consider regular food.

I don't like fast food. Too much salt in it for me.
 
I like Bob Evans Restaurants. They have home cooked meals that taste good. There aren't too many places that serve pot roast sandwhiches, and Bob Evans is probably it.

They remind me of Bob's Big Boy, and probably replaced them when Bob's closed down. I used to love Bob's Big Boy. When I was a kid, I used to ride my bike there almost everyday for a hot fudge sundae. Yum! I tried making them at home, but couldn't match the fudge sauce.
 
DrPepper said:
I like to eat at this Vietnamese pho soup restaurant near my office. They have lots of neat Vietnamese meals. If you haven't tried Vietnamese food, you really ought to. It's a unique taste. Not everything is what Americans would want to eat, but there are many, many items that taste great and are made with what Americans would consider regular food.

I don't like fast food. Too much salt in it for me.
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yeah pho soup noodles are so good =D
 
I hadn't noticed the Long John Silver's thing DrPepper. Wonder what the deal is with that.

And what the heck's wrong with you people? No buffet? Are you kidding me? LOL I LOVE buffet foods. I love getting a little of this and that and some of this over here all for the same price as one burger & fries. I usually end up with salad, then back for the hot stuff, then another salad and then dessert.

I HATE Bob Evans. They built a new one in the area about 4 years ago. I absolutely could not wait! Somewhere that serves breakfast all day long is a place for me! I live for restaurant breakfast food. LOL ANYWAYS...

I go in and get eggs, toast, bacon and OJ. Eggs were under cooked and the toast was burnt and cold and I had to ask for butter. I was saving my bacon for last. It's my fave so I always save it for last - and of course nothing else was hardly edible anyways. And of course I was trying my hardest not to drink the entire thimble full of OJ so I'd have something to drink at the end.

I'm sittin there talking and next thing I know, my plate and my OJ is being taken away from me. I mean, she leaned in under my arm and grabbed my stuff!!! I was so shocked I couldn't even say anything. I just looked at hubby like what the heck!!?? Well... she got a 5 cent tip and I got 2 certificates for a free meal. And we never used them. By the way, I noticed on my last trip to town that it's no longer Bob Evans..... suprise suprise!
 
rt49andellis said:
I hadn't noticed the Long John Silver's thing DrPepper. Wonder what the deal is with that.
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Come to think of it, I've seen the Long John Silvers next to the off track betting place on the I-81 in Pennsylvania. I'm not sure if there is one near the OTB place in Cambridge, MD, but I'm going to pass by there tomorrow or Monday, and will try to remember to look. That is a little odd.
 
rt49andellis said:
And what the heck's wrong with you people? No buffet? Are you kidding me? LOL I LOVE buffet foods. I love getting a little of this and that and some of this over here all for the same price as one burger & fries. I usually end up with salad, then back for the hot stuff, then another salad and then dessert.
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Well, if it's a well run buffet, I can handle it. Something like Old Country Buffet keeps the food hot and fresh. But I ate that way for soo long in the Navy, it's nice to get food cooked for you when you're paying the price.

You do have a point on the variety. My dad always orders the Chinese food for all of us, and we share in all of the dishes. Most people don't do that; they just order one dish and keep it too themselves. He spent alot of time in Chinatown in San Francisco, and they have those lazy Susan's on the table there so that you order 8 different dishes for 8 people, and everyone gets a little of each. That fits my 'cook the food for me' standard when going out, and is still like a buffet. Too bad more restaurants don't have those round-a-bouts on the table.
 
Sorry the word buffet just makes me cringe. I just think about people stuffing themselves on cheap nasty food. Think about it "Golden Corral". A corral is a place for cattle, enough said.
 
rt49: Could you have just had a bad day at Bob Evans? I've never had an experience like that. I've gone to restaurants and been ignored and left. Always thought that was just bad service at a new restaurant. It does happen, even at established restaurants, when someone calls in and then they get slammed.
 
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