What restaurants do you miss that are gone.

[Claire]

This is a line that is near and dear to my heart. I miss those old places (you have to understand that Ive lived a lot of places) where you could find a booth in the back and have a steak. My Mom calls them "Hernando's Hide-Aways" Is there a song about that? I love all food, but a place where "everyone knows my name, and they're always glad I came" and a little personal booth where I can talk to my friends with the illusion of privacy, is really, really nice.

[JoeV]

Chi-Chi's. The kids really enjoyed going there, especially on their birthday when the wait staff would put a sombrero on them, sing a birthday wish to them and take their picture. Very family friendly place to eat.

[justplainbill]

Fusco's Broad Street Manhattan
Sweet's downtown Manhattan
White's downtown Manhattan
Volk's downtown Manhattan
Sakelle downtown Manhattan
Joe's Broadway Chinatown downtown Manhattan
North Star Pub Fulton St. Manhattan
Market Bar & Restaurant World Trade Center Manhattan
Barclay Inn downtown Manhattan
Luchows 14th Street Manhattan
Maneros Greenwich Village
Drum & Connells 14th Street Manhattan
Otto's Seabreeze, Freeport NY
McClusky's Steak House, Bellmore NY
Mitchells Greenport NY
Osborne Inn Riverhead NY
ZUM ZUM
WienerWald
Furama Ave U Brooklyn
Cookies Ave M Brooklyn
Lundy's Sheepshead Bay Brooklyn
Brennan & Carr Ave U Brooklyn
Trade Inn 30 Church St. Manhattan

[quicksilver]

Yup. I miss Mama Leone's, Arthur Treacher's fish & chips too.
And Stewarts and Zabar's(sp?) down by Atlantic City, NJ.

[kadesma]

Originally Posted by pdswife

I know there are still A & w'S around but they don't make the baby burgers any
more and I really miss those.

I miss those too..Let's start a campaign to bring um back.
kades

[Elf]

Fudruckers is still going strong in the Annapolis MD area, I heard that Arthur Treacher's is still around on the eastern shore of MD and DE. I miss Gino's and the original Roy Rodgers, not those imitators on the Jersey turnpike.

[LEFSElover]

The original Bob's Big Boy
"""""""""""" Chasens
"""""""""""" Loves
oh most of all period and only one that really mattered....in Inglewood California,
Andy's

for deelady
for babetoo

[homecook]

Mountain Jack's and Boar's Head. They were great steak and seafood places here. They also had the BEST bloody marys!

Barb

[pdswife]

Oh and Sambo's! It was a pancake place in Oregon. Yummy!
and Waddles... in Oregon too..

[Barbara L]

Originally Posted by LEFSElover

The original Bob's Big Boy...

I loved Bob's Big Boy! Years ago I learned that throughout the country there are Big Boy restaurants, but they are called something else. On our recent vacation we came across a Frisch's Big Boy (same Big Boy "statue" in front). I hadn't eaten at a Big Boy restaurant in years, and James never had, so I told him we had to go there. It was awful. I guess the burgers were okay (they were edible anyway), but they were not the Big Boy burgers I knew and loved. They say, "You can't go home." I guess that can apply to restaurants as well!

Barbara