GotGarlic
Chef Extraordinaire
The thing that hacks me off about restaurant coupons is that they are always for two people.
That may be the case where you are, but it's not always true here.
The thing that hacks me off about restaurant coupons is that they are always for two people.
Yay for restos that treat a woman alone as a real person.The thing that hacks me off about restaurant coupons is that they are always for two people. All these places ignore the power of the single woman. If she gets good food and good service when she goes alone, she'll take her friends next time and recommend it to others.
I go to a small privately owned restaurant near home for lunch two or three times a month. I don't get shoved at the table behind the giant pot plant on the way to the toilets because I'm alone and therefore embarrassing (to whom?), the staff have never been either falsely sycophantic or sneering and the owner treats me like a long lost friend. If I chose something that they don't think I'll like they say so and if I ask what they recommend today I get an honest answer (which is not always the most expensive dish on the menu unlike some places). That restaurant is the top of my list of recommendations.
My mom says that she has a great Applebee's near her, but I've never experienced a good one, so I've just given up on them, for that type of food we do have a local chain that is fantastic.I think the worst chain restaurant I have been to has to be Applebee's. The two times I have been there, I ordered a steak, med. rare. Both times it was still frozen solid in the middle. If I have to send a dish back to the kitchen, I don't want anything else to replace it. Just take it off the bill and let me get out of there. I will still leave a tip. After all, it wasn't the wait person who does the cooking, or lack of it.
We have an Italian restaurant here in Eastie. They have no branches and all the food is cooked right on the premises. The restaurant is more than 50 years old and the same family owns it. It is the one restaurant this family goes to when there is a very special occasion to celebrate. I have never been to OG and have no need to. T.G.I.F. is another restaurant I choose not to darken their door again. Reading the menu is like reading a list of foods and how many they can add booze to. And please don't tell me the alcohol burns off. We have already had that conversation.
We have an Italian restaurant here in Eastie. They have no branches and all the food is cooked right on the premises. The restaurant is more than 50 years old and the same family owns it. It is the one restaurant this family goes to when there is a very special occasion to celebrate. I have never been to OG and have no need to. T.G.I.F. is another restaurant I choose not to darken their door again. Reading the menu is like reading a list of foods and how many they can add booze to. And please don't tell me the alcohol burns off. We have already had that conversation.
Should I want a good steak, I will never go to Applebee's to get it.
It seems restaurants should be chosen as to what they do the best at. Steaks at Applebee's is a prime example. They are not a steak house.
It has gotten to the point that going out to eat is more of a crap shoot for us. We have not eaten out in the last few years where we said that we could not do a much better job at home.