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Brainof23 · **Posted:** Thu March 21, 2013 5:12 am

Our country is filled with chain restaurants. Some of them are better than others. There are chains for almost every type of food you could want. What are your favorites? Least favorites? Sit down only. No fast food.

Top 5 (Go to Dish)

1. PF Changs (Mongolian Beef)
2. Carrabbas (Lobster and Crab Ravioli)
3. The Melting Pot (Big Night Out)
4. Texas Road House (NY Strip)
5. Chillis (Steak Fajitas)

(Others: Quaker Steak and Lube, The Olive Garden , Joe's Crabshack, The Cheesecake Factory, Outback)

Not in my City

Ruth Criss, Morton's, BD's Mongolian BBQ

No Thank You

1. Applebee's
2. Buffalo Wild Wings
3. Red Robin
4. Bravo!
5. Cracker Barrel

spike · **Joined:** Wed January 02, 2013 4:18 am **Posts:** 28164

fuck the melting pot

Norris · **Posted:** Thu March 21, 2013 5:24 am

where else would you go on a big night out?

BDB · **Joined:** Fri January 04, 2013 12:20 am **Posts:** 706

Chilis is shit

vegman · **Posted:** Thu March 21, 2013 4:24 pm

I like carrabas and panera for lunch. Buffalo wild wings and pf changs are absolute shit.

@SkitchP · **Joined:** Tue January 01, 2013 8:43 pm **Posts:** 9875

I would take Bravo! and Buffalo Wild Wings (beer selection reasons only) over any of your top 5.

vegman · **Posted:** Thu March 21, 2013 11:20 pm

There's no way Buffalo Wild Wings' beer selection makes up for their lousy food. You could microwave better food.

Dr. Van Nostrand · **Joined:** Tue December 18, 2012 8:33 pm **Posts:** 8898

spike wrote:

fuck the melting pot

melting pot is bad? there is one about an hour up the road from us that we have been considering going to for a while

@SkitchP · **Joined:** Tue January 01, 2013 8:43 pm **Posts:** 9875

vegman wrote:

There's no way Buffalo Wild Wings' beer selection makes up for their lousy food. You could microwave better food.

Which can also be said about his top 5, which offer their Top End Beers like Killians!

vegman · **Posted:** Fri March 22, 2013 5:07 pm

@SkitchP wrote:

vegman wrote:

There's no way Buffalo Wild Wings' beer selection makes up for their lousy food. You could microwave better food.

Which can also be said about his top 5, which offer their Top End Beers like Killians!

Well, I guess it depends on whether or not you choose your chain restaurants for the food or the beer. I hardly ever eat at chain restaurants. My wife's family loves Carabba's and I always like it when we go, I just order wine. I'll grab lunch at Panera's if I'm on the road and it's cheap and pretty good. I used to have clients who work across from Buffalo Wild WIngs when it was still in North Buffalo and every time I offered to treat for a happy hour, that's where they wanted to go. That's about all the chain restaurant eating I do. When I'm looking for good beer I head to a gastropub for the best of both worlds.

E.H. Ruddock · **Joined:** Tue January 01, 2013 2:48 pm **Posts:** 47348

Mellow Mushroom for me. at least 40 beers on tap at any given time and decent food.

nah · **Posted:** Fri March 22, 2013 7:21 pm

i would never eat at wild wings because i can't stand their lame commercials. chilis fajitas are good. i really dont eat at chain restaurants.

Orpheus · **Joined:** Wed January 02, 2013 8:08 pm **Posts:** 2874

E.H. Ruddock wrote:

Mellow Mushroom for me. at least 40 beers on tap at any given time and decent food.

I had no idea this was a chain.

E.H. Ruddock · **Joined:** Tue January 01, 2013 2:48 pm **Posts:** 47348

Orpheus wrote:

E.H. Ruddock wrote:

Mellow Mushroom for me. at least 40 beers on tap at any given time and decent food.

I had no idea this was a chain.

I didn't either. We have two here in the area. When I read this thread I decided to look it up to see where else they had restaurants, and was surprised to see so many. The local one here has "takeover" nights on their taps, they just recently had a Founders one and also a New Holland one. Hoping for a Victory or Bell's takeover soon.

spike · **Joined:** Wed January 02, 2013 4:18 am **Posts:** 28164

Dr. Van Nostrand wrote:

spike wrote:

fuck the melting pot

melting pot is bad? there is one about an hour up the road from us that we have been considering going to for a while

it's not bad, but it's overpriced.

Dr. Van Nostrand · **Joined:** Tue December 18, 2012 8:33 pm **Posts:** 8898

spike wrote:

Dr. Van Nostrand wrote:

spike wrote:

fuck the melting pot

melting pot is bad? there is one about an hour up the road from us that we have been considering going to for a while

it's not bad, but it's overpriced.

Ah, well ill be ok with that for a special occasion, since it is an hour away it won't be a regular place for us.

verb_to_trust · **Posted:** Sun March 24, 2013 12:36 am

Wild Wings is truly terrible. You pay for the atmosphere/tvs. They skimp on everything else, especially the food.

The Argonaut · **Posted:** Sun March 24, 2013 2:27 am

The only one I can think of is the 99 Restaurant.

Norris · **Posted:** Sun March 24, 2013 2:58 am

The 9s, as I like to call it.

spike · **Joined:** Wed January 02, 2013 4:18 am **Posts:** 28164

verb_to_trust wrote:

Wild Wings is truly terrible. You pay for the atmosphere/tvs. They skimp on everything else, especially the food.

and I hate the atmosphere there

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