Your favorite restaurant?

[Jahpan]

I am so bored today so making some threads lol
List your top 5 restaurants! If you want you can make your top 5 chain restaurants and then your top 5 non chain restaurants?

My top 5 chain restaurants:
-taco bell
-subway
-Longhorn steakhouse
-arbys
-cinnabon? (Idk if you count this)
-culvers lol

my top 5 non chain restaurants:
-Jims Steakhouse (the atmosphere is elegant and service and food is great definitely a once a year outing)
-Osaka hibachi (i love sushi and hibachi! My favorite sushi is Philadelphia roll which has smoked salmon in it!)
-Ardors bakery (has a michelin star chef working here! Amazing bakery foods!!)
-Bearded Owl (not really a restaurant just is a brewery and my favorite one but they are closing and didnt say why)
-Lynfred Winery (few locations in the suburbs of chicago their main location is roselle, IL! They have amazing fruit wine, and nice gift shop. I love their wines! They even have a bed and breakfast on the upper level that is very nice quality rooms!)
Cant really think of more

 

[neely]

My favorite restaurants are diners or small independently owned cafes especially ethnic places.

 

[kashmir64]

I only have two.
Red Lobster (which we don't have here) and
Eva's. - a family run Mexican food restaurant in Snowflake. She used to have this tiny place and it was standing room only. So she moved to a huge place and it's still SRO. That's how good it is.
However, whenever I'm in Phx, I have to go to Pete's Fish N Chips. Pete's and a frozen cappuccino from QT....so good.

 

[denice]

For me it's a type of restaurant. I like breakfast at a traditional diner. They usually serve breakfast anytime, so it doesn't matter when you go, they have breakfast. I am big on the occasional breakfast for dinner.

 

[Kat0121]

I get Jimmy John's more often than anything else. I often feel sandwich-ey and they have the ones I like the most.

 

[Mia6]

swenson's for burgers......a sit in your car place

taco bell
arby's
popeye's chicken

non chain

el charro

diamond grille steaks

 

[Winchester]

I really like Outback, although we don't go there very often.
I like Texas Roadhouse because I like the Legend Margarita with an extra shot of tequila.
Cracker Barrel or Perkins because I like breakfast.

That's pretty much it.

 

[lizzie]

There used to be a place in Springfield called Lone Star,and they had a rib eye sandwich that was to die for,and the best melon margarita ever!But,sadly,they're gone to make room for a CVS.So now I'll say Texas Roadhouse for their rib eye,but I guess I need to try that margarita too!Here in town,I can just say ElRodeo ...they make their own tamales and chile rellanos that are excellent to me.

 

[MoochNNoodles]

Hmm…

Chain places:
Panera, Texas Roasted, Applebees, Dunkin, Chickfila. Honorable mention: Red Robin.

Non chain: A local place that has everything from pizza to breakfast to pasta to chicken and dumplings to Greek food. A local bagel place. A local Puerto Rican/Domincan bakery/cafe. A local sub place. The Greek restaurant back in my hometown.

 

[Lari]

Chain places:
Panera, Texas Roasted, Applebees, Dunkin, Chickfila. Honorable mention: Red Robin

I love the fries at Red Robin.

And for some reason reading this made me suddenly crave Steak n Shake and you didn't even write that.

 

[maggiedemi]

Tim Hortons for cappuccino.
Taco Bell, Subway, Burger King for vegetarian.
I really like diner food and pizza places too.

 

[MoochNNoodles]

I love the fries at Red Robin.

And for some reason reading this made me suddenly crave Steak n Shake and you didn't even write that.

My mind works like that too.

I like the Onion Rings and dipping sauce at Red Robin. I don't always even like onion rings; but theirs are good! DH didn't want to go there the other day; he wanted his usual favorite bbq place. We went to neither.

 

[nurseangel]

Top 5 chains are:
Red Lobster
Subway
Olive Garden
O'Charley's
Krystal (which we don't have here and is pretty much a reason to move)

Top 5 non-chain restaurants:
Tony's Ice Cream (they sell hamburgers, hotdogs, the like but I go for the grape.) They have grape ice cream! Grape! It is beyond good! They also have slushy tea!
Charolais (An old school steakhouse.) DH and I used to go on dates there. Now my cousins own it, but they have pretty much kept it the same.
Los Arcos (Which tops the gazillion Mexican restaurants I could list.)
Italiano's (The bread is the closest I've found to what it tastes like in Italy.)
Lang Van (I love Asian food, and Vietnamese is my favorite.)

 

[Gunther4ever]

Brighton Bar & Grill - American/Fusion Brighton MI
Table 5 - American Northville MI
AZN -Asian- Naples FL
Doc Fords - Captiva Island, FL
Antonios- Farmington HIlls MI

Chains - KFC -Jersey Mikes

 

[nurseangel]

I've never been to Red Robin. This thread makes me want to try it. And oh, my! Lari how could I have forgotten Steak N Shake! I love them. Sonic, too, but it went away in my town. The truth is, I love to eat out. I also love to buy out and bring home. I love to cook, but that was not the question. Definitely not the question.

 

[catloverfromwayback]

I only go to one, a little bakery near where my knitting group meets. It's not part of a chain, it's a small business. I don't like chain restaurants much and very seldom eat out except on my knitting days.

 

[MonaLyssa33]

I don't really eat out that often or have a definitive favorite restaurant. I do like this pho restaurant a lot that is near me. As for chain restaurants, I like Zupa's, Popeyes (I freaking love their chicken sandwiches), Jimmy John's, Bakers Square (there is only one actual restaurant left in Minnesota ) and Wingstop.

 

[Jahpan]

I don't really eat out that often or have a definitive favorite restaurant. I do like this pho restaurant a lot that is near me. As for chain restaurants, I like Zupa's, Popeyes (I freaking love their chicken sandwiches), Jimmy John's, Bakers Square (there is only one actual restaurant left in Minnesota ) and Wingstop.

Wow a bakers square??? That is amazing! I remember they all cleared out of Illinois! So sad! I loved their oreo pie!!

 

[neely]

Wow a bakers square??? That is amazing! I remember they all cleared out of Illinois!

I remember Baker's Square too and was curious if they're all gone or not so I did a search and discovered there are still three left in IL. The other locations are in Indiana, Iowa, Minnesota and Ohio. I used to get their French Silk pie.

 

[Lari]

Wow a bakers square??? That is amazing! I remember they all cleared out of Illinois! So sad! I loved their oreo pie!!

I remember Baker's Square too and was curious if they're all gone or not so I did a search and discovered there are still three left in IL. The other locations are in Indiana, Iowa, Minnesota and Ohio. I used to get their French Silk pie.

Yeah, there's definitely still a few in Illinois.