Your favorite restaurant?

[tzalam2]

Which is your favorite restaurant, and why? Food, atmosphere, location, price?
Or add your own favorite, and tell why you like it.

Cracker Barrel
Red Lobster
OCharley's
Japanese Steak House and Sushi Bar,
Mexican Restaurant,
Greek Quisine
Delicatessan
Olive Garden,
Indian Restaurants,
Middle Eastern
Sticky Fingers or Woody's Barbeque,
Longhorn,
Outback,
Smokey Bones
Cafeteria style, like Golden Corral or Piccadilly
German restaurant
Ruth's Chris Steakhouse
Chinese foods
Johnny Carino's
Sweet Tomatoes
Korean foods
Southern Cooking restaurants (collards, ham, grits,black eyed peas, corn bread, etc.)

I prefer Middle Eastern foods, like hummus, kibbe, lamb, couscous, matzoh, and tzimmes.

Lamb with mint jelly, on a bed of seasoned rice, is my favorite meat.

I also like cafeteria style eateries, for the huge selection, and the usually fair price.

 

[NeedHim]

I like Cracker Barrel :D reasoning being the food is good, and the people are nice.

 

[Blazin Bones]

Olive Garden. Unlimited bread sticks!

 

[KnarfKS]

Ruth's Chris Steakhouse - best steak I have ever eaten...But not really worth the $100 spent on a meal.

#1 But I would actually vote for a small Tai restraunt that is in an old subway here in Lawrence. It is cheap, extremely good food and it is family owned and by this time they know my name. :-D The atmosphere is a little weird being that it is an old subway sub shop, but the food, value and friendly owners and employees by far outweigh the building.

#2 Southern Cooking restaurants - it is hard to beat fried chicken, mashed potatoes, collard greens and cornbread though, ummm. Except no one in Kansas likes sweet tea or collard greens except me it seems.

#3 I'm with Brutus, unlimited breadsticks and salad...why do you really need an main course?

 

[ThinkerMan]

Being from So. Cal. originally, I have to vote for Mexican food.

One of the things I hate about traveling around the country is the lack of good Mexican food.

Though I have to agree with KnarfKS that Ruth's Chris is unbelievable.

 

[Nikki]

#2 Southern Cooking restaurants - it is hard to beat fried chicken, mashed potatoes, collard greens and cornbread though, ummm. Except no one in Kansas likes sweet tea or collard greens except me it seems.

If you're ever my way, you'd have to check this place out. It looks like a shack, but the food is AMAZING! It's called the Hillbilly Hideaway. They serve fried chicken, country ham, mashed potatoes, green beans, pintos, homemade rolls and cornbread, corn on the cob, collard greens, cabbage, etc....

NOTHING in the place matches. Most of the tables look like they were bought at a yard sale off the side of the road. None of the chairs match and none of the plates, cups, etc match. They bring all the food out in big bowls.

Here's a description:

History of Site: Sam and Louise Bray first built their Hillbilly Hideaway in 1978, pouring a concrete slab "way out in the woods" and setting on top two put-together tobacco barns. On the day they opened, Louise "cooked enough food for a corn shucking," and only a friend showed up. She filled his plate, stuffed his pockets with biscuits and pork chops, and told him to tell everyone he knew she and Sam were in business. Hillbilly Hideaway realized long-held dreams for each of the Brays. Sam wanted a stage with a curtain from the time he first saw the curtains open at a schoolhouse performance when he was about six years old. And Louise came home from a trip to DisneyWorld so excited about the Country Bear Jamboree, Sam went back with her two weeks later to see it. After another visit, they decided to borrow money and start their restaurant.



Description of Site/Facility: When the original Hillbilly Hideaway burned in 1980, Sam and Louise Bray constructed a rustic new restaurant and remodeled the old building to be a separate music hall. Inside the music hall are rows of school bus seats facing a stage with a curtain. It can accommodate an audience of 300, and the restaurant can seat 150-200, "depending on how desperate you are." Meals are served family style, and the Brays roll out bowls and platters piled high with home-cooked specialties. Holler when your bowl is empty, and they'll refill it.

 

[Petrushka]

I like Chinese food. We have a whole bunch of Chinese restaurants around here. IMHO they all ROCK! I go to them as often as possible.

Teriyaki would be a second best.

Then Pizza,

Then a good hamburger. :D