Redcatcher70 wrote: We have a franchise operation here in the five state area, (AR, MO, MS, TN, KY) called Colton's Steakhouse. Usually, if and when we want to dine out especially steak, we choose Colton's. Choice of a bowl of Patato Soup or salad, main dishes including various steaks, fish or shrimp, chicken or ribs. Choices of sides and a few desserts. We have never been disappointed at Colton's!!!!! They make the blooming onion or you can get Tanglers, thin rings of onion coated with the onion batter, fried and served with the onion sauce. They are never greasy and taste great. If you are ever in the five state area, find one and try them........
Closest one to me is in Poplar Bluff. I have been wanting to try it.
Texas Roadhouse is a sure bet with me. When I want a steak out we eat at TR.
However, nobody makes a steak as good as I make it myself. We have a beef butchered about once a year. I have as many choice cuts made from it as possible. I then grill my steaks myself, and if it all goes wrong I have no one to blame but myself.
Texas Roadhouse does have good food but the few times I went, it was too noisy to even think. Carrying on a conversation with someone was pretty much impossible. Even if I'm alone, I can't deal with the racket.
This has been my experience too. Most of the people who eat there are there to party and be obnoxious. Great place for the under 30 crowd.
You've got to be kidding, as far as being decent place to eat, Sizzler is on par with Denny's. A mass merchandised slop house made for the culinary tastes of the buffet crowd.
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Perhaps. then there are those who go for "health" foods.
To me, GOOD food is what my Grandmother cooked, using lard and butter, whole milk, yep, all the stuff that you must not eat any more.
Good, solid Pennsylvania Dutch cooking; REAL food!
Given the choice between restaurants, I will take Denny's, Perkins, and Sizzler over many if not most others. I do wish we had a Long John Silver's here in town, though.
As for local places, we have two family owned and operated Mexican restaurants here. All things considered, I would rather go to Taco John's or Guadalajara to eat. The food just has a better flavor.
As one who spent all summer, every fire season, for almost 10 years, living in motels and eating in restaurants, I can honestly say that a good Hungry Man frozen "dinner" often has a better flavor than ANY restaurant food!
IMO, fancy "plating" does nothing to enhance the flavor. It just makes it look pretty to some people. Often, I am not impressed!
Yep, I guess I am firmly entrenched as one of the "Joe Average Buffet Crowd". IMO, if you have to cover it in exotic sauces and spices to make it "taste good", it isn't worth eating!
Filet Mignon, caviar, and artichoke hearts? No, not on my table, not EVER!
Smoked Pork Chops; baked potato with real butter, sour cream and chives; brussel sprouts; and a nice white Zinfandel, OH, YES!! (Don't bother to tell me that is the wrong wine to go with pork. I know what I like, and I just don't CARE what some "gourmet" says!)
And home made ice cream with Hershey's Dark Chocolate sauce for desert!
Or, should that be "dessert"? I never could keep them straight!
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If folks actually saw what goes on in the kitchens of most restaurants they would run screaming like little girls for the exit. The local paper here in Tucson publishes the details of restaurants that fail their health inspections and these reports are downright frightening when you consider the violations happened in front of an inspector. Who knows what goes when no one is looking.
A couple of weeks ago one of the priciest steak houses in town, I'm talking $70 to $100 a head for dinner got written up for a couple of dozen violations. They blamed the sous chef and fired him but lots of employees were caught doing things to your food that can make you violently ill. This is just another reason, along with outrageous costs and often very poor service/atmosphere that we almost never eat out. I love to cook and am pretty good at it so we dine on better than restaurant quality (healthy), meals every day for pennies on the dollar and we know where that food came from. When we camp our menu does not change, same meals as at home. This is one of the benefits of having a nice kitchen in the TT. Life is too short to not eat well.
don't get me started on restaurant safety codes etc.
I saw a show on cable. Can't remember the name. Restaruants needing help on lost income, no customers etc that are failing. A restaurant man will video tape employees and what they do and the kitchen etc. on how they work etc. and tell you how to fix your restaurant.
WORST (well just made me gag, but there was plenty to make me gag on this show) was when people sent food back to be boxed. The waitress ate off the plate before she boxed it for the customers. OH MAN OH MAN
FunnyCamper wrote: don't get me started on restaurant safety codes etc.
I saw a show on cable. Can't remember the name. Restaruants needing help on lost income, no customers etc that are failing. A restaurant man will video tape employees and what they do and the kitchen etc. on how they work etc. and tell you how to fix your restaurant.
WORST (well just made me gag, but there was plenty to make me gag on this show) was when people sent food back to be boxed. The waitress ate off the plate before she boxed it for the customers. OH MAN OH MAN
just makes you want to vomit LOL
And I'm sure none of that as staged for the video for the show. Riiiight.
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