Chains. Better, worse or the same?

I'd still eat your arm Rudy, despite your sparkling wit and repartee, if for example we went to Morton's and they offered me a half ass alterative to the 27 steaks on the menu. Nothing against your arm...just when I'm hungry...I'm H*U*N*G*R*Y

C x Originally Posted by Camille

Disclaimer: This applies to not having other knowledge of the specific restaurant/location. Some places are actually great at something you would least expect.

If you go to a nice steakhouse, order the steak
If you go to a nice seafood place, order fish
If you go to a sports bar or on of the places on Charlie's list of casual chains, order the burger or a chicken sandwich. There will be a steak or two on the menu (and you may even be tempted: steak dinner for under $20) but it will be a poor cut of steak.

Bottomline: go with what they do best.

Cheeky boy. I get that lol. To be fair, I was invited by friends w ere already going to the steak places...they wouldn't have been my choice. That said, it's not always that easy though to find chains that do seafood and fish...steak places though are a dime a dozen. Don't you think?

C x

The better steak places will usually do a decent salmon or tuna.

Saw this topic and got all excited. Thought you were asking about different types of "chains". You know, the type that you can get at Home Depot, or rather, the Domme Depot ... and you were going to suggest alternative activities. And maybe add some pretty ribbons in the mix!

Damn. Wrong again.

Sorry about that!

Elisabeth Originally Posted by ElisabethWhispers

The only chain I've got is a chain of insulting posts from Woody. But that doesn't fit in either thread. Sorry for the slight thread jack. Back to regular programming.

If you're gonna hijack CT you've got to do better than that....like mine 5 posts above lol
TY to the peeps that have made suggestions anyway..I will consider them on my travels....

xxx

I've also been meaning to try Naked Fish for the longest time, but I always forget because they are in the burbs..and not any burbs that are particularly close to me. C xx Originally Posted by Camille

I tried NF in a Boston burb a bunch of years ago. It was only okay. Like we say in reviews, "would I repeat? No." Legal is much more consistent. Heck they even have reasonable mark-ups on their wines (I seem to remember a bottle of Dom was $150. Smart, people will *actually* buy wine or champagne).

...just when I'm hungry...I'm H*U*N*G*R*Y Originally Posted by Camille

A girl after my own heart!

Saw this topic and got all excited. Thought you were asking about different types of "chains". You know, the type that you can get at Home Depot, or rather, the Domme Depot ... and you were going to suggest alternative activities. And maybe add some pretty ribbons in the mix! Elisabeth Originally Posted by ElisabethWhispers

Elizabeth, I thought the same thing and knew I had to lurk by. Oops, restaurant thread. BTW, silk ties work quite well, too!

My favorite threads. Food and sex. Do we ever talk about sex in D&T?

Do we ever talk about sex in D&T? Originally Posted by SR Only

No. Just politics.
Someone start a good sex thread. It's overdue.

I'd still eat your arm Rudy, despite your sparkling wit and repartee, if for example we went to Morton's and they offered me a half ass alterative to the 27 steaks on the menu. Nothing against your arm...just when I'm hungry...I'm H*U*N*G*R*Y

C x Originally Posted by Camille

That works for me. I've got two of 'em.

Someone start a good sex thread. It's overdue. Originally Posted by Camille

Done:
http://www.eccie.net/showthread.php?p=601592#post601592

Someone start a good sex thread. It's overdue. Originally Posted by Camille

Word! You are elected.

Being a pescaterian whose patrons tend to be meat eaters, I can attest to having had many a great piece of fish at better steak houses. I also heard from one dinner companion, that Eddie V's (Austin) serves a phenomenal steak... However, I'm not sure they have Eddie V's in Dallas, do they? If not, Trulucks gets my thumbs up as far as fish restaurant chains go (though a great dinner companion doesn't hurt either... )

And Elisabeth, you crack this vanilla girl up! (I'm so bummed you didn't make it here this week but I'll see you in Big D in a couple weeks)

@CiCi -- I can't help but when I see you weigh in here...

There is a local/regional/national??? chain of pizza places with your name that are always on TV offering a full buffet meal for like $4 or $5...

I tend to not like chains so much as a rule, but some are good.
I find I like steak houses the best for chains: #1 Flemings, #2 Morton’s, #3 S & W.
Houston’s is consistent and good, but their weird service bugs me a bit. They always have a different person showing up at your table.
I find Landry’s and Copland’s restaurants to be either consistently mediocre or just plain bad like Pesci.
Someone mentioned Legal Seafood. I thought it was wonderful. I also like McCormick and Schmicks
The Pappa’s chain is also very consistent with their food though I would have to say their services isn’t the best even at their high end stores.

I tend to not like chains so much as a rule, but some are good.
I find I like steak houses the best for chains: #1 Flemings, #2 Morton’s, #3 S & W.
Houston’s is consistent and good, but their weird service bugs me a bit. They always have a different person showing up at your table.
I find Landry’s and Copland’s restaurants to be either consistently mediocre or just plain bad like Pesci.
Someone mentioned Legal Seafood. I thought it was wonderful. I also like McCormick and Schmicks
The Pappa’s chain is also very consistent with their food though I would have to say their services isn’t the best even at their high end stores. Originally Posted by OliviaHoward

Curious? Do they still have a restaraunt in Houston called...Boston Sea Party? I went there in during college and it seemed pretty high end to me back then. But my perceptions were quite a bit different back then. But that was the first "white tablecoth" place I ever remember going to.

Curious? Do they still have a restaraunt in Houston called...Boston Sea Party? I went there in during college and it seemed pretty high end to me back then. But my perceptions were quite a bit different back then. But that was the first "white tablecoth" place I ever remember going to. Originally Posted by Rudyard K

Oh gosh I remember that restaurant. We had one here in Atlanta. Couldn't you order a steak or a lobster and a seafood buffet came with it?

I met friends for brunch today at a Pappa's restaurant. It was an all you can eat brunch. The omelet stations had tip jars. So what, if you don't tip you only get half an egg? In my opinion having tip jars in the buffet line is extremely tacky.