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#1 Posted: 2/28/2012 4:09:11 AM Carrabba's all day for me. I just wish I could afford it more often!
I get the same thing every time... the Pollo Rosa Maria with Fettuccine Alfredo. Yummy! That is the bomb! |
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#2 Posted: 2/28/2012 5:02:59 AM |
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#3 Posted: 2/28/2012 5:40:40 AM |
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#4 Posted: 2/28/2012 7:40:04 AM
I try to avoid the major restaurant chains and patronize a few local guys. But Chili's serves a great sizzling fajita plate and their frozen margaritas are awesome too.
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#5 Posted: 2/28/2012 8:12:46 AM carrabbas? really? seriously? you're not joking?
isn't there a real italian restaurant in your town?
pf changs? really? isn't there a real asian restaurant in your town?
I generally prefer restaurants that have chefs and menus, not corporate mandated concoctions thrown together in mass by anyone that can read a recipe card. |
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#6 Posted: 2/28/2012 8:28:46 AM 
Most of them go under here in WNY 
We Are very Lucky to have excellent Mom & Pop  places of all Variety's here in Buffalo
No wonder why so Many are on the Fat side here  |
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#7 Posted: 2/28/2012 8:31:53 AM |
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#8 Posted: 2/28/2012 8:58:32 AM QUOTE Originally Posted by DoubleUp4Life: Chain Places are Gross
Most of them go under here in WNY
We Are very Lucky to have excellent Mom & Pop places of all Variety's here in Buffalo
No wonder why so Many are on the Fat side here
I was in Buffalo recently - and I think they take the wings thing a little too seriously.
I mean it was on EVERY menu. If you went for italian, it was "Italian and wings", if you went for steak - the restaurant was "Steak and wings".
People are enormous there from eating wings for breakfast lunch and dinner.
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#9 Posted: 2/28/2012 9:05:56 AM  Trattoria Il Panino |
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#10 Posted: 2/28/2012 9:20:23 AM QUOTE Originally Posted by DoubleUp4Life: Chain Places are Gross
Most of them go under here in WNY
We Are very Lucky to have excellent Mom & Pop places of all Variety's here in Buffalo
No wonder why so Many are on the Fat side here
Salvatores by the airport
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#11 Posted: 2/28/2012 9:34:26 AM QUOTE Originally Posted by Gunners: carrabbas? really? seriously? you're not joking?
isn't there a real italian restaurant in your town?
pf changs? really? isn't there a real asian restaurant in your town?
I generally prefer restaurants that have chefs and menus, not corporate mandated concoctions thrown together in mass by anyone that can read a recipe card.
Yea, i also like my food to be cooked, rather than prepared in a microwave 
Hard to name a favorite, i am a bigtime foodie and always enjoy picking up a seat at the buffet of life. Brazillian BBQ is the garbage. I'm a big fan of all things S. American. My mouth is watering like hell right now thinking about good food. Often times, it's cheaper to eat some awesome food made by a chef on a cast iron, then it is to go to a chain and get beat in the head for some pre-prepared microwaved "food"
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#12 Posted: 2/28/2012 9:53:30 AM
Peter Lugers in Brooklyn
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#13 Posted: 2/28/2012 10:41:56 AM
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#14 Posted: 2/28/2012 10:44:04 AM
PF = fake asian food. you wont see an asian person in that place! |
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#15 Posted: 2/28/2012 11:03:45 AM
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#17 Posted: 2/28/2012 11:16:35 AM JOES STONE CRAB SOUTH BEACH
SIENA FEDERAL HILL PROV RI |
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#18 Posted: 2/28/2012 11:18:16 AM [Quote: Originally Posted by ogmike] Carrabbas is terrible imo. I've been there twice and neither was anything special. If you want an Italian chain, hit up Maggianos. Damn good for a chain.
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#19 Posted: 2/28/2012 11:18:34 AM |
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#20 Posted: 2/28/2012 11:24:01 AM QUOTE Originally Posted by pucku27:
JOES STONE CRAB SOUTH BEACH
SIENA FEDERAL HILL PROV RI
Joes Stone Crab is the bomb.
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#21 Posted: 2/28/2012 11:39:18 AM QUOTE Originally Posted by Amp:
I honestly feel sorry for people who think places like Carraba's and Olive Garden serve "good" Italian food.
being from NJ i would concur. i went to a carraba's once. never a macaroni grill or olive garden. there's no need here
same with pizza hut and dominos
sort of like never having red lobster if you are from maine...or bonefish grill but i like bonefish. high end chain. kona grill is excellent also as far as chains go
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#22 Posted: 2/28/2012 11:40:22 AM QUOTE Originally Posted by mainmanmainman2: dude dont go to PF changs... that place is awful compared to a real asian place.
PF = fake asian food. you wont see an asian person in that place!
PF is fake as hell
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there is a Mom and Pop whole in the wall Asian place around the corner from me
It only has 8 tables and is filled with Asians day and nite...many of the customers drive 40+ minutes to eat there .... |
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#23 Posted: 2/28/2012 11:49:11 AM QUOTE Originally Posted by vanzack:
I was in Buffalo recently - and I think they take the wings thing a little too seriously.
I mean it was on EVERY menu. If you went for italian, it was "Italian and wings", if you went for steak - the restaurant was "Steak and wings".
People are enormous there from eating wings for breakfast lunch and dinner.
Italian Food is top notch here .....Try some Frank's Sunny Italy...Portions would Stuff King Kong Bundy
funny you say that
I am as sick of wings 
I only eat them about 4 or 5 times a Year now
But if your in Buffalo and want Wings
Stop by the Buffalo Tap Room on Niagara Falls Blvd. and Sheridan in Tonawanda |
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#24 Posted: 2/28/2012 12:20:15 PM Fleming's Steakhouse in Edgewater, NJ
Steel, if you think Carraba's is good Italian food you'd probably shoot in your pants w/ the local Italian joints we have here in North Jersey.
I can kind of see your point b/c it's actually pretty good compared to the other restaurants they have in FL (save seafood restaurants). Their chicken marsala is pretty good. |
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#25 Posted: 2/28/2012 12:34:43 PM QUOTE Originally Posted by vanzack:
Joes Stone Crab is the bomb.
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