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The Bar => The Lounge => Topic started by: Lauri on July 07, 2008, 11:23:51 PM
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Ok, so the food isnt especially gourmet, but it was one of the first big restraunts my family went to in Dallas.. well, Richardson actually.
i remember when the glasses were actually glass from the freezer.
but they shut down the two closest to us in Issaquah and Bellevue..
:bawl:
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Go to Appleby's!
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Chili's sucks.
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Chili's sucks.
so does ruby's
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Go to Appleby's!
Unless you like decent food.
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Chili's sucks.
so does ruby's
And Brennan's and Friday's and Saltgrass and Lone Star and pappadeaux and its derivatives and and all the rest of the generic "bar/restaurant" type places.
Take it from someone on the road 100% of the time -- they suck.
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Go to Appleby's!
Unless you like decent food.
maybe we shoul take this to PM.
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Go to Appleby's!
Unless you like decent food.
maybe we shoul take this to PM.
Or FC -- let;s duke it our on which chain of sucky food sucks the least! :)
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I don't care for Chili's. And I think their commercials suck too.
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They are opening a new Chili's near my apartment. I've never been there.
Applebee's isn't bad.
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They are opening a new Chili's near my apartment. I've never been there.
Applebee's isn't bad.
They are good places to have a drink or two and enjoy some appetizers. Chili's makes some good burgers. Applebee's has some good stuff too. They are a nice place to relax a bit and share good company.
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My wife likes Appleby's, Ruby Tuesdays, Chilli's and TGI Fridays, and I can't stand any of em.
We both agree to stay away from The Golden Corral, known as "Hungry Hungry Hippos" in our house.
There are a few places around here we agree on, Cracker Barrel being one.
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My wife likes Appleby's, Ruby Tuesdays, Chilli's and TGI Fridays, and I can't stand any of em.
We both agree to stay away from The Golden Corral, known as "Hungry Hungry Hippos" in our house.
There are a few places around here we agree on, Cracker Barrel being one.
I don't mind Bennigans occasionally, but I rarely go to the other places you mentioned. The last time I went to Chili's was because a couple of sales guys wanted to go there for lunch. I liked Appleby's back when I was in high school. Actually one of my closest friends like the place and he practically demanded that we go there. I think since I've graduated high school I've been less than 5 times.
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Chili's will always hold a special place in my heart...
Well... more like the parking lot of Chili's after dark... :naughty:
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The last time I went to Chili's, I walked out because a waiter hadn't been to my table for 15 minutes after I was seated.
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Chili's will always hold a special place in my heart...
Well... more like the parking lot of Chili's after dark... :naughty:
I guess it was a great place to score some Wavy Weed?
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Chili's will always hold a special place in my heart...
Well... more like the parking lot of Chili's after dark... :naughty:
I guess it was a great place to score some Wavy Weed?
Nah. Never done an "illegal" drug in my life.
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The last time I went to Chili's, I walked out because a waiter hadn't been to my table for 15 minutes after I was seated.
Oh yeah. Their service is one of the worst I've ever experienced. My mom came here for my birthday a few weeks ago, and she and I went there for a "quick" bite to eat. Took about 20 minutes just to get our DRINKS. :whatever:
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The last time I went to Chili's, I walked out because a waiter hadn't been to my table for 15 minutes after I was seated.
Why, oh why do bad things happen to good people? :bawl:
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The last time I went to Chili's, I walked out because a waiter hadn't been to my table for 15 minutes after I was seated.
Why, oh why do bad things happen to good people? :bawl:
They have pretty good Memphis style ribs, that is why I waited so long. Their waitstaff at the the particular restaurants I frequent, which are 3 various ones, has gone downhill drastically over the past 5 or 6 years.
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The last time I went to Chili's, I walked out because a waiter hadn't been to my table for 15 minutes after I was seated.
Why, oh why do bad things happen to good people? :bawl:
They have pretty good Memphis style ribs, that is why I waited so long. Their waitstaff at the the particular restaurants I frequent, which are 3 various ones, has gone downhill drastically over the past 5 or 6 years.
It must be universal. We were in Durant, OK for a couple of days at the end of February. Chili's was the only place in town. The service was pathetic. It was more on the clueless side than unattentive or lazy.
The prize decider for all time bad service happened at an IHOP. My wife and I sat for a l-o-n-g time before a waitress happened by. She happened by to bring us "our" check. It didn't phase her when she found out we hadn't ordered yet.
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Locally...
Chilis - okay food, okay service
Logans Roadhouse - better food, okay service
Texas Roadhouse - terrible food, no service
Applebee's - good food, okay service
Saltgrass - good food, great service
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*sighs* Threads like this make me sad to be moving back to the States.
I'm going to miss living in a place where you walk into McDonalds, and they go out of their way to make you feel like the most important person in the world.
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*sighs* Threads like this make me sad to be moving back to the States.
I'm going to miss living in a place where you walk into McDonalds, and they go out of their way to make you feel like the most important person in the world.
Can you tell me the location of that MacDonalds?
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*sighs* Threads like this make me sad to be moving back to the States.
I'm going to miss living in a place where you walk into McDonalds, and they go out of their way to make you feel like the most important person in the world.
I find insincere smothering attention more bothersome than flat out bad service.
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*sighs* Threads like this make me sad to be moving back to the States.
I'm going to miss living in a place where you walk into McDonalds, and they go out of their way to make you feel like the most important person in the world.
Can you tell me the location of that MacDonalds?
Just about any in Japan. At the nearby mall, there is a ramen place in the food court with some guy in his 60's maybe he is so enthusiastic about his job it just blows your mind.
Whether or not the Japanese hate their jobs, you'd never know it. It's just not a part of their culture to show their discontent.
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*sighs* Threads like this make me sad to be moving back to the States.
I'm going to miss living in a place where you walk into McDonalds, and they go out of their way to make you feel like the most important person in the world.
"Here's your McChange,have a nice McDay,McThankYou,move along,next!!!
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*sighs* Threads like this make me sad to be moving back to the States.
I'm going to miss living in a place where you walk into McDonalds, and they go out of their way to make you feel like the most important person in the world.
Can you tell me the location of that MacDonalds?
The Texas Roadhouse in Sherman, TX was pretty good. Good food, good service, etc. Personally, I'm coming to loathe ALL of these chain restaurants. There is little consistency between them and I honestly think that we, as a society, are merely becoming drones of the chain store market. Restaurants have lost their individuality. The one of a kind restaurants are almost dinosaurs in this day and age. Take Olive Garden, for example. Sure, they have decent food, but lines are inordinately long, the restaurants aren't SO GOOD that I'm willing to wait more than a few minutes, etc. Most of the chains are like that. Living in Denison, my choice of restaurants is pretty limited, but I've found a couple of jewels buried around the area. One is in Gainesville, a BBQ buffet (one of a kind and I suspect that it used to be an old Underwoods BBQ) Another is in Denison, called, "Las Brisas", a small mexican restaurant. It's probably the BEST Mexican place in the Texoma area. Finally, Huck's Catfish is AWESOME!! Service has always been good, the food is even better and prices are pretty reasonable. Finally, all I can say is, "SCREW those chain restaurants!!" I LIKE the individuality of the sole proprietorship restaurants.
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Chili's sucks.
so does ruby's
And Brennan's and Friday's and Saltgrass and Lone Star and pappadeaux and its derivatives and and all the rest of the generic "bar/restaurant" type places.
Take it from someone on the road 100% of the time -- they suck.
Ya'll know nothing about the BEST generic food restaurants in the nation! ( :-) )
(http://lmnop.blogs.com/lauren/images/sign.jpg)
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Around here the Applebys can be hit or miss. There is one in Papliion that everytime we went there as a group to eat, one of the guys would order ribs and they would jack it up everytime and the rest of us got good food. The one on Dodge street in Omaha near the Best Buy I used to work is good and so is the one in Council Bluffs.
The Chilis next door to the Applebys in Omaha seems to me to be an imitation and the food is ok but I'm not making the effort to go there since the menu is about the same as Applebys . The Golden Corral in Bellevue is good and the Craker Barrel is better then any of them.
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Chili's sucks.
so does ruby's
And Brennan's and Friday's and Saltgrass and Lone Star and pappadeaux and its derivatives and and all the rest of the generic "bar/restaurant" type places.
Take it from someone on the road 100% of the time -- they suck.
Ya'll know nothing about the BEST generic food restaurants in the nation! ( :-) )
(http://lmnop.blogs.com/lauren/images/sign.jpg)
You can leave me out of your "y'all". I have spoke many times about the joys of the Awful House. I eat there at least once a week.
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We mostly have locally owned Italian places here but a couple of chain places too. Texas Roadhouse here is pretty good food, GREAT service! Appleby's disgusting food, worse service. Eat N Park generic American food, pretty good service. Quaker Steak and Lube, incredible food, pretty good service.
If you love wings and are anywhere near Pittsburgh you have to try Quaker Steak and Lube!
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LOVEJOY, Ga. — A man with a shellfish allergy is dead after eating an entree with crab at a restaurant.
An autopsy Monday confirmed that 35-year-old Rodney Hawkins went into anaphylactic shock and died after eating the dish at a Ruby Tuesday restaurant in Lovejoy last week.
Georgia Bureau of Investigation spokesman John Bankhead said Hawkins had ordered a chicken dish that contained no shellfish but was served another chicken dish that contained crab.
But Rick Johnson, spokesman for the Marvyille, Tenn.-based Ruby Tuesday company, told The Associated Press on Tuesday that the server's order pad and the kitchen ticket indicate that Hawkins ordered the Chicken Oscar, a dish with crab meat.
Johnson called the situation "tragic" and expressed condolences for Hawkins' family.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,378064,00.html (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,378064,00.html)
Now that's bad service.
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Go to Appleby's!
no!
and there isnt one near us... :-)
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They are opening a new Chili's near my apartment. I've never been there.
Applebee's isn't bad.
They are good places to have a drink or two and enjoy some appetizers. Chili's makes some good burgers. Applebee's has some good stuff too. They are a nice place to relax a bit and share good company.
the burgers are good.. and the chicken tacos are awesome..
all you Chili's haters ... are just poopy heads. :bawl:
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Chili's will always hold a special place in my heart...
Well... more like the parking lot of Chili's after dark... :naughty:
I guess it was a great place to score some Wavy Weed?
i think the smiley he used was to say that djones scored a hot waitress or something..
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The last time I went to Chili's, I walked out because a waiter hadn't been to my table for 15 minutes after I was seated.
Why, oh why do bad things happen to good people? :bawl:
:lmao: :lmao:
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*sighs* Threads like this make me sad to be moving back to the States.
I'm going to miss living in a place where you walk into McDonalds, and they go out of their way to make you feel like the most important person in the world.
yeah, but they dont speak Engrish... :popcorn:
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Chili's sucks.
so does ruby's
And Brennan's and Friday's and Saltgrass and Lone Star and pappadeaux and its derivatives and and all the rest of the generic "bar/restaurant" type places.
Take it from someone on the road 100% of the time -- they suck.
Ya'll know nothing about the BEST generic food restaurants in the nation! ( :-) )
(http://lmnop.blogs.com/lauren/images/sign.jpg)
OMG - make it go away!
my best/worst teenage nights ended at Waffle House in Garland...
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OMG - make it go away!
my best/worst teenage nights ended at Waffle House in Garland...
The one at LBJ and Centerville/Jupiter?
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OMG - make it go away!
my best/worst teenage nights ended at Waffle House in Garland...
The one at LBJ and Centerville/Jupiter?
there was one on Walnut and Jupiter I think... wasnt there? maybe Skillman and LBJ?
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I used to ride my bike on the LBJ freeway & Centerville. (Of course the freeway was still under construction then).
The nearest Waffle House for me, which I THINK of as an icon of the restaurant industry, is in McKinney. I didn't discover Waffle Houses until after I got stationed in Norfolk, Va. They weren't in Texas back in '75 or before.
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OMG - make it go away!
my best/worst teenage nights ended at Waffle House in Garland...
The one at LBJ and Centerville/Jupiter?
there was one on Walnut and Jupiter I think... wasnt there? maybe Skillman and LBJ?
Geez, I don't know anymore. I've forgotten more than I ever actually knew.
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Chili's sucks.
so does ruby's
And Brennan's and Friday's and Saltgrass and Lone Star and pappadeaux and its derivatives and and all the rest of the generic "bar/restaurant" type places.
Take it from someone on the road 100% of the time -- they suck.
Ya'll know nothing about the BEST generic food restaurants in the nation! ( :-) )
(http://lmnop.blogs.com/lauren/images/sign.jpg)
Ah yes, home away from home for John Heinz $kerry and the obama-lama-ding-dong.
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Right now "Plaza Aztica" is good, but I don't knoww how far they have spread. Chilli's, etal, except Bennigan's, all excell at BLAND . Outback Steakhouse has good beef. P'aza has GREAT Margaritas
Waffel House? They are either very good or awful. But only for breakfast.
Carlos Murphy's was the best of the formula restaurants.
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Anybody remember dining at Sambo's?
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Anybody remember dining at Sambo's?
I've never eaten at one, but it's still around.
http://www.sambosrestaurant.com/ (http://www.sambosrestaurant.com/)
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Anybody remember dining at Sambo's?
Yes, and I still have a mug.
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Anybody remember dining at Sambo's?
Yup I do. It was a favorite stop when we went up to my Grandparent's place to visit.
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I like Chili's salsa and their chips.
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Right now "Plaza Aztica" is good, but I don't knoww how far they have spread. Chilli's, etal, except Bennigan's, all excell at BLAND . Outback Steakhouse has good beef. P'aza has GREAT Margaritas
Waffel House? They are either very good or awful. But only for breakfast.
Carlos Murphy's was the best of the formula restaurants.
I can't stand Bennigan's and the last two times I was there (not of my own choosing) the service sucked so bad we left (both times).
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BEG, where was that" The Bennigan's just off Rt. 13 in Virginia Beach VA has always given very good service, and the food was above average for Va Beach, VA,...Maybe it is just me....and the fact I usually have at least 4 others with me when I go in. Waitstaff loves the idea of a big tip.
Next time you walk out, say to the door person that the servIce is unacdeptable and TIP stands for TO INSURE PROMPTNESS.
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Anybody remember dining at Sambo's?
<raises hand>
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Appleby's...blech. Overpriced sucky food. Like Chili's (like their queso and chips). Hadn't been to Bennigans in forever, but went for a dance hooya, and was pleasantly surprised. Ruby Tuesday's is also overpriced for mediocre food.
Most of the time, if the food is OK, I'll give the place another shot is service was bad. If the food isn't good though, I usually won't go back.
In NY this weekend, ate at one place, food SUCKED....Channel4 Irish something or other. Ate another place, a diner in the mall...OMG...best burger I've had in I don't know how long!!
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Oh and BTW. Any resturant food is probably going to taste like something off the Food Network after the tastebuds you once had were destroyed from being exposed to MRE's.
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BEG, where was that" The Bennigan's just off Rt. 13 in Virginia Beach VA has always given very good service, and the food was above average for Va Beach, VA,...Maybe it is just me....and the fact I usually have at least 4 others with me when I go in. Waitstaff loves the idea of a big tip.
Next time you walk out, say to the door person that the servIce is unacdeptable and TIP stands for TO INSURE PROMPTNESS.
In the DFW area and two different Bennigan's.
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I've worked at two different Bennigans. Everything comes from a box, bag, or can.
Yech.
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Oh and BTW. Any resturant food is probably going to taste like something off the Food Network after the tastebuds you once had were destroyed from being exposed to MRE's.
My tastebuds must have healed themselves!!
I like MY salsa and MY queso dip. I can usually find some decent tortilla chips at the store.
BTW, Sambos was one of the few places that was usually good. Too bad the racists started whining. Too bad they never truly understood the story of Little Black Sambo.
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Go to Appleby's!
Unless you like decent food.
:rotf:
I do agree with Undies, not a bad place to meet up with folks to relax, have a drink, etc....
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Anybody remember dining at Sambo's?
Yeah, then they had to change the name....LOL
http://sambosphotos.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sambo's
I ate here last night: http://www.suncoastcasino.com/dining/senor-miguels
Beef Fajitas is the July special $7.95 I could not eat it all....tons of food...plus chips n salsa w/bean dip....they also offered all you can drink margaritias with any entree for $3.95....
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... and TIP stands for TO INSURE PROMPTNESS.
Not to be a dick, but if that were the case, we'd be leaving waitresses teps, not tips.
That is, unless the tip is to be considered a premium paid to the Restaurant Mutual to indemnify one against cold food :-)
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We need another Oak Cliff native on this board. We Oak Cliffers knew great food.
sigh
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I used to ride my bike on the LBJ freeway & Centerville. (Of course the freeway was still under construction then).
The nearest Waffle House for me, which I THINK of as an icon of the restaurant industry, is in McKinney. I didn't discover Waffle Houses until after I got stationed in Norfolk, Va. They weren't in Texas back in '75 or before.
you may be right, i have no idea. i was driving in 1981, graduated high school in 82... so, the world, as i knew it, didnt exist before then :-)
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Right now "Plaza Aztica" is good, but I don't knoww how far they have spread. Chilli's, etal, except Bennigan's, all excell at BLAND . Outback Steakhouse has good beef. P'aza has GREAT Margaritas
Waffel House? They are either very good or awful. But only for breakfast.
Carlos Murphy's was the best of the formula restaurants.
waffle house is really only good for a hangover... :-)
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Anybody remember dining at Sambo's?
I've never eaten at one, but it's still around.
http://www.sambosrestaurant.com/ (http://www.sambosrestaurant.com/)
i remember that little boy and the tiger now...
hey lug? they want you to come to their site and revel in your memories with them :-)
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We need another Oak Cliff native on this board. We Oak Cliffers knew great food.
sigh
my gay republican brother aspires to live there.... close enough? :popcorn:
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Right now "Plaza Aztica" is good, but I don't knoww how far they have spread. Chilli's, etal, except Bennigan's, all excell at BLAND . Outback Steakhouse has good beef. P'aza has GREAT Margaritas
Waffel House? They are either very good or awful. But only for breakfast.
Carlos Murphy's was the best of the formula restaurants.
waffle house is really only good for a hangover... :-)
I've only been to Waffle House when I was already drunk. Good times. :-)
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We need another Oak Cliff native on this board. We Oak Cliffers knew great food.
sigh
my gay republican brother aspires to live there.... close enough? :popcorn:
I use to live in North Wynnewood. Beautiful neighborhood. Unique custom homes from the 1950's designed by Frank Lloyd Wright wannabes. Huge trees lining winding streets. Slopes and valleys and a little lake surrounded by graceful weeping willows. The perfect American postcard. It looks the same today as it did fifty years ago -
Except now it is home to artsy homosexuals and their one-note "progressive" friends. Have your bro check it out.
(http://i34.tinypic.com/8x39ja.jpg)
http://ooccl.info/Neighborhoods-in-the-League/Wynnewood-North.html
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We need another Oak Cliff native on this board. We Oak Cliffers knew great food.
sigh
my gay republican brother aspires to live there.... close enough? :popcorn:
I use to live in North Wynnewood. Beautiful neighborhood. Unique custom homes from the 1950's designed by Frank Lloyd Wright wannabes. Huge trees lining winding streets. Slopes and valleys and a little lake surrounded by graceful weeping willows. The perfect American postcard. It looks the same today as it did fifty years ago -
Except now it is home to artsy homosexuals and their one-note "progressive" friends. Have your bro check it out.
(http://i34.tinypic.com/8x39ja.jpg)
http://ooccl.info/Neighborhoods-in-the-League/Wynnewood-North.html
LMAO my friend (the one you guys have seen in a few of my pictures) put a contract on one of the very homes you describe (I can't remember the name of the architect). Never mind that their kids didn't want to move, they wanted to move to a "HIP" area and the school district be damned. Who cares if the schools are crap, your house is COOL. The contract fell through because the house had major issues and they lost their earnest money. Your "one-note progressive" description made me laugh as it fits. I still love her though, she is a good person.
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LMAO my friend (the one you guys have seen in a few of my pictures) put a contract on one of the very homes you describe (I can't remember the name of the architect). Never mind that their kids didn't want to move, they wanted to move to a "HIP" area and the school district be damned. Who cares if the schools are crap, your house is COOL. The contract fell through because the house had major issues and they lost their earnest money. Your "one-note progressive" description made me laugh as it fits. I still love her though, she is a good person.
To the majority of homosexuals and their friends, schools are not a concern. :)
What is a concern is that these drop-dead gorgeous Oak Cliff neighborhoods are isolated by the ghetto mindset found just across the first major street in any direction. Sad really. Oak Cliff was a wonderous place to grow up back in the day.
For grins:
(http://i37.tinypic.com/k6om1.jpg)
This house from that website use to belong to my best friend's family. They lived here until about 1969. It had four bedroom and three baths. You could throw a formal ball in the kitchen, which was connected to the pool/garden area by three huge sliding glass doors. It was a beatuiful home. Twice our home over on the cheap street.
I remember there was quite an uproar when they put it on the market in 1967 or '68 for $38,000.00. It was an unheard of high price in the neighborhood. Neighbors were up in arms over the potential increase in property taxes. There was no way they were going to get "that much", etc. They didn't.
They sold it for about ten thousand less a couple of years later. Those were the days.
My parents paid $13,500 for our house in 1964. :lmao:
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Anybody remember dining at Sambo's?
Yes, and I still have a mug.
...not exactly a PC theme these days. :-)
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Right now "Plaza Aztica" is good, but I don't knoww how far they have spread. Chilli's, etal, except Bennigan's, all excell at BLAND . Outback Steakhouse has good beef. P'aza has GREAT Margaritas
Waffel House? They are either very good or awful. But only for breakfast.
Carlos Murphy's was the best of the formula restaurants.
waffle house is really only good for a hangover... :-)
I've only been to Waffle House when I was already drunk. Good times. :-)
its really the only way to go to the WH.. otherwise, you might see the waitresses one tooth and just bolt right outta there..
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Right now "Plaza Aztica" is good, but I don't knoww how far they have spread. Chilli's, etal, except Bennigan's, all excell at BLAND . Outback Steakhouse has good beef. P'aza has GREAT Margaritas
Waffel House? They are either very good or awful. But only for breakfast.
Carlos Murphy's was the best of the formula restaurants.
waffle house is really only good for a hangover... :-)
I've only been to Waffle House when I was already drunk. Good times. :-)
its really the only way to go to the WH.. otherwise, you might see the waitresses one tooth and just bolt right outta there..
I'm going on a date next week and the guy was teasing saying he'd take me to Waffle House. I said, well that's okay, because I know I'll look a whole lot better than anyone else in there. LOL :-)
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We need another Oak Cliff native on this board. We Oak Cliffers knew great food.
sigh
my gay republican brother aspires to live there.... close enough? :popcorn:
I use to live in North Wynnewood. Beautiful neighborhood. Unique custom homes from the 1950's designed by Frank Lloyd Wright wannabes. Huge trees lining winding streets. Slopes and valleys and a little lake surrounded by graceful weeping willows. The perfect American postcard. It looks the same today as it did fifty years ago -
Except now it is home to artsy homosexuals and their one-note "progressive" friends. Have your bro check it out.
(http://i34.tinypic.com/8x39ja.jpg)
http://ooccl.info/Neighborhoods-in-the-League/Wynnewood-North.html
oddly enough, even though he is now gay he likes those areas from afar... having to fly the rainbow flag for everyone to see just doesnt suit him, as of yet.
it is the damdest thing...
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LMAO my friend (the one you guys have seen in a few of my pictures) put a contract on one of the very homes you describe (I can't remember the name of the architect). Never mind that their kids didn't want to move, they wanted to move to a "HIP" area and the school district be damned. Who cares if the schools are crap, your house is COOL. The contract fell through because the house had major issues and they lost their earnest money. Your "one-note progressive" description made me laugh as it fits. I still love her though, she is a good person.
To the majority of homosexuals and their friends, schools are not a concern. :)
What is a concern is that these drop-dead gorgeous Oak Cliff neighborhoods are isolated by the ghetto mindset found just across the first major street in any direction. Sad really. Oak Cliff was a wonderous place to grow up back in the day.
For grins:
(http://i37.tinypic.com/k6om1.jpg)
This house from that website use to belong to my best friend's family. They lived here until about 1969. It had four bedroom and three baths. You could throw a formal ball in the kitchen, which was connected to the pool/garden area by three huge sliding glass doors. It was a beatuiful home. Twice our home over on the cheap street.
I remember there was quite an uproar when they put it on the market in 1967 or '68 for $38,000.00. It was an unheard of high price in the neighborhood. Neighbors were up in arms over the potential increase in property taxes. There was no way they were going to get "that much", etc. They didn't.
They sold it for about ten thousand less a couple of years later. Those were the days.
My parents paid $13,500 for our house in 1964. :lmao:
wow.. my grandparents house in Fort Worth looked just like that.. red brick, one level, white front doors... HUGE yard. pecan trees all over the place.
that was a great time to be a kid.. when houses had yards.
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LMAO my friend (the one you guys have seen in a few of my pictures) put a contract on one of the very homes you describe (I can't remember the name of the architect). Never mind that their kids didn't want to move, they wanted to move to a "HIP" area and the school district be damned. Who cares if the schools are crap, your house is COOL. The contract fell through because the house had major issues and they lost their earnest money. Your "one-note progressive" description made me laugh as it fits. I still love her though, she is a good person.
To the majority of homosexuals and their friends, schools are not a concern. :)
What is a concern is that these drop-dead gorgeous Oak Cliff neighborhoods are isolated by the ghetto mindset found just across the first major street in any direction. Sad really. Oak Cliff was a wonderous place to grow up back in the day.
For grins:
(http://i37.tinypic.com/k6om1.jpg)
This house from that website use to belong to my best friend's family. They lived here until about 1969. It had four bedroom and three baths. You could throw a formal ball in the kitchen, which was connected to the pool/garden area by three huge sliding glass doors. It was a beatuiful home. Twice our home over on the cheap street.
I remember there was quite an uproar when they put it on the market in 1967 or '68 for $38,000.00. It was an unheard of high price in the neighborhood. Neighbors were up in arms over the potential increase in property taxes. There was no way they were going to get "that much", etc. They didn't.
They sold it for about ten thousand less a couple of years later. Those were the days.
My parents paid $13,500 for our house in 1964. :lmao:
i know ... my dad's payment on the house my mom still lives in was roughly 200something a month. they took 30 years to pay it off and now? he would be spinning in his grave if he knew what we paid for our house up here... in Dallas this house would have a moat, a drawbridge and several acres.. possibly an armed guard at a gate. :-)
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Right now "Plaza Aztica" is good, but I don't knoww how far they have spread. Chilli's, etal, except Bennigan's, all excell at BLAND . Outback Steakhouse has good beef. P'aza has GREAT Margaritas
Waffel House? They are either very good or awful. But only for breakfast.
Carlos Murphy's was the best of the formula restaurants.
waffle house is really only good for a hangover... :-)
I've only been to Waffle House when I was already drunk. Good times. :-)
its really the only way to go to the WH.. otherwise, you might see the waitresses one tooth and just bolt right outta there..
I'm going on a date next week and the guy was teasing saying he'd take me to Waffle House. I said, well that's okay, because I know I'll look a whole lot better than anyone else in there. LOL :-)
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LMAO my friend (the one you guys have seen in a few of my pictures) put a contract on one of the very homes you describe (I can't remember the name of the architect). Never mind that their kids didn't want to move, they wanted to move to a "HIP" area and the school district be damned. Who cares if the schools are crap, your house is COOL. The contract fell through because the house had major issues and they lost their earnest money. Your "one-note progressive" description made me laugh as it fits. I still love her though, she is a good person.
To the majority of homosexuals and their friends, schools are not a concern. :)
What is a concern is that these drop-dead gorgeous Oak Cliff neighborhoods are isolated by the ghetto mindset found just across the first major street in any direction. Sad really. Oak Cliff was a wonderous place to grow up back in the day.
For grins:
(http://i37.tinypic.com/k6om1.jpg)
This house from that website use to belong to my best friend's family. They lived here until about 1969. It had four bedroom and three baths. You could throw a formal ball in the kitchen, which was connected to the pool/garden area by three huge sliding glass doors. It was a beatuiful home. Twice our home over on the cheap street.
I remember there was quite an uproar when they put it on the market in 1967 or '68 for $38,000.00. It was an unheard of high price in the neighborhood. Neighbors were up in arms over the potential increase in property taxes. There was no way they were going to get "that much", etc. They didn't.
They sold it for about ten thousand less a couple of years later. Those were the days.
My parents paid $13,500 for our house in 1964. :lmao:
i know ... my dad's payment on the house my mom still lives in was roughly 200something a month. they took 30 years to pay it off and now? he would be spinning in his grave if he knew what we paid for our house up here... in Dallas this house would have a moat, a drawbridge and several acres.. possibly an armed guard at a gate. :-)
My parent's mortgage payment was $87.50. I remember it well. You'd think they had to do without food to make it. My folks were tight with George, Abe, Alex, Tom, Ully, and Ben.
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Right now "Plaza Aztica" is good, but I don't knoww how far they have spread. Chilli's, etal, except Bennigan's, all excell at BLAND . Outback Steakhouse has good beef. P'aza has GREAT Margaritas
Waffel House? They are either very good or awful. But only for breakfast.
Carlos Murphy's was the best of the formula restaurants.
waffle house is really only good for a hangover... :-)
I've only been to Waffle House when I was already drunk. Good times. :-)
its really the only way to go to the WH.. otherwise, you might see the waitresses one tooth and just bolt right outta there..
I'm going on a date next week and the guy was teasing saying he'd take me to Waffle House. I said, well that's okay, because I know I'll look a whole lot better than anyone else in there. LOL :-)
I guess than means you have all your teeth. :tongue: :-)