i’m becoming very anti chain restaurant myself.
Fridays, Applebees, Astors, Olive Garden.
Its all so predictible. They are all the masters of mediocrity, so to speak.
I forget the last time I was really impressed with a restaurant.
In recent memory, the best casual food i’ve had was panos on elmwood. Excellent chicken soulvaki, and you get so much damn food for ten bucks, you can’t eat it all. Everything is always fresh and hot, not old shit that sat for hours before you arrived.