the finer dandy

Two weeks ago Alice, Paul and I made our next stop on our chain restaurant food tour: the flair-tastic epicenter of All-American cuisine: TGIFriday’s.

Alice and Paul opted for some cocktails. Apparently, they are just as fun as they look.

There was a special on appetizers: $5 with a purchase of an entree. We took full advantage of this deal, each of us getting an appetizer to share. Paul got the deep-fried green beans, which is totally healthy because it is green beans. The dipping sauce was quite delectable - it was some sort of wasabi concoction.

For more deep-fried fun, I indulged in the deep-fried mac n’ cheese. This shit was fucking good. It is like a heart attack on a plate.

Alice got some sort of encrusted chicken quesadilla with chocolate sauce drizzle. Okay, I don’t know what that is on top.

As a vegetarian, Paul gave this interesting Caprese Lasagna Salad two thumbs up. This is as avant garde as it gets with the TGIFrriday’s menu.

Alice’s Peruvian Herb Roasted Chicken was the restaurant’s attempt to be exotic - and Alice liked it. And you can never go wrong with sweet potato fries. Those were fucking good.

I have made it a rule of thumb never to get salmon from a commercial restaurant. My honey pecan salmon was “eh.” Good thing I kept eating Alice’s sweet potato fries.

You can never go wrong with apple pie, caramel sauce and ice cream - but I think it was unnecessary to serve it on a hot iron skillet for dramatic effect. I did lick that bowl of caramel sauce clean. It was very attractive.

I had really bad gas after eating here.

So far, we have come to a consensus in ranking the restaurants of our chain restaurant tour:

1. Olive Garden
2. TGIFriday’s
3. Red Lobster
4. Chili’s

Our next stop: Claim Jumper!