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Old 09-14-2006, 02:11 AM
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Two restaurants in Salt Lake City that I wish had franchises in Tulsa:

Rodizio Grill Brazilian-style meat restaurant. I can't think of any other way to describe it. Waitstaff in gaucho pants bring great skewers of meats around to your table whenever you want. They have a giant salad bar with all manner of diverse items on it as well. One price covers all you can eat. There is a similar themed restaurant in Tulsa, The Gaucho, but it pales in comparison, in selection of food and in service as well as having decor more suited to a French restaurant.

La Puente Mexican restaurant, for it's Smothered Burrito with Cheese, a pork, bean and cheese burrito smothered in spicy hot chile verde and sprinkled with cheese served with a side of rice. It is to die for. I had some when I was out there in December. There is nothing like it here in Tulsa, we know, we've tried them all.


There are two Italian restaurant franchises in Tulsa that don't suck:

Johnny Carino's and Zio's, an offshoot of Mazzio's Pizza, both have great food, great atmosphere and great food. Did I mention they have great food?
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Old 09-14-2006, 02:16 AM
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Aren't you fond of the Pink Taco, Dingfod?
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Old 09-14-2006, 02:18 AM
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Old 09-14-2006, 02:32 AM
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Culver's, the food takes a little longer but it is well worth it because it is made fresh. The best burgers and frozen custard in the world. I think it's mainly a midwest chain.
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Old 09-14-2006, 04:55 AM
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[*]Ruby Tuesday[/list]Ruby Tuesday commercials keep coming on for their triple prime burgers or the 2-mini burgers and salad bar dinner. It's hard to obey the instant gratification advertising urge when the closest restaurant is 200+ miles away. :glare:
We used to go to Ruby Tuesdays when we lived in the midwest and I remember liking it. We recently found one in Tacoma, went there, and it wasn't as good as we remember.
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Old 09-14-2006, 04:56 PM
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Culver's, the food takes a little longer but it is well worth it because it is made fresh. The best burgers and frozen custard in the world. I think it's mainly a midwest chain.
There is one of these within walking distance of my apartment, and somehow, I've never gone.

The one I will reccomend is Giordano's. They are mainly in and around Chicago, but there are a handful in Florida. (Kissimmee, Lake Buena Vista, Brandon, and soon in Port Richey and Tampa).

Just thinking about the stuffed pizzas is making me hungry. :homdrool:
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Old 09-14-2006, 05:14 PM
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There's a chain, I think it's a very small chain now, that is like a much better version of sonic. They're called Bumpers. They have a similar menu to Sonic. Plus they have much better quality and lower prices from my experience. Their cherry limeades put sonic to shame. Also I can remember going to Bumpers when I was a little kid, so I know they've been around for a while.
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Old 09-14-2006, 05:22 PM
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Old 09-14-2006, 05:24 PM
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Old 09-14-2006, 08:22 PM
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I like mayo and BBQ sauce on my hotdogs and hamburgers. Is there something wrong with that? :dunno:
Mayo on hamburgers is horrible ... if you put it on hotdogs ... I think I'm going to barf. Mayo is good to use when you're making tunafish sandwiches, and it goes good in chicken salad, or on sandwiches made with chicken or turkey cold cuts. Otherwise, leave the mayo in the fridge.

BBQ sauce on hamburgers is acceptable, though that's like putting caviar on a saltine cracker. The only thing that should go on a hotdog, is mustard. Spicy mustard at that ... with saurkraut or onions if you wish to get fancy.
Mayo is acceptable on a burger only if there is no Miracle Whip to be had. Whatever you do keep the Best Foods: Sandwich Spread away from me (my Dad loves this stuff).

Hotdogs go on a dry bun, add ketchup (Heinz, not the Hunts catsup crap), yellow mustard (French's), finely minced onions and sweet pickle relish. Or topped with warm sauerkraut all by its' lonesome.
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Old 09-14-2006, 08:30 PM
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I do like Giordono's; I always get one of those when we have a convention in Chicago.
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Old 09-14-2006, 08:42 PM
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Just thinking about the stuffed pizzas is making me hungry. :homdrool:
STOP THAT!! I miss Chicago pizza so much. My MIL sends us a Lou Malnati pizza now and then, but I don't really care for their slab o' sausage style 'za's What I really liked was Edwardo's Stuffed Spinach Pizza. We had one sent recently, but its just not the same, frozen and reheated.
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Old 09-14-2006, 10:12 PM
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It wasn't always, but it's a franchise now.

Five Guys

As the story goes, three brothers were offered by their parents either money for college or money to start a business. They started Five Guys burgers. They had like five restaurants in Northern Virginia when we first moved down here. Then a couple of years ago, they went national and there are franchises all along the Eastern seaboard.

Great food, simple to prepare and delicious.
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Old 09-15-2006, 12:43 AM
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Just thinking about the stuffed pizzas is making me hungry. :homdrool:
STOP THAT!! I miss Chicago pizza so much. My MIL sends us a Lou Malnati pizza now and then, but I don't really care for their slab o' sausage style 'za's What I really liked was Edwardo's Stuffed Spinach Pizza. We had one sent recently, but its just not the same, frozen and reheated.
We used to have a couple of Edwardo's around here, I very much miss them.
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You all are forgetting about the greatest of them all. White Castle
Greasers, Belly bombers, Slider, Rat burgers, whatever you call them, they are addicting little burgers. Unfortunately, I can only get them frozen in Colorado.

There is also Fazoli's for Italian fast food.

And we have Papa John's Pizza.
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Old 09-15-2006, 02:12 AM
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I'll usually head for a donair place....man I love donairs, do you even have them down in the US?... ie King donair, Mr donair, Chomps donair.....

Oh, I've never even seen a white castle.
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Old 09-18-2006, 06:38 PM
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You all are forgetting about the greatest of them all. White Castle
Greasers, Belly bombers, Slider, Rat burgers, whatever you call them, they are addicting little burgers. Unfortunately, I can only get them frozen in Colorado.
White Castle truly does rock. My fiancee and I are planning a trip to St. Louis in a couple of weeks ... plan to head to The Hill for some good old fashioned Italian cooking ... but I plan on stopping at White Castle for a quick fix as soon as we get within the city limits.

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There's no such thing as Italian fast food. Perish the thought!
Damn skippy!

I've never been to White Castle, but I've had the wee frozen burgers. Wait. We talked about this once before, didn't we, TomJoe? I vaguely recall explaining my intricate method for cooking the frozen ones so they come out perfectly.
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Other things they don't have here in the Pacific Northwest:

White Castle, while I'm not especially fond of their burgers, the chicken sandwiches, fries and vanilla shakes rocked. Late nights always produce craving for White Castle.

Dunkin' Donuts. Can you fucking believe it? There's no Winchell's Dounts, either.
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Down here we have Krystals instead of White Castle. But they serve the exact same burgers. I have to control myself because there are two of them within 5 min of my apartment.
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Old 09-18-2006, 08:28 PM
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Dunkin' Donuts. Can you fucking believe it?
They used to be here. They have dried up in recent years.
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Macaroni Grill and Ruby Tuesdays rock, but there's a totally awesome local chain -- www.calhouns.com
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