JFF: What Is the Last Restaurant You Went Out to Eat At?

We went to Tuk Tuk here in Portland for some out-of-this-world delicious Vietnamese food last night on a date. Oh my heavens... my only regret is that I didn't start going there sooner!

As for family dinner-- the pizza place up the street,American Dream Pizza, on Friday night. We usually go get slices there about once a week. It's close, something fun, and they know us. Not the best pizza in the world, but it is good, and not having to drive makes it taste that much better!

Hmmm.... Does the little no-name cuban place with no seating off 45th count? (DIVINE food. I'm sitting here with my mouth watering just thinking about it).

If not... then last summer... a cheesecake place in New York was the last time with my family, family.

Aside from that, we go to dim sum once a month as an extended family.

My husband took me out to a Japanese Steakhouse last week for my birthday. It was delicious! I took the kids to Sweet Tomatoes a few weeks ago.

We went to a great little local pizza place called The Mellow Mushroom. LOL

We went out last night. I didn't know it at the time, but husband had arranged to have some family and friends meet us for dinner as an early birthday surprise. The kids knew, but played their part in the surprise beautifully. I had no idea until we were taken to the table, where everyone else was already seated.

Cross Creek. It is a local BarBQ place in a nearby city where we have some family and friends. They have excellent seafood as well. It was yummy. And fun!

We go out to eat a lot. Friday lunch was our last outing and it was with clients at the Country Club.

Our regulars are...
Our Country Club (GREAT food) Lunch and/or Dinner spot
Maggianos Italian... mostly dinner
Ruth Chris Steak... mostly dinner
Pappadeaux ... lunch and/or dinner spot
PF Chang's.. lunch and/or dinner spot
There are a couple of family owned Italian places around that we frequent as well.

Some favorites we go to when celebrating a big occasion or just splurging on the night would be...

Del Frisco's Steak House in Dallas.. LOVE this place
III Forks Steak House in Dallas... LOVE this place too.

Square One Microbrewery for build your own mac n cheese night!

Without the kids we went to Perennial Brewing, their head chef is a pastry chef who makes a hand pie that is other world.

Hubby and I went out to eat at a nice Italian place right by our house. It was so quiet! I ate slowly and enjoyed bringing home half my meal. I got to eat more than one roll and not have to fuss with anyone about snatching my food...lol.

It was the oddest date ever!!!!

I hated spending the $25 for something like this but it was soooo worth it mentally.

Last night hubs and I ate at Black Bear Diner, my mom had the kids for the night. However, our favorite is Olive Garden. =)

CONGRATULATIONS on 17 years of marriage!!! WOOT!! WOOT!!!

The last time our family went out for dinner was Glory Days for my husband's birthday. And that was August..

The last time I went to a restaurant was Friday, my girlfriend, Pam and we went to Cheng's a Chinese restaurant....we go out almost every Friday night...that's our "girls night out"...

Again - CONGRATULATIONS on 17 years of marriage!! May you have many more!!

Happy Anniversary!

My son and I went to breakfast this morning to a local place we love, Joe's Family Restaurant. We go almost every Sunday, and usually my husband and youngest son go, too, but they were golfing this morning. It was kind of a nice change having my oldest son all to myself today. :)

Happy anniversary! That's a long time!
The last time we went out to eat as a family, we went to Skull Creek Boathouse on the island. It's listed in the top 10 bar/restaurants in the country. We think the food is good--not the best I've ever eaten, but good. But the rest of the experience makes it worthwhile. If you don't make a reservation, the wait is LONG on a weekend but there are bounce houses, games, etc for the kids to play in while the parents can either play games too, or watch the sailboats, dolphins, and sunset. There's good music (not too loud, which is nice), and the food is great when you get seated.
But last night, we did something completely unheard of. Not a habit, but a first time since having kids kind of thing: we were all feeling lazy and "blah"....we had plans to go to the beach and get take out from a place we like near there but the weather was gross and we couldn't go to the beach. We actually took orders: the kids wanted pizza so we phoned Pizza Hut, I wanted a spanikopita, salad, and souvlaki so we phoned The Greek Table, and hubby wanted a red curry with beef, extra hot, so we phoned Ruan Thai. I went to all 3 locations (after stopping first at Blockbuster for a family film), brought it all home, and we threw a beach towel over the coffee table and had a picnic in the living room while watching a movie! That was different, so it was fun. We have a pretty strict eating as a family at the table rule, but last night, we just said what the heck.....for that night. And since I had the night off last night, today I'm making a phyllo chicken pie that is awesome, scampi salad, and some rice cooked with chicken broth and herbs.

We went to Olive Garden with my son and his best friend's family a few days before the boys went off to college.
Our boys love Red Lobster, so that is our usual location for celebrations.
Our youngest is in Kansas City. We have found a restaurant there we love called The Thai Place. I am sure we will go there when we visit him on Parent's Day. Kansas City has lots of great restaurants we have discovered!

as a entire family? gosh its been over a year. It was Bombay Bistro in downtown Minneapolis. Upscale, Indian place where both my daughters pitched a fit cause their Paneer was too spicy, and my son was only one and screamed about being in the car seat thing. So since then we have not been out together. Just dates with our oldest daughter, never together.

The last one was Texas Steakhouse.
But our favorite is Red Robin.

We rarely go out to eat either. Last night we went out for NY-style pizza at a local restaurant. Delish!

My husband and I love trying new restaurants out all the time...
We live in them...lol the spot that we have been hitting up frequently is
(yia yia Mary's )... It's here in houston tx... They have great Greek food!
We use to also go to buca di beppo all the time... But, we are pretty much done with that one....lol ( eat there way too many times). I think it's good to try new places out... ( spontaneity is great! ) I think it keeps a marriage healthy, and strong.

Friday night - a local Italian restaurant. No biggie we go out to eat all the time. They did have really good spaghetti and clam sauce. They make their pasta in house and it was superb.

Happy Anniversary! We've got our 17th coming in Dec. We will be celebrating with a nice dinner out but not with the kids.

We don't take the girls out all that much but a few weeks ago we took them to a local Italian restaurant Cucina Paradiso. They have the BEST Italian food I think I've ever had. Their gnocchi is the best gnocchi on the planet!! Super scrum dil!

We got out once a week, every Wed. This past Wed. it was a locally owned mexi-grill place.

We went to a steak house with my in-laws about a month ago. We almost never eat out, though.

Oh my, Jo...build your own mac and cheese??? I would live at a place like that.

Ours was Red Lobster for the neverending shrimp also, two Fridays ago. My hubby didn't believe me that the shrimp was all you could eat and that it was interchangeable, LOL. It had been years since we had eaten there!

Sushi, last night
Happy Anniversary!
Does Never Ending Shrimp mean all you can eat, if so, I'll take my son

We went for Italian food about a month ago up at Franchino's in San Francisco's North Beach District..

Most recent was to Arabian Nights for my daughters birthday. We usually go out about once a month or so. There is lots to choose from in my area.

Anthony's for dessert with a girlfriend, no kids. We sat out on the terrace with a view of the river. Beautiful evening. And we ordered Peach slumps - their summer special cobbler topped with ice cream.

The waitress brought us ladies one dessert with 2 spoons to share. My girlfriend and I both piped up, "Oh no, we ordered 2 of those, we're not sharing!!!" Are you kidding, girls night out with no kids, you better believe I'm going to eat a whole dessert myself!

Applebee's yesterday with my mom while we were running errands.

We had lunch today at a Thai place. Yum. We had dinner last week at a local Italian place. We eat out as much since having my son (6-1/2) as we did before and we eat at the same places we did before as well. Happy Anniversary.

We (hubby and I) went out with a group of friends last week to Prima in Walnut Creek, CA. Fine Italian/California cuisine and amazing wine, SUCH a treat :)
A few weeks ago I went to dinner with a group of girlfriends at a hip, chic Sushi place is downtown Oakland (can't remember the name) that was fun, too, we went out after dinner to see a great REM tribute band at a nearby bar.
And Happy Anniversary!!! Our 20th is coming up in November!

Fuddruckers!

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FUDDRUCKERS!

We went out as a family this morning for breakfast to 'The Old European' and it was great! I am pretty sure breakfast is my favorite meal therefor my favorite meal to eat out.

All 4 of our boys + my Mother have birthdays in October and we always do a birthday dinner out on your actual day...so I will be having LOTS of meals out then. I secretly hope the older boys pick Sushi (the will be 21y/o's favorite) and The Melting Pot (the will be 18y/o's favorite) cause that all sounds so yummy!

Great...now I am hungry!

Texas Roadhouse...pretty good!

Gunther Toody''s - favorite for hamburgers

Last night we went to Buffalo Wild Wings for dinner. It was disgustingly yummy. My 8 year old bitched for awhile about how cold it was in there. But otherwise it was lovely.

Red Lobster Friday. It wasn't as good as I remembered, but it was still better than cooking!