Michael "Dog3" Lonergan said...

We met friends at a seafood spot for dinner at about 7pm last night.
Much to our surprise the restaurant was closed. We peeked in the
windows and I mean the tables, everything... *poof*... gone. Steven
and I were there not more than 3 weeks ago, and the place was packed,
so I don't know what happened. At a loss, we went a bit down the road
to a chain restaurant called Chiles. The food was pretty blah. The
blooming onion as an appetizer was pretty good. Strangely enough there
was not a lot of Mexican or Tex Mex on the menu, just *******ized
items such as quesadillas with buffalo chicken meat and bleu cheese
stuff. Guac was an additional charge. Almost everything was a la
carte. I had the baby back ribs which were mediocre. I had a 1/2
rack of Memphis dry rub. It came with a side of steak fries and I
ordered a side salad for an additional charge. Steven had steak and
mushroom fajitas. The fajita meat was pretty good but the fixins were
bland. All in all a very forgettable meal. Price wise it was very
reasonable, average of $15 a person. No one ordered alcohol though.
The service was very good in a mechanical way. I'll not go back.

Food For Today:

Steven is off today and we are going to take it easy. For some reason
we've both been really busy the past 3 weeks. I'll make some grilled
cheese sandwiches and some roasted red pepper soup (again)for dinner.
I'm also going to make some Senate Bean Soup, which I'll nibble on
tonight but serve for lunch tomorrow. All I have to do is figure out
which recipe I'm going to use to make it. I've got about 10
variations to choose from, and can't remember which recipe I like the
best.

Michael - can't sleep and the beans are soaking


Michael,

Chiles is an over-advertised fast-food chain as seen on TV over here in
PA. Never tried them. So ya think your old joint sold out or what?

As far as the Senate Bean Soup goes, a roll of the dice seems
appropriate, 11s & 12s are roll-overs!

Good luck and Happy Sunday!

Andy