Either local ones that have closed down or chains that aren't in your area, inspired by the discontinued food thread.
My town has a pretty good local restaurant scene. There's a pretty strong downtown community that (heavily) caters to the college/hipster/hippie professional set, with a few very nice, very pricy restaurants mixed in. Unfortunately, nearly all of these local gems are a bit expensive...and sometimes you just want a hamburger, y'know? And not an all-organic specialty burger topped with microgreens and served with fries topped with truffle oil.
At the very top of this list would be Olive Garden. I know, I know. But there aren't *any* good Italian or faux-Italian restaurants in this town. Sometimes we just want some chicken parm but I don't want to make it, y'know? (Actually, someone is trying to open one here, but the city commissioners are fighting it because they're douchenozzles.)
Some more places I'd love in my town:
Red Lobster
Colton's and/or O'Charley's - for the rolls
Old Chicago (we had one that closed because of the landlord )
Dixie Cafe or Cracker Barrel (for the Southern food fix)
A decent Mexican restaurant
Korma Sutra (a small chain of Indian restaurants in KC)
There are other places that I've never been to, but would like to try, like Joe's Crab Shack, Texas Roadhouse, In-and-Out Burger, and so on and so forth.
So, what do you wish you had in your region?
My town has a pretty good local restaurant scene. There's a pretty strong downtown community that (heavily) caters to the college/hipster/hippie professional set, with a few very nice, very pricy restaurants mixed in. Unfortunately, nearly all of these local gems are a bit expensive...and sometimes you just want a hamburger, y'know? And not an all-organic specialty burger topped with microgreens and served with fries topped with truffle oil.
At the very top of this list would be Olive Garden. I know, I know. But there aren't *any* good Italian or faux-Italian restaurants in this town. Sometimes we just want some chicken parm but I don't want to make it, y'know? (Actually, someone is trying to open one here, but the city commissioners are fighting it because they're douchenozzles.)
Some more places I'd love in my town:
Red Lobster
Colton's and/or O'Charley's - for the rolls
Old Chicago (we had one that closed because of the landlord )
Dixie Cafe or Cracker Barrel (for the Southern food fix)
A decent Mexican restaurant
Korma Sutra (a small chain of Indian restaurants in KC)
There are other places that I've never been to, but would like to try, like Joe's Crab Shack, Texas Roadhouse, In-and-Out Burger, and so on and so forth.
So, what do you wish you had in your region?
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