It's a Chili's, an unexpected lunch stop for me today. I intended to stuff myself at the chinese buffet right up the road, but they decided to fancy it up with crablegs for new year and I simply didn't feel like spending that much money for lunch.
I was hungry, my 1 hour is clicking away, and I pulled into Chili's. I went for their lunch combo, and for some reason I just wasn't feeling sandwiches. Instead I got the $8 combo with cajun chicken pasta with a side of soup (chicken enchilada). The soup was good... I'm a big soup person. It's similar to a tortilla soup. The plating was pretty, pasta on one side of the long white plate, a thick slice of garlic toast and the soup on the other end (the one day I forgot my cellphone/camera). The pasta on the other hand was oh-so-salty. This is coming from a sodium addict. Chicken slices were dry. Pasta chewy. But I somehow wasn't disappointed, because this is somewhat expected.
Service was great, my waitress was prompt & responsive & polite. The atmosphere was nice & quiet; I got to read my book. It was surprisingly relaxing of a lunch.