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| - I don't really eat at Chili's... But tonight we had to go and pay close attention to everything. Can't tell you why, but we had to. The place was nearly deserted on a mid-week evening around 8:30 or so. As per usual, if you've walked into one Chili's (or Applebee's, O'Charley's, Outback, Olive Garden, etc) you've walked into all of them. Nothing surprising there.
They sat us down and browsed through their menu. Shitty beer selection but I already knew that. So, I ordered water and a Sam Adams Boston Lager for Becky and I to split (since, you know, we still had kids to go back home to).
The waitress was nice and serviceable.
Their menu had the usual fare. We didn't browse a whole lot. They had some special where you get two entrees and an appetizer for $20. Of all the things available from that sub-menu that sounded appealing were the fried shrimp, which I ordered with french fries and cole slaw, and the 6-oz. sirloin, which Becky ordered with a baked potato and steamed broccoli. For the appetizer we chose the corn guacamole.
The appetizer came out pretty quickly and it was a very nice portion I must say. It did not taste like it came from some reconstituted power and the only true complaint, as far as flavor, was that it needed cilantro. Aside form that, it was ok. Not entire sure why they called it "corn" guacamole as there was hardly any to speak of.
The Chips... wow.. those things are a joke and they should be ashamed to call themselves tortilla chips. Doritos have better tortilla chips than this crap. They were paper-thing and broke every time you tried to scoop some guacamole or salsa out. They didn't taste horrible... but you couldn't dip them into anything. The salsa was ok as well. Nice and roasty but no heat.
Then our entrees came. Becky got the better deal out of this fiasco. Her sirloin was nicely cooked medium-rare, her baked potato was pretty standard, topped with the usual goodies and the broccoli was nice and crunchy. Everything on her plate was pretty nice and tasted good.
I, on the other hand, got a miserable 8 shrimp on a mountain of soggy fries. They tasted ok, the shrimp did, but I was not happy with the portion I was given. 10% shrimp 85$ fries and 5% of my plate's real estate went to two ramekins with marinara sauce and sour cream. I barely touched my fries, the marinara was pretty bland and disgusting. It's kinda hard to screw up sour cream from a tub, so that was ok but overall my dinner just sucked. The cole slaw was pretty standard but pretty bland as well.
My plate was a prime example of why we don't go to chain, casual-dining places. They just suck. Definitely won't be going back to ANY Chili's unless I have to.
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