Noone ever expects much from chain restaurants and I say we really should. Hey, chain monsters do expect us to pay $20 per entrée, shouldn't we expect for the entrée to be delightful in return?
Plus they get inspected more often and their garbage is always promisingly full with all of the yesterday's produce. Hopefully Macaroni Grill is that kind of a place. I didn't check their garbage or kitchen but food was ok. They have this $15 lunch special which you can totally split and drown in 2 liters of remarkably bad cheap wine ( they should serve it with a side of Tylenol; splitting headache will eat your brains away seconds after the first sip).
Service was rather mediocre though, losing interest in us once we said we are going to split the lunch special. But hello, how do you expect me to fit in my new years dress after all the greasy discounted fettuccini?
In general everything was ok. Someone at the table next to us was exclaiming: " It's my favorite place on Earth!" And that made me feel claustrophobic, sad and Christmassy all at the same time. Just skip the cheap wine, folks.