What resturant do you miss that is not around anymore?

[oliverthecat]

mine would have to be this place called the ground round they use to bring you popcorn as soon as they led you to your table

 

[ZephyrHawk]

Two come to mind. This place called Zydecos, which obviously served Cajun food, that was around during my college days. And Bourbon Steak, which I thought had the best steak, and some of the best food, hands down, in all of Michigan.

Sigh.....

 

[Happy Snowman]

mine would have to be this place called the ground round they use to bring you popcorn as soon as they led you to your table

Ground Round is still around but it's changed and not nearly as good.

There used to be a fast food Mexican food place, started with a Z--Zapatta or something like that. They had these really good cheese roll up things, cheese chillitos or something??

 

[usnuzuloose]

Not really a restaurant, but it was called Naugels. Such good fast food.

 

[bcla]

The Pipers in San Leandro, California. It was a smorgasbord restaurant that was extremely kid friendly. What I remember most about the place was that they sold these plastic tops with the restaurant name on a paper insert for a nickel. They were extremely high quality tops (about as durable as a Western Electric phone), and I'm guessing they took a loss on them as advertising.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/41606952@N07/8175237410/in/photostream/

 

[ilovepcot]

Victoria Station.

 

[Kae]

Steak & Ale

Kae

 

[Handbag Lady]

I CAN'T THINK OF THE NAME OF IT!!!


There used to be a restaurant in the Long Beach, CA area where the servers would dress up as different characters and so some acting. It was loads of fun and I only was able to go twice when I was very young.

The name is just on the tip of my tongue so now I must go and Google.

 

[Cantw8]

Chi-Chi's
Ground Round
SteaknAle
Seafood Shanty

 

[CynBeth]

Chi-Chi's.

 

[scrapquitler]

Howard Johnsons. It was pretty much the only place that my parents took the whole family out for dinner when I was a child. I think it must have been cheap My brothers and I used to love going there because we played the game with the golf tees where you jump over them and take the tee out after you jump it. After dinner we always got ice cream, and we loved having so many choices. Then if we had behaved, Mom would let us pick out a box of candy from the candy counter to take home.

After Howard Johnsons closed, we started going to the Ground Round. They had a promotion once a week where you paid for kids meals by how much your kid weighed. If the kid was 35lbs, you paid 35cents, etc. Ground round was fun because they served lots of popcorn, and there were old timey silent movies and cartoons playing on a couple movie screens, and there were some video games. If we were really lucky, Mom and Dad would let us play a game of pinball. Oh, and they served ice cream sundaes in those little plastic bowls that looked like baseball batting helmets that you got to take home with you.

 

[tluvstink]

Steak & Ale Kae

I miss that too! I loved their salad bar and bourbon street steak

Terri

 

[aprilgail2]

mine would have to be this place called the ground round they use to bring you popcorn as soon as they led you to your table

I liked Ground Round before they switched to popcorn- they used to give you a basket full of peanuts and you would crack the peanuts and people tossed the shells all over the floor, you walked and shells crunched under your feet!

I miss Beefsteak Charlies!

 

[mmouse37]

mine would have to be this place called the ground round they use to bring you popcorn as soon as they led you to your table

Wow. When I read the title I immediately said Ground Round not knowing you posted that one!!! I remember on certain days your kids paid what they weighed. I loved the food at Ground Round. We went often.

MJ

 

[Disneylover99]

Chi Chi's
Olive Garden - none in Ontario anymore
Ginsburg and Wong
The Three Crowns Steakhouse
The Crock and Block - no locations near me anymore

 

[nene0182]

mine would have to be this place called the ground round they use to bring you popcorn as soon as they led you to your table

We still have a Ground Round and it's always packed. My husband doesn't like to go there though, he says the menu is too big. My son and I go there once in awhile because he loves the popcorn

 

[SMD]

I CAN'T THINK OF THE NAME OF IT!!!


There used to be a restaurant in the Long Beach, CA area where the servers would dress up as different characters and so some acting. It was loads of fun and I only was able to go twice when I was very young.

The name is just on the tip of my tongue so now I must go and Google.

Sounds like Bobby McGee's.

 

[BernardandMissBianca]

There was a place in GA, I think in Duluth called Cripple Creek. They had the best wild game sausage and the best burgers. This is where DS18 got his love of food. When he was first born we would go in to eat quite often and the waitstaff would take him as soon as we got there and he would be carried around behind the bar, in the kitchen, and to take other people's orders. We left the area when he was 2 but the place made quite an impression on him, he's now in college for culinary.

 

[Tozzie]

These were all local places

The Pasta house= Loved that place they had the best Shrimp Scampi, and the menu was full of different pasta dishes and you could order half orders of almost anything.

Kate Cassidy, Irish pub with a restaurant in the back great atmosphere

Butterfingers- Great stuffed Arichokes

New China Inn, it is where we got chinese food when I was growing up it is a flower shop now

There are a bunch of places that closed that I miss.

 

[SurferMom]

I am going with Swensen's Ice Cream Parlour, that used to be all over the U.S. The one in our neighborhood was in Carmel, CA and they served ice cream sundaes that were unimaginably decadent in the early 70s. It was a huge treat to go there, and I loved the old-fashioned, turn-of-the-century look of the place. It was the first place I ever had chocolate sprinkles. Chocolate ice cream with hot fudge and those sprinkles served in a stemware glass. Yum. We would window shop down the tree-lined main street afterwards, looking into the warmly lit shops where artists made creations out of redwood and abalone shells. It was the first place, outside of Disneyland, that decorated trees with little white twinkling lights.

There are still a few left, and strangely they are a growth franchise in Asia.