Favorite Chain Steak Houses

[CouchCoach]

Mom's maiden name was Ciavarella. All of my mom's family was from Florida and Texas (that's where I got my Cowboys fandom). Also, yes, they still do have the Rocky Mountain Oyster Feed. I have never gone to one but I hear it's quite the deal for some people, who are into that kind of thing. The great outdoors are definitely in Boise's backyard. With so many people moving into the valley lately though, it's getting crowded in the mountains. I drove to McCall last 4th of July weekend and the traffic going up was insane.

Not the Florida Ciavarella's!!!!!

We had a blast in McCall skiing after a couple of trips over to Sun Valley, totally different clientele. Went to that restaurant, I think it's the Pioneer Inn? where we had knocked out artichokes and pork chops so big they took my leftover bone to the Smithsonian and it's on display today. Tom Brokaw and his crew came in but it was all guys so he had to go to other tables to fondle breasts. Went hiking in the Sawtooth's on July 4th and had a snowball fight close to the summit.

The thing I miss the most about that area is the weather. 4 distinct seasons that change when they're supposed to, usually, and the summers are great because of the low humidity and cool down evenings. I live about 40 minutes west of Austin and the summers are stupid hot, the insects are Jurassic and the allergies are plentiful, I think I am allergic to Texas. But, this is where family is and that is more necessary than creature comforts and when I lived in Idaho I was 25 years younger without herniated discs so I couldn't enjoy the great outdoors like I used to anyway. But, I feel lucky to have lived there and experienced that life, everyone should have that once in their lifetime.

 

[YosemiteSam]

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Isn't there a Royal Wedding you should be watching?

Shouldn't you be beer drinking, breath stinking, sniffing glue?

 

[CouchCoach]

Guys, does this look like the Off-Topic Zone??!??!?

Isn't there a Royal Wedding you should be watching?

Shouldn't you be beer drinking, breath stinking, sniffing glue?

What makes you think I am not beer drinking, breath stinking and sniffing glue? I've got a model of a P-38 that's been partially assembled since 1991.

I am a multi-tasker and can trash myself and post at the same time and yes, this looks like the Off-Topic Zone and I am attempting be as Off as I can. Gimme a break here, it's early, I promise to get worse.

 

[big dog cowboy]

 

[John813]

J Alexanders. Never had a bad filet or prime rib there.
Texas Roadhouse is good too

 

[ABQCOWBOY]

So...... Chain, not any Steakhouse. I've had exceptional Steaks at some very high end restaurants that a chain would never begin to compare to but that's understandable. You pay for the difference.

So far as chains go, I'd say Texas Roadhouse as well. I mean, don't get me wrong, I've had steaks that were not great there as well but that was more the actual cut of meat IMO. I think they do a good job of actually preparing the steaks. I'd say that was the best chain, to me.

Longhorn Restaurant is interesting to me. They opened one up here, down the road about a year and a half ago. For about 6 months, you couldn't beat it. Excellent food, great service and really fair prices. After about 6 months, you could order a better burger at Sonic. It just went down hill really fast. Seems like they tried to generate a customer base and then they went thin on every aspect of operations. JMO

 

[Tabascocat]

I love Roadhouse but don't usually get a steak there. It is mostly chicken fried steak(brown gravy) and ribs while stuffing bread and peanuts in my piehole. That sweet potato is good too.

 

[Melonfeud]

We could all be only 2 degrees of separation, what's your Mom's maiden name?

The coolest thing about Eagle was the location. Make a left and a right and we'd be on the Payette and that was about as good as it gets. Do they still have the world's largest mountain oyster festival in Eagle? I had to do a judging my first year there from the media panel. Not something I would do again.

I did a lot of work up in mountain garden & that Payette river was right out that peterbuilts passenger window on the way up& was hauling hot asphalt mix out of that batch plant behind that sugar beet sugar processing plant,,,I'd haul out of whatever batch plant was closest,,,lol,,,I think I had 13k in my left front pocket they gave me to pay the bill on my last load on one job ,man! That's what was so cool about the work ethic up their,everybody worked &were what they did,I was in mountain Homes for about 3 months & had to haul pea gravel out of unmanned mine up on the snake river where I'd have to load myself & document my estimated loaded yardage on the clipboard inside the cab of the frontend loader ,I think it was about an hour&45 mins round trip(I remember tooling past a huge cattle stockyard to get there,,lol I'd even had to help move a herd of about 400 head once when they transferred a holding lot en-mass, blocking the road traffic)

 

[YosemiteSam]

I love Roadhouse but don't usually get a steak there. It is mostly chicken fried steak(brown gravy) and ribs while stuffing bread and peanuts in my piehole. That sweet potato is good too.

Texas Roadhouse as far as I know is the only place in Connecticut you can get chicken fried steak these days. There used to be a Chili's in Paramus, NJ right across the Tappen Zee bridge that had chicken fried steak, but I don't believe any Chili's in this area does anymore.

 

[Tabascocat]

Texas Roadhouse as far as I know is the only place in Connecticut you can get chicken fried steak these days. There used to be a Chili's in Paramus, NJ right across the Tappen Zee bridge that had chicken fried steak, but I don't believe any Chili's in this area does anymore.

Same deal in Cali, most don't even know what it is. If I do come across one somewhere else, it isn't even close to the real thing.......just a frozen meat patty breaded in bread crumbs with sausage gravy on top

 

[GMO415]

That place is awesome! We go dove hunting in Yuma AZ and I always look forward to eating there.