Chili’s Left Me Cold

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For quite some time I’ve been contemplating dining at Chili’s. Chili’s is of course the establishment that made the catchy little tune, “I want my baby back, baby back ribs” so popular with all the kids.

I mean the place looks clean and the food looks good on TV.

So this past Sunday when Michelle and I decided to go out on a date, I thought hey, why head over to the Outback, or some place like that, when we can finally experience Chili’s. Wait, that’s kind of miss leading, I’ve been to Chili’s before, but we are talking about 7 or 8 years ago so the experience is a vague memory in the dark corner of some crack in my skull.

Let me ruin my story by saying, I am no longer contemplating eating at Chili’s… ever.

Aside from our waiter having a tantrum in front of 4 tables full of people because the hostess sat another person in his area, the food was just horrid.

Horrid is too strong a word. Crappy is probably a better term. The nearly $10 appetizer (yeah, $10 buck) was cold and flavorless. The “chicken strips” (I mean if you want to call them that) were nothing more than giant size sweet & sour chicken chunks without the tasty sauce. The buffalo wing were just… ugh and the nasty southwest egg roll things, well I am still trying to get the taste out of my mouth.

Things didn’t get a whole lot better after that.

The sweet tender baby back ribs I was expecting, well they required a hack saw to even attempt to get the meat from the bones. I mean honestly, what kind of top notch waiter are you when a guy my size leaves ¾’s of his meal on the plate and doesn’t want it wrapped up to take home and you cannot figure out that perhaps they didn’t find it to their liking.

Michelle said she was very under impressed with her meal (I cannot even recall what she got, oh wait, some southwest chicken thing I think).

Any who, ugh.

From there we headed to go see Mission Impossible III (we were going to see the Da Vinci code, but the reviews haven’t been stellar thus far so we’ll wait for a cheap show).

In keeping with the theme of the day. Meh. Again, another unimpressive movie. For a summer block buster, come on, lame. Thankfully Over the Hedge (which we say the day before with the boys) was awesome, so the weekend wasn’t a total loss.