Are there any restaurants in your area and how often do you visit them?

Ah the pleasures of fine dining. There are a handful of classy restaurants here, and there are those not so expensive chains. I love eating as much as anything. A myriad of dishes all over the place from different cultures all around the world. But dining out in restaurants can be expensive. In the last 5 years I have gone to restaurants at least once a month on special occasions with family or from invitations. I mostly dine at home saving up for a rainy day myself. I mostly like italian and chinese dishes. Gee, just thinking about that makes me hungry.

Usually, I like to cook myself, or, prefer home made meals, instead of restaurant, but, from time to time, I like to go out, and dinner outside, I can do it by myself, or with friends. I like italian restaurants, my favourite meal is pasta, and chinesse and mexican restaurants as well. There are several one in my area, prices varies from cheap to the very fancy ones. What I do not like, is fast food restaurants, you know, those who serve burgers, tacos and fries, and so on, I used to, when taking out my nephews, but, I prefer more elaborate and tasty meals.

Hi Porcospino, I love eating out. My favorite restaraunt is an Italian place called The Olive Garden. The food is delicious and the salads are just wonderful!

Hi Porco, nowadays, i had been less dining out at restaurants in my area here. It is because they are very expensive. We will only dining out in those restaurants when we want to celebrate some special occasions. Most of the time, we will just cook some special dishes which we had learned from the internet and eat at home. After all, i am planning to save as much money as possible, so able to go traveling overseas soon. Hope to hear news from you again, Porco. I had replied your email a week ago. Take care always...

There is tones of plays to eat out at. I want to say we eat out every two weeks to take a break from me or my husband cooking and being pregnant doesn't really help with that. Food cravings get to me some times but we try hard to stay in as much and eat at home. We try to do it all week long my husbands cousin she lives with us as well she eats out more often then us. With a small child that is almost one we eat in more to teach her good healthy eating and if we eat out it's a sit down resturnts where they is to es of veggies.

Fortunately for them there aren't. I write for them because I wouldn't go! That's because I like going away from my neighbour to have fun.

i live in a fairly large city and we have a ton of restaurants to choose from, all within a short drive which is nice but we hardly eat out. we did get some gift cards for eating out for CHristmas but will space them out over the year.

When i was young there were very few restaurants in our area and they were dirt cheap.Most of them were vegetarian since our area has mostly vegetarians living here.There were 2 or 3 Irani hotels run by settlers from Iran and they did serve non-veg stuff but no beef and they too were dirt cheap.Now with the spread of international cuisine restaurants have mushroomed and we can get all sorts of food here but hardly any non-veg food..I don`t go to any hotel here but generally place and order and they send it over to my house as home delivery is free and more popular.The food is hot and i can eat leisurely at home.There is one Chinese restaurant close by but there is no home delivery there,so my man goes there to place and order and collect it.When my friends come over we usually order home delivery and eat at our leisure.Nowadays the food items have become very costly so i order maybe once a month or once in 2 months.Most of the time i eat home cooked food.

There are very few restaurants in my town. We have a Hardee's, McDonalds, Subway, Pizza and Chinese and 1 Family Style restaurant. That's it. But not only is that for the town, that's the entire county. We will be going to the family style restaurant in the morning. My son loves to go there on Saturday or Sunday for their breakfast buffet. It's alright, not the greatest, but different from eating breakfast at home. I'm going to have to learn to manage my money a lot more, so eating out is definitely going to have to come to a stop. I do hate that when I go to visit my parents they have hundreds of restaurants and I love to eat at so many and can't ever decide what to eat when we are there.

I generally eat at home. But in special occasion like marriage day,birthdays of myself,wife and my daughter we eat in restaurant. There are lots of restaurants in our area. But I like Chinese dish. So we celebrate our special occasions in any good Chinese restaurant.

I don't go to restaurants that much, i prefer to eat at home with a home cooked meal :) It is way more cheaper and at the same time you can bond with the family and to catch up with the lost time :)

Yes. There is a restaurant nearby our place that I would visit whenever I have a visitor coming from abroad or close friends dropping by to see me. This restaurant has a wide array of food to choose from and their presentation is really good. Not to mention the price is very reasonable. I love seafood and they just prepare it so well in that restaurant.

their are so many and i visit most of them occassionally. as i am considered as foodie among my friend circle and family so i visit restauranrs oftenly. i like tasting new variety of the food every time i am out for dinner or lunch. its food that make me fill with full zest of life

Yes, there are. My favorite one is located not far away. It is a steakhouse. It serves well-tasted steak with cheap price. Sometimes people are wandering why that restaurant can sell a cheap and well steak. Commonly in Indonesia, restaurants which able to serve cheap food are often called into question. Do they use inappropriate supplies so that they able to serve cheap steak? However, apparently this restaurant survives from any kind of 'retail inquisition' (as we call it in Indonesia) and keeps standing without obstacles. Customers find themselves satisfied with that steakhouse, both in service and meal quality. For that reason, I often like to eat out in that steakhouse. Besides, I find that the steakhouse's decoration is convenient for anyone, from children to elder. Despite of that, I always love to eat at steakhouse which offers cheap and tasty steak.

Oh yes, there are PLENTY of restaurants in our area. I live in "Los Angeles", so there are restaurants of any kind, everywhere. In my particular area, there are especially many restaurants because it's a college town - lots of hungry students - ha ha. There are tons of fast food places as well as some finer restaurants. We try not to eat out as much as possible because we want to save as much money as we can. But admittedly sometimes I just can't get dinner out as I have two little rascals on my hands ha ha - so my husband will go pick up something on his way home from work. My favorite local restaurant would have to be this Persian one. We LOVE Persian food - and it seems that every friend has been turned onto this cuisine as we've introduced them to it. It's not really the restaurant ambiance that I'm attracted to - they are quite casual, the service is ok (the busboys are actually the friendliest), and nothing special about their decor. But the food is AMAZING with big portions. For the most part we don't eat there, we usually take out because we have two little ones who won't exactly sit still at a restaurant - ha ha!

Hi, Porcospino, what a pleasant topic. I'm sure that your discussion will get crowded with participants just like the restaurants around my home are crowded with clients. Everybody notices that in these times of crises the restaurants are full of people. I like to visit cheep restaurants when I can afford it. I like to eat fish because I don't cook fish very well. But I like also the ambiance especially in the summer when you can sit outside.

Plenty of restaurants I seldom (read: never) visit them. It's way too expensive for me and the food is seldom what I expect for that price. I prefer to save that money for travelling.

Hi Porcospino, yes there are a lot of resturants in my location. Because of finanial issues , I don't go out as much as I use to when I was working..I do on occassions get a chance to meet my friends to have a girls day out and just to see each other..I mean even with the economy being so tough we still have to enjoy our lives to some extent...because if we don't depression and stress will take over our lives and thats just not how we are suppose to live. I do cook at home what I want and when I want...which could be all over the map, LOL, but thats just the way I eat... I normally meet my friends on Thursdays at this certain resturant where seniors eat for half price every Thursday...That works for us..and we get the chance to catch up on life... Being a senior does have its advantages....I love it...

yes the restaurant thats close to my house is McDonald's i love eating there i usually eat out 3 times a week. but for celebrations my family and me go to old country buffet. i love this restaurant because its all you can eat. it haves every thing here.

Hi Porcospino, Yeah, we do have a lot of restaurants here in our are but it isn't cheap that's why I don't eat there often. Maybe once in two months or even once every 6 months...just depending on the budget. What I like to eat in there is their beef. It's not really that expensive. Their meat is really very delicious and if it's really cheap, then I would really eat that almost everyday (if I am not on my low protein diet). Anyways, that is my favorite restaurant. But I am more on fast food chains. It's near in my house since I live in the city but I still need to ride a jeepney in going in there. And yeah, I also like the ambiance of that area...seems really friendly and cozy. Happy Mylotting.