Friday Night Date Night
@Kouponkaren (5497)
United States
January 28, 2022 2:55pm CST
Tonight is Friday night and as always my husband and I are going out on our Friday night date night.
Tonight we are going to a favorite local restaurant. They were closed for two weeks and have just reopened with a new menu. The problem with new menus is that they sometimes get rid of some of our favorite standbys that we always like to order when we go.
Our favorites up until now have been: a large warm pretzel that we share, fish tacos, fish and chips, and a salmon sandwich or a chicken breast sandwich. I will let you know if they got rid of any of those after our dinner.
What are your favorite foods offered at restaurants in your area that you would miss if they got rid of them?
Update:
I am sad to announce that when we saw the new menu tonight, it no longer has the giant pretzel, the fish and chips, OR the chicken breast sandwich. They do still have the fish tacos on the menu though. I had a salmon sandwich and my husband had the hangar steak dinner and both of our meals were amazingly delicious!
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@Deepizzaguy (122070)
• Lake Charles, Louisiana
28 Jan 22
I would miss the po boys that are sold at sandwich shops in the New Orleans area that went out of business many years ago.
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@Deepizzaguy (122070)
• Lake Charles, Louisiana
29 Jan 22
@Kouponkaren Po boys are like sandwiches that are sold at Subway sandwich shops.
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@Kouponkaren (5497)
• United States
29 Jan 22
@Deepizzaguy Ah, okay. In CT where I grew up, they called them "grinders" and in Rhode Island they call them "hoagies."
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@Kouponkaren (5497)
• United States
29 Jan 22
@Deepozzaguy I have never had a po boy in my life and have heard of them but don't actually know what they are.
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@Ronrybs (21504)
• London, England
30 Jan 22
@Kouponkaren I have been to a few places where they keep a core of favourite dishes and have 'guest' dishes that change regularly, perhaps monthly.
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@Kouponkaren (5497)
• United States
31 Jan 22
@Ronrybs That's a good idea. I think I still like the idea of a restaurant just having a very large menu to choose from so the variety comes from just trying new dishes on their already large menu. I do also like it when a restaurant has specials on certain nights.
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@Kouponkaren (5497)
• United States
29 Jan 22
@Ronrybs The menu at this place only changes about once every 2 years. It can get kind of boring...like enough so that we wouldn't go there every single week. I think they need to add a bit more to the menu to give us more choices. I enjoy going to restaurants where there are about 4 pages of choices. That gives a lot of variety. Then they actually never need to change the menu because there are SO many good things to choose from.
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@Blondie2222 (28610)
• United States
29 Jan 22
That's a bummer they got rid of your favorites but atleast they had one thing you enjoyed. I'm glad you still had a good dinner no matter what. I miss date nights my boyfriend and I haven't had a chance to have one in awhile we are due for one.
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@Blondie2222 (28610)
• United States
30 Jan 22
@Kouponkaren We used to do saturday night's I'm going to try to do them again but I work every Sunday so it's hard to have date night now. I have been considering Sunday night as date night when we go to our bowling league.
@Kouponkaren (5497)
• United States
30 Jan 22
@Blondie2222 Better start planning it now because time can get away from us. We really like our date nights. Yes, that salmon sandwich I had last night was absolutely delicious!
@kaylachan (84699)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
28 Jan 22
That's a good question. I don't go out much, but when I do, the stuff I get is fairly standard, so it's anyone's guess, really.
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@Kouponkaren (5497)
• United States
29 Jan 22
@kaylachan We have a few favorite restaurants and have certain things we like at each.
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@kaylachan (84699)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
29 Jan 22
@Kouponkaren That's not a bad thing. It makes life easier on you and your server if nothing else.
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@Kouponkaren (5497)
• United States
31 Jan 22
@kaylachan Yes, that's true. And we know what we want to order quicker than perusing a new menu.
@wolfgirl569 (135583)
• Marion, Ohio
29 Jan 22
I do love soft pretzels. But I enjoy the stuffed tator skins at the local bar too
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@wolfgirl569 (135583)
• Marion, Ohio
29 Jan 22
@Kouponkaren Hopefully you found something good
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@Kouponkaren (5497)
• United States
29 Jan 22
@wolfgirl569 They don't have the soft pretzels anymore, and they also don't have potato skins. the menu has definitely changed.
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@Kouponkaren (5497)
• United States
30 Jan 22
@wolfgirl569 Yes I did. I did an update above about my salmon sandwich and it was yummy!
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@Kouponkaren (5497)
• United States
29 Jan 22
@JudyEv Yes, tonight was disappointing. They took away some of our favorites.
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