I think when we say Restaurant Chain we should list sit-down, knife and fork restaurants. If we want to talk about Fast Food Favorites we should have another thread about favorite Fast Food places.
Here in Wichita there are a lot of great restaurants to choose from and my favorite five changes on a weekly basis.
Uptown Bistro - Mediterranean style steaks and seafood. My favorite is called "Cedar Plank Salmon Steak" - they oven-bake a Salmon Steak on a Cedar Plank and serve the plank on your plate with 'thrice-baked' mashed potatoes and some very good vegetables. Yummy!!
Applebee's - I just love their all-you-eat riblets.
Famous Dave's - some of the best bar-b-cue in the midwest. They have the best fries in the world, they are baked not fried so they are not greasy. Their catfish fingers are very tasty.
Whiskey Creek Steakhouse - one of the better 'small chains' in the mid-west. Full course steak dinner starting as little as $8.99 with a 20-oz. Porterhouse going for $22.99. Great barbecue menu with fabulous Baby Back Ribs that fall off the bone.
Buffet City - Serving over 200 items including American, Italian, Chinese, Japanese and Mongolian Barbecue. This is one of the newest Buffet-style restaurants in Wichita and it really one of the best. $5.99 during the day until 4 o'clock and then $8.99 evenings and Sundays. One of my first choices for a buffet restaurant these days.
If we listed Fast Food places these would be my top five:
Arby's - 5 for $5.95 on the menu all the time.
Wendy's - all-you-can-eat Chili for $1.49 with purchase of a large drink, on Tuesdays.
Spangles - locally owned Hamburger place that has won Best Burger in Kansas four years in a row - fancy that.
Freddy's Famous Steakburgers and Custard - this place sees the wife and I more often than most fast food joints in town. Food is exceptional and it is very reasonably priced.
Taco Bueno - better than any Del Taco, Taco Bell, or Taco Tico you will ever find. They have a Muchaco Taco that is to die for.
