So what's the best option for the free pre-meal bread that the server from one of the big chains will bring to your table?
What's your favorite free bread option from chain restaurants?
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Nah - it's what they bring to you while you're having your first margarita and thinking about what you want to order!
If Cheddar Bay Biscuits don't win this I have no hope for this board (probably still don't anyway).
Chips, salsa and that green sauce
the shiner bock bread from Saltgrass is pretty good.
the shiner bock bread from Saltgrass is pretty good.
Thread title/poll is confusing. Chips are not bread, Michelin star restaurants are not chains.
Since cheesecake is the only one of these I have been inside in the last 10 years (my kids “favorite” restaurant), will have to go that route. No butter of course, I know, I’m a monster.
Since cheesecake is the only one of these I have been inside in the last 10 years (my kids “favorite” restaurant), will have to go that route. No butter of course, I know, I’m a monster.
Went with the michelin option. I don’t eat at any of the others (except Mexican restaurants).
It IS confusing, but the options were added in anticipation of comments that I felt could be left about the lack of others' preferred options - either because "chips and salsa - ftw!" or "I'd never eat at a chain restaurant - only the finest gourmet sh!t for me!".
As for whether tortilla chips are bread - that's a different debate. The chips are made from corn tortillas. Wiki says "In North America, a corn tortilla or just tortilla is a type of thin, unleavened flatbread..." - so it could be argued that, in fact, a corn chip is a type of bread.
OP’s Mom has a yeasty crust baked good that you can usually munch on before the big meal.
Admittedly I ran out of poll option spots before I could add one about "OP's mom's tasty, yeasty treats" - which, I imagine, would've won the
Fond memories of the free chips and salsa during Monday Night Football at Mondo's. RIP In Peace Mondo's.
I voted Cheddar Bay biscuits but I also chose Texas Roadhouse Hot Rolls with Honey Butter. Both are quite different but equally delicious.
It blows my mind traveling to different states where chips and salsa are not complimentary and refilled often. I think that’s in the Texas constitution
Agreed that it should be a right. There is probably a different calculus in a college town though. Buncha freeloaders.
This is true. We used to destroythe free breadsticks at Fazzolli’s
Missing Ruth's Chris. Their bread is f*cking amazing.
Of those options, I went with Macaroni Grill because I love bread dipped in olive oil, parm, and pepper. But part of me wanted to vote Olive Garden for those bread sticks. I will also admit that Fazioli's has amazing bread sticks.
Olive Garden breadsticks used to be the bomb but they must have changed their recipe because they taste more like flavored styrofoam now days (Subway's white bread has the same issue).
Fazoli’s breadsteaks are the shit!
Too bad the rest of their food tastes like ten different kinds of ass.
I haven't eaten at a Red Lobster in over 30 years and have no plans to change that anytime soon. The only experience I have with those biscuits comes from a box from the grocery store.
Of those listed, Macaroni Grill - but I think the bread & olive oil/seasonings at Carrabbas is better. Best of all, though not free, is the Bahama Breeze jerk shrimp appetizer that comes with great bread to dip in the sauce.
I will begrudgingly give another big thumbs up to fazoli's breadsticks, which I encountered for the first time about a week ago.
They just opened up a store near us so we of course had to try it out.
Normally I hate going out to eat for pasta, I think it's ridiculous to pay restaurant prices for a dollar's worth of noodles in sauce, but I'll be damned just those breadsticks weren't freaking awesome. I'll probably get some more this weekend now that I brought it up
They just opened up a store near us so we of course had to try it out.
Normally I hate going out to eat for pasta, I think it's ridiculous to pay restaurant prices for a dollar's worth of noodles in sauce, but I'll be damned just those breadsticks weren't freaking awesome. I'll probably get some more this weekend now that I brought it up
Red Lobster has the best free bread with their cheddar
biscuits. They have been the tasty leader for many
years and they never disappoint.
biscuits. They have been the tasty leader for many
years and they never disappoint.
I like Red Lobster well enough. It’s not as good as fresh local seafood since it’s mainly using frozen Pacific and farmed ingredients, but I like a few of their items (mainly the Walt fried shrimp, shrimp scampi and Coconut shrimp) and the cheddar bay biscuits are quite good. I’d give it a solid C+ and that’s good enough on occasion.
Reading between the posts, lots of poors are revealing themselves with the restaurant selections. Bone Fish has a great bread with garlic aioli dipping oil, Johnny’s Italian Steakhouse bread with a plate of virgin oil and fresh ground mozzarella.
mozz or parm? Mozz would be an odd selection as it does not have much flavor
Carrabas bread is delicious
OG cheddar biscuits are great but I never go there so unless someone buys the mix at the store I don't get them
Bahama Breeze is so good for a chain
