What was your Most Memorable restaurant experience?

[Lawrence Halcomb]

This one doesn't have to be all about food quality or great service
(although it can be if you want it to, of course). It might be the place
where you proposed to your spouse, it might be the place mom and dad
always took you as a child. In other words, what's your MOST MEMORABLE
restaurant experience, where and why?

[Rick Massey]

Post by Lawrence Halcomb
This one doesn't have to be all about food quality or great service
(although it can be if you want it to, of course). It might be the place
where you proposed to your spouse, it might be the place mom and dad
always took you as a child. In other words, what's your MOST MEMORABLE
restaurant experience, where and why?

I can't pick just one, because they all seem about equal, and three out of
the four involve restaurants that don't exist anymore.

The Bedford Steak House on GArland Road somewhat stunned me, both for the
vast salad bar and for the player pianos and player piano rolls they had in
their lobby.

Shotgun Sams on Northwest Highway was a big favorite as a kid.

I fondly remember Jay's Marine Grill in both locations, Oak Lawn and
Mockingbird right under the flight path for Love Field. The fish was okay,
the rolls were amazing.

That massive space Tupinamba used to have on Northwest Highway also figures
fondly in my memory. It always seemed sort of exotic and foreign to me as a
kid.

One more. For my thirteenth birthday I was seriously into Jazz, so I wanted
to go someplace where they played it during dinner. We wound up at the
Southern Kitchen location on Northwest Highway near Abrams. That one always
stuck with me as well.

[Jeff Edwards]

Post by Lawrence Halcomb
This one doesn't have to be all about food quality or great service
(although it can be if you want it to, of course). It might be the place
where you proposed to your spouse, it might be the place mom and dad
always took you as a child. In other words, what's your MOST MEMORABLE
restaurant experience, where and why?

I commented on the other thread about the first paid date thing, but that's
not the "most" memorable....

Funny thing about memories - it's not really about the food for me as much
as who I was with. For me, some of the best memories ever are the meals
just after church - me, sister, mom, dad, grandma and grandpa - at such
luxurious places as Captain D's, Luby's, Red Lobster and - probably most
memorable of all because it was grandpa's favorite - Panchos. Food I would
probably never eat now, but I remember it tasting good because I was with
the family. I miss my grandparents greatly, but I have those memories,
however cheesy (or queso-y :)

The most memorable of any of those, sadly, is one trip to Captain D's at
Davis Blvd near 183 in Hurst. My grandpa had his first heart attack there
- leading to problems that would follow him the rest of his life. I
remember talking to him while he went out and laid down in the backseat of
the car, confused about weird pains he had never had before.

-Jeff