Whenever we go out to eat I usually make it a point to try things from the menu that I haven’t ordered before in the same place. Everywhere except one particular chinese food place. I usually go for spicy dishes regardless of the type of food, but at this one particular chinese place I routinely order Beef and Broccoli. Every single time.
One of the things I miss most about living in Texas is the Tex-Mex restaurant that we used to go to every week (La Margarita, on IH35 up in Round Rock). One large queso, one order of beef fajitas, and two diet cokes with lime- $18.00 including tip. We didn’t even have to order it- they always knew to bring “the usual”.
Man, I miss that. Best damn Tex-Mex I’ve ever had.
Heh. I came in this thread to say that, when I go out for lunch with friends, we’ll always end up at a casual burgers and pasta type place. Though not my favourite, I don’t mind, and since the salads are usually watery tomatoes and iceberg lettuce, I’ve ordered the “Margarita Pizza, no cheese, and a diet coke please” a hundred milion times. Second most common order would be “Edamame, tempura yam roll, and agedashi tofu, no bonito please, with a large Sapporo”. Mmmm I’m now craving tempura yam like nobody’s business.
I’m the type who usually orders something different each time, and generally something I don’t/won’t/can’t make at home.
(Why go out for a burger if I can make perfectly good ones to my exact specification at home? Especially in areas where they can’t cook hamburgers medium rare.)
The exception is for places that have a limited menu: then I’ll order from the same two or three items every time, simply because there isn’t anything else I care for on the menu.
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I’ve ordered lots and lots of various chicken sandwiches over the years.
The place I eat out most often is Chipotle, where I get either a burrito or a bol with rice, no beans, chicken and steak (extra meat), no salsa, sour cream, cheese and guac. Yum.
I order Fish and Chips pretty much whenever I can get it, which isn’t much as I live as far from the ocean as you can get in this country. 
Blue Cheese Burger, General’s Chicken, Chicken Fried Rice, Margherita pizza, extra cheese on anything that comes with cheese.
We have a local latin american place and I just can’t stop myself from getting the steak rice bowl and a large side of guacamole. Mexican places I almost always get fajitas.
A classic, yes?
I used to watch that movie and Bloodsport on tape every friday (because i had half days) after I got out of grade school. Those were the only two movies I had. Consequently, I know those two movies like the back of my nuts.
Bloodsport is also one of the best guy movies ever. So underrated. As is the story behind the movie.
Hmmm… If I’m supposed to compose a menu based on the food items I ordered the most often, it would probably be something like that :
Starter : green salad with grilled goat cheese
Main dish : duck “confit”, with a side of string beans
Cheese : Saint-Nectaire
Dessert : “creme brulee”
Beverage : hard (alcoholic) cider
Plus a couple decafs.
Pho. Specifically, Pho dac biet or special combination noodle soup. Most suburbs around here have at least one pho place, and it’s usually a choice of ‘pho or something that’s not pho’. Given a fifty per cent hit rate (actually probably higher) for pho, then this is by far the stuff I order the most. I don’t know how many times I’ve eaten at Pho An in Bankstown over the last fifteen years, but it would be in the hundreds. And I have it at other restaurants too.
I am another that usually tries something new each time I go to a restaurant. But, the Indian restaurant I am currently craving serves a mean Lamb Kashmir, and I’ve never been able to resist the siren call when I’m asked what I’ll have…
It has power, I tell you!
“Double-Double, plain with just the meat cheese and the bun. Fries well done.”
or
“One bean and cheese burrito, a carne asada taco, and a large diet Coke.”
Although I actually don’t have to say what I want when I go to the taqueria, they just start putting it together as soon as I get in the door.
See that? Speak of the devil. I was contemplating a nice, early sleep, and then, at 1 in the AM, Comedy Central plays the Blues Brothers movie uncut.
Life…is good.
In this order:
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Kung Pao Chicken
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MacDonald’s #1
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Chile Rellenos
Chinese: Hot and Sour soup; fried rice; Governor’s Chicken.
Thai: Pad Thai; bubble tea.
Arby’s: Two feef and cheddars; curly fries; jamocha shake.
McDonald’s: Double cheeseburger; medium fries.
Boston Market: Meatloaf sandwich; corn.
Cleveland Chop House: Tenderloin tips and mushrooms with cheddar mashed potatoes.
Seafood restaurant: shrimp scampi or fried oysters.
Every time I go to Bob Evan’s I get Chicken and noodles. I used to go there almost every week, for almost 10 years.
At most other places I don’t have a set menu.
Thai: Pad Thai
Surf n’ turf: Jumbo Shrimp, rice pilaf,salad, cheese bread,pickles
Local eatery: breaded zucchini, grilled cheese
Mexican: cheese enchiladas
Italian place: Capellini Rustica
Regular places: Fish and chips and a Guinness (or a diet cola if I’m not drinking).
Chinese: heh. Back home it used to be Combo #3: fried rice, sweet and sour chicken balls, and one egg roll. But I’d always order an extra egg roll. The second most ordered was the almond chicken soo gai. There was a Chinese couple who immigrated to my hometown back in the mid-90s, and they opened up a little restaurant on the highway. Best food ever. On Christmas Eve, the place was always packed with people ordering large cardboard BOXES full of bags of take-out for their parties. We went there once on Christmas Eve and had a two hour wait. We were willing, it was worth it, and I’d do it again.
Dessert: creme brulee or a cobbler of some sort. Or, if eating Chinese: a fortune cookie. 
A “sack full of hamburgers!”
This is what I order at every drive-through hamburger chain.
Spaghetti and meatballs.