The new Buffalo Wild Wings (BW3s) hottest wing sauce is just too much. The old Blazin’ was hot but within my enjoyment threshold and I’d get it during each visit. The new Ghost Chile Blazin’ has taken it to uncomfortable spice levels and I don’t order it anymore. I could eat a plate of them for a challenge, dare or bet but nothing I want to casually nibble on over a beer and video trivia.
Friendly’ use to have a teriyaki chicken sandwich with pineapple that was pretty good and pretty simple. I’m not sure why they took it off the menu.
Steak and Ale had the BEST French Onion Soup. Ooey-gooey and yummy.
When ChiChi’s was still around, my husband would dive head first into their seafood fettucine alfredo.
I thought they had different levels of “Hot” sauce? Personally, I like the hot dry rub.
When I was in grad school, a couple of local pubs would have Friday night all-you-can-eat fish and chips for $5. I can eat a lot of fish and chips for $5!
I have to give another shout out for Steak and Ale. Sorry to go off thread, but that place had some good food.
Do they have PF Chang’s in your neck of the woods? Because their lettuce wraps are sublime.
Anyway, we have a small chain here in Texas called Razoos. I used to LOVE their smothered green beans. But they replace it with just regular green beans. 
I see it’s been mentioned a few times in this thread. I’be never even heard of it. Was it regional or is it just long gone?
They do, but, apparently, they replaced their hottest blazin’ sauce with a sauce that has ghost peppers in it. On the menus I’m looking at online, it’s still called “blazin.” I’m intritgued. I remember blazin’ being somewhat disappointing for a top heat-level hot sauce, but I haven’ been to BW3 in about five years. (My main issue with them is I almost never got crispy wings.)
Carrabbas has it still listed on their website but no location near me offers the Tag Pic Pac anymore. It’s probably the simplest pasta dish they have ever offered, but they can’t make it for me if it’s not on their active menu. Believe me I have asked.
I wish a restaurant would make wings like we did after hours when I managed a restaurant. Everyone fries a naked wing, then tosses it in sauce. After hours, we would do the same thing, but them back in the fryer for about 15 seconds. It really caramelized the sauce and made the wing a nice, crispy hot wing, rather than the messy, kind of soggy (Especially the longer it takes to eat them) wing/drummy.
We begged our test kitchen to try it. Their argument was that it fouled the oil, and accumulated too much heat over time. Both good points, but I countered that we could use a separate fryer, and replace the oil every night or so. It was deemed too expensive, and that was that.
Bennigan’s Monte Cristo.
I miss the Italian Breakfast Club from Eat’nPark!
The Applebee’s Blondie. Best. Desert. Ever. They dropped it, then brought it back but different, now it seems to be gone again.
Dennis
Yes they do, and I do like them. However, I liked Chile’s better, and I like other things better at PF Chang.
Oh nooooooooo.
Olive Garden used to carry Chicken Alfredo Pizza. They stopped so I went to Chicken Caesar Salad. They stopped that, too. What’s a poor boy to do?
I think it may have only been in the northeast. There were a couple in NJ that I frequented and every one of them was busy. It has been gone a while now as well. I think they went away in the mid 2000s.
I almost included this in my post but couldn’t remember the name of it. How could you go wrong dipping an entire sandwich in batter and deep frying it?
This may not quite qualify, but we used to have a local bar/restaurant called Ol’ Sweig’s. My parents and grandparents took me there from the time I was a baby. It closed sometime in the 80’s and I miss it. They had the BEST fried chicken in the world, bar none. After all these years, I can still remember the taste of that chicken.
We had Steak and Ale in Florida. At one time they were owned by the same company that owns Bennigan’s.
According to Wikipedia, they’re coming back in 2017!
I have noticed that restaurants owned by the same company seem to be built close to each other. In my small(ish) town Red Lobster is next to Olive Garden (this was before Darden sold off Red Lobster) and Outback is across the road from Carrabba’s.