Consumer reviews are in for TOBY KEITH'S restaurant!

[Bluebear]

It is called "Toby Keith's I love this Bar & Grill" Oh my god, I have actually found a restaurant that serves worse food than TGIF and Applebees combined. Some relatives came for a visit and got pretty excited with the prospect of perhaps meeting Toby during our dinning extravaganza. So off we went. We received the pager/vibrator and were asked to wait "about 40 minutes". I was quite confused as the restaurant was about 30% filled. We waited at the bar. They finally sat us and the meal started with cornbread sticks. They were so dry I almost gagged. I went on to the rolls. They were worse. No flavor nor texture, commercial crap. I had meatloaf and my wife had pasta with grilled chicken. My meatloaf was burned all around the outside and totally dried out and served a slight bit over room temperature. It was piled on top of the same temperature dry mashed potatoes. My wife pasta was supposed to be in a "cream sauce" but without any exaggeration was in a bowl of oil. Not butter, nor any oil I have ever tasted before, but a slimy bowl of fettuccini. I figure it is pretty hard to screw up pasta AND meatloaf, but they were able to do both. As a final touch, overhead they offered "shots" at the bar and the relatives wanted to join in. We went up there for a few minutes, and when we returned, they had taken away two of our dinners with 3/4 of each uneaten. The did apologize and replaced them. When we finished, the waitress told us not to hurry as the restaurant was "pretty empty tonight". I wonder why we had to wait 40 minutes to be seated. Do you think Toby knows his restaurant will be out of business in no time with that kind of food and service?

Ps The waitress was especially nice and was scantily dressed.
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Another post: Toby Keith is a musician not a chef. I wouldn't expect anything great if Wolfgang Puck put out an album :-).

http://eforum.reviewjournal.com/lv/showthread.php?t=1889

[autorank]

1. Worse than Applebees' -- good Lard, that is a frightening thought.

:rofl: I still can't imagine that.

[Bluebear]

2. I'm with ya! nt

[tridim]

9. Hey I used to be a line cook at Applebees!

And only 90% of their food sucked, you just had to know what to order. Well, maybe 95%. :) I can vouch that their steaks were real steaks, same with the grilled chicken and burgers. Too many of the sides were microwaved for my taste, and the rest of the food was flash fried frozen stuff.

As much as the food sucked, it was a blast to work there.

[Johnny Noshoes]

12. Here in NYC

along the "urban theme park" that was once actually 42 street there is of course an Applebees. The funny thing is if tourists were to actually read a guide book on NY they'd know that just a few short blocks away is Ninth Avenue and all sorts of real restaurants. Now of course that would mean having to eat "foreign food" and we wouldn't want to do that now would we. I know that there are people from all over the country who do like all sorts of food and I'm NOT putting down non New Yorkers. Where is the sense of adventure when your a tourist?

[Swamp Rat]

3. Toby Keith is a musician?

You coulda fooled me! I thought he was a little weenie 'Minoot Man' pretendin' to be an American! :D

I would've vomited on the table and called the police... "HELP!!! I've been poisoned!!!" :puke:

[PassingFair]

4. In the spirit of TGIF's, maybe he should have named the restaurant...

FUTK's!
I believe that the basic marketing has already been underpinned by Natalie Maines!

[Libby2]

7. I love it !!

:bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

[mmonk]

11. If it were named that

I would eat there, especially if they played the Dixie Chicks as background music.

[jmm]

5. So basically his food is as good as his music.

I don't care if it was good I'd still never eat there.

[nookiemonster]

6. "Y'all want Iraq of ribs served with freedom fries?"

nyuk. nyuk.

putz

[Neecy]

8. hmmmmm

You can tell the place is in financial trouble when they plunk you down at the bar when the joint is half full, hoping you'll run up a big bar tab.

I hope he loses oodles o'money on this venture...

[TWiley]

10. Did they serve buffalo chip praline?

[Warren DeMontague]

13. How was the "We'll Put A Boot Up Your Ass" Burger?

Bob Weir makes a damn fine hot sauce, but other than that I think you're right about musicians and food.

(edit: of course, Toby Keith isn't much of a "musician", either)