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Do you eat restaurant bread, or do you let it lie uneaten? If I'm out to dinner with my family, we generally eat every last piece of bread before the food arrives. (Because, pick one: we're hungry, selfish, greedy, afraid that food will be snatched away from us, preparing for the apocalypse, have food issues, etc.)

What restaurant has the best bread? I like the restaurants where the bread comes with olive oil (usually seasoned) and you pour yourself a saucer of oil and just stuff your face.

Biaggi's has great bread.

Okay, I don't believe that this thread has 37 views after 2 minutes.

People really like bread, LG.

That much?

Reminds me of some of the rolls at one of the hotels I stayed at in Rome. A nice hotel, I enjoyed it, but the rolls might as well have been stones.

Lobstergirl wrote: "Reminds me of some of the rolls at one of the hotels I stayed at in Rome. A nice hotel, I enjoyed it, but the rolls might as well have been stones."

Rome, NY?

Barb wrote: "I like the biscuits at Red Lobster ..."
Ditto.

Félix wrote: "Lobstergirl wrote: "Reminds me of some of the rolls at one of the hotels I stayed at in Rome. A nice hotel, I enjoyed it, but the rolls might as well have been stones."

Rome, NY?"

No, the other one.

Barb wrote: "I like the biscuits at Red Lobster ..."

ooh yes, and salad. That’s what I get every time I go to Red Lobster.


I also love the breadsticks and salad at Olive Garden. That’s all I’ll eat there.

I hate bread.

I love the hard crusty sourdough bread you get at restaurants. Bread at Mimi's cafe is really good too.

I won't go near Red Lobster (shudder) so I can't speak to their bread. I had 1/2 piece of Olive Garden bread tonight & it was okay.

We usually eat up the bread wherever we go. Have you tried the bread loaf at Morton's Steakhouse? Wow! We always ask for an extra loaf to take home.

I always compare the bread in restaurants with the product a local Italian bakery made in my home town. It has yet to measure up. Hard and crusty on the outside, soft and heavenly within.

Ever think about bread from a restaurateur's point of view?

I always eat the bread.

I like to dip it in olive oil and balsamic vinegar.

Myles wrote: "Olive Garden. When my sister and I go we go through two baskets before the food gets to the table."

Hell yes. I don't care how suburban shopping mall it sounds, I could eat fifty Olive Garden breadsticks in a row.

Delicatessens are great for bringing out bread. There's only one here that does that and they bring out a nice assortment of stuff like marble rye, egg twist, something with olives in it and the leave-it-for-last multi-grain. To answer the question, I eat it and I never let it lie uneaten. I also like restaurants that serve popovers.

Barb wrote: "I like the biscuits at Red Lobster ..."

I was so excited when I found a bread recipe that approximates Red Lobster biscuits. I make it all the time.

It's not the greatest restaurant ever, but Country Cookin' makes really great rolls and honey butter. I could make a meal of just the bread.

Félix wrote: "I always compare the bread in restaurants with the product a local Italian bakery made in my home town. It has yet to measure up. Hard and crusty on the outside, soft and heavenly within."

Sounds yummy!

Sally wrote: "I hate bread."

Blaspheme!

Sally, do not ever speak those words to me again or you will be dead to me.

I'm not a Red Lobster or Olive Garden fan, so I can't speak to the bread there, but I have loved most restaurant breads, and my family usually can empty a basket or two before the meal.

Jammies wrote: "I'm not a Red Lobster or Olive Garden fan"

Me neither. I'm not a fan of chain restaurants and walking into either one of those two places is like walking into a distorted time loop where everything and everyone looks the same and feels the same and tastes the same. And I really don't like Olive Garden because even though their salad dressing is good, their salad is made of iceberg lettuce.

Sally wrote: "I hate bread."

I think that may be unhuman!

red lobster bread (garlic roll dealios) are delish. but carino's (used to be called johnny carino's?)has the best bread and dipping oil stuff anywhere. period.

I agree about Carino's bread, Kevin. They started in San Antonio and were called Johnny Carino's at first.

I would crawl over cut glass for an honest to God Amoroso hoagie/cheesesteak roll, some genuine seeded Jewish rye bread (chewy crust, soft inside), a San Francisco sour dough baguette or a Philly soft pretzel, which, let's face it, is bread with salt.

ETA: ...and real bagels! [Where's Lori?]

I'm not sure I've ever been to Red Lobster. I've been to Olive Garden once or twice but I don't remember the bread. The best local bread (with olive oil/parmesan dipping saucer) I've had was at Tucci Benucch, where I used to go every once in awhile but I see they're out of business.

Lobstergirl wrote: "Do you eat restaurant bread, or do you let it lie uneaten? If I'm out to dinner with my family, we generally eat every last piece of bread before the food arrives. (Because, pick one: we're hungr..."

If there's real butter, I'll eat the bread and for all the reasons you described.

Michael wrote: "Jammies wrote: "I'm not a Red Lobster or Olive Garden fan"

Me neither. I'm not a fan of chain restaurants and walking into either one of those two places is like walking into a distorted time lo..."

Yes, iceberg lettuce is evil!

Iceberg lettuce is not always evil. It's usually the best lettuce for sandwiches. Sometimes a romaine salad can be totally crappy. It just depends. Are they using outside leaves, or hearts? What's the texture? Does it have any flavor at all? I don't really see the point of a pile of mesclun on a plate if it has no taste whatsoever.

Sometimes a wedge of iceberg lettuce can be a good salad with bacon and bleu cheese dressing.

Add some sunflower seeds, and I'm in.

I sometimes like iceberg lettuce, I grew up on radicchio, romaine and things like that, iceberg's like a treat for me. I agree LG, it's good on sandwiches.

To clarify- I like the bread and salad at both Red Lobster and Olive Garden, but nothing else.

I actually love iceberg lettuce. I know it's bizarre, and my family always makes fun of me cause I'm a bit of a "foodie" (that word always sounds weird to me) in other ways, but I dislike most salad greens (like mesclun mixes), but can always go for a chopped iceberg lettuce salad.

Also, yes on the bread. Crusty, chewy, soft, doughy... rolls, breadsticks, baguette... I will eat it all.

There is a local Greek restaurant in Omaha--Katie's--that brings warm, fresh pita bread to the table with you salad. Wonderful while waiting for your entree.

I like good, warm bread or rolls. I like marble rye when I can get it--not a lot of places have it.

I don't like sub sandwiches - too much bread for me. Publix has a 5-grain bread you can have sliced, and that's nice for sandwiches. I like them with lettuce and tomato and onions and swiss.

I'm not crazy about subs either. As a general rule I don't like sub bread. Having said that, Subway's subs are often reasonably tasty, if you get the whole wheat and it has plenty of olive oil and vinegar on it.

I do NOT like Jimmy Johns' bread.

I haven't been to O'Charlie's for quite a while -- but they used to have freshly-baked rolls that tasted like heaven-right-out-of-the-oven. The cinnamon/sugar butter they provided made it like desert.

BunWat wrote: "A good batard, that's what I like."

I can't tell if there's a typo in this sentence or not.

Thanks for the laugh, RA.

OK I'll just say it: bastard.

Bastard with mustard. French's mustard.

Batard au moutard!

Mais oui.

Be careful not to get any grey poop on.

::groans::

Oh monsieur ....

Croque-monsieur.

I love Croques... I've never had one with that much cheese on it though!

I want that now.