Place: Wendy's
Lunch: Gourmet Mushroom Swiss, chili, Coke
Another day...another limited time only mushroom Swiss burger from one of the big burger chains.
This one is better than Burger King's, but not much. In the grand tradition of Wendy's, the thing looks like somebody stepped on it. It was certainly handled much more than it should have been...Big Fat Counter Guy put it in somebody else's to-go bag, took it out, put it back in, took it out, took it back to the kitchen and asked what it was, brought it back out, put it back in the bag, took it out, then put it on my tray and gave it to me.
It has portabello mushrooms and bacon on it. There's absolutely no point in the bacon being there. The bacon flavor is completely lost.
It did taste better than their previous efforts at a mushroom burger, but not by much.
Me. Need. Arctic. Circle.
And why doesn't Wendy's go to self-serve drink stations like every other major chain with a dining room?
I'll tell you what WAS good, though. Red Lobster has installed wood-fired grills in all their locations. I had dinner there last night. The shrimp, lobster and scallops platter was fantastic. The scallops were much more tender than they usually are there, and the flavor of the lobster was so good, you might even skip dipping it in butter.
Red Lobster's rating just went WAY up with me.
Wendy's...not so much.
