What are your favorite places to eat…local and/or chain?

Local

1. The Paddock Club Elkhart Lake (Amazing Seafood)
2. Cafe Kita Sheboygan (Funky Eclectic)
3. Il Ritrovo (Wood Fired Pizzas)
4. Weather Center Cafe (coffee house meets mexican makes the most amazing nachos)

Chain
1. Outback
2. Cheesecake Factory
3. Olive Garden
4. Chipotle!

Local:

1. Cap City Diner
2. Thurman Cafe
3. Genji Japanese Steakhouse
4. Kingy's Pizza

Chain:

1. Roosters (wings)
2. O'Charley's
3. Chipotle
4. Texas Roadhouse

Local:
Cap City Diner
Hyde Park
El Vaqueros
Columbish Fish Market
Brio Tuscan Grile
Trattoria La Tavola
Oscars
The Gyro Shoppe
Flying Pizza
Rusty Bucket
Bag of Nails Pub

Chain:
Carrabba's
Bonefish Grille
Chipotle
Outback (although I only eat at them out of town because people bug us during our meals)
Raising Cane's
First Watch
Jersey Mikes

Local (I'm including the Twin Cities because St. Cloud's restaurant scene SUCKS):

The White Horse Saloon(local bar with eclectic funky food menu, small but quality beer selection, and an owner who says I'm one of his favorite customers)

Solera (Mpls -- upscale tapas restaurant, amazing food every time I've eaten there)

Chains:
Noodles and Company
Chipotle

Local:
Giorgios---BEST steak and cheese subs!
Tahiti---Chinese restaurant, also has cheapest and strongest alcoholic beverages
Hibachi Steakhouse

Chains:
Bugaboo Creek
Bertucci's

I've been really getting into Five Guys Burgers, by far the best burgers I've had out.

Local:
Cafe Assisi
Cafe Portabella's
Norm's Seafood
Le'Azteca
Weatherlane's
Wendall's

Chain:
Five Guys Burgers
Qdoba's
Red Robin
Fuddruckers

Chains I miss:
White Castles
Skyline
Rally's
Steak and Shake

C-pher, I just had Steak & Shake last night…Frisco Melt…mmmmm

It's been a week or so since White Castle for me, two weeks since my last trip to Rally's.

Never did like Skyline, though.

Local:
Lubi's (they have amazing hot subs)
Top Dogs (amazing wings)
Magiano's (at least I don't think it is chain)
Mimi's Cafe

Chain:
Big Boy's (I miss them)
TGI Friday's

Fleck…I hit the White Castles when I was in Louisville…but didn't have time to do any of the other places.

I really wanted a Big Buford something awful.