[speaker001:] okay well I guess I enjoy eating out um uh here and there or it's it's a good change and good change from cooking and eating at home and I guess I like a variety of a variety of restaurants
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] uh sometimes it's fun to go out and just have a hamburger and french fries and and sort of a hamburger and french fry meal and sometimes it's I enjoy going out having a formal meal
[speaker002:] yes
[speaker001:] and uh sometimes it's nice to go out and have a salad
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] something you know
[speaker002:] do you usually go out uh with the children or without them
[speaker001:] well a variety I I like to go sometimes without them and sometimes I sometimes it's okay to take them along so sometimes I think we pay the babysitter as much as paying for their dinner or lunches so uh
[speaker002:] right yes
[speaker001:] it just you know it just varies we do a mix sometimes it's really nice to be able to go out and eat with just my husband and it wouldn't even really matter which restaurant it was just to you know have a moment of peace and quiet without little ones at the table
[speaker002:] yes yes
[speaker001:] so uh
[speaker002:] well I
[speaker001:] I guess I guess actually on those those times uh we even there are times I even say oh please don't sit us next to a table with other children
[speaker002:] no I
[speaker001:] this is our night out so but uh anyway where do you like to eat
[speaker002:] uh well uh we don't have any children so uh we tend to like to try all sorts of different things and uh we're very attracted to exotic food
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] and uh we like Indian food and Thai cuisine and uh sort of gourmet Mexican and uh things like that as well as Tex-Mex and Italian and uh Chinese and things and and things of that sort now yes of course we like to occasionally go out and get down and dirty with barbecue or hamburgers or something like that too
[speaker001:] right
[speaker002:] and uh we probably go out one to two times a week
[speaker001:] right
[speaker002:] and uh uh we're pretty much regulars at an Italian local Italian restaurant
[speaker001:] oh which one do you like
[speaker002:] Momo's
[speaker001:] oh okay well it's been a long time since we've been in there but uh but it's good there's an Italian restaurant over over by the mall over by uh Plano Parkway there past oh is it Campari's or something
[speaker002:] uh-huh I've heard about it I haven't been in there
[speaker001:] well it's good I haven't my husband had been in there several times and we went in there actually we went in there for lunch one day and uh their pastas were great
[speaker002:] uh-huh that's that's one of the things a good pasta means a lot to me I I like different kinds of food so when we go out I'm always looking for something other than the standard menu even if it's a Mexican restaurant like something other than uh you know the standard tacos enchiladas tamales and fajitas now
[speaker001:] you're brave
[speaker002:] yes yes and once in a while things backfire I mean we've gone for Romanian food and Lebanese food and things like that and I'm not fond of some of those things but we'll try we'll try anything just about Ethiopian we've had Ethiopian
[speaker001:] oh God right
[speaker002:] and uh not in Plano of course but we really we really do enjoy going out and uh and I'm pretty adventurous in cooking too which also occasionally backfires
[speaker001:] no I don't think so you know oh well even though traditional it can backfire
[speaker002:] yeah I think that we're supposed to say what will bring us back to a restaurant or or what attracts us to a restaurant how do you usually find a a new restaurant
[speaker001:] uh well my husband's kind of the ethnic he he's the ethnic fan so he's I don't know you know what we read we read the uh D magazine
[speaker002:] uh-huh so do we
[speaker001:] we we check that and uh the Friday section in the newspaper the pull out section there they often do ratings of restaurants so uh we've
[speaker002:] uh-huh right
[speaker001:] uh we've usually we often save those and adventured out on from there uh just for something that had a high rating
[speaker002:] uh-huh we have found uh a number of restaurants either through D and the Friday paper and sometimes the the Observer which my husband usually picks up
[speaker001:] okay
[speaker002:] and also through coupons when a new restaurant opens up they usually send out coupons and you know when they say you know buy one get one free
[speaker001:] that's that's right
[speaker002:] it's hard to resist so we'll go in and very often we'll find a place that we like and we'll stick with it once they give they they no longer give coupons we'll we'll uh we'll stay there
[speaker001:] oh good oh good
[speaker002:] but we've found probably half of our sort of regular restaurants through coupons and the other half through the newspaper through the newspaper reviews
[speaker001:] oh oh yeah we I guess we we use the coupons too that's true that's true
[speaker002:] I mean it's wonderful particularly if you have more than two people and you've got say four or something like that it's very expensive to go out to eat
[speaker001:] oh right right right
[speaker002:] so yeah that that is really one of our it's almost a hobby with us
[speaker001:] well I think that it's just that's exactly sometimes I think going out to eat it's it's sort of a recreation
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] so uh just a just a change of pace
[speaker002:] yes
[speaker001:] from uh eating at home so uh anyway I guess uh as far as as far as service when we go out gosh it's nice it's nice to have somebody come and wait the table and clear the table and
[speaker002:] uh uh-huh oh absolutely and do the dishes
[speaker001:] yeah and do the dishes and uh actually it's kind of nice to you know I always uh a waitress or waiter that waits the table it's nice that they're attentive but it's not nice when they're too attentive
[speaker002:] oh yes
[speaker001:] so uh we've had experience with that too so
[speaker002:] oh my my my sister who also lives here in Dallas uh tends to uh chat with waiters and waitresses and become their best friends during the course of dinner which drives me absolutely batty
[speaker001:] oh yeah well how we it may may help their tip may not huh
[speaker002:] but what's your favorite restaurant
[speaker001:] gosh I guess just in Plano I Plano I like to go to Souper Salads
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] uh Chili's Chili's is always fine
[speaker002:] sure
[speaker001:] I guess if we go to Dallas into Dallas we like uh the Routh is it Routh Street Cafe
[speaker002:] you know we've never been there and that's supposed to be wonderful
[speaker001:] we well you would like it you'd like it especially it you're adventuresome
[speaker002:] um uh-huh
[speaker001:] it just we've we've taken people there several times and uh they have a good they have a good choice of of things that are very different sounding I guess it's whether you call it Southwestern but uh oh we had venison
[speaker002:] ooh
[speaker001:] venison chili one time which was absolutely wonderful and then I guess it must be seasonal and we've been back oh I guess it's in the winter season well they've never had it when we've been back so but uh well you ought to try that it's it's it's very good
[speaker002:] uh-huh I would probably like that one or two times in my life I've ever had venison I've love d it but you know just it's just not I don't know people who hunt so
[speaker001:] no
[speaker002:] uh God that's that's supposed to be a wonderful place well uh uh uh here in Plano well we tend to go to Momo's a lot fairly often and uh sometimes we'll go you know we we also go to Chili's and uh Colter's Bar B Q and and uh we go to little there is a little Thai place that's over on park that we go to my husband particularly likes that we go into Dallas a lot and because we're both were from the Richardson North Dallas area up until fairly recently and uh we'll go down to uh Blue Mesa Grill for Mexican food and
[speaker001:] oh that's good yes I've been there
[speaker002:] oh