Message: | The Grubs were taken to A.J. Spurs by friends on a recent road trip. Because it violated a couple of Mr Grub's hints to choosing a restaurant, we had some trepidation. As it turned out, our trepidation was well founded. The food was across-the-board mediocre as you would expect from a place that apparently wishes it were a chain. Ribs were, well, OK. Steak sandwich, OK. On the YEE-HAW scale, it rates a YE.
Mr. Grub's 15 Hints to Choosing Restaurants
1. Avoid restaurants in the shape of something in which you wouldn't eat, like a boat or a goat
2. Avoid restaurants above the ground floor
3. Avoid restaurants with initials in their name, i.e., Mr. C's, T & A Cafe
4. Avoid restaurants advertised by American Express
5. Avoid restaurants with unnatural cuisine combinations, i.e., Cambodian/Scottish
6. Avoid restaurants that are open on Monday (when the chef is off)
7. Avoid restaurants with costumed, roller-skating, or singing servers
8. Avoid restaurants with an "'n" in their name, i.e., Pig 'n Speculum
9. Avoid restaurants specializing in continental or galactic food
10. Avoid restaurants where valet parking costs more than you're paying the sitter
11. Avoid restaurants touting their view more zealously than their food
12. Avoid themed restaurants especially those with unappetizing themes, i.e., tropical jungle, public housing
13. Avoid chain restaurants, if chain is longer than 3 members or 30 miles
14. Avoid restaurants with alliterative, misspelled names: Sindy's Seafood, Phil's Phish
15. Avoid restaurants in hotels: they're guaranteed to be mundane, overpriced, or both
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