I have many fine memories of White Water, and one not so fine one when I gave myself second degree burns on my shoulders and upper back. I've been using the Casa Linda location, because the one in Mesquite has had horrible service on a consistent basis.
I'm trying to think what's gotten better. Okay, The Angry Dog is still up to old standards, but El Fenix has gotten patchy, where certain locations are far better than others. So many places are gone (I'm still trying to figure out when I can make a pilgrimage to the last remaining Black Eyed Pea in the area), and the places that replaced them are mediocre at best -- I went to a place that claimed to be like BEP, but the spaghetti sauce on the meat loaf was a huge turnoff, and nobody has those rolls. In some cases losing these places has been the major suck -- Barbec's is an example of that, and I miss Grady's American Grill. Dining out in the area has gotten a lot more varied, with cuisine from more places, but the general quality doesn't touch what we had before. And so much of this is homogenizing -- it's like so many places want to have that McDonald's goal set of exact consistency across all locations.
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Date: 2025-02-21 04:55 pm (UTC)I have many fine memories of White Water, and one not so fine one when I gave myself second degree burns on my shoulders and upper back. I've been using the Casa Linda location, because the one in Mesquite has had horrible service on a consistent basis.
I'm trying to think what's gotten better. Okay, The Angry Dog is still up to old standards, but El Fenix has gotten patchy, where certain locations are far better than others. So many places are gone (I'm still trying to figure out when I can make a pilgrimage to the last remaining Black Eyed Pea in the area), and the places that replaced them are mediocre at best -- I went to a place that claimed to be like BEP, but the spaghetti sauce on the meat loaf was a huge turnoff, and nobody has those rolls. In some cases losing these places has been the major suck -- Barbec's is an example of that, and I miss Grady's American Grill. Dining out in the area has gotten a lot more varied, with cuisine from more places, but the general quality doesn't touch what we had before. And so much of this is homogenizing -- it's like so many places want to have that McDonald's goal set of exact consistency across all locations.
Like I said, FWP.