Red Robin

Jan13, 2009
1238 Putty Hill Ave, Tenant #16
Towson, MD 21286

Environment & Service: 65
Food Quality: 60
Price: 55
Average: 60

Detail Review:

What is a good governor? A good governor designs good laws for people. His citizens will have good lives under a country with good laws. What is a good restaurant? Food tastes good only? No......... You go to a steak house, you except a steak knife has been put on the table, Right? That is design. There are so many factors in a restaurant. However, I could not see good designs in Red Robin.

Me and my wife ordered two burgers and onion rings. Mine is a monster burger which had double patties. I believed there were at least two design problems in the meal. The 1st one was in the burger. One of the important things for a good "regular burger" (Not 10 stacks or 5 pounds) is that I can have bun, tomato and meat in one bite. Half of my monster burger was wrapped, so I thought I should use my hand to hold the burger to put it to my month. I took the burger up, but I had no clue how I should eat it. Because the Burger was too thick. If that was the case, they should put it on a plate and we will finish one layer then the other layer ( or any other ways). They should not wrap up the half of the burger and put it into a small basket, so I had problem to find a place to open the wrap. The 2nd design problem was the container that held the source for the onion rings. The onion rings were too big, I could not use the rings to touch the source because of the limitation of the width of the container. I needed to cut the onion rings into half first before I could dip into the source. The designs were bad. However, the environment was very comfortable and the waitress was pretty. I would like to go there again to have a drink "only" and there was also a nice place to talk to friends.

Todai

Dec31, 2008
11750L Fair Oaks Mall,
Fairfax, VA‎

Environment & Service: 80
Food Quality: 70
Price: 60
Average: 70

Detail Review:

I was in Hong Kong to have my 3 months vacation on 2005; and I went to my first Todai restaurant which gave me a very good impression. Even if the price was relatively expensive, I felt very satisfied with the service and the food quality. There were unlimited sashimi, uni, big shimps, small lobsters, etc. Not only the food quantity was impressive, but also its quality. The Hong Kong Todai put unlimited expensive seafood in front of you, it was amazing.

I did not have chance to go to Hong Kong Todai with my wife, so we decided to go to the VA Todai at her B-day. We drove 75 mins to VA; and reached Todai at 7:30pm. There were 150 people; and almost all of them were Asian. I could not wait to check on the buffet counters. There were ~7 types of hot dishes, ~2 types of soup, ~10 types of rolls, ~10 types of sushi, and 3 types of sashimi. I was a bit disappointed because few types of food presented; and I could not see my favor UNI (saw the plate, but it was empty) and SoftShell Crab (Not serving at all) which were listed on the online menu. After a few mins of searching, I asked the chef to give me some UNI sushi. I also ask her to give me some sashimi because only a few piece were left on the sashimi plate. She was very helpful to provide what I wanted, but the UNI sushi and Sashimi plate were not reloaded. I was a bit upset. Anyway, Let's talk about other food, most of the hot dishes were not good, but they still provided the big shrimps and small lobsters. The BBQ ribs were very bad. The sushi quality were relatively good. The dessert was very good, for example the pan cake was good. The enviroment in todai is relative comforatable than its at Tokyo; but 30 dallors a person is too expensive. I might not go there again because of total 3 hrs driving, average food quality and limited amount of food choice.