Last night, Rob and I decided to go out to dinner to this relatively new Kabob restaurant that opened in the town north of us. We had been there before, maybe a month or so ago, and it was absolutely delicious. It's also one of few restaurant selections that is not a chain and not super expensive.

Unfortunately, when we get there, the doors are locked. Disappointment sets in. There is a new (chain) on the other side of the parking lot, so we decided to check it out (it's also relatively new). We find out the wait is 45 minutes, so we left.

This is what I hate so much about the suburbs. There are a million chain restaurants, and they ALWAYS have long waits on weekend nights. There are a few local restaurants that in my opinion are way better than the chains, they just don't have that name recognition and maybe are a little rough around the edges, and very few of them ever have waits. But usually they are tucked into strip malls. Most of the chains are new construction. I just don't get suburbanites. Why do they wait almost an hour for a table at a chain restaurant? When there are plenty of perfectly good non-chain restaurants to choose from?

We ended up getting sushi (no wait for the sushi bar). And I found out instead of seaweed I could get a soybean wrap in it's place. Yay! I was starting to not like seaweed, and thus either not like sushi, or tear open my rolls to remove the seaweed, which just felt wrong.


I'm still really sad about that Kabob place. They had the most delicious hummus ever.