Tuesday, 04 September 2007

• TGI Friday's

  230 Mishawum Rd.
  Woburn, MA 01801
  781-932-9550
  http://www.fridays.com

  When you're stuck at the airport or in an unfamiliar place you're more likely to choose something you know is bad but predictably bad.  Here I am on my Boston trip at 11pm, living in a hotel in the middle of nowhere and the most convenient feeding hole is TGI Friday's.  Here we go:

  

  A dingy fluorescent lit dining area:

  

  Fish and Chips:

  

  Fish was lightly battered and not over fried.  It tasted like the fish and chips you can buy from the grocery store.  Speaking of grocery store fish and chip, remember not to buy the minced fish ones as they are dark and weird tasting.  You can easily identify minced fish from the packaging as they never expose in the inside of the fish and chip for minced fish.  Batter was fried in the standard fries oil frier so it doesn't have the solid crispiness that you find in fish and chips fried in authentic England issued friers.  Fries has a crunchy exterior and little potato inside.  Fries were unevenly salted so we had bites of salt.

  Cedar-seared Salmon Pasta with a skewer of grilled shrimp:

  

  Salmon did not have cedar plank taste but tasted like it sat in a sauce pan with too much old oil for a while.  Pasta was equallly heavy in old oil so I tossed out over half my pasta.  Shrimps were grilled on a dirty grill as I could only taste the burnt carbon.  Shrimps were soft so they're not fresh.  Broccoli was soft and I liked them (some people prefer crunchy broccoli, so you won't like these).

  The restaurant looks ugly and hard on the eye with the fluorescent tube lights and red stripes everywhere.  The brinked floor is very 1980's food court.  The poor food quality from frying in old oil to grilling over dirty grills is just unacceptable.  I would never recommend coming to a TGI Friday's.

  Eric Tummy Points: 1.5 out of 5

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