Restaurant Review: Ruby Tuesday's

Whoa, wait! Where are you going?? I know, I know, Ruby Tuesday's. But hear me out!!

So I hadn't been to a Ruby Tuesday's since about 1994 when I visited my sister in college and all I really remember about it was that it seemed kind of run down and shady, and I think I had a long island ice tea. I could be making that last part up, though.

But every time that commercial for Ruby's came on with the mini burgers, Aaron would say, "I want those!" So last night when we were thinking of what to do for dinner since I didn't want to cook, I flashed back to those commercials. And there is a Ruby's about 3 minutes from our house. I checked out the menu online and it actually looked pretty good. So off we went.

When we first walked in, the floor was sticky. And the salad bar was right there. I hate salad bars, so I was kind of turned off by seeing it. I was ready to remain unimpressed. However when we looked at the menu, freaking everything looked good! Neither of us could decide what to get.

We started out with steamed chicken dumplings, or something like that. The peanut sauce was very good and the dumplings were alright, I thought they could have been crispier though. My strawberry lemonade was good, but not worth $4.

For entrees we both got burgers, but I was seriously tempted by a ton of dishes. Aaron had the bison bacon cheeseburger (with hot wing sauce on the side) and I had the smokehouse burger (cheese, bacon, bbq sauce). They were both amazing. I absolutely loved the bbq sauce on mine and was glad I ordered an extra side of it. The burger was more rare than the medium I requested, but I still loved it. The buns were both seemingly whole wheat, which really impressed us. Aaron's burger was really good too and the wing sauce very good and spicy. So obviously next time we will be getting wings! The fries were fresh, hot and delicious.

All in all, it was good. They had nice plates, too. A little more upscale than I was expecting. So after all these years avoiding it like the plague, I think we will be going back to Ruby's sometime soon! There is a little salmon dish I want to try....