Todd & Yukari's Food Journal

These four restaurants, all at Birmingham's Summit shopping center and all a bit less formal than the three restaurants mentioned previously, are all popular. 

The three have, respectively,  1. Mexican, 2. Chinese, 3,. Italian, and 4.American food.                    

1. On the Border, has excellent Mexican food that includes the option of mesquite-grilled steak in your fajita or burrito (not spicy is an option if in a fajita), guacamole which can be made fresh at the table if you'd like (at a charge), and alcoholic and other drinks,. The steak, when ordered with a fajita, can be eaten or mixed however you like.  Todd eats half of the steak by itself--being his favorite steak!--and the second half mixed in the fajita. 

 2. P. F. Chang's has great food and is very different than the common fast food version of 'Chinese' food that is often available. 

3. Macaroni Grill has some original items on the menu, after you start with the complimentary bread with olive oil for dipping.  Entrees include seasonal variations and a lobster meat in butter-lemon sauce dish.

4. Two girls, visiting from Japan, wanted to try Cheesecake Factory, figuring that a restaurant with such a name must serve cheesecake for breakfast.  It cleverly avoided the situation by not offering breakfast.  We went for dinner, though, and had the cheesecake for dessert. This may be what people mean when they say 'American food', but don't mean American-style pizza or McDonald's style hamburger.  A side note: 'hamburger' originally referred to the German town of Hamburg; there is no ham involved.

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