Restaurant chains I love

I came home last night from an expensive dinner with all of this leftover food that I didn't even really love and that's what drove my blog entry listing all of the restaurants I dislike. So by popular demand, here are my most favorite places to eat, in no particular order:

• California Pizza Kitchen -- duh! If you know me at all, you know that this is my favorite place to eat. I tend to order the same thing every time (half of a BBQ chopped salad/no jicama and hopefully I can talk my table into ordering the thai chicken spring rolls as an appetizer.) I love that the food is always fresh, they have limes for my soda and my salad is just the right size (outsized portions sort of offend me for some reason - maybe because I generally dislike leftovers? I'm not sure why.) Anyway, I love this restaurant and I think I would eat there at least once a week if I could.
• Panera Bread -- love this place. Like CPK, I think the food is always fresh tasting and hello they have the name of my favorite food group (bread!) in their name. Besides great bread, the salads are yummy and I especially love the broccoli cheddar soup! They have free wi-fi too...how cool is that??
• Red Robin -- when you want good french fries, you've gotta go to "The Rooster" as a friend of mine used to call it. I love the campfire/onion ring sauce for my fries and the raspberry limeade is totally yum!
• PF Changs -- kind of expensive Chinese food but I love all of the sauces they mix up for the lettuce wraps and the Mongolian beef is fabulous.
• Qdoba Mexican Grill -- I'm not necessarily a fan of the big giant burrito type places but the food here is just great. I love getting a quesadilla when I go here (their beef & chicken tastes real & like they just grilled it -- some restaurants do not have good tasting meat, in my opinion.) They also have limes for my soda, which is almost unheard of for a restaurant that is probably considered fast food.
• Salty's -- I wouldn't call this a chain but they do have 3 locations so I'll slip them in here. Salty's is one of my most favorite special occasion restaurants. They do a really expensive but really special and amazing brunch on Saturdays & Sundays (and we Mormons appreciate a restaurant that has brunch on Saturdays, don't we??) The Alki location is my favorite and they have the best view of downtown Seattle.

Okay Lindsey & Jazzy...are you happy now? :) If you guys want my leftover chicken piccata and asparagus from last night, let me know!