If you are staying at the Premier Inn in Cheadle, and you don't want to walk, and you don't want to eat in the pub, then this is the obvious choice. On a Friday night it was packed with local glamour.
There is an interesting little feature on this this chain of American Restaurants on Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T.G.I._Friday's and for once, it seems that it was all American to start with, and now is pretty much anywhere in the world. There is a creative formula for the internal structure and fittings, and they do have an American feel to them. Lots of red and white, and often a rowing scull which was definitely visible in Cheadle: you can see it just in the background here:-
The menu is American Style if not taste and cost. Remembering my experience last week at Chiquitos, I opted for the chicken and beef fajita, and it turned out to be the right decision.
It was exactly what it said on the box with chicken and beef and vegetables. What you cannot see are the tortillas (fresh) and the various addings such as guacamole and salsa. Pretty good, very hot (9+ on the scale) but a bit British. We tried the Mocha Mud Pie for desert, which turned out to be not such a good idea.
It was described in the menu as a coffee flavoured ice cream mousse, but had clearly not spent enough time out of the freezer. It was quite hard, and we had to wait for it to be sufficiently soft that spoons could penetrate it.
For a functional meal this was entirely fine. We are presumably too old to buy into the bonhomie bar scene there, and similarly were nearly the oldest people seated: skimpy skirts and tattoos were the order of the day and pumping iron T shirts for the men. I guess we are just a bit too cosmopolitan for this to be out of the usual.
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