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Drinking and Dining in Penn Station: The T.G.I. Friday's Experience

I'll cop to being a bit of a restaurant snob, but it's pretty much impossible to live in New York and not be one. With so many excellent eateries around town, the idea of dining or drinking at a franchise joint like Applebee's, the Olive Garden, or the Outback Steakhouse just doesn't make sense. Those places are for the corn-fed tourists in Times Square who don't know any better, right? Well, there was one franchise place that I always wanted to check out, and last week I did exactly that. My choice was a doozy: the T.G.I. Friday's in Penn Station. I wanted to find out for myself if it was as lousy as I had imagined, or if I needed to get over my little superiority complex and enjoy an experience that the rest of America seems to have no problem with.

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