Last Chance Grille - Frisco, TX

Imagine my surprise when I happened upon a restaurant in Frisco that I hadn't been to.  I was giddy with excitement when I walked in the door.  The giddyness turned to apprehension when I saw the bar nearly full and the restaurant floor empty.  Cheap beer and good food rarely go together. Not easily dissuaded, I followed the bar tender's direction to find a seat.
The room looked like a spiffy country club (points off my blog for using the word spiffy) except for the pinball machine and electronic poker machine. Those definitely detracted from the spiffyness.
My waitress was a heavily eye-lined college grad whose enthusiasm for serving was very much like my enthusiasm for root canals.  I asked her what was good.  She said she had only been there a couple weeks and had only eaten a couple things.
Waiters, you HAVE to test the product.  Restaurant owners, let them test it.  Give them free food 'till they've had everything.  That way, I, the customer, don't have to listen to the fake apologies of an uninformed wait staff.
After a titillating conversation about my waitresses' eating habits, I ordered the chicken salad sandwich.
A good chicken salad has several layers.  Chicken taking the primary flavor punctuated by salty, sweet, crunchy, and creamy. The bread also plays a part.  A good chewy bread that adds another dimension of flavor is always great.  My favorite is sourdough.
The sandwich, when it arrived, was beautifully browned.  The toasting color was beautiful.  Both sides of the bread, even.  I really wanted to frame the sexy slab of gluten, but I ate it instead.
I should have framed it.
The chicken salad had pecans, celery, chicken, and some kind of cayenne pepper (which I felt, not tasted) but because the bread was toasted in butter.  Lots of butter.  I'm a fan of butter but I think there was so much on it, it coated my tongue and I couldn't taste the food.  It looked fantastic but had the culinary excitement of french kissing an Elmer's glue stick.
On top of that, the waffle fries were cold and soggy. *sigh. If you have a cold sandwich, I feel like hot fries shouldn't be too hard.  If any readers have a really good reason why this isn't so, I'd like to hear it.  (fourth wall broken)

On the plus side, the menu was laid out well and the prices are very good.  It looked like they had a really great beer selection.  I'm a bit sad for the people drinking it at 11:30am o'clock in the morning.  For all I know they could be going through a really rough patch or a high school math teacher.

Fast service, good menu.  Cold fries and chicken salad a la oatmeal... I give Last Chance Grille a 4 out of 10.  I may try it again and give the burger a go.

Happy Eating, Y'all.