Murray: Red Robin

Teaching at two different colleges, as I have been doing this past semester, leads to a bit of incongruity as far as calendars are concerned, in large part because no two college calendars are exactly the same when it comes to semester start and end dates. One college's classes ended two weeks ago; the ended this past week. (Then there are the associated Reading Days, and Finals Weeks, after which grades get submitted, so the "end of the semester" can actually be a week or so after the last class has actually taken place.)


In any case, to celebrate the end of the school year, and to celebrate my first year of "real teaching" work in Utah that wasn't subbing (I've been living in Utah just under two years, and all last year my job consisted of subbing in the local school district), my husband and I splurged and went to Red Robin. (Money being tight, as it is for so many folks right now, and with our first wedding anniversary only about two weeks away, we didn't want to spring for something very expensive, yet I felt that something a wee bit more celebratory than In-and-Out was called for - not that we dislike In-and-Out by any means.)

We started with the Towering Onion Rings (which my husband mostly devoured by himself):

I then moved on to the French Onion soup:

I also had Patty Melt (topped with sautéed onions, Thousand Island dressing, and American cheese), which I have to admit I only ate half of, since I was stuffed by this point: