IHOP

          It's 1230 am in Dallas. The night was just coming to a close and it was time to make the 3 hour drive home. We had just saw NOFX in concert and we were beat up and exhausted. Before we make the long trek home we needed to get some food in our bellies and some caffeine in my veins. There are not many options at this time of night so anything will do and the first thing that we see is an IHOP. As we walk up to the door the first person to greet us is not a hostess, but a security guard who opens the door for us. I'm not sure if this makes me feel safe or if I get more worried that this place needs a security guard. As we take are seats we are told by a lady who works their that our server will be right with us.  A little bit of time goes by when the same person who sat us asks us for our drink order. I am not sure if she needed to finish talking before she helped us, or if whoever was supposed to help us was not doing their job and she was stepping in to take care of us. Either way i proceeded to order some coffee. IHOP features a coffee setup where when you order coffee, not only do you get a cup, but they give you an entire thermos so you can refill your coffee as often as you want. For food I ordered the Cinn-a-Stick French Toast Combo. It was 2 pieces of french toast that was smothered in a cinn-a-bun style gooey sauce served with 2 pieces of bacon and 2 eggs. The french toast was epic, It tasted exactly like a cinn-a-bun ordered from the mall and I was very pleased with it. For food and coffee after midnight IHOP definitely fulfilled my needs. Although the service was terrible, can you blame anyone who had to work at IHOP after midnight?

Rating: 4 out of 10, After midnight rating: 8 out of 10
$: 5-8
http://www.ihop.com/