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Uncle Orson's Restaurant Guide
Lone Star
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one Star has a simple menu of heavily marinated (but tasty and responsibly cooked) steaks. Clark and Kathy Kidd first introduced me to Lone Star in Herndon, Virginia, where "Rosita's Filet," butterflied, medium well, became my regular order. I also love their soups — a chicken pot pie soup with chunks of pretty good pie crust; a steak soup that's rich with delicious bites of beef; and a black bean soup that is the purest I've tasted — you really get the beans (if you can persuade them not to include a cloying dollop of sour cream and a pile of harsh onions). The country music ambience is fun — but then, I like country music (that's what my car stereo is tuned to during pledge weeks on public radio). And the peanut shells on the floor make you feel like you're eating in an unswept barn. Which, oddly enough, just makes me want to dance. Every now and then the salads get noticeably worse. Or maybe I'm going to Los Angeles often enough now that I'm just used to better.
Special offerings: The spicy dip with the Texas Tumbleweed (a batter- dipped onion) is wonderful, and Lone Star remains the only chain restaurant where you can get baked sweet potatoes, either buttered or with cinnamon. I won't tell you what my son Charlie did with one of those sweet potatoes, however. I want you to enjoy your visits to this dependable nationwide chain.