Top Secret Restaurant Recipes 3: The Secret Formulas for Duplicating Your Favorite Restaurant Dishes at Home: A Cookbook

by Todd Wilbur

A brand new restaurant recipe treasury from the wizard of culinary carbon copies.

For more than twenty years, Todd Wilbur has been translating his obsession with recreating restaurant favorites at home into a blockbuster bestselling cookbook series. Using everyday ingredients, each of Wilbur's recipes provides step-by-step instructions that even the novice cook can follow-and the delicious results cost just a fraction of what the restaurants charge.

With over 100 sensational new recipes, Top Secret Restaurant Recipes 3 unlocks the secrets to:

?Outback Steakhouse Outback Rack

?Chili's Quesadilla Explosion Salad

?Olive Garden Breadsticks

?TGI Friday's Fried Mac & Cheese

?Chili's Firecracker Tilapia

?On the Border Mexican Mojito

?Cracker Barrel Double Chocolate Fudge Coca-Cola Cake

And much, much more...

Genres: Cookbooks, Cooking, Nonfiction, Ebooks, Food

421 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2010

Reviews

[Matt · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a book that gives you the recipes of the favorite foods from your favorite eateries. It is the third volume so these are probably not the most famous taste treats that places are best known for. Makes me want to check out the first volume.

So How do you read a cookbook? I guess you don’t. You sort of leaf through it and check out the recipes. One that sounds especially good is the Cracker Barrel double chocolate fudge coca-cola cake. Mmmmmmm. It is gooood.

[victoria brukoff · Rating 5 out of 5]

Love this

So many great recipes that are not too hard to make. I use this and the other books like this to make dinner for my family. We don't have a lot of money to go out to eat and I have two food allergies so going out is hard and sometimes dangerous

[Colleen Criswell · Rating 5 out of 5]

Red Robin Campfire Sauce!!!!

[Rebecca C DePriest · Rating 4 out of 5]

Enjoyable

Lots of good recipes, along with some I would never want to try but I do enjoy reading them anyway.

[Donna · Rating 3 out of 5]

The Sandra hummus was the best part of this copy cat recipe group.

[Carol Tietsworth · Rating 4 out of 5]

I got this book for the same reason I got others of it's kind, I like to see how to do it, although I don't have the willingness to do it anymore.

[Lindsay White · Rating 3 out of 5]

I don't dine out often, mainly because my family cooks such great food. We are often disappointed when going to restaurants, feeling that we could have prepared a cheaper and better version at home. I love copy-cat recipes - You get all the inspiration which restaurants pay chefs tons of money to create, but also have the freedom of changing things around to suit your taste.

The best thing about this book is the simplicity of recipes - Unlike gourmet cookbooks, you'll undoubtedly have most of these ingredients on hand. My favorite recipe from this cookbook was Outback's Chopped Salad, with a lovely bleu cheese vinagerette. I added Fuji apples and this has now become my favorite salad.

A major drawback of the book is a lack of photos (save a few on the cover). Instead, the author includes strange technical blueprints of the dish. These serve no purpose other than to waste pages.

In summary, I recommend this book (and Wilbur's previous edition)over "free" websites such as CopyCat Recipes, which I found found to be grossly inaccurate when it comes to ingredient measurements. With that said, the librarian in me was appalled at the number of typos I found in these books. Call me traditional, but ALL books (especially cookbooks!) should have a competent team of editors. So before making any recipe listed, I'm certain to double-check the measurements.

[C · Rating 2 out of 5]

Most of these are restaurant recipes that may be fantastic, but are so in the "not good for you" catagory, I can't really compel myself to make them. Some restaurant food should *stay* restaurant food, I think. A once and a while treat instead of something you just make at home.

I snagged the Fuddruckers spice blend (of course!), but won't likely make any other recipes from it.

That said? The last recipe I snagged from one of his books (Sabra Hummus) is SO good it is a staple in our house, so don't mistake the 2 stars for a bad recipe review. Just an impracticable book for me, personally.

[ReadingWench · Rating 5 out of 5]

Todd Wilbur has done it again. He has taken your favorite restaurant menu items and re-created a recipe. Chili's, Cheesecake Factory, Red Robin and Outback, just to name a few; All these recipes seem doable for the average cook.

Really...can you go wrong with Cheesecake Factory's Red Velvet Cheesecake? I think not !

[Melanie · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book had lots of yummy-sounding restaurant favorites that probably took a ton of time to recreate. Unfortunately, we rarely go eat out, so there really wasn't anything I felt like I needed to try. No photos besides those on the front cover, and I love photos in cookbooks. Maybe this would be enjoyed more by someone else. Glad I just picked it up from the library!

[Gevera Piedmont · Rating 3 out of 5]

These seem easy enough, and I love the blue-print style illustrations, but I'm a terrible cook, so I'm not sure if anything I made would be worth eating, or worth the effort versus driving to the restaurant and ordering it. Also, he doesn't list nutritional information.

[Diana · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great for substituting ingredients, for those who prefer organics or have food allergies.
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[Robin]

Only reason to check out this book: recipe for meat loaf from Cheesecake Factory. Ok, so the lemon cake from Macaroni's Grill looks pretty darn scrumptious, too.

[Sasha Strader · Rating 3 out of 5]

Again, the recipes taste just like the food you get while you're at the resteraunt, but I just didn't find as many recipes I was interested in in this cookbook.

[Gayle Kee · Rating 5 out of 5]

Loved this one also.

[Jenn · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love these books. I love some restaurant food and this allows me to have that at home and I can control a lot of the ingredients I don't care for!

[Judy · Rating 4 out of 5]

Love that I don't have to pay big bucks to have some of our favorites!

[Ginnie Grant · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love the theory of these books. some of the recipes were close to the original, some I thought were better, while some fell way short and the steps were confusing and over- complicated.

[Abraham Ray · Rating 5 out of 5]

great recipe book!

[Sandy]

Great selection of recipes. I want to try many of them.