You know it’s officially “watermelon season” when restaurants start rolling out watermelon-themed food and drink specials. You can find watermelon on many menus (some all year long, if you’re lucky), but Chili’s is taking the season to new, tastier level with its line of watermelon-themed drinks.
Throughout the spring and into the summer, the restaurant is offering not one, not two, but three beverages featuring the season’s greatest fruit. The drinks include the following:
Watermelon Margarita – Tequila, fresh watermelon puree and house-made sour.
Watermelon Cooler – Vodka, lemonade and fresh watermelon puree.
Watermelon Lemonade – A refreshing combination of two great flavors (non-alcoholic)
I’ll pay a visit to my local Chili’s next week to sample all three specials (all in the name of research, of course), and I’ll provide a review and photos in a blog entry later this month. In the meantime, I’m happy to announce that you, too, can try the drinks thanks to this month’s What About Watermelon prize – a $50 Chili’s gift card.
The gift card is more than enough to cover all three drinks, so feel free to also grab some dinner while you’re there. What you choose to pair with your Watermelon Margarita or Watermelon Cooler is up to you. Personally, I’ll probably opt for the Mushroom Swiss Burger or the Santa Fe Chicken Quesadillas.
I’ll give away the Chili’s gift card to one commenter chosen at random from all the comments left on the blog this month. To get the conversation started, leave a comment below with which of the three Chili’s watermelon drinks you’d like to try most!
I think all 3 sound delicious but I would like to try the cooler first!
I keep hearing how great the “Watermelon Lemonade”, and the “Watermelon Margarita” is,….but I really want to see.if the “Watermelon Cooler” beats them!! ?
I can’t wait to try the Watermelon Cooler with friends – sounds delicious! Chili’s does know how to make a margarita which is why I’m sure I will eventually try the Watermelon Margarita.
Watermelon is one of my favorite drink flavors! If I had to choose I would start with a Watermelon Cooler, move on to the Watermelon Marg and finish up with a refreshing Watermelon Lemonade! ?
Sounds like a good night!
Watermelon Margarita 🙂
Melon Margarita
Wow! Glad to see Chili’s joined the watermelon bandwagon! They have great food and I look forward to trying these drinks!
I’ll have to travel a little distant, about 1.5 hours to get to my neighborhood Chili’s, but I would like to try the #3 Watermelon, lemonade. I’m also looking forward to again tasting the watermelon shakes at the Cookout Restaurants. They only have those available during June & July of every year. Luckily I only have to drive about 30 minutes for that treat, but I’ve got to wait a few more weeks! It is an awesome shake with bits of watermelon in it…works better to eat it with a spoon, rather than a straw!
Ahh, The treats of summer are here. Watermelon drinks to go along with all the other great melon ideas. Hope to see everyone at Chilis. If I win stop by my table and drinks are on me. Watermelon drinks only
The watermelon cooler is awesome! I loved it and I don’t drink hardly at all! Very smooth!
I had Chili’s Watermelon Lemonade last night and it was great. A wonderful combination and definitely worth trying. It will be a permanent addition to my summer meals.
Congrats to Alycia (A. McLamb). She’s our monthly prize winner! If you ask nicely, maybe she’ll take you to dinner at Chili’s with her!
The watermelon cooler is excellent! Very refreshing drink!
Watermelon Cooler is AWESOME!!! Very refreshing on a hot, stormy summer day!
I am not a drinker . i might have a cooler once a year tops but other night I went to Chiles and had a watermelon cooler …THAT THING WAS THE BOMB!!!!!!!!! I don’t care if you are or are not drinker you will love it..
Ok so I am a beer drinker. I like margarita’s also so I have tried the Watermelon Margarita and is was great. I have to have at least 2 so I can have my fix for a while. Also I had lunch there today and tried the Watermelon Cooler. It was also great. Very refreshing and tasty.
Just tried watermelon cooler and love it
I am obsessed with the watermelon margarita. I just asked my boyfriend to see if he can get a really really TALL one to go!!! Lol My son just got out of the hospital but unfortunately hes still not %100…. this momma needs that drink. I think about it a lot… a lot a lot. Lol I swear im not alcoholic!!
Watermelon cooler is AWESOME!!!
Recently visited the Chili’s by the Dayton mall for a casual shopping lunch. We had the best waiter I’ve EVER had and I am well traveled. He recommended the water melon cooler. FABULOUS refreshing summer cocktail!
I had the watermelon margarita and truly, it was the best drink I have ever tasted.
I tried Chili’s watermelon lemonade last night. It was a little too sweet for my taste but still very refreshing. I asked our server what was used to sweeten the drink but he was not able to answer my question. Artificial sweeteners usually bring on a headache for me; since I didn’t get a headache, I guess it was a natural sweetener.