Tell us about your favourite restaurant of the moment

*the salad w/squid & black chick peas is nice but ask for the unctious alioli dressing on the side if youre squeamish about richness like me.

The Ruschhaus restaurant is where I want to have the end of my days.

i went to green papaya the other week, and the tilapia was very nice, but the selection didnt match up to viet house, i didnt think

i dont go to restaurants as often as i'd like

was sorta meh on this, although it was certainly passable. favorite thing there was the papaya salad.

oddly enough this is exactly like several restaurants here too. what are the chances?

so good. its basically spanish food with some twists.

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in New Haven: The Pantry (superior eggs at brunch, wooden tables and diner counter, undergrads meet tough guys, jazz festival posters and jazz)

in DC: Vegetate (high cult of freshness, boho non-scene), Capital Q (real enough Texas bbq, Lucinda and the Blasters)

I'm salivating at the mere thought of the wild mushroom risotto I had. mmmm

Haandi in Knightsbridge did a fantastic curry on Sunday night and had exemplary service.

dear god i love this place

https://www.facebook.com/hungerpangnyc
http://ditmasparkcorner.com/blog/food/new-american-asian-hunger-pang-restaurant-to-open-at-1021-church-avenue

these guys are near my apartment, reasonably priced, brand new and fucking great. Karl Malone take note.

hey, that's near my apartment too. excited to try it. dogwood was pretty good, but i will eat this cuisine/ menu way more often i think.

The M. Wells Dinette at PS1

Restaurant. A smallish place on 2 levels on a side street in the centre of Galway. It sells very nicely done Caribbean food and is called Jamaica Joe's.
Have loved the 2 dishes I've had there so far, but early days yet. Only opened last month. May be back for more tomorrow.

Take away Kawal's indian stall on the St Nicholas market on a Sunday afternoon. Quite amazing food & he's got a dhawali on next weekend.
But if you're in Galway on a Sunday or Bank Holiday Monday afternoon make sure you go down to his stall. It's lovely and reasonably cheap. He bungs in curry, raita and salad with everything you order.

not a fan of the ps1 dinette; too expensive, too pretentious and not particularly outstanding imo

disagree with all three of those points -- reasonable, outstanding, and I wholly enjoy the pretention.

As far as the prices, they usually have a bunch of dishes that are filling and between $10 and $20, so I don't see what's expensive about it unless you're just expecting cheap food because it's super casual and in a museum.

i got a two course meal with two people and it rang up as about 120 with tip, that did not feel cheap to me and i didn't care for the food

Eh fine. You mean two people total or three? With drinks or without?

two people total, i think i had some sort of infused soft drink thing and my friend had a bloody mary. not for me.

The only time I've ever eaten brains (sheep) was there. That was actually probably my least favorite thing I've had there though it was worth trying once. I find the food pretty much always at least surprises me and more often than not is great. They seem pretty inventive.

Had a very good meal at Gunshow in Atlanta a few weeks ago. Pricy, but highly recommended.

yeah the dinette is heavy on marrow and sweetmeats and other things that do not match my "having knocked around a museum for two hours, what's for lunch" mindset

NB i do not like french food so that's a large part of my disinterest right there.

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There's plenty of great Vietnamese places in Westminster, but we glommed onto this one. Open very late. Reasonable prices. Can never no wrong with an order of spring rolls and the sour fish soup.

I will also plug this place, which happens to be run by friends, but regardless has great great food

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i'm not going to name the place. i really like it. the food is good. this older waitress - older than me - comes over hopped up on some sort of goofball and i wanted what she was having and she hands us menus including a coffee menu with different roasts, etc, which was cool but i just ordered a black coffee and i said i didn't care what kind it was. then she asked me if i wanted cream. i said..no..black...she finally got the picture and then came back and said they were out of coffee!! hahaha! and she handed me a thimbleful of the dregs in a cup until there was more! it was gunky. then the owner worked some magic and she came back with dirty mud! i said no problem i'll have a coke. i finally got a coffee halfway thru our meal. then she starts to take our order without an order pad and i went uh oh this isn't good. maria orders tacos. my dad and i order two hamburgers. me with cheese and bacon and fries. him without bacon or cheese or fries but coleslaw. omg it was like an abbott and costello routine. she got every single thing wrong. "and you want cheese and fries, right?" to my dad. "and you want no fries and coleslaw and no bacon, right?" i swear it went on like that for a good minute. this is two. hamburgers. i wanted to yell "why don't you write it down!?" but i didn't i just kept laughing and maria kept telling me to stop laughing. the food finally came and everything was fine and she said "you probably thought it was going to be all wrong, right?" and i asked her why she didn't just write stuff down and she said it was easier for her to remember it in her head! evidence to the contrary notwithstanding. she said she would have written it down if it was four people or more. she might want to amend that and include 3 tops. it was funny. she was singing and dancing. i really wanted to ask her what medication she was on. or where to get the meth she was on. she was cool.

ooh, maybe you can help me. i used to go to this vietnamese place in chicago and my favorite dish there was this kind of beef spring roll. ive mentioned it a couple times on ilx. but anyways, its the kind wrapped in the fresh ricepaper, and has strips of grilled beef, but its a deep red color and has peanuts on it. its fully cooked, but its dark red - not sure how. and then there's strips of carrots, bean sprouts, cilantro, lettuce in it - and you dip it in a spicy fish oil sauce thing. oh god it was good. do you know what this is called in vietnamese? i'd find out from the restaurnat, but they closed down.

― phil-two (phil-two), Monday, April 24, 2006 9:03 AM (seventeen years ago)

Nem Chua Bò Cuốn

The beef turns red because of the curing process

There's 2 places that serve the most amazing (imho) versions: Brodard in Fountain Valley CA and Nem Nuong 25 in Nha Trang VN.

But our dearest Phil doesn't post here anymore so I will text this to him lol.

ate at a pricey but delicious northern italian resto in venice, ca on our couple's anniversary on sunday. everything we had was excellent but the pappardelle in duck ragù was easily the greatest ragù i've ever tasted, like HEAVENLY. it is absolutely a "special occasions only" type place but i really want to try everything on the menu now

I kind of feel like covid took the wind out of the sails of dining here. Not that people aren't going out. They are (and of course carry-out/family meal takeout was a thing during the pandemic that both kept people fed and a lot of restaurants afloat, at least for a while, and in tandem with state and federal funds). But between labor costs/shortages/retention, extra fees, higher/hidden menu prices ... it's like the quality and creativity of the food itself hasn't risen to the challenges restaurants and diners have both faced. Just going out to an average place costs a bunch, and the even more expensive places don't seem much better than average themselves. Like, good friends of mine went to Ever last week ($$$$), and they said the service was great but the food was ... OK. Fine dining shouldn't be "fine." There's just not that much to get excited about, at least in Chicago, just a few standbys and standard-bearers but not much in the way of musts (imo). It's kind of a bummer.

Bon Appetit had a recent piece along those lines: "Diners are happy to pay higher bills at their favorite restaurants. But for many, the risk of eating somewhere new is no longer worth the cost."

(That said, Josh, I had a very good meal at the nouveau-Ukrainian restaurant Anelya a couple weeks ago.)

I am addicted to the extra hot wings in Pepe's Piri Piri, they do awful things to my digestive system but it's worth it.

Good to know re: the Ukrainian(ish) place. There are a couple of Filipino places that people love, too (and maybe you've hit them), but kind of like Ukrainian I've never been a huge fan of the base cuisine so have been wary of elevated Filipino or Ukrainian or whatever. I'll have to read that Bon Appetit piece, though, since that is the vibe I've kind of gotten.