― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 11:06 (eighteen years ago) link
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― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 11:22 (eighteen years ago) link
My favorite vietnames is Green Papaya up on Mare street. Their Rare beef salad iss one of the most beautiful things you can do with a piece of steak.
Taro is sstill my favorite japanese. I had great chicken yakisoba there yesterday and my colleagues chicken teriaki was one of the best i have tatsted, marvellously crispy chicken skin and a nice light sauce. (very good sushi too).
― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 11:24 (eighteen years ago) link
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― Mädchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 11:33 (eighteen years ago) link
Very true, but Americans have disco fries! (Can you tell I'm obsessed with cheese?)
― nathalie's post modern sleaze fest (stevie nixed), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 11:35 (eighteen years ago) link
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― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 13:04 (eighteen years ago) link
it may as well have BEEN fried.
― AaronK (AaronK), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 14:08 (eighteen years ago) link
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 14:16 (eighteen years ago) link
That would be a nasty naan. Maybe it was a paratha (which should be oily and deliciously so).
― Liz :x (Liz :x), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 14:18 (eighteen years ago) link
― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 14:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 14:28 (eighteen years ago) link
Garcia's in the towns east and west of mine - Mexican food. Good, lots of menu options (most of which I haven't tried), and cheap.
― Maria (Maria), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 14:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― stelfox, Wednesday, 8 June 2005 14:43 (eighteen years ago) link
i'll be going to the restaurant at the hopi cultural center soon, and one of their menu items is navajo tacos -- tacos on native american fry bread. get me one droolbucket.
― metal assembly (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 14:44 (eighteen years ago) link
― stelfox, Wednesday, 8 June 2005 14:50 (eighteen years ago) link
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― phil-two (phil-two), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 15:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― metal assembly (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 15:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 15:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 15:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 15:29 (eighteen years ago) link
I think this is a lost cause, Dave. Trust me, I know!
― Yakuza Ghost Six (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 16:13 (eighteen years ago) link
http://villagevoice.com/nyclife/0523,cheapchownow,64696,19.html
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― Yakuza Ghost Six (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 22:33 (eighteen years ago) link
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― Yakuza Ghost Six (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 22:34 (eighteen years ago) link
http://photos12.flickr.com/18114679_a192d4a6a7_m.jpg
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― Yakuza Ghost Six (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 22:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 22:45 (eighteen years ago) link
--nostradamus
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― Yakuza Ghost Six (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 22:46 (eighteen years ago) link
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― Yakuza Ghost Six (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 22:48 (eighteen years ago) link
― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 22:50 (eighteen years ago) link
Did you go there?
― Yakuza Ghost Six (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 22:56 (eighteen years ago) link
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― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 23:13 (eighteen years ago) link
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)
― 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.
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 27 February 2024 21:25 (two months ago) link
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
― donna rouge, Tuesday, 27 February 2024 21:54 (two months ago) link
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.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 27 February 2024 22:12 (two months ago) link
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.)
― jaymc, Tuesday, 27 February 2024 22:16 (two months ago) link
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.
― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 27 February 2024 22:29 (two months ago) link
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.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 27 February 2024 22:57 (two months ago) link
There’s a New Orleans place near my work that has good sandwiches and salads. Before the pandemic and inflation their prices were higher than other nearby sandwich/salad places (admittedly quality at this place is much higher). Remarkably they haven’t raised their prices post-pandemic and now those same prices seem reasonable.
― from a prominent family of bassoon players (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 27 February 2024 23:05 (two months ago) link
Some places boast that they've kept prices stable, but then they add on a 3+% fee. A place we're going to next week:
As a way to offset rising costs associated with the restaurant (food, beverage, labor, benefits, supplies), we have added a 3% surcharge to all checks. We do this in lieu of increased menu prices. You may request to have this taken off your check, should you choose.
A place we went to a few weeks ago:
Here at Daisies, we strive to provide the optimal experience not only for our wonderful guests, but for our dedicated employees. We devote tremendous energy to serving food and beverages comprised of the best ingredients, making as much from scratch as possible and sourcing the balance from ethically responsible purveyors. And we practice what we preach. A 25% service charge is applied to all dine-in checks in place of a tip to ensure our deserving staff members receive equitable pay and benefits. ALL gratuities and fees are included in this charge. Thank you for supporting fair compensation for industry employees.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 27 February 2024 23:13 (two months ago) link
(Daisies was great, btw, but even accounting for tip I thought 25% on top felt kinda high, however you break down tip vs. "fees". 15% tip and 10% fee? 20% tip and 5% fee? On top of entrees generally in the mid $20s.)
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 27 February 2024 23:16 (two months ago) link
i'm still trying to get used to $15 burritos. i still flinch a little.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 28 February 2024 01:04 (two months ago) link
Yebo Beach Haus in Atlanta
https://yebobeachhaus.com/
Eclectic menu, really friendly staff, not too loud or crowded.
Hinoki and the Bird in LA
https://www.hinokiandthebird.com/
Best pork chop I have ever eaten, hands down.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 28 February 2024 01:08 (two months ago) link
what i like about my little town of 17,000 people right now. good homespun breakfast place where i can go and never see anyone i know so that i can eat my omelette in peace with a room full of cops and senior citizens. good homemade local donut shop. sweet little Korean restaurant. wood-fired pizza place. good new american place run by my best friend from high school with the best shrimp & grits in Massachusetts. mostly decent if not wonderful Greek place two doors from my store for gyros. across the street from my store an amazing for real deal bakery (called Rise Above) an awesome Indian restaurant and a good Thai restaurant. 3 Chinese restaurants of varying quality but the best of them also has the best sushi around. TWO Salvadoran restaurants and a Mexican food truck and TWO more Mexican restaurants that are decent.
terrible regular pizza though. people who grew up here are used to it but i will never be used to it. the local Big Y supermarket makes better pizza than any of the terrible Greek-style pizza places. Have to go to Northampton for decent pie. or Connecticut.
so, nothing fancy but it is really not fancy here. again, have to go to NoHo or Amherst for fancy.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 28 February 2024 02:04 (two months ago) link
your town sounds really nice. it makes me nostalgic for the place where I grew up and also the place where I went to college, but since then I haven't spent any time in those kinds of towns except when visiting friends in the Litchfield Hills of Northern CT and the Berkeshires in MA
― Dan S, Wednesday, 28 February 2024 02:22 (two months ago) link
it has its problems but its nice here overall. the mohawk trail. the valley. its pretty. for some reason i was really surprised that both my kids LOVE coming home when they come home from school. they speak of this place so fondly. i never wanted to go back to my neck of connecticut. it was lame to me. but its different here. you do have to have a lot of tolerance for ex-hippies though. they are kinda the scourge. not the fentanyl crowd.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 28 February 2024 04:39 (two months ago) link
i dunno. i probably shouldn't look an oblivious and annoying gift horse in the mouth. better to be surrounded by ex-hippies than maga nation.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 28 February 2024 04:43 (two months ago) link
There's a place here that adds a 10% fee on all checks, unrelated to tip, no taking it off. I feel like it just puts the wait staff in an awkward position to explain it to anyone who looks at their check, and feels like a slightly scammy way to keep the prices appearing the same on the menu.
― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Wednesday, 28 February 2024 15:27 (two months ago) link
when i used to wait tables a lunch/salad bar place at the Bourse across the street from the liberty bell in the late 80s in philly we would add a gratuity if someone had any kind of accent. tourists, you know. but they really didn't tip. we would get 10 germans at a table. we had to do it. but people would ask about it every once in a while. sometimes if you were lucky you would get a table of 10 people and they would leave a big tip! we called that a double grat. cha-ching!
― scott seward, Wednesday, 28 February 2024 15:37 (two months ago) link
i'm torn. the friendly's in town - there used to be two! - tasted like poison and i kinda always felt like i was gonna die after eating there but starbucks sucks too. well, to be fair, i have only been to starbucks once. in the 90s. their coffee sucked. it tasted burnt and i hate burnt coffee. not a fan of french roast either. i will always have fond memories of friendly's in the 70s though. and those butter-toasted hamburger buns.
https://www.recorder.com/Starbucks-applying-to-take-over-Friendly-s-on-Mohawk-Trail-54183907?fbclid=IwAR201qnYQQiMgtg7O5pU8WC5rxETKIXoowdzO4sFgf9M3yev1Wu3qRFFnw4
― scott seward, Thursday, 29 February 2024 14:51 (two months ago) link
There is very odd cafe in Shibuya where you walk through this baroque exterior straight out of Vienna's 6th district and inside is this cloistered set of benches not unlike a church, theater or train all focused on these massive 10 foot tall speakers playing classical music on this *serious* hifi. You're expected to be silent (except for your whispered order to your server) during your visit.
https://www.google.com/search?q=%E5%90%8D%E6%9B%B2+%E3%82%AB%E3%83%95%E3%82%A7+%E3%81%83%E9%9F%B3%E3%80%81+%E6%B8%8B%E8%B0%B7&tbm=isch
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 29 February 2024 17:28 (two months ago) link
Just heard some people on a radio show talking about that place (Dave from Dirty Projectors)
― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Thursday, 29 February 2024 17:32 (two months ago) link
They have an excellent magazine selection available for perusal. While waiting for my colleague I picked up a thick glossy edition about vertical coffee cultivation and it was amazing (nb: I could barely read it but the pictures were excellent).
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 29 February 2024 17:39 (two months ago) link