Best Restaurant you've been to...

[DragonfromTO]

Honestly I have no idea. Especially if I have to consider places all over the world. I'm going to limit the pool to places I've eaten at with some regularity just to make it easier. The places that make me smile most when I think about them... I'll start with Ma Pêche. I love most of what David Chang does but Ma Pêche has always been my favourite. The Modern is another place that I loved. Buddakan is an old favourite that I used to always end up at. And another joint that I love is Aldea. All 4 are in NYC.

 

[GoldRusher]

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Man....Id almost forgot about Buca

Bout the only Italian place I've ever been to where you could give me bread and...... call it a day.

Still ran by Cubans?

 

[SteelersPride]

heh...
After 25 years of travel with deep expense accounts I've scarfed down a bookoo of memorable and just plain incredible meals...but...

my best dining experience ever was with an Anheuser-Busch/Baton Rouge distributor who said: "Screw Commander's Palace, I'm taking you somewhere special..."

which turned out to be an endless series of galvanized buckets of iced-down Budweisers, of perfectly spiced red potatos and of boiled crawfish - placed on the warped old picnic table teetering on a rickety old leaning dock over a jaw-droppingly beautiful bayou swamp in the middle of non-civilized nowhere somewhere outside of Houma - all served by a huge, laughing black woman out of her ramshackle leaning wood cabin.

we sat there for hours, laughing, talking, companionably sucking head, squeezing tail & dranking Buds in a setting of absolutely splendid isolation.

dude

 

[Win TWINS!!!]

Olive Garden
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NOT Buffalo Wild Wings?

 

[mick7-1961]

Darkey Kelly's Pub in Dublin, Ireland

 

[Win TWINS!!!]

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I hate family style dining. And I find their food to be bland.

 

[SteelersPride]

I hate family style dining. And I find their food to be bland.

i have a ton of gift cards to

 

[Gooch1034]

Friend of mine who is also a chef and was my boss for a few years made some braised veal shank, risotto and some foie gras. Hands down the best food I have ever had and I am not huge on veal. It was unreal how perfect it was.

 

[Yankee Traveler]

Seafood;
Windjammer in Burlington VT. That was many years ago, may be shit now.
Lynnhaven Fish House or Steinhilbers in Va. Beach, VA. Again, may have gone downhill.

Steak;
Ruth's Chris.
The Stockyard in Nashville.

Italian;
La Famalia in Boston. Ohmyfrickingod!!!

Chinese;
Forbidden City, Va Beach, VA.
Gone now. First time I went in there, almost closing time, they were all watching Asian pron on a giant rear projector TV.
Food was good though.

 

[Rockinkuwait]

Not a favorite, but tried out a new BBQ joint in town tonight and had the oddest moment.

So I live in a BFE town about an hour East of Denver. We got a new BBQ joint in this gas station that is outside of town where there's been a dozen places in the past 5 years that have come and failed. But I like my BBQ so tried it out. Really good, bit pricey but that's fine. Then the owner comes over and he is HUGE. Turns out I was chatting with Simon Fletcher (Denver Bronco's all time sack leader), who set up shop here. Just a bit surreal.

Of course the best restaurant in our town is a mexican place, and I was there a couple years ago and noticed Jake Plummer was eating at the table beside me (ended up he married a Bronco cheerleader from my town).

 

[LongtimeRamsFan42]

Not a favorite, but tried out a new BBQ joint in town tonight and had the oddest moment.

So I live in a BFE town about an hour East of Denver. We got a new BBQ joint in this gas station that is outside of town where there's been a dozen places in the past 5 years that have come and failed. But I like my BBQ so tried it out. Really good, bit pricey but that's fine. Then the owner comes over and he is HUGE. Turns out I was chatting with Simon Fletcher (Denver Bronco's all time sack leader), who set up shop here. Just a bit surreal.

Of course the best restaurant in our town is a mexican place, and I was there a couple years ago and noticed Jake Plummer was eating at the table beside me (ended up he married a Bronco cheerleader from my town).

Wow, Very Cool!!! Talk about a blast from the past...Fletcher was a hell of a player!!! What was the name of the place? just wondering if he put his name in there like most former players do...

 

[Rockinkuwait]

Well he has one in Greeley I just found out called Whistle Blowers grill and BBQ, so I am guessing this is the same. Didn't even have a sign up at this place yet, but I heard we got a new BBQ place so tried it out. Just was so odd as it seemed like a nowhere location.

 

[LongtimeRamsFan42]

Well he has one in Greeley I just found out called Whistle Blowers grill and BBQ, so I am guessing this is the same. Didn't even have a sign up at this place yet, but I heard we got a new BBQ place so tried it out. Just was so odd as it seemed like a nowhere location.

Wow, That actually makes it even cooler!!!

 

[outofyourmind]

There was a seafood place in OKC called Hermans Seafood that operated in the 30's, 40's, 50's, 60's, and 70's that was delicious when I was a kid.

They had the greatest Manhattan Clam Chowder on the Planet.
And a pretty neat layout for a restaurant.

 

[LongtimeRamsFan42]

There was a seafood place in OKC called Hermans Seafood that operated in the 30's, 40's, 50's, 60's, and 70's that was delicious when I was a kid.

They had the greatest Manhattan Clam Chowder on the Planet.
And a pretty neat layout for a restaurant.


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Love hearing about nostalgic places like this...In fact that's a great idea for another thread!!! best places that aren't around anymore, hmmmmmm....

 

[4down20]

For cheesesteak in the San Jose area, I would always go to this place:

Amato’s Cheesesteaks - West San Jose - San Jose, CA

I miss it dearly.

 

[Yankee Traveler]

They had the greatest Manhattan Clam Chowder on the Planet.
And a pretty neat layout for a restaurant.


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There is no such thing as good Manhattan clam chowder, so greatest is still crappy.

 

[Cyder]

Craftsteak at the MGM Grand in Vegas.

 

[LongtimeRamsFan42]

Craftsteak at the MGM Grand in Vegas.

I've been there a couple times in the past. Had a great meal both times, espcially the roasted muchrooms... I had the hen of the woods mushrooms... Nicely charred, not overly seasoned so the natural flavor came out... Amazing!!!

 

[DT LUNA]

Sam's Place in Reynosa Mexico. Family style serving quail, white wing dove, frog legs and cabrito w/different veggies. Excellent!