What is your favorite restaurant and what is your favorite meal from them?
1- Chick-fil-a: I don’t know what they put in this,
But it is addictive and SO GOOD. Love the Waffle fries.
- Pinky’s Westside Grill: I THINK this is a N.C. only place, but if you are ever in the area, eat there. The food is great, the atmosphere friendly, the decor keeps my attention. Also, great 4 PATTY BURGER (I causally ate it, and the rest of my meal.) and fries. Never tried the fried pickles, but Guy Fereri did, and he liked them. Eat here. You won’t be disappointed.
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I honestly don’t have one any more
I don’t eat out as much as I used to, but when I do, I don’t go to the same place all the time. (I honestly wouldn’t go to Chick-fil-a ever I think it’s the worst chicken around) I go a lot to local places when I can. Small city, so not as much variety. When my dtr and sil visit from silicon valley (they eat out or delivery a lot of the time) they critique many of my choices. I remember to when they say let’s go back to…
We just had a new Indian restaurant open across the street, soft opening, the clay ovens are not certified for use yet. They were both wowed and would go back any time. I like going with a group because you can get a variety. Everything we had was good…
If I go to the Irish Pub, I like to eat Coddle. It’s good and something that would not be easy to make for one.
We have a domestic bar with bar food, not a gastropub, where i like to eat potato skins or have a good patty melt.
Joses is a local fast foodish restaurant that has super good carnitas. My SiL says it is close the best he has ever eaten. It’s the only place I will order them.
Oddly enough, I find a greater variety of decent food down here than I did up in Monterey. Likely because so many places were impossible to park or over run by tourists that I never went in the 2 years I was there. But I’m content with my variety of choices
Lorena’s, local Mexican place. Order of three smothered chili verde burritos. When I was a kid I could easily eat the whole thing, now it’s two meals.
Or the same thing from LaFrontera, a small chain in the area.
The menus are the same, as I heard it Lorena’s split off after a divorce in the family. In either case all the staff and half the customers are of Mexican heritage.
There’s also a great little Indian restaurant on Main Street, everything we’ve tried has been great.
And couple of blocks down there’s Vito’s Philly cheesesteak place. A mostly one-man operation, business is so good he’s only open for lunch on weekdays. That’s a shame as I only get there on days off.
Bub’s BBQ in Sunderland, Mass. It’s in the boonies of western Mass. Favorite meal: anything pig, served with a Rolling Rock longneck.
Most of my ultimate faves are either not in North America or have long since closed. Locally, in my neighborhood, these are the standouts:
Aladdin Mediterranean Grill on W 34th St (Houston):
https://aladdinshouston.com/aladdin-garden-oaks/
Los Nopalitos Mexican on W 34th St, Houston:
(Too small to have a website of their own) https://restaurantguru.com/Los-Nopalitos-Houston
NikoNiko’s Greek (Houston)
https://nikonikos.com/
Not local at all:
Milt’s Stage Stop near Cedar City, UT
https://miltsstagestop.com/
Even way less local, may be gone, and much lamented if so:
Rustic Eating House, Waiouru, New Zealand
I no longer share my food preferences because every time I do, I get shamed and/or laughed at for it.
@PooltoyWolf What on earth do you eat that can be so shameful and/or laughable?
@PooltoyWolf I won’t make fun of you. Promise.
@Lynnerizer I love McDonald’s and Taco Bell which is apparently frowned upon in foodie circles!
@PooltoyWolf I don’t make fun of people. I just usually don’t eat there. (Mostly because my mom being a vegetarian
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@PooltoyWolf I don’t like them, but I don’t think you are wrong for liking them. Calling someone’s food preference wrong is like saying their favorite color is wrong, which (I hope everyone agrees) is a pretty dumb thing to do.
@PooltoyWolf @xobzoo I agree xobzoo! I used to love Taco Bell 's taco salad when they used those big (unhealthy) shells but they don’t use them anymore so I haven’t been there in years. Well, my guy surprised me a few months ago with some of their soft tacos (which I never had before) and I have to admit that they were pretty tasty!
McDonald’s breakfast burrito is pretty good too. Let the haters hate! 
@Lynnerizer @PooltoyWolf I love Taco Bell, but I don’t get to eat it often.
It’s probably a decade old now, but I still love this Roy Wood Jr. quote:
Fun story. I was working late one night and finally got to go home. It was probably about midnight. My kids were young, so we all slept with our doors open and sound carried easily through our incredibly well-insulated house. I didn’t want to make a lot of noise trying to heat something up, so I decided to hit the Taco Bell drive-through.
There was no Taco Bell. Just a flat space where one had been a week ago.
I was so mad, I had to go to the only other place still open, Jack’s. Just to find a table to flip.
Later, they built a new Taco Bell in the same spot.
@Limewater @Lynnerizer I have not heard that quote until just now, but I love it!!
I think it’s pretty widely recognized that McDonalds has great fries, though you have to eat them hot. Even the French like 'em and they’re picky.
@Lynnerizer @PooltoyWolf McDonald’s is frowned upon, from what I remember, because they’re so consistent (and also a corporate giant that quashes competition and innovation because… capitalism).
Taco Bell has never been frowned upon since the 80s when they had some beef scare. I thought they were on an upswing since Demolition Man and, though not as frou-frou as Chipotle, they offered a variety of food at equitable prices.
@pakopako @PooltoyWolf
Right?
We just had a Chipotle open about 2 months ago and I have had absolutely NO desire to even try it. Maybe I’ll take the plunge and give it a try. The only thing that is appealing to me is that it’s a brand new building so it’s got to be clean.
@Lynnerizer @pakopako @PooltoyWolf
But there are all the disgusting jokes about having, um, digestive difficulties after eating there, which I think is nasty and uncalled-for.
@Kyeh @pakopako @PooltoyWolf
Well I’m glad I haven’t heard any of those jokes!
@Kyeh @Lynnerizer @PooltoyWolf that’s a holdover from the 80s.
Or made by people who can’t handle spicy sauce yet continue to consume it.
@Lynnerizer @pakopako @PooltoyWolf I think it’s just people taking cheap shots and rehashing a tired old trope that was never really funny to begin with.
@PooltoyWolf I’m only sad that Taco Bell keeps changing things up too quickly and raising prices (but that’s the mid 2020s everywhere).
A little while back they had a veggie burrito that was essentially everything on the line but meat and it was amazing. But they discontinued it really quickly.
The crispy potato soft taco is a pure delight, especially with fire sauce. It just jumped up 70% in price though, but it’s still one of the cheaper things they offer. It was a banger bag filler for a dollar.
My most recent discovery is ordering online and heavily customizing… They probably hate me for it. My new favorite is the cheesy bean and rice burrito but make it fresco to 86 the nacho cheese and chipotle sauces and replace them with pico. Swap black beans for the refried beans. And add red sauce and have it grilled if you’re feeling frisky. It’s essentially a tube of handheld beans and rice then, quick, delicious, not a lot of garbage and almost as cheap as cooking beans and rice (well not quite).
Foodies can suck it. Taco Bell is generally far more consistent, reliably good, and at least has inexpensive options when every other fast food place seems to be aiming to serve lazily prepared crap at sit down restaurant prices these days.
People that don’t like my opinion can get off my damn lawn already lol.
@djslack At least they seem to no longer be McRibbing my delicious Nacho Fries…! Though I wish they’d permanently bring back the Caramel Apple Empanada…
Localish
Mexican - La Corona
Sushi - You You Japanese Bistro
Italian - Cucina Toscana
BBQ - B.T.'s Smokehouse
The White Dog in Philly was my absolute favorite for years but I haven’t been there in decades. The Wayne one is good too but their menu is seasonal; they do a great Kennett Square mushroom soup (so do both Longwood Gardens restaurants) which is always a favorite of mine.
It’s been a while since I ate at the Spring Mill Café but they have great food; their cassoulet is wonderful but the Lapin à la Moutarde is my favorite.
For breakfast we love Nudy’s, where the Brunch Burger is my favorite, but also the Black Cat, very reasonably priced (for THIS area) but eccentric service and cats: creamed chipped beef on toast is their specialty but I prefer the avocado, bacon and cheddar melt.
My favorite of all, Aux Petits Delices is gone now and was never a restaurant per se but but they had seating so you could have a coffee and patisserie: Marjolaines were my absolute favorite but oh man, Operas, Mille-Feuilles, Frasiers, Pyramides! Sigh…