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Name Your Fave Restaurant(s)

-the palm steak house - multiple locations
-Morton's steak house - multiple locations
-Cheesecake factory - multiple locations
-Emilio's - commack NY - italian resturant awesome Sicilian pizza and chicken parm
-Maureen's - smithtown NY - breakfast
-Toast Coffee house (at night) - port jeff NY - they used to do fondue on the weekends at night but now only do breakfast/lunch
 
In response to all the Italian restaurants that have been posted, obviously none of you have ever been to Italy and had real Italian food...:p
 
There's a Lebanese place in Paris I love, I can't remember the name of it though. :eek:
 
Macaddicttt said:
In response to all the Italian restaurants that have been posted, obviously none of you have ever been to Italy and had real Italian food...:p
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I know someone who went to Rome for study and all he could do upon returning was have his folks drive to a Bravo as quickly as possible.

1- He was born in Italy and 2- He couldn't find a decent restaurant in Rome he liked. (He enjoyed lots of bars and clubs though... :cool: )
 
myawn said:
The last time I went they had stopped doing this -- they had gone to a printed menu, which offered more choices than what used to be on the verbal menu. (Including extra price items, so it's no longer purely a fixed price menu)
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Sad to see that happen. I thought that the meal experience with the verbal menu and of course wonderful food was an awesome experience.

Sounds like they had made a nice adaption with the menus.
 
Macaddicttt said:
In response to all the Italian restaurants that have been posted, obviously none of you have ever been to Italy and had real Italian food...:p
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I've been to Italy and I agree- the food there is like nowhere else in the world.
The simplest dish like pasta with tomato sauce was just so much better in Italy. The seafood dishes were out of this world in Cinque Terre.

However, I have been able to find a few Italian restaurants in North America that have been just as good as Italy.

Now why is it so hard to find good pizza in LA?
 
Pizza: Due; Gino's East (Chicago). Chicago-style pizza is the best!
Italian: The Italian Village (Chicago). Food's good, not exceptional, but the ambience is great, especially upstairs, which is designed to look like, well, an italian village. Great spot for a date, I have observed.
Tex/Mex: Frontera Grill (Chicago); Tacos del Lago (Evanston, IL). Frontera is owned by renowned chef Rick Bayless and is exquisite. Tacos del Lago is a great little place in Evanston to which my girlfriend introduced me; it looks kind of sketchy (at least by Evanston standards) on the outside, but it is really fantastic.
Malaysian: Bentara (New Haven, CT). Ate here with a friend when I visited New Haven and it was delicious. But this is probably an unfair pick, since I don't have much experience with Malaysian food.
Coffee: Italian Coffee Bar (Chicago). Wow, this is great coffee and better yet, really great employees. I love going to the one near me, though there are a few other locations under Chicago. And these folks are really serious about their coffee, experimenting with new things and entering in competitions and such.
Indian: Woodlands (Chicago; Charlotte, NC, also, I think, and a couple of other locations). Woodlands is either an extension or a rip-off of the Mysore Woodlands restaurants in Karnataka, India. It's just great vegetarian, South Indian food, and has a number of locations around the country. Chicago is pretty well known for Indian food (Devon Ave. is legendary amongst South Asian Americans) and I think Woodlands is at or near the top of the list of Chicago's Indian restaurants.
Sandwiches: Eppy's Deli (Chicago). OK, this is just one of those "you've got to be here" things. Eppy's has great food at a remarkably cheap price for downtown Chicago and when you go in, there is a whiteboard with messages dissing their competitors. The owner is this guy who describes himself as "an *******" and is hilarious.
 
Not the most fancy places but all places with very good food.

Waco Area (places I go most often):

Lake Brazos Steakhouse

Buzzard Billy's Armadillo Bar & Grillo (Website isn't updated to reflect that they actually moved their Waco location to a larger building off the highway which is cleaner and there is more seating.)

La Fiesta

Austin Area:

When I visit Austin I either eat at The Kerbey Lane Cafe or if I can make it to the lunch buffet I go to Taj Palace

I also eat a lot of IHOP, I know a lot of people who dislike IHOP but I find that they have some really good meals and since they are open 24 hours a day and they have quite a few from Austin to Dallas right off I-35 I can always count on them for a good meal.
 
Macaddicttt said:
In response to all the Italian restaurants that have been posted, obviously none of you have ever been to Italy and had real Italian food...:p
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Which is why I'll never list an Italian place in the US here. I've been to Naples, Sorrento, Trieste..... oh man, the food... my GOD the food...
 
Our favourite restaurant is in The Hunter Valley, 2 hrs nth of Sydney

Roberts Restaurant- Its a little gem and you have to book weeks in advance. Its partly owned by Rick Stein who is an award winning UK chef, writer and he makes excellent food programmes.

Honestly if you visit Australia and the Hunter Valley try and treat yourself-its expensive but sublime.


Another Hunter valley restaurant we love is Shakey Tables

A fantastic Sydney Restaurant (overlooking the Opera House in The Rocks)
is Wildfire-absolutely brilliant
 
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