Other than salad and soup, what is your favorite appetizer?

[BenEndeem]

It really depends. Smoked salmon parcels, garlic mushrooms and garlic bread are perhaps my favourites though.

 

[Disc Golfer]

Sharing a dozen oysters before a good meal is choice. A pint before a meal is welcome anytime.

 

[kellen]

Crab/Shrimp Cocktail

Seared Ahi tuna

Tuna tartare

Crab cakes

Olive Garden Breadsticks

That said I usually don't get appetizers. Usually will order them at a happy hour because they are the ones half off.

 

[Mitthrawnuruodo]

Pan fried scallops

That might very well be my favourite, too...

A nice starter for most meat dishes, and I always have a meat dish...

I also got a small filet of lamb (I think it was) with some sauce, a while back, that was very nice. Don't exactly know what it was, since it was with complements of the owner because one in out party knew a guy that knew a guy... I might have to go back and have another sample or two...

 

[Rt&Dzine]

Not to answer your question . . . I rarely eat appetizers and I eat salad after the main dish. Prefer to dig right in to the good stuff.

 

[sysiphus]

Scallops wrapped in bacon, or coconut shrimp.

 

[RITZFit]

Either a good spinach dip or some stuffed mushrooms will make me happy

 

[rhett7660]

Chips and Salsa or Mozzarella sticks!

 

[CaptMurdock]

Chinese - spring rolls. In fact, Christmas Eve dinner we ate at a Chinese restaurant (I know, how A Christmas Story can you get?) and the appetizer tray had spring rolls, barbequed ribs, fried shrimp, won ton and a beef kabob that you roasted yourself over a mini-stove they brought to your table.

Italian - mozzarella sticks.
(esp. when I spell "mozzarella" correctly! )

 

[gibbz]

probably mozzarella sticks

 

[leekohler]

probably mozzarella sticks

Yep. Also:

Cream cheese Jalapeno poppers
Steak tartare

 

[184550]

I'll always have a weakness for chicken fingers or a bloomin' onion.

 

[ravenvii]

Cheese dips of almost any kind.

There's this Irish bar in DC, Fado, that has this potato pancake cheese dip. Delicious.

 

[dolphindolphin]

baked clams ftw.

 

[psycoswimmer]

The best appetizer I've ever had was at a locally owned restaurant nearby. It was called a "scallop blt" and consisted of pan seared scallops sliced in half, filled with roasted bacon, arugula, and tomato-thyme confit, and topped with a small heirloom tomato. Absolutely delicious. Unfortunately, it's off the menu now (changes seasonally).

Edit: Found a picture. Bad lighting though.

 

[Clete2]

Calamari.

 

[smwatson]

Carpaccio is wonderful before almost anything.

Mussels maybe.

 

[The Mad Kiwi]

Indian - Mini dosas or Uttapams (fermented rice pancakes)
Thai - Fish cakes
Chinese - San Choy Bau (Tofu & waterchestnut, lettuce wraps)
Italian - Battered Stuffed Zucchini flowers
Modern Australian - Truffle and goats curd frittatas or Kingfish Sashimi
Balinese - Tempe Manis (Tempe in a sweet spicy sauce)
Malaysian - Sayor Otak (spicy tofu, mushrooms eggplant wrapped in banana leaves)
French - Flamiche (Leek tart)
African - Kpoff Kpoff (Dumplings)

 

[dukebound85]

i like

potato skins
cheese sticks
onion rings
nachos

 

[kainjow]

I could eat egg rolls with every meal, including breakfast.

 

[harleygold]

my fav is butter dipped rolls from a local restaurant.

 

[Ttownbeast]

Almost anything wrapped in bacon.

Ive ordered an entire plate full of bacon with a loaf of bread and a bottle of mustard as an appetizer before--it's an expensive indulgence sure but well worth it.