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On 5/21/2018 at 8:01 AM, dcandohio said:
From Schaefer and Rucish on Lake Avenue in Bucktown.
There are few things better in life than 6# from Schaefer and Rusich, consumed with a 6 pack of Covington strawberry on the shores of the lake
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23 hours ago, Deac said:
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Traveling home from Chicago last night, I got to the airport and went to Rick Bayless' Tortas Frontera, which I've long heard to be one of the best airport quick-serve restaurants in the country. Having never really been to Chicago before (this trip was spent in the suburbs and in the lovely metropolis of Dixon, IL where we have a factory), I've long yearned to go to a Bayless place given how much I admire what he does and have had great success with his cookbooks. Well, the sandwich shop didn't disappoint. It was a tough decision between the cochinita pibil and choirqueso tortas, but I went with the latter, though added the pickled onions from the former. On the sandwich were chorizo (the supplier is noted in an article posted a few years ago in this thread), jack cheese, avocado, poblano rajas and the aforementioned pickled onions. It was served with a side of salsa verde, which tasted like the jarred Frontera brand sold in grocery stores, and I saw a large box marked as such from the delivery they were unloading. The sandwich didn't need the salsa anyway, as it was plenty moist and all the ingredients did a nice job blending together with the onions giving it a nice bit of acidity to contrast the rich fillings. Great bread as well. I washed it down with a lime aqua fresca which was essentially a limeade and on the very tart side, which I appreciate. I still need to get to Chicago and try about a million restaurants (including a proper Bayless joint), but if I'm in O'Hare I don't see not stopping here.
Seconded this recommendation wholeheartedly! The cochinita pibil, chicken tortilla soup and mango agua fresca (add tequila) were lifesavers for us after a weekend of Beard Awards tomfoolery, made the trip back home all the more merrier (and less nauseating)
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On 4/17/2018 at 6:38 AM, MC Horoscope said:
Wow, Adolfo's looks awesome!
Get the crab and corn callelloni and thank me later
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Tudor’s is a tremendous, fast food treasure- my family is from down south in Mercer county and there are only ever 3 restaurant stops we make in Princeton:
Cracker Barrel
Outback
and Tudor’s Biscuit World
if I could make biscuits as good as Popeye’s then I would die a happy man; if I could make Biscuits as good as Tudor’s, I would be, at the least, a minor deity
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On 3/5/2018 at 4:05 PM, Simul Parikh said:
Couple less talked about, but as good as those mentioned
Gautreau's - cute old house, amazing food and service
Clancy's - neighborhood, elevated, great service, as well
Brigsten's - pretty much epitome of classic upscale NOLA
Yes, yes and yes!!!! Clancy's is probably my favorite joint
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On 2/17/2018 at 1:51 PM, NolaCaine said:
My pleasure.
How about lunch or brunch here: http://www.galatoires.com/
Sunday brunch is a family affair. Bar opens one hour before kitchen and it is a scene.
Historic tasting = http://www.antoines.com/ and https://www.arnaudsrestaurant.com/. DO a drink and app at each. (pronounced ARE-Nos)
IMO best mufalatta is Napoleon House but that can also cause massive fights http://www.napoleonhouse.com/
Herbsaint has a great rep but I haven't been because I just go back to the old places I used to frequent. However, Now that I am boycotting August, I;ll try to make it there next (as yet unplanned) trip.
Have fun! As a bachelorette, everybody is going to hit on you, possibly even gay men and straight women.
Lunch st Galatoire's is a must- I vastly prefer Arnaud's to Antoine's but that is just me being me
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On 2/17/2018 at 12:19 PM, eatruneat said:
Thanks for this. Going to New Orleans at the end of March for my bachelorette weekend. Have dinner plans at Coquette and Peche. Will probably wing the day time meals. Any other suggestions on where to eat and drink and what to do do during the day other than eat and drink would be much appreciated.
Crawfish will be in full swing then so you should definitely hit up Bevi in midcity, Harbor out by the airport (always my first stop when coming back home), Clesi's, also in midcity, should be done with renovations by then - all have excellent crawfish and are close enough to get to easily
For lunch/afternoon
Cochon Butcher has excellent sandwiches though is always packed
Pho Tau Bay has the best Vietnamese if you don't want to trek out to New Orleans East or the Westbank- it's across the street from Charity Hospital on Tulane
Marjie's Grill on Broad by the courthouse is a rad place to jam (yes the owners are dear friends of mine but the food is dat damn good)
Finally, shameless self promotion: go to the Ogden Museum of Southern Art to see my wife then sit on the patio at Herbsaint and watch the streetcar roll by and the sazeracs flow...
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Happy Mardi Gras y'all!!!!!!!!!!
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Happy Bacchus Sunday y'all!!! 🍾
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Nothing says Mardi Gras like a steady diet of Popeye's (ps- its carnival time y'all!!!!)
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On 5/30/2017 at 1:20 PM, Simul Parikh said:
Went this weekend, and had a really nice time, as usual. City keeps changing, and it's not the place that I lived in before the storm. Some things are better, some things are worse, but both the potholes and cockroaches remain large.
Before dinner, we went to Cure on Freret, was kicking there. Had a refreshing Rainwater Madeira and Tonic; they had happy hour for all their classic cocktails. Nice crowd. Oh, Freret St. is totally different. So many places to eat and drink, shops. Pretty cool.
Then we went to dinner at Gautreau's, which I have never been to, even after living there for years, and visiting many times afterwards. It's uptown, in a cute unlabeled house. You wouldn't even know there was a restaurant there. It's old school New Orleans in there, well dressed servers, old couples, people on dates, and larger groups, too. We had cocktails and wine before starting the meal. I wasn't picking the wines, so I have no idea, I just know our host got one bottle of Malbec and one bottle of a BIG Cab Sav. Most of us got the special appetizer - half a soft shell crab in a spicy crab bique. Mmmm... Lady got marinated Hamachi. She liked it a lot. I got red snapper and it was done well, with some crispy skin that I loved. She got the chicken, and it was a HUGE portion. A few people got the duck and appeared to like it. We got Vanilla Creme Brulee and devoured it. They just do the caramelization better down here.
Brunch was at Atchafalaya, a pretty hoppin' spot. We didn't have reservations - just got there at opening (already a line) and got seated at the bar. Would have waited about 20 minutes to get a table. This is place is great - heavy, heavy - but great. Bloody Mary's are awesome, they have a make your own bar, but the house mix is pretty perfect - I didn't add a thing. We got alligator sausage to start, and that just tasted kind of porky to me, but she thought it had a unique taste to it. She got the Eggs Treme. When she ordered it, couldn't help but chuckle, because she said "I'll get the 'extreme'" ... being somewhat local, I knew it as Egg "Truh-meh", but when I looked it on the menu, I bet 90% of out of towners would say "extreme". Anyway, it was poached eggs, boudin, hollandaise, and french bread. RICH. Boudin in NOLA can be softer than other places you may have had it, and I think the texture was unexpected for her. I got the crawfish etoufee omelette. Pretty awesome.
Walked it off, and got coffee at HiVolt in the Lower Garden District by my old Magazine St apartment (one of the most glorious shit holes I've ever lived in). They did all the fancy stuff, I got an Oji brewed ice coffee. It was really tasty until I put cream in it. Then the taste got bitter. We walked all over, and then went to the best place of the weekend, but going there led to us missing a great meal... We went to Mid City to Bayou Beer Garden. That place is amazing. Huge patio, 3 patios basically that are interconnected. The other end of the beer garden is Bayou Wine Garden, with many wines on tap, and a Frose' coming out of a Daquiri machine. It was so hot, but the fans and the cover made it pretty comfortable and we just had a ball. There was a gal in the parking lot boiling up crawfish, and you could buy some from her and eat at the beer garden. $12 for 3 pounds, including corn, sausage, and potatoes. SO GOOD. We were there long enough to get hungry again, so we went to Parkway Bakery and Tavern, another legendary place I'd never gone to. I got the fried shrimp, and she got the "surf and turf" with roast beef and gravy topped with fried shrimp. Amazing. Just amazing.
So, we had a res for Shaya... but after the afternoon we had, needed to take a nap. Ended up turning off the alarm and not getting up til almost 10. Missed our meal! Ended up at Cooter Brown's. Not as good as I remembered... but nice to reminisce.
Dat's an itinerary dere chere!
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On 4/6/2017 at 8:58 AM, mr food said:
Off to French Quarter Fest tomorrow so any updates appreciated. We've booked a few places-Shaya, Sylvain, Clancys for a family dinner Monday.
How was it!?! Every year, I'm always surprised how good Rouses' Crawfish are..
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Duke's BBQ in Aiken. That's all that needs to be said
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On 3/5/2017 at 1:19 PM, DanielK said:
When we were last down there a year or so ago, we noticed there were two Ethiopian places in NO: Nile and Cafe Abyssinia.
I'm sure they don't stand up to Zenebech (most places in DC don't either), but have you checked them out?
Yes I have, unfortunately. Nile was abysmal, Abyssinia less so- Le sigh... we used to live a block from Zenebech way back when, last time we were in town I could hardly recognize my home turf
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Oh to have even a sniff of Zenebech down here on the gulf coast...
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Happy Mardi Gras y'all!!!
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On 1/18/2017 at 1:00 PM, Waitman said:
Bonus points to the manage for pouring us a nice-sized swig of Domain Tempier after I somewhat facetiously asked if it was really twice as good (and not just twice as expensive) as every other Bandol rose. It just might be.
Tempier Rose really is better than any other Bandol Rose, despite the price difference, is always worth the splurge
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On 12/4/2016 at 2:53 PM, Ericandblueboy said:
Brunch - Toup's South, R'evolution (repeat visit)
Dinner - Angeline, Peche (repeat visit)
Lunch - Meril
If any of these places are no good, pleas let me know.
Angeline and Peche are both wonderful, I've not been to Toup's South but have been underwhelmed by the original in the past (I've not been in well over a here though, so...) However you will be in the decidedly different museum that is the Southern Food and Beverage, which you can (naturally) peruse with a cocktail from Toups in yer hand, so, you know, there's that.
Haven't been to R'evolution, bit too high falootin' for my tastes, though that's obviously just a personal thang. Heard laughable things bout Meril but that was during their soft opening so presumably those issues should've been addressed by now.
Happy gut hunting!
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18 hours ago, saf said:
I did, even if they didn't! Had a marvelous marvelous dinner at the bar on Monday.
(And I actually tried to say hi to you, as my friend Jaime told me to, but you weren't there.)
Damn! Jaime texted me right after I had left for the day, oh well...
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6 hours ago, Ericandblueboy said:
Is Shaya really worth visiting when Zahav is somewhat close to home? I'm booking restaurants for Prez Day weekend.....
Staying in French Quarter, thoughts on where to go? Been to most of the usual suspects.
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Rec's outside of the usual suspects:
Mopho
Red's Chinese
Crabby Jack's
Shyan's Ktchen
Bacchanal
Turkey and the Wolf
LA Smokehouse
Sammy's Foodservice
Little Korea
Melba's
Cajun's Seafood
Lil Dizzy's
and of course, if you're in the mood for a wonderfully scenic drive and a bucolic lakeside meal, Off the Dock Seafood (previously The Crab Trap)
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15 hours ago, MC Horoscope said:
We really enjoyed our dinner at Galatoire's November 3! I had the pompano. So fresh and moist and tasty! My wife had redfish topped with lump crab meat. We were in the downstairs area. Waiter was Billy Fontenot, quite a jolly fellow (with relatives from Ville Platte, of course, headquarters of the Fontenot family in Louisiana. BAM, cher!). I wore a jacket and tie and was a bit overdressed. Most men had jackets but not ties, FWIW.
The next day was Friday. We saw what looked like homeless people holding places in line outside the door for lunch walk-ins. At 10:00! Yikes.
Say hi next time! Just kidding but next time say hi to Jason for us, we don't get to see him as much as we should. Or just come down to Herbsaint...
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Last I heard, Cashion's alum, Colorado Kitchen chef and owner and all around all star, Gillian Clark had landed in Mobile.
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My wife and I lived nearby before we left DC and regularly partook of the tongue-sizzling numbness that is (or can be) Great Wall. I've had fantastic dishes time and time again (Ma Po Tofu with meat, Szechuan Pork Dumplings, Szechuan Eggplant, Bok Choy with Garlic for instance) and some staggeringly bad ones (Peking Duck- well that's on me, poor ordering, Pork Belly, a few of the American-Chinese classics). Over the years, they were always consistent- that is, the Szechuan menu was on point, nearly flawless, consistently and the poor dishes continued to be poor
Oh for bowl of Ma Po Tofu...Chinese pretty thin on the ground in southeast Louisiana
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2 Amys, Wisconsin Ave. and Macomb Street - Great Wine, Small Plates, Pizza, and Desserts - No Longer DOCG Pizza, but Who Cares?
in Washington DC Restaurants and Dining
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This saddens me so- we were regulars since they been open many many moons ago, Sunday nights at the bar was always a joy, filled as it was with all of DC’s (restaurant) finest; hell one of the staff babysat my older brother way back when...
Also- Don: what’s a basement? We don’t have these; lastly, Katrina: not a competition, just a thought