Food and Dining Thread

[Cincydawg]

You best, or worst, or most memorable, or we could talk about the upcoming CFB season here, or playoff changes, etc.

[Cincydawg]

Ermitage de Corton – Chorey-lès-Beaune - a MICHELIN Guide Restaurant

We stopped in here for lunch, I thought it was superb, of course the French reviewers find it middlin'.  I laugh how places here get like 4.5 stars and it's a Red Lobster.

Trip Advisor and Yelp are basically useless.

[betarhoalphadelta]

The Cinque Terre... Honestly in 3 nights there I had seafood all three nights, and it was amazing. The first was just a whole roasted fish in the Ligurian style, the second was the most tender octopus I've ever had, and the third was a whole fish cooked in salt crust. 

However, this wasn't even about the food... It's more about the place.

Ristorante L'Ancora Della Tortuga
Ristorante L'Ancora Della Tortuga

It's this little restaurant on the water, with the inside dining room excavated directly out of the rock. We were there in late March, so it wasn't the crazy busy tourist season, and thus had no trouble getting a table. 

It was just an amazing experience. Especially being the first time either my wife or I had been to Italy, especially since we were a few days away from saying our vows in Firenze, and it being our first day in the beautiful, quaint, sleepy [in March lol] beachside town of Monterosso al Mare. I'm not sure we had a more romantic meal in the entire trip than this one, including the amazing steakhouse in Firenze the night we got married.

If you ever find yourself in the Cinque Terre, I highly recommend it.

[FearlessF]

ah, the hamburger Helper thread

[Cincydawg]

Gourmet restaurant at the foot of Mont Aimé (montaimehotelchampagne.com)

This place was incredible, fortunately I wasn't paying.  Our menus didn't have prices on them.  I recall after lunch we moved to another room entirely for coffee/tea and cheese.

[OrangeAfroMan]

There's a steakhouse here in Phoenix called The Keg.  Great steak - the weight of the knife is enough to slice through it.  Been there twice, enjoyed it both times.

[FearlessF]

There's a steakhouse here in Phoenix called The Keg.  Great steak - the weight of the knife is enough to slice through it.  Been there twice, enjoyed it both times.

21001 N Tatum Blvd.??

I've been to that chain....... there was one in Thunder Bay, Canada back in 1988.  I was on a motorcycle trip along the north shore of Superior.

Don't remember the food, but those crazy Canucks didn't know what a Moosehead beer was.  They were really excited when I talked the bartender into pouring upside down margaritas into our mouths over the bar.

Got more than a little hammered..... they wanted to call us a cab.  Asked for our address, Iowa.... went out and climbed on our bikes and drove off.  They were aghast.  We camly drove out of their parking lot and  into the next parking lot.  Threw sleeping bags down on some grass next to a dumpster and slept it off.
the next day we drove to Kenora with a bit of a hangover.

[Riffraft]

There's a steakhouse here in Phoenix called The Keg.  Great steak - the weight of the knife is enough to slice through it.  Been there twice, enjoyed it both times.

Been there several times, my wife is a steak person and she loves it.  Last there on valentine's day. 

[utee94]

The Cinque Terre... Honestly in 3 nights there I had seafood all three nights, and it was amazing. The first was just a whole roasted fish in the Ligurian style, the second was the most tender octopus I've ever had, and the third was a whole fish cooked in salt crust.

However, this wasn't even about the food... It's more about the place.

Ristorante L'Ancora Della Tortuga
Ristorante L'Ancora Della Tortuga

It's this little restaurant on the water, with the inside dining room excavated directly out of the rock. We were there in late March, so it wasn't the crazy busy tourist season, and thus had no trouble getting a table.

It was just an amazing experience. Especially being the first time either my wife or I had been to Italy, especially since we were a few days away from saying our vows in Firenze, and it being our first day in the beautiful, quaint, sleepy [in March lol] beachside town of Monterosso al Mare. I'm not sure we had a more romantic meal in the entire trip than this one, including the amazing steakhouse in Firenze the night we got married.

If you ever find yourself in the Cinque Terre, I highly recommend it.

Yup, I loved the food in the Cinque Terre.  I too ate a bunch of seafood and had that Ligurian fisherman's stew as well as the salt-crusted fish.  I coulda spent a couple months there. 

[FearlessF]

stopped at this fancy place in Tiburon, CA for some seafood

don't remember the food or drink, but the atmosphere was awesome.

I think what I remember most was the young lady sitting at the next table.  Blonde tennis player from the Tiburon neighborhood.

Most beautiful young lady I've ever seen.

 The Caprice Restaurant
 2000 PARADISE DRIVE

[ELA]

You best, or worst, or most memorable, or we could talk about the upcoming CFB season here, or playoff changes, etc.

If a CFB thread turns into mustard talk, maybe this one will circle around to football?  

[betarhoalphadelta]

Yup, I loved the food in the Cinque Terre.  I too ate a bunch of seafood and had that Ligurian fisherman's stew as well as the salt-crusted fish.  I coulda spent a couple months there.

I'm still waiting for the investor who wants me to open a brewery there ;-) 

[Cincydawg]

We used to spend a week in Ocean Isle Beach, NC because the ex's grandmother had a beach house.  I was driving around one day getting a bit hungry and thinking of going to Calabash, which is ten miles or so south, and saw on the old road "Big Nell's Pit Stop", and stopped for lunch with my dad, who had come up.  He ordered a grilled cheese, which I thought odd, and later said it was the best he'd ever had.  I had eastern NC BBQ which was excellent, and hushpuppies, which were superb.  I started to go often and get their fried shrimp which was the equal of anything in Calabash.

Big Nell was a large woman of impressive girth who had run for county sheriff and lost by ten votes, she said.  She had the walls festooned with paint by numbers painting of Richard Petty.  I looked for it last time I was through but it had closed.

BIG NELL'S PIT STOP, Ocean Isle Beach - Restaurant Reviews, Photos & Phone Number - Tripadvisor
BIG NELL'S PIT STOP, Ocean Isle Beach - Restaurant Reviews, Photos & Phone Number - Tripadvisor

[MrNubbz]

 Blonde tennis player from the Tiburon neighborhood.

Most beautiful young lady I've ever seen.

 The Caprice Restaurant
 2000 PARADISE DRIVE

She's prolly never been back