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OrangeAfroMan

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Re: Restaurants
« Reply #28 on: May 19, 2024, 01:32:24 PM »
Quote from: betarhoalphadelta on May 18, 2024, 03:43:25 PM
Question for @OrangeAfroMan and anyone else familiar with the Phoenix/Glendale area. My wife and I are taking my son to the Luke Combs concert there in a few weeks. Need to figure out where to eat dinner before the show, which is at State Farm Stadium.

They have a whole entertainment complex across the street, which I'm sure will be easy, but not very interesting. We're staying on the North side of Phoenix (I-17 & Peoria Rd), so anywhere between there and Glendale works.
Sorry, I drove to LA and back in the past 24 hours, just woke up.

Pappadeax is good, but they haven't redecorated since the 1970s.  Only been there once.

There are plenty of places at Westgate (by the stadium).  The only one I've been to is Hot & Juicy Crawfish...it was messy and good. 
There's a Portillo's down where the 101 meets I-10.  Up towards Peoria, you could do Grimaldi's pizza.....Arrowhead Grill and Firebirds are fancy joints I haven't been to.  Bobby-Qs is on I-17 (good BBQ), south of Pappadeaux's. 
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Sorry, I don't do much fine dining. 

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Re: Restaurants
« Reply #29 on: May 19, 2024, 02:01:05 PM »
Huge fan of Charleston's.  I think it's in AZ, IN, NE, OK. MO and TX.    Extremely well run and good food.
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Re: Restaurants
« Reply #30 on: May 19, 2024, 02:02:05 PM »
I recall Papadeaux being a salt bomb.  Good but way too salty 
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Re: Restaurants
« Reply #31 on: May 19, 2024, 02:34:49 PM »
Quote from: MarqHusker on May 19, 2024, 02:02:05 PM
I recall Papadeaux being a salt bomb.  Good but way too salty
Same. But not very good.
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Re: Restaurants
« Reply #32 on: May 19, 2024, 02:52:42 PM »
Quote from: 847badgerfan on May 19, 2024, 02:34:49 PM
Same. But not very good.
Ive eaten there for over 20 years and dont get the salt thing at all

very good food
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Re: Restaurants
« Reply #33 on: May 19, 2024, 03:22:57 PM »
It could be overrated here because it's seafood and it's Arizona.  
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Re: Restaurants
« Reply #34 on: May 19, 2024, 03:30:00 PM »
Quote from: OrangeAfroMan on May 19, 2024, 01:32:24 PM
Sorry, I drove to LA and back in the past 24 hours, just woke up.

Pappadeax is good, but they haven't redecorated since the 1970s.  Only been there once.

There are plenty of places at Westgate (by the stadium).  The only one I've been to is Hot & Juicy Crawfish...it was messy and good. 
There's a Portillo's down where the 101 meets I-10.  Up towards Peoria, you could do Grimaldi's pizza.....Arrowhead Grill and Firebirds are fancy joints I haven't been to.  Bobby-Qs is on I-17 (good BBQ), south of Pappadeaux's. 
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Thanks. BobbyQ looks interesting and it's VERY close to the hotel, so that would be easy. 
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Re: Restaurants
« Reply #35 on: May 19, 2024, 04:22:32 PM »
I've been to Pappadeaux's but can't remember anything I ate. I do think the dips at Chuy's are really good.
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« Reply #36 on: May 20, 2024, 07:12:15 AM »
Quote from: betarhoalphadelta on May 19, 2024, 03:30:00 PM
Thanks. BobbyQ looks interesting and it's VERY close to the hotel, so that would be easy.
Unless it's owned by a Greek, there is way too much stuff on that menu.
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Re: Restaurants
« Reply #37 on: May 20, 2024, 08:16:36 AM »
I think every major and most minor seafood places use frozen seafood these days even if they are on the coast.  It could be they simply can't buy anything commercial that wasn't frozen.  Everything comes from Sysco.

I know an oyster house in Hilton Head that has their own trawlers and their oysters are good.

I used to chuckle at seeing Red Lobsters in Florida.

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Re: Restaurants
« Reply #38 on: May 20, 2024, 08:25:08 AM »
some fly in or otherwise serve stuff that hasn't been frozen, but it's a small number and expensive

some have a live lobster tank in the lobby
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Re: Restaurants
« Reply #39 on: May 20, 2024, 08:34:09 AM »
Yeah, the ol' lobster tank.  Some items may be fresh, but not your basic fish, even in Florida.  I recall being in Boston not sure where to dine and we found a Legal Seafood (the illegal one was not nearby) and it was fine, I guess, but I felt as if I could have had the same meal in Atlanta.  I know they are a chain.

I like really fresh fish, I used to find in on the coast at these little places (or big) that had their own fishing boats.  Hard to find now.  If everyone gets their fish from Sysco et al. it doesn't make any different to be on a coast.

Maybe my taste buds have changed or my memories are wrong.  Fish  tastes about the same as at a Captain D's.  Well, probably not, I have not dined at a CD's in ages.

The seafood places near us are "OK", I think, my wife is not much of a fan of any of them.  She brags about the seafood in Brittany, but frankly, I wasn't whelmed when we were there especially, it was good.
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Re: Restaurants
« Reply #40 on: May 20, 2024, 08:51:33 AM »
I'd say 90 percent of the seafood we get here at restaurants is frozen. Even being on the shore, it's easier and cheaper to use frozen. 

Fresh is premium, as it's only fresh for a day. After that, it's frozen, or, God forbid, wasted.
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Re: Restaurants
« Reply #41 on: May 20, 2024, 09:34:10 AM »
Roy's says they fly in fish from Hawaii daily

not sure how true that might be

the Oceanaire in Minneapolis states this as well 
I've had some stuff there that I think is very good
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