01-08-2006, 17:51
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Pacific NW - Puget Sound
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Originally Posted by Roguish Lawyer
I took a client there to celebrate winning a case I tried. Nice place with good wine list, IIRC.
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Yes! They do have a great wine list, in fact their bar is well stocked with a lot of good choices! The have a lot of single malt's there!
We always start things off with a double Gin Martini (with Sapphire Bombay Gin.)
We then share a Spinach salad (There to big for one person.)
We know the wine steward, so about this time he will approach us with suggestions based on our entree. (Usually a good red wine. We both prefer reds.)
On the 15 Jan we plan on ordering the Chateaubriand with Cliff sauce for two prepared at our table. (We always have enough meat left in our doggie bag (?) for another dinner.) Of course, either the double baked mashed (extra) or the big Idaho baked potato with all the usual goodies!.
Dessert will be their special dessert that they serve free to Birthday people! Its a cake/ice cream thing. covered with a thin chocolate cover.
I'll finish this all off with a Brandy snifter with Metoxa Brandy and hot coffee! 
BTW: This place is pretty pricey; however, great meat and excellent service! (Especially with the men waiters.)
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01-09-2006, 08:08
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Auxiliary
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: NW Arkansas
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The lunch buffet at The Homestead in Warm Springs, VA. Served only in the winter months. Also the year round breakfast buffet for best breakfast.
Ray's on the River in Atlanta for seafood.
Don't remember the name of the place in New London, CT for Italian but it was owned by an ex-professional wrestler who was also the chef. His daughter waited tables. Linguini with White Clam Sauce made with fresh clams (bellies too if you want them). Great guy and would come out to your table to check on you, make sure the food was alright. He was gargantuan. Had to turn sideways to walk through the door to the kitchen. His daughter was gorgeous. Great view of the river and town.
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01-09-2006, 08:26
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Location: United States
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My favorite, and the best restaurant in the Southeast:
http://www.woodlandsinn.com/dining.cfm
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01-09-2006, 11:02
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Location: Texas
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Carnelian Room, San Francisco. Incredible food and incredible view.
Also Roscoe's Chicken and Waffles.
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01-09-2006, 16:30
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Coffeepot Cafe in Sedona, AZ....great b'fasts....101 omelets.
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01-09-2006, 16:37
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Kia ora, bro
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Location: New Zealand
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If you guys end up down this way, DON'T go to the Loaded Hog chain of restaurants. We went there the other night and the whole family felt sick afterward. We went there 2 years ago and the same thing.
I quite like Nando's grilled chicken. Very nice and a couple of hot waitresses from time to time.
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01-09-2006, 16:53
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I have become a great fan of a Thai dish called Som Tam Thai.
It is distinct from the Issan version, Som Tam Lao, which uses a lot of fish sauce and smells foul as hell.
In English, Som Tam Thai is papaya salad. It is more than just thin sliced strings of papaya, however. The secret is in the sauce, and in the garlic. Somehow, Thais succeed in making Som Tam Thai sweet, sour, garlicky, and spicy, all at the same time. It is spectacular. It is also very good for you.
You can find recipes for it by googling, if you are curious.
Thais typically buy their Som Tom Thai from carts on the soi. I do not eat food from the soi. I have learned the hard way. I buy my Som Tam Thai from a little booth in the Robinson's Department Store complex on Ratchadapisek Road in Bangkok. The guy who makes it is a katoey, meaning a transvestite. He invariably calls me "handsome man" when I go, and he tries to flirt with me, though I do not speak enough Thai for him to succeed. I just smile, say thank you in Thai, and tell him "mai kao jai krup," which politely means that I do not understand. He just chatters on, apparently admiring my beard, or something. I do not know. I do not want to know.
I was initially nervous about buying food prepared by hand by a man with large arms wearing earrings and make up....but I got over it. The guy makes it great.
Som Tam Thai typically includes small dried shrimp. I tell the guy "gung mai ao," which means "no shrimp," and I tell him "nam blah mai ao," which means "no fish sauce, please."
I get mine with two perfect red Thai peppers chopped into the mix. The typical Thai gets his with ten or twenty peppers. If you are not acclimated to it, eating Som Tom like that can kill you. It is spicy enough for me with just two peppers.
It is freakin' delicious.
There are a ton of beautiful girls at that Robinson's, too.
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01-21-2006, 18:48
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Followup on Birthday dinner
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Originally Posted by Trip_Wire
Yes! They do have a great wine list, in fact their bar is well stocked with a lot of good choices! The have a lot of single malt's there!
We always start things off with a double Gin Martini (with Sapphire Bombay Gin.)
We then share a Spinach salad (There to big for one person.)
We know the wine steward, so about this time he will approach us with suggestions based on our entree. (Usually a good red wine. We both prefer reds.)
On the 15 Jan we plan on ordering the Chateaubriand with Cliff sauce for two prepared at our table. (We always have enough meat left in our doggie bag (?) for another dinner.) Of course, either the double baked mashed (extra) or the big Idaho baked potato with all the usual goodies!.
Dessert will be their special dessert that they serve free to Birthday people! Its a cake/ice cream thing. covered with a thin chocolate cover.
I'll finish this all off with a Brandy snifter with Metoxa Brandy and hot coffee!
BTW: This place is pretty pricey; however, great meat and excellent service! (Especially with the men waiters.) |
We had a wonderful dinner on the 15 Jan! We had the Chateaubriand, as planned; however, our favorite waiter Bruno decided to upgrade the free dessert to a "Bananas Foster" cooked up at our table by the same one as cooked the meat. We had enough meat to have a second dinner at home. Pics below:
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01-21-2006, 19:59
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Bladesmith to the Quiet Professionals
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Any of you kids pick up on the clothes that guy is wearing while at dinner?
I'm not even allowed to get close to that grade of rigging in a store, let alone eat in it!
Very impressive.
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01-21-2006, 21:43
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Guerrilla
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Location: Canada
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Any of you kids pick up on the clothes that guy is wearing while at dinner?
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Part of what makes the Special Forces Soldiers 'Special' I think. I don't think I would have trouble 'adapting and overcoming' that meal though, very nice.
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01-30-2006, 20:55
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Hawai'i - Can't beat Ono's on Kapahulu (Get there early for the Chicken Lau Lau and the 3-day old poi)
Chicken Schwarma - 5 Star down in Schwarma Alley, Doha, Qatar
Cheap Hot Wings - Gallaghers, near Sugarbush, VT
Greasy Spoon - The Red Kettle, Northfield, VT
Boston Baked Beans & Boston Cream Pie - Durgin Park, Boston, MA
History - Union Oyster House, Boston, MA
Cart food - That cart off Sukumvit, by the bank
Larb Nuer / Gai - Either the Big Apple in Fayetteville, NC or Royal Palace Thai in Tampa, FL
NW Seafood - Three Crabs...can't remember the city, but on the coast in WA
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01-31-2006, 00:38
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Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Texas
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Favorite restaurants by city:
Dallas - Nick & Sam's
San Francisco - Frascati
Boston - Trattoria a Scalinatella
Nick & Sam's is my favorite steak joint in Dallas. They serve a bone-in filet which has the flavor of a good ribeye with the texture of a filet. Unbelievable.
Frascati is a new favorite. They treated me like an old friend the first time I visited, knowing from my comments on OpenTable that I was a new customer. We got the best table in the house, looking down on the dining room and kitchen. I had the roast duck with chanterelle mushroom risotto. A very memorable evening.
Finally, Trattoria a Scalinatella is my favorite Italian restaurant anywhere. The food is exceptional but the real reason is that, as a poor grad student, some friends and I had saved our pennies so that we could go to celebrate one of our birthdays. The patrons ahead of us were slow leaving, and we had to wait an hour in the tiny stairwell outside before our table was ready. When we were finally seated, the owner came to our table and asked if it would be okay for him to "take care of us" that night. We later walked out having been comped something like $1,500 in food and wine. I now return every time that I'm in Boston.
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01-31-2006, 12:16
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Consigliere
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Nick & Sam's is my favorite steak joint in Dallas. They serve a bone-in filet which has the flavor of a good ribeye with the texture of a filet. Unbelievable.
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I ate there a few months ago when I was in Dallas. I liked it. I wouldn't say it's the best steakhouse I've been to, but it was very good. They have Blanton's at the bar. Good scenery too.
On the same trip, Air.177 took me to a divey Vietnamese place that I liked. Air, what's the name of that place?
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01-31-2006, 13:12
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Location: Central TX
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Originally Posted by Roguish Lawyer
I ate there a few months ago when I was in Dallas. I liked it. I wouldn't say it's the best steakhouse I've been to, but it was very good. They have Blanton's at the bar. Good scenery too.
On the same trip, Air.177 took me to a divey Vietnamese place that I liked. Air, what's the name of that place?
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Just a Haltom City hole in the wall called "Pho Nam" (I would say probably 40% of the viet places in the continental US are called something very similar LOL) They have good food at a reasonable price and it's 10 minutes from work.
RL: You may like to know that their other 3 locations are in CA 2 in Sunnyvale, 1 in Milipitas.
Good times,
Blake
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01-31-2006, 13:15
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Consigliere
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RL: You may like to know that their other 3 locations are in CA 2 in Sunnyvale, 1 in Milipitas.
Good times,
Blake
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Hmm, I'll have to try to get there next time I'm in the area. Both of those cities are in Northern CA.
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