Off topic - Do you drive for food?

22 comments

• Muddy

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  5 years ago

  If I’m traveling I would make it a point to stop at some place cool to eat in that place. I probably wouldn’t drive 100+ Miles just for the food. It would be for other stuff.
  
  Recently some stops
  
  San Diego-Kansas City BBQ (bar in Top Gun)
  
  Albuquerque- Route 66 diner, killer milkshakes
  
  Roswell- that McDonald’s that looks like a space ship(food still tastes the same)
  
  Phoenix- Lou Malnatis-Fucking kickass Chicago style pizza
  
  And back where I grew up we would go to other Burroughs for pizza (not far in distance but would take some time due traffic)
  
  Phoenix- Lou Malnatis-Fucking kickass Chicago style pizza
  
  
• FishHawk

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  5 years ago

  Not so much recently, Pretty decent Restaurants of many varieties within 20 miles.
  
  When I lived on the Oregon Coast we would routinely drive well over 50 miles to eat at a tiny little place on the Umpqua River. Or even over 200 miles to Portland to eat at a fine Restaurant there. While in Portland we would spend the night and do some shopping.
• Icey

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  5 years ago

  I used to drive all the way to Baker California, to visit the Mad Greek before they changed ownership and went downhill. Now a days, I'll sit in traffic for a few hours to visit some of my favorite places. But I have a lot of great food near me so I'm not complaining.
• Papi_Chulo

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  5 years ago

  It's a nice thing to do in part to get away from the daily-routine and just experience a different scenery.
  
  I would like to do it but usually when I visit a different area I have other priorities vs driving out of the way to hit a particular restaurant.
• gSteph

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  5 years ago

  Mostly. Too far to walk carrying groceries, sometimes ride my bike.
  Though walking to the garden usually gets me a salad.
  
  Was this a trick question?
• Jascoi

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  5 years ago

  when did the mad greek change owners? i've stopped there many times since 1985.
• Icey

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  5 years ago

  The original owner passed away in 2016 and the family sold it in 2018 from what I'm aware of.
• whodey

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  5 years ago

  I live in a very rural area about 1 hour east of Cincinnati so there is nothing but fast food type restaurants within about 40 miles so if I want anything decent I either have to cook it myself or drive quite a ways.
  
  Once a month or so a couple of buddies and I drive about 100 miles each way to Smith and Wollensky in Columbus for their Wagyu rib eye that is to die for. Jeff Ruby's various restaurants around Cincy make some great steaks but nothing like that.
• Funkycold88

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  5 years ago

  I live outside the perimeter east of Atlanta. Can pretty much get anywhere in the area in about an hour. Won't really travel much past that though for food, unless it's a special occasion.
• Icey

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  5 years ago

  I get weary about going far for food now a days though, a lot of places are going downhill, but at the same time, makes the few gems left still worth it....even more so.
• san_jose_guy

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  5 years ago

  I don't go without eating, but I also don't drive just for food.
  
  I like to usually stay as close to home as possible, and I like to use the bicycle as much as possible. Getting groceries is fine.
  
  I plan to be on the road for about a decade, building up my organization. So I will find places for food.
  
  In times past I have had favorite places I have gone to regularly, but not that far, 10 miles, and not just by myself either.
  
  I try to minimize car trips.
  
  SJG
  
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• skibum609

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  5 years ago

  We try to minimize auto trips as well. The 4,244 miles in 10 days out west? Aberration. January's 2,000 miles drive in 6 days in a Yaris so we could ski Montana and watch the Super Bowl in Vegas? Aberration. The 225 miles we drove 4th of July drinking beer and smoking weed? Police stop. Oops. Aberration. Burn that fossil fuel. No fuel. No peace.
• san_jose_guy

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  5 years ago

  I will be traveling for about 10 years, but I want to keep it to not over 300 miles per day, just to make it easy.
  
  But these travels have not started yet.
  
  SJG
• san_jose_guy

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  5 years ago

  ^^^^^ Keep the mileage down, for more time for bedding down with strippers.
  
  SJG
• Icey

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  5 years ago

  SJG I agree with you lol I love cars but hate driving... I try to be locally oriented, and prefer walking to the corner store, local bar, etc...
• Jascoi

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  5 years ago

  i’m ready for the self driving car.
• rockie

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  5 years ago

  Whenever I travel in the US I usually focus on what's good in food for that region. While in Philly, it was a must stop at Pat's and Geno's to sample their infamous cheese steaks. While both were quite good, my personal favorite is http://victoriassubs.com/ combined with a fall drive and a stop to feast at one of the local Hull, Cohasset, or North Scituate beach vista's. After Labor day, there is no issue with parking (whether at private or public beaches).
  
  On a recent South to North Journey, my passenger and I deviated 3 hours west to do a Vergo's Rendezvous vs Central BBQ comparison on the merits of Memphis barbeque. I've done the hot chicken and cue in Nashville, but I'm told no Nashville cue discussion can take place until one's been to https://www.facebook.com/monellstn/.
  
  My tripping quests in the past have probed the best pastrami sandwiches in NYC, the best in Barbeque or Fried Chicken in Memphis, and the best in beach and seafood at many venues.
• rickdugan

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  5 years ago

  Ski, you're speaking Greek to most of these people because they simply don't have access to restaurant food as good as what you have available. Unless you have lived in Eastern MA or the Providence area, you just wouldn't understand how good some restaurant food can be. In Eastern MA, there are little dinettes serving breakfast as incredible as the swankiest brunches in other parts of the country and shithole bars serving seafood as delicious as can be found anywhere. Then there are the unparalleled Italian restaurants, huge sitdown Chinese restaurants in the city and the suburbs that are cheap yet excellent and actually compete for chefs, pizza shops that make so-called NY pizza seem like the bland dogshit that it is, plethora of little mom and pop places that serve New England comfort food that is so good that it's hard to stop eating, bars that serve incredible Greek style bar pizza, sub shops that are so good that chain joints dare not open up anywhere near them...
  
  Fuck I could go on. Living in MA sucks for an infinite host of reasons, but the food almost makes up for it. Shit chains like Red Lobster don't even bother trying to compete in E. MA because they can't and the same holds true with a number of other crap chains, which are far less prevalent in many eastern MA than they are in other parts of the country. It's a gastronomical shock to move or travel to almost any other area of the country after one gets spoiled by years in MA.
• Daddillac

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  5 years ago

  I have used TVfoodmaps.com for years.... It synchs with my gps to tell where the closest restaurants are to me that were featured on the food network. It gives some info on the place so I can decide if I want to try it or not. If I am taking a road trip I can map on the website and set the distance I am willing to drive off my route for food. Really a handy app
• san_jose_guy

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  5 years ago

  Need food when I drive.
  
  But otherwise, I can satisfy myself in the kitchen and at the local supermarket.
  
  SJG
• san_jose_guy

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  5 years ago

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  SJG
• rh48hr

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  5 years ago

  There aren't many specific places I have set up to go. But when im in LA, I go to Aunt Kizzy's Back Porch in Marina Del Rey.
  
  Good chance you run in to a celebrity or two when you go. Stood in line behind Sidney Poitier one time.
  
  But don't plan on eating the rest of the day. The food fills you up.