OT - Regional eateries
georgmicrodong
Just a fat, creepy old pervert.
To coattail on Nina's fast food thread, what local or regional eateries, not national chains, are in your area and worth s visit. Doesn't have to be gourmet, just really good.
Since moving to Louisville, I've discovered that no *real* Louisvillian actually eats at KFC. There's a reason for that, to whit, half the gas stations in town have better fried chicken than KFC. There are three contenders for best fried chicken in Louisville. Kings, Indi's, and Dixie Chicken. I've had the latter two and they're both so much better than KFC it's like comparing stripper OTC to HIV infected, crackhead street hookers. I've heard equally glowing reviews of Kings; it's next on my list.
These are my picks, others might beel differently.
For steak, it's Pat's Steakhouse and Del Frisco's. Both of them are at least on par with Ruth's Chris, and far more reasonably priced.
For fish it's Passtime, a place in Middletown that looks like an old broken down redneck bar, and Mike Linnigs, a more family oriented place in the western part of town. Irish Rover serves up a good fish fry too.
For burgers, Mussel and Burger Bar. Locally sourced beef. I'm told the other menu items are fantastic as well, but I'm not very adventurous.
In the so-called NuLu section of town, there's a ton of different ethnic places, and on Bardstown road you can find a hundred little specialty places. Jack Fry's is *really* good American food, but a little on the pricey side.
Since moving to Louisville, I've discovered that no *real* Louisvillian actually eats at KFC. There's a reason for that, to whit, half the gas stations in town have better fried chicken than KFC. There are three contenders for best fried chicken in Louisville. Kings, Indi's, and Dixie Chicken. I've had the latter two and they're both so much better than KFC it's like comparing stripper OTC to HIV infected, crackhead street hookers. I've heard equally glowing reviews of Kings; it's next on my list.
These are my picks, others might beel differently.
For steak, it's Pat's Steakhouse and Del Frisco's. Both of them are at least on par with Ruth's Chris, and far more reasonably priced.
For fish it's Passtime, a place in Middletown that looks like an old broken down redneck bar, and Mike Linnigs, a more family oriented place in the western part of town. Irish Rover serves up a good fish fry too.
For burgers, Mussel and Burger Bar. Locally sourced beef. I'm told the other menu items are fantastic as well, but I'm not very adventurous.
In the so-called NuLu section of town, there's a ton of different ethnic places, and on Bardstown road you can find a hundred little specialty places. Jack Fry's is *really* good American food, but a little on the pricey side.
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In la. King taco is your best bet for good cheap food. Fat sals and
The Little Pub or Hoodoo Brown's BBQ in Ridgefield, CT.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkwAaTdD…
I just finished watching the whole movie on Netflix
We got a Jets near us now a Detroit pizza chain, I actually like and I’m usually not a fan of Detroit style pizza.
And I can’t really get the kind of cheesesteak I want unless I’m in Philly but Tony Luke’s expanded to up here and I like that spot.
I can’t think of one chain for NY food that I would reccomend this, isn’t Nathan’s everywhere now? There used to be spots called Weston’s hamburgers that my dad loved but I never got the chance to eat one.
The best pizza places in town though are Impellizzeri's, Wick's, and Bearno's. By far.
@shadowcat: Is that movie supposed to take place in Louisville?
Several ownership changes, a big scandal where one of the top executives was taking kick-backs from suppliers, then some guy was fired and sued for embezzlement of millions, recession beat them up a lot, declared bankruptcy and went through a reorganization, and it started going downhill.
Price increases, smaller portions, lower quality cuts of steak, high employee turnover... Sales gimmicks like putting bottles of wine on every table before you sat down and then asking which one they should open... WTF? When they got rid of *real* bacon bits on the salad bar and started using that crunchy artificial bacon-like substance, I knew it was over.
I think they were down to a dozen or less locations and then Covid killed them. There is only one left, which is the original location in Westfield, NJ that's been there since the 60's. I'll pop in there now and then. It's improved a lot, but not to the level it was at its peak.
Wow. Didn’t know that. They’ve opened places in Ohio, Michigan and Indiana
I'm speechless. Sure they are quite decent for chain joints, but any MA resident who can't pinpoint several excellent local restaurants must have no taste buds or at least extremely dulled culinary senses. The culinary scene in MA is unrivaled by any other state in this country and you post about...Papa Gino's and D'Angelos chain food made by kids?
Actually, regional <em>or</em> local is what I asked about. Individual restaurants are well within the scope of my interest.
Spike's Junkyard Dogs
New York System
Flo's Clam Shack
Fellini Pizzeria
Op if we're looking at one off restaurants then the topic is way too broad.
I don't know who you're addressing with this comment, so just in case it's me, I was asking for regional *or* local. It's right there in my first sentence.
I didn't intend to exclude "solo" places.
Smokey's Barbecue in Morrisville, NC
Skylight Inn Barbecue in Ayden, NC
But individual restaurants aren't by definition local or regional. The terms imply there being more than one but limited to a specific geographic area. Op should have just said restaurant if he didn't want to exclude anything.
I'd recommend dinos chicken
Another good spot for a hot dog is the sidewalk walk up window at Katz's Delicatessen on Houston street, plus they have the greatest combo sandwich in the history of sandwich, that's still the only place I know of where woman have a visible orgasm from eating that Pastrami, Corned Beef combo, don't believe it, check out This clip below
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNEX0fbG…