What was the last great meal you had out?

skibum609
Massachusetts
Dining out is amazing. So many options. Different cuisines. Highbrow, lowbrow and everything in-between and I love it all. Sunday my wife and I golfed. Thunderstorms. The golf course siren wails. We're drinking so fuck it. The marshall comes out. We're coming right in we say. Fuck it. We head to the green. I line up my putt and then it happens: I feel the hairs rise up, I yell get down to my wife and hit the ground. The flash of brilliant light is a split second before the loudest boom ever. The closer in time the light/sound are, the closer the strike and this was virtually simultaneous. Maybe going in and give it up after 14 holes.

Out to dinner. Our version of fine dining. Very, very weird fine dining establishment in Rhode Island, the most underrated food destination in the land. The "Lucky Dog Tavern" sounds like a biker bar. The building looks like an old biker bar and the half-dirt parking lot, neighborhood of fun down triple Deckers doesn't scream fine dining.

Inside it is small, as in 25-30 feet end to end. Maybe 30 seats, including the bar. Your reservation is clocked at 90 minutes and then out you go. Chef owned. Quebecois, Japanese and Portuguese influences, which is bizarre.

Started with Poutine. Very, very, very French Canadian dish in which they combine tater tots, slightly fried cheese curds, crispy pieces of duck and the finest brown gravy on earth. I would drink it from a glass and be happy. Too rich to finish, so take home. On to dinner and I order Pasta Divinia, which is a dish that exists nowhere else and the only reference I found is an Italian restaurant in Brussels. Chef owned so I get a huge plate of really good linguini, some very large, perfectly cooked shrimp and sea scallops and lobster claw and tail with roasted red peppers and artichoke hearts, perfectly done. The sauce? Never had anything like it: Roasted garlic, Champagne cream sauce. No cheese at all, no tomatos. A true cream sauce. Half came home, just waaay too much food, with all the incredible Sangrias we drank.

Best part? Eating at the bar on the way home from Desires and the fact I can tell my wife exactly how and why I know a restaurant in rural Slatersville Rhode Island, where we live far away.

What was your last great meal?

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gammanu95
5 months ago
Last GREAT meal? A Korean BBQ offered a Spanish heritage Iberico pork that had been fed primarily pecans and walnuts it's whole life. That was a couple of years ago, but it was the best meat I've eaten outside of the wagyu and ribs I cook at home.
stripperlover777
5 months ago
⭐ Mi Local Mexican Restaurant. Tacos, Chips/Salsa, Refried Beans & Rice!
Muddy
5 months ago
Last one was Tony’s Italian Beef on the south side of Chicago. And Frnanies too by O’hare. Italian beef’s are the best. I gotta admit it does sound kinda gay though.
whodey
5 months ago
I took my father out to a little place in Portsmouth, Ohio called the Scioto Ribber that he and my mom used to go for special occasions before she passed. They have hands down the best smoked ribs I have ever had anywhere in the country. They also make some pretty good steaks.
Muddy
5 months ago
@whodey dude that looks badass. I'm gonna stop one of these days.
skibum609
5 months ago
I must be gay because Italian beefs are fucking great.
Lockjaw
5 months ago
Skidumb's wife and I dined out. First she ate out my ass. It was garnished with sweat and hair. Next I served her a footlong jumbo hot dog. She devoured it and almost choked on the natural skin casing. She was still hungry so I gave her a creampie for desert. She said it was the best three course meal she has had in 40 years! 🥗🌭🥧
ATACdawg
5 months ago
The last two meals, actually.

The first was at a local waterfront bar and restaurant. I had blackened rockfish on top of fried green tomatoes, then covered with crab meat and meuniere sauce with perfectly cooked green beans on the side. The second was tonight at an nice Italian restaurant. We had a half carafe of a nice Malbec, a caprese appetizer, very nice salads with a really good Italian dressing on mine and what my wife described as the best blue cheese dressing she had ever had. Main course: veal scallopini for her and grilled shrimp, clams, mussels and calamari in a very good marinara over spaghetti. Outstanding food and service.


skibum609
5 months ago
^ Sounds amazing.
twentyfive
5 months ago
For my birthday in May we all went to eat at Tremontis, I had the bone in Veal Chop, my brother had the Osso Bucco of course we had broccoli rabe, and the pasta with pomodoro sauce. For dessert we all had cannolis drizzled with raspberry sauce as a treat. The following morning we played golf at the Seminole club, then ate breakfast at the club, which included an omelette station.
Free food is always the best food.
motorhead
5 months ago
The posts are making me hungry
motorhead
5 months ago
Finished a project in Chicago last month and the team went to a high end steakhouse. Didn’t enjoy it as much as expected.

I used to love a good steak. But enjoying it less as I get older. I think there’s truth to the saying that tastes change as you get older.
skibum609
5 months ago
25 Seminole is an incredible play. Lucky you. If you want something unique in your area, there is a place in Jupiter called "chowderheads". They specialize in New England seafood and except for the fact its twice the cost compared to around here it is legit because they fly it in from Maine every other day
crosscheck
5 months ago
A few weeks ago, South Shore bar pizza at Town Spa in Stoughton, MA. Far from fine dining, but as someone who grew up south of Boston and have lived here most of my life, the good bar pizza joints qualify as a great meal for me. Especially now since I'm type 2 diabetic and I don't have pizza that often, I appreciate it that much more when I do.
Puddy Tat
5 months ago
^ I don't understand why someone would go south and eat New England seafood. I want the local cuisine wherever I go.

Capital Grille Kona coffee crusted NY Strip au poivre was exquisite. Caesar salad, creamed spinach.

Best all time would be tasting menu at French Laundry in Napa Valley with wine pairing. $425 in 2009, God knows what they charge now. Gavin Newsom would approve!
twentyfive
5 months ago
I know Seminole I’ve played there before, on of my oldest friends owns a home there, he flew down to join us for my birthday it was a blast. BTW I believe Seminole is one of the top 10 courses in the country
Puddy Tat
5 months ago
@crosscheck, might try that place out next time I'm in the Boardroom vicinity. Any particular topping you recommend?
twentyfive
5 months ago
Never been to chowderheads but I’ve heard good things about it. Me personally I’m not really a big seafood fan something to do with an allergy to shellfish
crosscheck
5 months ago
Puddy - my pizza go to has been hamburger and onion for a long time. Not specific to Town Spa, just in general.
Mate27
5 months ago
The table side Caesar’s salad at the golden stier in Vegas was the tops! Seeing all the old pics of the Rat Pack and other celebrities brought nostalgia and enjoying them making it right in from of you while knowing your meal is being made with a top notch cocktail in hand is priceless. Only cost me about $200 for two people. I make better steaks at home, but at least this one had me full and entertained for over 2 hours.
rockie
5 months ago
Broiled Grouper Plate at Where Y At Seafood Market & Restaurant, Navarre FL. The grouper was caught 2 hours prior to serving.
skibum609
5 months ago
Cross do you remember the old now gone restaurant Vin and Eddies in Abington on rte 18?
crosscheck
5 months ago
Ski - Yes, of course.
Manuellabore
5 months ago
I've got nothing useful to contribute.

So here goes.

I'll eat anything. I don't care. As long as it doesn't smell or taste foul and isn't too tough or chewy or overly spicy or otherwise painful to eat, I'll eat it.

When I realized that "What's your favorite food" was a ice breaker strippers used a lot, I had to think up and memorize a "favorite food"

Great meals for me hinge on 1. Companionship; and 2. Setting.

Last great companionship meal was at a local diner with a super fun couple early afternoon a couple Saturdays ago. I had a chef's salad and a crappy IPA.

Last great setting was the Saturday evening before Father's Day, at a huge restaurant complex on the waterfront in Center City Philadelphia. Lots of things going on to watch, on and off the water. I had a cheesesteak (very limited menu, but I don't care) and a somewhat better IPA.
TCabot
5 months ago
Hot pastrami sandwiches are amazing.
rockie
4 months ago
And does Sorelle's not measure up?
crosscheck
4 months ago
Rockie - Sorelle's is also very good, but if I want to have Italian food in that area, I prefer to go a mile or two further south on Route 18 and go to Mia Regazza which I love.
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