What is the Best Dish You've Ever Eaten in a Restaurant

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What is the Best Dish You've Ever Eaten in a Restaurant

Posted: 6/16/06 at 1:49am

The fondest memory I've ever had of a particuar dish was softshell crab in Atlantic City. I'm sure I've had something better, but that one just sticks out in my head. What's yours?

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re: What is the Best Dish You've Ever Eaten in a Restaurant

Posted: 6/16/06 at 1:51am

A lobster-stuffed artichoke floating in a bowl of butter.

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re: What is the Best Dish You've Ever Eaten in a Restaurant

Posted: 6/16/06 at 2:41am

Eating my very first lobster at Tony Romas in Tokyo, Japan. It was so delicious.

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Posted: 6/16/06 at 4:43am

A mozarella-and-wilted-lettuce warm salad at a Thai "fusion" restaurant about 20 minutes from my house. I've NEVER had a bad dinner there, and whenever they have it (it's seasonal), I have to get it. The head chef grows the tomatoes herself as well as most of the herbs. Oh man, I love that place.

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re: What is the Best Dish You've Ever Eaten in a Restaurant

Posted: 6/16/06 at 6:28am

This might sound stupid, but SCALA'S in San Francisco has terrific Caesar salads. The salads stand out more than the main courses.

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Posted: 6/16/06 at 7:01am

i had a really dreamy panang curry with scallops @ PONGSRI on 23rd st

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Posted: 6/16/06 at 7:07am

On the lobster theme - it was a 'lobster pie' in a restaurant (long gone) in NY. Chunks of lobster meat baked in a sherry-laced cream sauce with chunks of toasted brioche floating in the sauce. Very reminiscent of a lobster Newburg, but even richer.

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Posted: 6/16/06 at 7:12am

I was in Natchitoches, LA about ten years ago and had some fabulous meat pies at this restaurant by the river. I can't remember the restaurant's name though. Oh well.

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re: What is the Best Dish You've Ever Eaten in a Restaurant

Posted: 6/16/06 at 7:20am

my two favorite places in the city are

RISOTERRIA on bleeker
(many different risotto dishes that are so rich, they all seem like candy...but in fact, are very healthy!)

&

CHENNAI GARDEN on 27th & lexington
(get the dosa!!!! its their specialty!!! your eyes will bug out when its brought to your table!! i recommend the mushroom masala!!!)

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re: What is the Best Dish You've Ever Eaten in a Restaurant

Posted: 6/16/06 at 7:33am

This one fettichini dish with clams at a country club.


Nummy.

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Posted: 6/16/06 at 8:21am

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Favorite dessert above!

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re: What is the Best Dish You've Ever Eaten in a Restaurant

Posted: 6/16/06 at 8:37am

Mine was a dessert. It was called "Apple Walnut Chantilly", at an old Stouffer's Restaurant, in Jenkintown, PA (just outside Philadelphia). It was so damned good, I had a second!

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Posted: 6/16/06 at 10:15am

Filet Mignon of Tuna
Union Square Cafe

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Posted: 6/16/06 at 10:17am

in the dining room?

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re: What is the Best Dish You've Ever Eaten in a Restaurant

Posted: 6/16/06 at 10:17am

Ok this sounds really strange, but a small Italian restaraunt near me serves potato pizza, and it is to die for.

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Posted: 6/16/06 at 10:17am

Twice is nice.

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re: What is the Best Dish You've Ever Eaten in a Restaurant

Posted: 6/16/06 at 10:18am

Gosh, I couldn't say. But my wackiest dishes were at this posh Willy Wonka-ish restaurant in Chicago (Moto, I think?) where my courses included a corn chowder with popcorn dipped in liquid nitrogen at the table, a menu made of risotto and for dessert, doughnut soup (a warm liquid that tasted just like eating a glazed doughnut).

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Posted: 6/16/06 at 10:22am

Choosing just one would make my head explode...

But for starters....

Yellowtail jalapeño sashimi at Nobu

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Posted: 6/16/06 at 10:45am

in the dining room
black peppercorn sauce

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Posted: 6/16/06 at 12:55pm

the Banana Fritter drizzled in hot dark chocolate sauce at the Belgian restaurant on Bem Rakpart in Budapest.......which I will have numerous times next month!

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re: What is the Best Dish You've Ever Eaten in a Restaurant

Posted: 6/16/06 at 1:34pm

One of them was a medium rare t-bone steak at the San Francisco Steak House in San Antonio, Texas.

I haven't had a steak to match it yet.

Them Texans know their steak.

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Posted: 6/16/06 at 2:05pm

Beef Wellington at Cafeina in Porto, Portugal (which is coincidentally the background in my avatar).

Cafeina

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Updated On: 6/16/06 at 02:05 PM

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Posted: 6/16/06 at 2:05pm

Nom, next time you're in Dallas you've got to eat at Nick and Sam's.
Nick and Sam's - an Uptown Steakhouse

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re: What is the Best Dish You've Ever Eaten in a Restaurant

Posted: 6/16/06 at 2:16pm

Thanks, Fiction Writer.

How long of a layover would you have to have at Dallas Airport to get out and eat at that restaurant and is it very far from the AA terminal there? Is it near any particular hotel that might have a shuttle from the airport?

I'm still salivating to sing my carnivore fangs into steak out in Brooklyn at Peter Luger's to see what all the fuss is about.

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re: What is the Best Dish You've Ever Eaten in a Restaurant

Posted: 6/16/06 at 3:14pm

Truffle-infused gnocchi at Gramercy Tavern

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