What is the Best Dish You've Ever Eaten in a Restaurant
What is the Best Dish You've Ever Eaten in a Restaurant
Ebonic_Singer
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/18/04
#0What is the Best Dish You've Ever Eaten in a Restaurant
Posted: 6/16/06 at 1:49amThe 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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#1re: What is the Best Dish You've Ever Eaten in a Restaurant
Posted: 6/16/06 at 1:51amA lobster-stuffed artichoke floating in a bowl of butter.
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Broadway Legend Joined: 3/14/06
#2re: What is the Best Dish You've Ever Eaten in a Restaurant
Posted: 6/16/06 at 2:41amEating my very first lobster at Tony Romas in Tokyo, Japan. It was so delicious.
#3re: What is the Best Dish You've Ever Eaten in a Restaurant
Posted: 6/16/06 at 4:43amA 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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#4re: What is the Best Dish You've Ever Eaten in a Restaurant
Posted: 6/16/06 at 6:28amThis might sound stupid, but SCALA'S in San Francisco has terrific Caesar salads. The salads stand out more than the main courses.
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#5re: What is the Best Dish You've Ever Eaten in a Restaurant
Posted: 6/16/06 at 7:01ami had a really dreamy panang curry with scallops @ PONGSRI on 23rd st
Mama Mo
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#6re: What is the Best Dish You've Ever Eaten in a Restaurant
Posted: 6/16/06 at 7:07amOn 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.
#7re: What is the Best Dish You've Ever Eaten in a Restaurant
Posted: 6/16/06 at 7:12amI 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.
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#8re: 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!!!)
tz0o
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#9re: 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.
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Corine2
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/14/03
#10re: What is the Best Dish You've Ever Eaten in a Restaurant
Posted: 6/16/06 at 8:21am
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Favorite dessert above!
Updated On: 6/16/06 at 08:21 AM
JohnBoy2
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/21/06
#11re: What is the Best Dish You've Ever Eaten in a Restaurant
Posted: 6/16/06 at 8:37amMine 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!
#12re: What is the Best Dish You've Ever Eaten in a Restaurant
Posted: 6/16/06 at 10:15am
Filet Mignon of Tuna
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#13re: What is the Best Dish You've Ever Eaten in a Restaurant
Posted: 6/16/06 at 10:17amin the dining room?
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#14re: What is the Best Dish You've Ever Eaten in a Restaurant
Posted: 6/16/06 at 10:17amOk this sounds really strange, but a small Italian restaraunt near me serves potato pizza, and it is to die for.
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#15re: What is the Best Dish You've Ever Eaten in a Restaurant
Posted: 6/16/06 at 10:17amTwice is nice.
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Updated On: 6/16/06 at 10:17 AM
#16re: 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).
Updated On: 6/16/06 at 10:18 AM
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Broadway Legend Joined: 7/21/04
#17re: What is the Best Dish You've Ever Eaten in a Restaurant
Posted: 6/16/06 at 10:22am
Choosing just one would make my head explode...
But for starters....
Yellowtail jalapeño sashimi at Nobu
#18re: What is the Best Dish You've Ever Eaten in a Restaurant
Posted: 6/16/06 at 10:45am
in the dining room
black peppercorn sauce
#19re: What is the Best Dish You've Ever Eaten in a Restaurant
Posted: 6/16/06 at 12:55pmthe 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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nomdeplume
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/20/05
#20re: 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.
#21re: What is the Best Dish You've Ever Eaten in a Restaurant
Posted: 6/16/06 at 2:05pm
Beef Wellington at Cafeina in Porto, Portugal (which is coincidentally the background in my avatar).
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Updated On: 6/16/06 at 02:05 PM
#22re: What is the Best Dish You've Ever Eaten in a Restaurant
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
nomdeplume
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/20/05
#23re: 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.
MargoChanning
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#24re: What is the Best Dish You've Ever Eaten in a Restaurant
Posted: 6/16/06 at 3:14pmTruffle-infused gnocchi at Gramercy Tavern
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