What's your favorite restaurant and meal?

[elk]

I SO miss North End Pizza....or Pino's on Beacon St in Boston...a real Italian big droopy thin crust pizzeria peetz...

But here we have Burgerville...free range antibiotic free beef, local produce....and I love a Tillamook Cheesburger, a Mocha Perk smoothie and some Yukon gold fries......

But I try to keep it to a minimum...

[redrhodie]

you guys are killing me.

[Trek420]

But here we have Burgerville...free range antibiotic free beef, local produce....and I love a Tillamook Cheesburger, a Mocha Perk smoothie and some Yukon gold fries......

But I try to keep it to a minimum...

Sounds a little like this joint. Now this is road food anytime I'm going from Sacramento to the Bay Area or vice versa.

http://daviswiki.org/Redrum_Burger

[elk]

Sounds a little like this joint. Now this is road food anytime I'm going from Sacramento to the Bay Area or vice versa.

http://daviswiki.org/Redrum_Burger

yum...I might have to forgo my ethics to eat there..(I like BV because it respects its food sources... ....but its oso hard to resist that road food!!!

[Trek420]

yum...I might have to forgo my ethics to eat there..(I like BV because it respects its food sources... ....but its oso hard to resist that road food!!!

Redrum burger has the best turkey burger I've ever had. They get the spices juuust right. You can get a whole wheat buns and while I usually go the whole wheat route their "normal" buns are good. Their milk shakes are the best with all the standard shakes like coffee, chocolate, real espresso in the cappucino shakes or mocha. But look for seasonal options; strawberry, blackberry, peach whatever's in season.

I haven't asked if their food is local, organic etc. Since they are in California Central Valley in Davis which is an agricultural college (Go Aggies!) and Davis was voted one of the most bike friendly cities in the US of A .... odds are good the tomato on your burger is fresh.

[Tuckervill]

Y'all are torturing me! Our small city has plenty of restaurants, if you like Mexican food. And since we're in a "dry" county, we have to drive to Oklahoma to get a margarita!

I did try the little Thai place recently, but even their spring rolls were deep fried.

Any other kind of restaurant is available, but you have to drive 30 miles. We're getting a Zaxby's Chicken, but that's all fried and I don't eat it.

Karen

[Running Mommy]

They still have "dry" counties?? REALLY?????

WOW...

[Tuckervill]

There are a few left. But, our county, home of Wal-Mart HQ and therefore many, many transplants from other parts of the country/world, is only pseudo-dry. We have what you call "private clubs" which are really just regular restaurants, like Outback and Boston's, with member register books that you should sign when you come in. If the local municipality doesn't forbid it (mine does) they can operate and serve liquor by the drink. Bentonville and Rogers, AR are blessed to have the cosmopolitan population drawn by high-tech Wal-Mart jobs, and therefore their city councils can't get away with voting to keep the dens-of-inequity out.

Our little city is dominated by a private Christian university, and an unofficial sign at the town line proclaims "Welcome to God's Country, Where Jesus Christ is Lord" ikidyounot. So, the county may go wet some day, but Siloam Springs--NEVER.

The irony--Oklahoma just recently made tattoo shops legal in OK...before that, our uber-conservative border town has always had the tattoo parlors, and OK had the casino and the liquor! The casino is expanding and there will be Siloam Springs homes literally in the shadow of the hotel. The liquor store is quite literally on the state line, and you wouldn't know you'd left the whole state if you didn't know better.

Regardless, I love it here, and my little house.
Karen

[Trek420]

Y'all are torturing me!

We're so sorry Move here? Or visit?

[Tuckervill]

We're so sorry Move here? Or visit?

I try to get away as often as I can!!! I hit both Portlands this year. Caribbean next month.

Karen

[ummbnb]

We eat out waaaaay too much. But food...and wine ....are really are favorite things to spend money on. We rarely eat at chains, preferring to eat locally. A friend of ours is the food critic for our local Village Voice publication so we often get the inside word on where to go from him....and on occassion get to dine out on the paper for a review. That's the BEST! Nothing like ordering darned near everything on the menu and then disecting it bite by bite.

[Meaux]

In no particular order (this is only my hometown restaurants):

-El Rey-tasty Cuban Mexican food. The plantains are to die for.
-Cafe Montrose-Belgian food. I need to go back, I think I might appreciate it more now that I'm cycling.
-Barnaby's-really good fresh cooking, and they're very animal friendly (Barnaby is the owner's childhood English sheepdog!)
-Mission Burrito-like Chipotle, but with fresher ingredients
-Tookie's-it's in a far suburb or Houston, but I swear they have the best burgers and onion rings.
-Chuy's-fantastic Tex Mex. It's rumored to be one of Lance Armstrong's favorite restaurants.
-Mai's-Vietnamese and Chinese foods. It's open until 2 AM on the weekends.

There are so many more, but it would get out of control if I put more thought into it.

[Bruno28]

http://www.macsween.co.uk/index.asp

Oh, c'mon - what did you expect from me?

I like Thai and Italian if I'm eating out but haggis, neeps and tatties is to die for. Vegetarian option available - although it does kind of miss the point.