What's your favorite restaurant and meal?

[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.

[Thorn]

I did try vegetarian haggis while in Scotland--it was an interesting nutloaf. But I love this line from the web site you've listed:

We think the Macsween vegetarian haggis is particularly delicious served with roast meat

uh....if you think vegetarian haggis misses the point, doesn't serving it with meat really miss the point?

[Bruno28]

LOL

We don't really recognise vegetarians in Scotland