What's your favorite restaurant and meal?

[OakLeaf]

My favorite is North Carolina, where you can drink at a bar on Sundays but you can't buy package beer. I call it the law that says if you want to drink, you must drive.

[northstar]

In Minneapolis proper, these would be my picks:

Matt's Bar for their famous Jucy Lucy burger and fries
Psycho Suzi's motor lounge for their Heart Attack on a Plate pizza and their tots
Pepitos in South Mpls for their tacos and margaritas
Brasa for southwestern/carribean food

Gosh, I wish my class weren't coming in...I'd be able to list a whole bunch more.

[Blueberry]

My favorite is North Carolina, where you can drink at a bar on Sundays but you can't buy package beer. I call it the law that says if you want to drink, you must drive.

'Round this part of NC, you can buy beer and wine, just not before noon on Sunday. Yeah - we're backwards. We still have lots of dry counties too. Thankfully none where I live.

Beer, wine and fortified wine (e.g. sherry) are sold in grocery stores. Other, hard stuff is only sold by the State. We did *finally* pass a law that lets us now have the higher alcohol content beers. Some of those are yummy!

CA

[Running Mommy]

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.

Karen

Hey I've been to Bentonville! I was even an invited guest at Helen Waltons home. Pretty home. A creek crosses under the house- literally. A Frank Lloyd Wright home if I recall.
I worked for the mart for a few years back in the early 90's. When Sam was alive (he died while I worked there). Different place back then that's for sure! Back then they proudly proclaimed how much of the store had items made in the USA. HA! Now it's all China... sigh...

[Tuckervill]

You know what's awesome about that? I've never known ANYONE who's been to Mr. Sam's house! You'd think that 6 degrees thing wouldn't have to stretch so far across the country, huh?

It could also be that everyone who was Mr. Sam's contemporary is also mega-rich, too, because they got in on the "ground floor", and I just don't run in their circles. lol.

Karen

[carpaltunnel]

Nettie's Mexican Restaurant in Bellevue, Nebraska, yum. (You can't tell where Omaha ends and Belluevue begins.)

A family owned place in what used to be a filling station/cafe combo building from the 1950's. Nettie passed away a couple years ago but worked late into her 80's there, as did her boyfriend. Pictures of Nettie and all the generations of Escamillas all over the walls. Also pictures Nettie with some world famous people who find theirway to her when they are in town for a concert or game.

These days her daughter Cathy and her family continue to put out the same high quality food. I always get the potato and pea enchilada plate, smothered with lettuce and tomato. DH always orders the beef enchilada plate. They remember their regular customers. Everything is made from scratch including salsa, chili, and menudo. The chili is painfully hot with a wonderful flavor. We get a cup and spoon it judiciously over our enchiladas.

You come in the door, work your way to the cash register, put in your name, then stand in line until a table is ready. Or sit at the bar if there's room . A very basic looking place that people flock to for the great food. You're more likely to see well known Omaha faces there than about any place else.

[OakLeaf]

'Round this part of NC, you can buy beer and wine, just not before noon on Sunday.

Hmmmm, must be Virginia then. Sorry for the slander