NorCal Aaron Posted February 13, 2007 Posted February 13, 2007 It's a 3-way tie: Buzzy's Pizzeria The Como Restaurant Whistle Pig Niagara Falls, New York, USA Cataract City native?
Chef Jim Posted February 13, 2007 Posted February 13, 2007 Wow, I've done a lot of research over the years so this is tough, but I'd like to break it down into three categories: Low End/Family - Theatre Restaurant in Attica. My dad's place in the 70's and 80's. Just a bit biased. Mid Level - Whiffenpoof (weird name) in Miami. First nice restaurant I took my wife too. Sometimes it's about the company and not food or service. Hight End - Aqua in the St. Regis in Dana Point. Hope to change this to the French Laundry later this year.
truth on hold Posted February 13, 2007 Posted February 13, 2007 Cataract City native? DiCamillo's Bakery for Dessert!
Fezmid Posted February 13, 2007 Posted February 13, 2007 DiCamillo's Bakery for Dessert! DiCamillo cheesecake... Yum. (I grew up in NF,NY - and my grandmother actually lived right across the street from a small DiCamillo - since gone - on 20th street. We used to get fresh bread all the time from there). For me, Khan's Mongolian Barbeque is the best. It's a stir fry where you go up and put your food in a bowl (they have a ton of meats/seafood, vegetibles, two types of noodles, etc), you pour the spices you want on at the end, and then you hand it to a chef to cook for you. Get back to your table and the waitress has brought rice and these little biscuits with hot honey and sesame seeds in the middle. Yummy. If you're a pig, you can go up for seconds during dinner, but I'm such a regular I can stack the food quite high with only one trip through CW
IDBillzFan Posted February 14, 2007 Posted February 14, 2007 Hope to change this to the French Laundry later this year. Hot damn! You're getting back into the business! Excellent!
Chef Jim Posted February 14, 2007 Posted February 14, 2007 Hot damn! You're getting back into the business! Excellent! If that happens, shoot me. Means I've gone totally insane
TheMadCap Posted February 14, 2007 Posted February 14, 2007 Won"t repaet what is in the tipping thread, but by far for me the French Laundry. Next In Order 1) Inn at Little Washington 2) Per Se in NYC 3) Mini Bar in DC 4) Citronelle in DC 5) Gordon Ramsey Claridge London 6) Picaso at Bellagio Las Vegas 7) Millies in Richmond VA Millies gets major negative points for being damn near impossible to get inside the building, as there are only three tables in the place...
NorCal Aaron Posted February 14, 2007 Posted February 14, 2007 DiCamillo's Bakery for Dessert! Trusellos.
a player to be named later Posted February 14, 2007 Posted February 14, 2007 Trusellos. Mang's fish market? Seriously, Knickerbocker Bar and Grill - NYC
Simon Posted February 14, 2007 Posted February 14, 2007 Some joint a block or two off Bourbon down in the French Qrtr. Best lunch/dinner I ever had. Couldn't find it again with a map and a compass but maybe if I led off with another dozen whiskey and cokes I'd stumble into it again......
JinVA Posted February 14, 2007 Posted February 14, 2007 Millies gets major negative points for being damn near impossible to get inside the building, as there are only three tables in the place... While I can agree with this, Millies still rocks!!!!!! For those of you in Hampton Roads may I reccomend [post=<object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value=" name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src=" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed></object>]Stove[/post] located in Port Norfolk.
truth on hold Posted February 14, 2007 Posted February 14, 2007 Trusellos. is that the place with the packaging that shows some guy beating some other guy because he said something bad about trusellos bread?
In space no one can hear Posted February 14, 2007 Posted February 14, 2007 I'm feeling like I haven't been out much to fancy places. But...I am a camping/ outdoor guy. My best meals have been off the chuckwagon and eaten under the stars.
Alaska Darin Posted February 14, 2007 Posted February 14, 2007 Some joint a block or two off Bourbon down in the French Qrtr. Best lunch/dinner I ever had. Couldn't find it again with a map and a compass but maybe if I led off with another dozen whiskey and cokes I'd stumble into it again...... I'm sure I've eaten there and five other places just like it. Like you, I couldn't pick any of them out without being pickled from a trip to Patty O's first. For whatever reason, I'll take the prime rib at the Conesus Inn over anything I've had anywhere on the planet.
LewPort71 Posted February 14, 2007 Posted February 14, 2007 It's a 3-way tie: Buzzy's Pizzeria The Como Restaurant Whistle Pig Niagara Falls, New York, USA Excellent choices.....!!!! While we were dating in HS., I took Mrs. Lew to John's Flaming Hearth for Valentines Day.. Donna Felicias in Lewiston was very good too. When I was a kid my parents took me to Commanders Palace in New Orleans.
X. Benedict Posted February 14, 2007 Posted February 14, 2007 This place was probably the best place I've been to in the last 3 or 4 yrs. Vie, just west of Chicago: http://www.vierestaurant.com/
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