Your favorite restaurant

[CardsFan]

When on vacation in Pensacola, we frequent Peg Leg Pete's. Check the specials. Fish Taco Tuesday. One day (forget which) Oysters are 1/2 price. Good food with a lot of locals.

Over in Panama City, The Shrimp Boat, Hunt's Oyster bar and Schooners are good.

In Key West, you have to go to El Siboney for Cuban food, and Santiago's Bodega for Tapas.

 

[Ready]

Has anyone been to the Clam Box in Ipswich, MA? I used to go there as a kid and get fried clams. I looked it up and it's still there. Apparently it's been in business since 1938. I bet it's still the best place to get local fried whole belly clams you can find.

 

[CardsFan]

Has anyone been to the Clam Box in Ipswich, MA? I used to go there as a kid and get fried clams. I looked it up and it's still there. Apparently it's been in business since 1938. I bet it's still the best place to get local fried whole belly clams you can find.

MANY years ago! There were several Clam Boxes in the area. Not sure if they were related. The one in Weymouth was the one I went to regularly.

FWIW , no one in New England considers it a clam if there is not a belly! The others are just Hojo clam strips.

 

[Lawrencewendall]

DW has Dumping Syndrome and I have a terrible sense of smell/taste (fumed at the cost versus the taste of what I can make at home). We rarely go out to eat. No help here.

 

[Ready]

MANY years ago! There were several Clam Boxes in the area. Not sure if they were related. The one in Weymouth was the one I went to regularly.

FWIW , no one in New England considers it a clam if there is not a belly! The others are just Hojo clam strips.

There are two things I have learned to accept as a New Englander living in Southern California.

1) Don't ask if the clams have bellies. They have no idea what you are talking about out here. The Hojo strips are as good as it gets.

2) Don't ask for jimmies on your ice cream if you want chocolate sprinkles. They will look at you like you have two heads.

 

[Moemg]

There are two things I have learned to accept as a New Englander living in Southern California.

1) Don't ask if the clams have bellies. They have no idea what you are talking about out here. The Hojo strips are as good as it gets.

2) Don't ask for jimmies on your ice cream if you want chocolate sprinkles. They will look at you like you have two heads.

The things I have had to accept moving from New Jersey to Florida is just because the Pizza shop says they are from New Jersey does not mean the Pizza is good . They lost the recipes on the drive down .Bagels do not exist on the west coast of Florida.

 

[zinger1457]

There are two things I have learned to accept as a New Englander living in Southern California.

1) Don't ask if the clams have bellies. They have no idea what you are talking about out here. The Hojo strips are as good as it gets.

2) Don't ask for jimmies on your ice cream if you want chocolate sprinkles. They will look at you like you have two heads.

And don't ask for a grinder, no one there will have any idea what you're talking about.

 

[GoBears]

Mama's Fish House, Maui.
Tadich Grill, San Francisco.
Boulevard, San Francisco.

 

[Midpack]

There are two things I have learned to accept as a New Englander living in Southern California.

1) Don't ask if the clams have bellies. They have no idea what you are talking about out here. The Hojo strips are as good as it gets.

2) Don't ask for jimmies on your ice cream if you want chocolate sprinkles. They will look at you like you have two heads.

And don't ask for a grinder, no one there will have any idea what you're talking about.

DW would be asking for a cabinet with her grinder too, I'm not sure anyone outside RI would know that she wants a milkshake. Specifically a coffee Awful Awful from Newport Creamery.

 

[grasshopper]

Subs, grinders, hoagies, poboys, what do you call it.

 

[GravitySucks]

This is a tough one.
Dinosaur BBQ in Syracuse, Rochester, and NYC was great,but the quality is lacking on my last two visits.
Tens of great Italian places in CNY.
Im In Trinidad CA. right now and have been enjoying the happy hour food at Moonstone Grill. Great food and can't beat the view.
Joe's Stone Crab in Miami was great, but been a long time since I was there.
Fried chicken from the gas station near the marina in Islamerada FL couldn't be beat.
Crab Cakes in Maryland. Most any mom and pop place that sells them. (Phillips many many many years ago.)
Guess it depends where I am at the moment.

 

[aja8888]

Pappasitio's Cantina in Houston. Simply the best.

https://pappasitos.com/home/

 

[Bestwifeever]

Just saw that Conde Nast Traveler rated Chicago as the best restaurant city in America. Of Chicago's best 19 restaurants, I think I've only been to one.

19 Best Restaurants in Chicago - Photos - Condé Nast Traveler

Thanks--we'll try a couple new ones, and we've been to a couple, I believe. Funny how the chefs just keep opening variants--the "girl and the goat" genius has several iterations going now, as do Billy Dec, the Publican group, Bayless, Alinea/Aschatz.

 

[Bestwifeever]

Pappasitio's Cantina in Houston. Simply the best.

https://pappasitos.com/home/

+1000--one of the first places we went when DD went to college in Houston in 1997, and we cohosted a Pappasitos-catered graduation party for some of the kids four years later.

 

[Ready]

This is a tough one.
Dinosaur BBQ in Syracuse, Rochester, and NYC was great,but the quality is lacking on my last two visits.
Tens of great Italian places in CNY.
Im In Trinidad CA. right now and have been enjoying the happy hour food at Moonstone Grill. Great food and can't beat the view.
Joe's Stone Crab in Miami was great, but been a long time since I was there.
Fried chicken from the gas station near the marina in Islamerada FL couldn't be beat.
Crab Cakes in Maryland. Most any mom and pop place that sells them. (Phillips many many many years ago.)
Guess it depends where I am at the moment.

Fried chicken from the gas station. Wow, never thought that would end up in a favorite restaurant post.

 

[FlaGator]

Fried chicken from the gas station. Wow, never thought that would end up in a favorite restaurant post.

It's a southern thing. I still have trouble with the concept

 

[Koogie]

This is a tough one.
Dinosaur BBQ in Syracuse, Rochester, and NYC was great,but the quality is lacking on my last two visits.
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Agreed. Used to love Dino BBQ but the quality is going down I think and the crowds are horrendous (probably related). Last time we were in Syracuse we ended up in a little local bbq place instead and it was as good if not better than Dino.

 

[ABQ2015]

Fried chicken from the gas station. Wow, never thought that would end up in a favorite restaurant post.

There are some gas station/BBQ places that are good too. At least in Texas.

 

[grasshopper]

When we were carnivores on Sunday/Saturday fire departments on the eastern shore of Maryland had chicken BBQ some of the best I ever ate. They got a lot of the traffic going to the shore.

 

[Louis2]

I'm going to define "favorite" as places I go regularly because they are so good...

In St. Louis I love both Pappy's and Bogart's BBQ, Gallagher's just across the river in IL for fried chicken, and a newer place called Retreat Gastropub in midtown.

I just had a wonderful meal last weak at Anchor and Hope in San Francisco.

And I once had outstanding BBQ from a gas station-adjacent shack in an east of Memphis suburb. Wish I could remember the name.

 

[audreyh1]

We eat pretty well at home now. I can't list a local "favorite" even though we do visit Pappadeaux now and then.

I still miss some of the restaurants in Austin. Fonda San Miguel was awesome for interior Mexican, especially their Sunday buffet. Manuel's was also really great.

 

[kcowan]

In Vancouver:
Quattros
Carderos
Swad
Cactus Club
L'Abattoir
Chambar
Vij's
Le Crocodile
Bao Bei
Rodneys
Glowbal
Water Street
Al Porto
Ciopinno's
Giardino
Chill Winston
Hy's (comparable to Ruth's Chris)
Lots of others too numerous to mention.
Vancouver is a great place to eat. But expensive.

 

[rodi]

I forgot another local (San Diego) favorite. Los Quatro Milpas.... best tamales ever. It's a hole in the wall shop in Barrio Logan (under the Coronado bridge on the San Diego side). During lunch the lines go down the block - mostly with downtown workers and folks from North Island NAS. They also make *amazing* tortillas - so we always get some fresh tortillas to go, for home.

Very limited menu - tamales, tacos, bowls of beans and rice... Been around, in the same location, since well before I was born... I think I read it opened in 1934.

 

[Ronstar]

Speaking of lines down the block - Hot Doug's in Chicago used to be (IMO) the best eating establishment anywhere. Greatest hot dogs/ sausages and duck fat fries. But they closed in 2014. We used to wait a few hours in line - I saw reports of 6 hour lines and people camped out to beat the lines after they announced that they were closing.

 

[Fedup]

In Vancouver:
Quattros
Carderos
Swad
Cactus Club
L'Abattoir
Chambar
Vij's
Le Crocodile
Bao Bei
Rodneys
Glowbal
Water Street
Al Porto
Ciopinno's
Giardino
Chill Winston
Hy's (comparable to Ruth's Chris)
Lots of others too numerous to mention.
Vancouver is a great place to eat. But expensive.

Do you know a good place for dim sum. Last time we were there we didn't find anything good. But our neighbor in the Bay Area was from Vancouver who originally from Hong Kong said I didn't go to the right place.