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On Apr 7, 9:24?pm, Sky wrote:


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I'm one of the lucky people who knows where Ruth's Chris comes from.
The original Ruth's Chris Steak House was in New Orleans. Ruth
Fertel was a gutsy woman who took over an existing steak house and
turned it into a wonderful thing. Her methodology of cooking the
steaks is what made them famous. They were served to you on a
heated metal platter nested in a wooden trencher. The steak came to
your table actually sizzling in butter..perfectly cooked and meltingly
tender.

Ruth died in 2002 and the company has done the usual corporate
expansion at the expense of the original quality and class.


Most people don't know that upstairs over the restaurant there was a
poker game going on most of the time.
 
sf wrote in
news:[email protected]:


I live 5 blocks from Chinatown and 5 blocks from Little Italy. We
have a surfeit of Chinese, Viet, Thai, Italian, Turkish, French and
Vegan restaurants all owned and run by people of the proper
ethnicity within a short walk. I have had focaccia.

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wisdom of cattle-sacrificing primitives who thought every
animal species in the world lived within walking distance of
Noah's house.
 
Richard Dixon wrote:

So it depends on which convention center what is the good food in the
area.


It can happen though it isn't as common as it once was. I was sent to
Las Vegas around 1980. The food was miserable back then. Buffets and
stuff that I had no trouble beating close to home. Fortunately that has
changed over the years, in Las Vegas and in pretty much any other
convention center mecca.
 
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Doug Freyburger wrote:


Sadly, living here doesn't always mean the message has sunk in. I have
actually been told by a local resident that they think Famous Dave's is the
best Q in town (yes, it actually exists here, in the touristy area around
the Kansas Speedway Nascar Track). But then I've meant people from the
burbs who have lived their entire lives without setting foot in the city
proper out of fear that some city ghoul or disaster is going to get them.

But you're right, and if Famous Dave hadn't anchored itself to an area which
draws tourists to the Great Wolf Lodge, massive Cabelas outlet, massive
Nebraska Furniture Mart, and a several megastripmalls catering to touristy
needs, it would have probably come and gone relatively unnoticed except for
some occasional indignant picketers. ;-)
 
projectile vomit chick wrote:

Thanks. As far as I'm concerned anyone who orders steak out isn't any
kind of foodie... they couldn't even prepare a box cake, which
requires more culinary skill than cooking a steak... folks here should
be embarrassed to boast about eating steak out, means they can't cook
a lick and have more dollars than brain cells. I'd respect someone
more if they boasted about eating a dawg at the cart with the
umbrella, with a diet Pepsi instead of lying about drinking $50
bottles of wine like it was kool-aid. Sheesh... these are the same
fucking misers who loathe to tip.
 
On Mon, 04 Apr 2011 12:50:36 -0500, Lou Decruss wrote:


The couple times I was in Chicago I just remember it as being very
dirty. There was so much trash in the lake lapping up against the
walls of the downtown areas that it was truly disgusting. And I lived
in Pittsburgh at the time, whcih had a reputation of being dirty.
Chicago was dirtier. Not just the lake, either.

Then again my first impression of Austin was pretty bad, too.
Graffiti, run down houses, and more trash all over the place. When I
came back a few years later I didn't see any of that in the same
neighborhoods I visited previously. In those cases I was coming from
California (Silicon Valley/Santa Cruz), which is near-pristine
compared to Austin and Chicago.

-sw
 
Michel Boucher wrote in
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Forgot Indian (northern AND southern cuisine) and Sri Lankan.

--

The Bible! Because all the works of science cannot equal the
wisdom of cattle-sacrificing primitives who thought every
animal species in the world lived within walking distance of
Noah's house.
 
On Fri, 8 Apr 2011 07:29:00 -0700 (PDT), ImStillMags
wrote:


That's about the worst way to serve steak, means you need to use a
serrated knife, which tears rather than slices. And the metal inserts
would need heating out of necessity lest they draw heat from meat
rendering it cold. The best way to serve steak is directly on the
wooden trencher, and not to use serrated knives. She probably came up
with that idiotoic method in an attempt to save on wooden trenchers...
and the idiots bit into that silly hyperbole.
 
Hello Folks,

Happen to be in Chicago for a short while but thinking of maybe
extending my stay if the sightseeing - and more importantly the food -
is any good. Can anyone on here give it a thumbs up/thumbs down as a
"good food" City?

Cheers,
Richard
 
On Mon, 04 Apr 2011 12:37:37 -0500, Lou Decruss wrote:


Oh, c'mon - I lightened up with that (meant to be) lighthearted post.

I do have a pound of crab meat in the fridge. Maybe it's calling me.

Anyway, I'll let you do your Welcome Wagon thing unobstructed. Just
don't go inviting any commie terrorists to the U.S. ;-)

-sw
 
On Thu, 07 Apr 2011 21:25:30 -0500, Omelet
wrote:


Well, there is one way to look at it. Go to an AYCE place that charges
about $10 per/person. Look around at the people in the place. Guys
with T-Shirts cut off over pot-bellies and dirty shorts and shower
shoes on. Tons of screaming children, some running around all the
tables. Food that tastes like it came out of a mass-produced freezer
box.

Then go to a $50 a person place and look around there.

That's part of the cost. Nice atmosphere, quieter, cleaner and the
food is generally much better than the $10 AYCE joints.
 
sf wrote:

Smoque is off the I-90 about half way between downtown and O'Hare.

Honky Tonk BBQ is in Pilsen, a district of Chicago a bit south of
downtown.

There are a bunch of good BBQ places in the metro area but those are my
favorites.
 
On 4-Apr-2011, Richard Dixon wrote:


What do you think is good food? Chicago has great ethnic diversity in
restaurants and if that suits you, you will think it is a great food city.
I always visit Sayat Nova for Armenian/middle-eastern - my favorite.

If your idea of a good food city is one with a great thin-crust pizza or
"hot dish", don't bother; but, if you like sausage in all its glorious
variations, you'll love Chicago. In my book, Chicago is among the three
best cities for food in the US; but, I like diversity in ethnic dining.

Regardless, it all boils down to what you like whether it is a "good food"
city.
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"Nunya Bidnits" wrote
in news:[email protected]:


You know Lou, he segued into deep dish and that was all she wrote.

--

The Bible! Because all the works of science cannot equal the
wisdom of cattle-sacrificing primitives who thought every
animal species in the world lived within walking distance of
Noah's house.
 
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