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All-Star Pizza: A preview?
I was thinking the exact same thing when I went past it the other day. My thought though was that it could easily just be because it is the current hip thing and/or hipster dopes. Hopefully that's not the case and the pizza is actually rockin :)
Why is Moody's Falafel palace boarded up?
I was thinking on #4 this morning and the problem is that they're (I think) using a smaller radius but thicker pita. the problem is that while it looks more tasty - nice thick pita, yummy bits sticking out of it - it barely wraps up on itself and as they tend to make their stuff more "saucy" it all just falls apart.
Why is Moody's Falafel palace boarded up?
I haven't seen the Avengers, but now that you mention it I've come across the word shawarma in a lot of random places lately. This has been going on for a while now so if true I'd imagine that the Avengers thing is more another example of and not the root cause, but either way interesting.
Why is Moody's Falafel palace boarded up?
Popped in tonight. Yet another case of "no mexican flavors". Had the "mr aleppo".
1) It was pretty tasty
2) It was 2x the cost of the stuff the old place charged
3) There were no aleppos in it
4) There was no structural integrity, it fell apart quickly
Outside of #1, it was not such a good thing.
The Chowhound of my youth. [moved from Not about Food board]
I ve been reading for about 10 years now and don't really sense much of a difference
"vegas strip" steak, an all new cut of meat ....
Every time I see this come up somewhere I keep being reminded of the line from the Simpsons ... "think smaller, with more legs"
West Bridge - Kendall Square
Curious - if you liked the food & the service, how could it be bad?
When they get your takeout order wrong yet again...
Uhh, before I started using Foodler I routinely had orders botched that were clearly due to communication issues while talking over the phone. The two most notable offenders were a local pizza shop and a local sichuan resto. Pretty much every time I got off the phone I had the feeling that I had no idea what I ended up just ordering because the convos went like this:
"I'd like a pepperoni pizza"
"Ok, one pepper and onion pizza"
"No, pepperoni"
"No pepper?"
"No ... I want pepperoni"
"But onion ok?"
"I want pepperoni"
I don't think that exact discussion ever happened, but you get the drift. Eventually I'd just get tired of it and say "ok" to whatever they happened to have last said.
Those conversations no longer happen because the dude in the pizza shop gets a faxed order that says "pepperoni pizza".
edit: And yes, this is precisely because the people on the other end have poor English skills. I don't see how one could say that is xenophobic at all, it is just poor customer service on the part of the restaurant to put someone who speaks broken english in such a front facing position.
When they get your takeout order wrong yet again...
Foodler let's you order online and they forward to the resto
Redbones Food Truck
I didn't need some stranger on the internet to tell me that ;) You better believe I'd be going to such a thing!
Well, I guess that's not strictly true. I've not gone to Cochon555, but that's more because of the price tag.
Why is Moody's Falafel palace boarded up?
Inspired by the resurgence of this thread I had another one last night. I had the "beef schwarma" (don't think I've ever seen that as an option anywhere). No "mexican" flavors although the hummus still had an odd, overly thick feel to it.
You're not kidding about the hot sauce, on a lark I asked them to throw in extra. Not only did it taste good but it actually had some kick.
I almost got the Mr Aleppo but I just can't bring myself to ask for something so silly.
When they get your takeout order wrong yet again...
which is exactly why 99.723% of my delivery orders are done through foodler
Redbones Food Truck
I'm sure there are other costs. The key word is necessarily cheaper.
Some of these food trucks are serving up a higher grade of product (in theory) than their B&M cousins, why should they be cheaper?
At the end of the day it doesn't matter - something is worth exactly what someone else is willing to pay for it. I just don't like it when people assume that XYZ must necessarily be cheap.
Redbones Food Truck
Fair enough, I can't remember the last time I had their pulled pork. In general I haven't found too many places who don't try to douse their pulled pork with the more ubiquitous KC-esque style sweet bbq sauces although at least w/ RB you sauce your own meat.
My problem w/ the statement in general is that I don't even find it to be the best BBQ locally, much less compared to the homelands of the various styles.
And again, I'm not knocking the place - it serves its purpose and I go there more often than I go to the places that I think are better due to convenience. Plus, I really like the jerk.
Redbones Food Truck
I don't understand why people expect a meal from a food truck to necessarily be cheap? This is not unlike people who think that all mexican/chinese/etc food must be dirt cheap.
It's a restaurant on wheels. That might be a way to cut costs, perhaps it isn't. They're not all the roach coaches of days gone by.
I was never a huge fan of Bon Me, but in the dust up regarding the cost of their sandwiches vs the competition in chinatown it was pointed out that Bon Me was using all locally raised, organic meats (among other differences). That's going to account for a price increase
Why is Moody's Falafel palace boarded up?
I'd say that perhaps I was just being racist and applying a bias based on the workers but I had already commented about the "mexican schwarma" before it was even pointed out to me :)
As I said, I actually liked the flavor combo, so I'd be somewhat sad if that was a temporary glitch in the matrix.
You're right that the bag was a nice addition.
Redbones Food Truck
I like redbones as much as the next guy but this line "It's not just passable in NE. It would be passable in the Carolina's" is laughable.
Beantown Taqueria
Wait, I thought you were saying that Mass Chicken was related to Bab Al-Amoud? Certainly the two seem more in league, what with the hookahs and such.
"vegas strip" steak, an all new cut of meat ....
Flatiron was what I was picturing but I wasn't sure if I had my history correct. Outside of their patenting it, that's reasonable.
The malarky part is the latter statement - some people are claiming that perhaps they actually *did* (re)discover a non-grinding cut on the carcass.
"vegas strip" steak, an all new cut of meat ....
Heh. Not that I'm buying any of this, but I'm assuming that what they've done is cut a muscle in a different way than typical.
The defenders of these people are claiming that it comes from a zone that has long since been automatically designated for grinding, and that w/ the diet of modern cows these people discovered that this hunk of meamt is actually pretty good. That's malarky.
Moksa - Tender, Spicy, Meaty
One would think that anyone who has spent any amount of time in local bars (and presumably that accounts for the majority of local servers) would have known that. Odd.
Beantown Taqueria
One never knows but I didn't sense any relation to Mass Chicken when I was in there. They don't seem similar at all.
"vegas strip" steak, an all new cut of meat ....
http://gizmodo.com/5910505/steak-specialists-discover-a-new-cut-of-beef
http://vegasstripsteak.com/site/
Saw this referenced on gizmodo earlier today. WTF?
The best part is that they've patented it. This screams "joke" or "scam" to me.
Beantown Taqueria
It's funny as I went there for the first time this weekend - I had the same reservations which is what kept me away. I had chorizo enchiladas and thought they were pretty good. Best I ever had? No, but not bad at all. The chorizo itself was really good IMO.
It looks like they do mexican/tex-mex brunch dishes on the weekends, they had huevos rancheros and other such things available.
O Ya… Consistency whittled down to the dull art of repetition; or One and Done
Which is why I said "I don't typically give an iota of thought to what yelp reviews have to say".
However, Chowhound doesn't have a way of tracking sentiment over time so ya gotta go with what's available.
I would like to tell you about the food at Orinoco (Brookline)
Not saying that I like it nor that I agree, but that sort of situation is hardly uncommon. I agree with your stances in both posts, it was more opinionatedchef's (IMO) over the top reaction to it that I took issue with.
