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Minnesota Road Trip
The Grand Avenue recommendaton is great, but you've really got me thinking about the Brasa Rotisserie. I have seen Alma mentioned on a lot of threads and I have it on my list, but Brasa Rotisserie will probalby be much easier on my wallet. I imagine I can check out the menu on line beforehand.
Here are a few other places that are on my list are:
1) Saffron
2) Sun Street Breads
4) Al's Breakfast
4) Bulldog NE
5) Piccolo
and they also mentioned Kramarczuk's, but we've been there many times iover the past years.
Thanks ofr your help!
Minnesota Road Trip
I have been looking at other chow hound threads and Quang seems to come up in a lot of them. Thank you both for the advice. It sounds great.
Minnesota Road Trip
My wife and I will be travelling to Minnesota from Ohio in July. We will be in the Twin Cities for part of our visit, as well as in Duluth and we will also be taking a short trip Itasca State Park. We have lived in the Twin Cities twice in the past, but that was a long time ago (the Lincoln Del was still packing them in, at all their locations) but we could really use some advice about where to eat now.
We’re specifically looking for ideas for great food at more modest restaurants. We are open to any kind any kind of ethnic food (we love Thai, Vietnamese, Indian, etc.). When we lived in Saint Louis Park, or later in Excelsior, we tried lots of interesting places at the time (510 Groveland, New French Café, The Lexington, etc.) but we are retired now and the expense account meal is a memory from the past. We spend a lot of time in Duluth because of relatives and we love the Anchor Bar in Superior, WI, the new Scenic Café, Northern Waters Smokehaus, Sarah’s table at Chester Creek Café, etc., but we just don’t know the Twin Cities as well. My wife is a Katie so we never head back to Ohio without having a meal at Cecil’s in Highland Park. Thank you very much for your help.
RMC
One amazing lunch in Cincinnati
We lived in Cincinnati for 9 years then moved to the New Haven, CT, area. When we retired we moved back to Cincinnati, so we have been busy since 2006 sampling Cincinnati restaurants. John makes and excellent recommendation in his "eat local" suggestion. The Cincinnati style Chili is unique to this part of the country.
Another place we often take visitors is The Montgomery Inn (specifically the one located near downtown called the Montgomery Inn at the Boathouse). Their specialty is BBQ, but the food is not what we take people here for, the atmosphere and the experience is why people from out of town like this place. Besides the environment in restaurant itself, its location on the banks of the Ohio River is quite nice, especially if the weather cooperates. As far as great food goes, there are several other good places to eat (some of them a little funky), but like I said, I think John's recommendation to eat local was "spot on!"
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Montgomery Inn
11314 Tamarco Dr, Cincinnati, OH 45242
Restaurants in Grand Marais [Moved from Minneapolis-St. Paul Board]
I realize these recommendations are not Grand Marais restaurants, but you will be passing right by both them on your way to, and back from, Grand Marais. We were just in northern Minnesota last weekend on our semi-annual visit to Duluth to see family. We try to eat at The New Scenic Café, which is located on the two lane road that runs along the shoreline between Two Harbors and Duluth, every time we travel to this area. This restaurant could hold its own in any major city from NYC to San Francisco! It serves excellent food, more on the gourmet side than traditional North Shore restaurants, but is casual enough that you can stop by wearing tourist clothing. The wine list is very good too.
A little farther north, near Gooseberry Falls (actually in Castle Danger), is the Rustic Café. This restaurant is located on highway 61, just south of all the highway construction, and it was a delightful find on our trip last week. My wife had the Prime Rib, which was large and excellently prepared, my mother-in-law had the Roast Beef Sandwich, which also looked excellent, and I ordered the Lake Trout, which I thought was very good too.
I could mention several other places in the Duluth area where we have found good food too, and some places you probably want to avoid, but your question is about Grand Marais, so I’ll stop here.
The scenery is beautiful where you are going and I hope you have good weather!
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New Scenic Cafe
5461 N Shore Dr, Duluth, MN 55804
The Pickwick Restaurant in Duluth,MN
We will be traveling to Duluth from Ohio in the next couple weeks and I was wondering if anyone can tell me about the Pickwick. We have family in Duluth and we have eaten at the "Pick" for years. I know it was closed but I think it reopened last year but I have not heard anything about the quality of the food, etc. Thanks.
msp to duluth to the canadian border..road trip recco requests
We travel to Duluth every year to visit family. Lots of possibilities. There are several good threads on this website about Duluth from a few years ago. Don't wast your time or money at Hell's Kitchen. At one time it was good, but not any more. Northern Waters is a great recommendation. We are pretty picky about restaurants. The "curb appeal" is not very important to us, but the food has got to be good.
Here is a list:
The Anchor Bar in Superior, WI - The best hamburger and fries in the Upper Midwest. Google it. Don't be frightened by the exterior. This place is the real deal!
Chester Creek Cafe - www.astccc.net - Near the UM Duluth campus. Very nice little place to eat, esp. for breakfast.
Russ Kendall's in Knife River (also on the scenic, shoreline highway to Two Harbors) is famous for a local delicacy, smoked fish. This is a take out kond of place so you can make a lunch and stop along the highway and look at the view of Lake Superior.
New Scenic Cafe - www.newsceniccafe.com (north of Duluth on the scenic highway to Two Harbors) - excellent food - on the gourmet side. Food here is not cheap, but this restaurant could hold its own in Minneapolis, Chicago, NYC, etc. This is really good food!
Betty's Pies - north of Two Harbors - famous for pie, food is ok.
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Betty's Pies
1633 Hwy 61, Two Harbors, MN 55616
New Scenic Cafe
5461 N Shore Dr, Duluth, MN 55804
Chester Creek Cafe
Duluth, MN, Duluth, MN
Hell's Kitchen
310 S Lake Ave, Duluth, MN 55802
cincinnati good food
Very good recommendatons. You might like the pizza at The Works in downtown Loveland. Not Wooster Street in New Haven quality, but where is? We moved back to Cincinnati after spending 14 years in Madison, CT (3 daughters graduated from Daniel Hand - one lives here - "Kate the Great"). Other decent places:
Virgil's - Belvue, KY
Grand Finale - Glendale
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Grand Finale
3 E Sharon Rd, Cincinnati, OH 45246
Bostonians in need of Cincinnati Area Rehearsal Dinner Location
I am sorry that I did not see this any sooner, but I just noticed it. We moved back to Cincinnati in 2006, after spending 14 years in Madison, CT, and I have developed some loyalty for people from New England. I'm not sure where you all will be staying, which would help with my recommendations, but my best recommendation for you is The Grand Finale in Glendale. It is pretty easy to get to, the food will be very good, and it will be reasonable. You are coming here from New England, so the prices here should not be too bad for you. Google this restaurant, then look at Mapquest to see if this location is convenient for you.
Another place I would recommend is the Precinct on Hwy 50 near Hyde Park. The food is excellent here too. This location is closer to downtown. I'm not sure if either of these places have a separate room, but they probably do, so just check with them. There are several other places, but these are my two best recommendations for you not knowing much more about your location, etc.
Go Red Sox! Next year you’ll get those Yankees!
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Grand Finale
3 E Sharon Rd, Cincinnati, OH 45246
New England Style Lobster Rolls Available here??
Great post KTFoley! This pretty much tells it the way it is, whether you pine away for fresh Walleye in Boston, or for fresh Scrod in Minnepolis. Being a Midwesterner, but having recently lived in NE for 14 years, I do get a kick out of the mayonnaise vs.butter battle on Lobster Rolls. Most of us would not know the difference between the two. Prepared the right way, and with chunks of Lobster instead of the salad mentoned in one of these posts, they both are very good!
Hell's Kitchen (Duluth) - A Total Downer [Moved from Minneapolis-St. Paul Board]
I just saw this post and had to say something. My wife and I travel to Duluth twice a year from Ohio. We read about Hell's Kitchen on Chow Hound a couple years ago. When decided to try HK for dinner. We were thrilled with the recommendatons we had received from others who had eaten there. We went back this May and we were shocked at how much this restaurant had changed, both in the quality of the food and the service. After we left we talked about how this place must have been sold . The tip off should have been that at a time when most reataurants are usually packed, HK was empty. There are several other good restaurants in the Duluth / Superior area to compete with this place, so I will not be surprised to see that this place has closed.
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Hell's Kitchen
310 S Lake Ave, Duluth, MN 55802
Lobsters / Seafood in Atlanta
Thank you all for the wonderful advice. We decided to try the Dekalb Farmers Market. it was amazing! The lobsters were between $4-6 per per pound less that we could buy them in Cincinnati (we were visiting relatives in Duluth). We also purchased Mussels, shrimp, a cocunut cream pie, and several other things for our dinner. All the food was great. We visit Atlanta about every other month so your recommendation for the atlanta hwy seafood market in Gainsville is on my list of places to go now also. Again, thank you all very much for the advice!
RMC
Lobsters / Seafood in Atlanta
We are planning to cook a seafood dinner in Atlanta (specifically, boiled lobsters). Could someone please telll me the names of the best places In Atlanta to buy seafood? We are out in the NE part of town (Duluth), but we are willing to drive a ways. Are any of these places open on a Sunday? Thank you very much.
Seafood in Atlanta
Could someone please recommend places in Atlanta where we could buy fresh seafood? We would lke to continue a family tradition of having a clam bake (including live lobster) this summer. Thanks for your help.
RMC
A bit of New York in the Midwest
Corky and Lenny's in Beachwood, OH, (on the far east side of Cleveland) is the real deal. If you are from NY, this place will make you feel right at home.
Mother's Day in Duluth, MN
Thank you all for your suggestions. My wife and I have been to Hell's Kitchen in Duluth and we thought the food was very good. We also drove up the shoreline with my mother in law and had dinner at Betty's Pies last year. The weather was very good so the ride was wonderful. The food, especially the pie, was enjoyable. We've been to the Pickwick several times in the past, and it has always been good, but I was wondering about Fitgers. We live in Ohio now, so we don't get back to the Duluth area as often as we used to, and I was hoping to try somewhere different. Thank you very much for reminding me about the “One Dinner in Duluth” thread. I saw it a year or so ago and that is where I first heard about Hell's Kitchen. There were some other great recommendations also. Le Bistro in Superior sounds interesting. Something that is common to Minnesota and Wisconsin is Supper Clubs. We have lived in several other states, but we’ve never seen Supper Clubs anywhere else. We’ve lived in Minnesota twice and we found some wonderful places near towns like Hibbing, Rhinelander, Eau Claire, etc. that were local Supper Clubs. The food was pretty standard fare, walleye, steaks, and a few other entrées, but in many cases it was very good. If the weather is good, and we might decide to take a short drive, are there any places like this near Duluth?
Mother's Day in Duluth, MN
My wife and I will be travelling to Duluth, MN, for Mother's Day Weekend and I would like recommendations for a restaurant to take my mother-in-law to on Mother's Day. I would like to make reservations soon. Thanks.
RMC
roadtrip MI to KY....need recs!
Our daughter graduated from UK about 10 years ago, and then she took a job in Lexington with a local TV station. We have spent a fair amount of time in Lexington. I am not much of a chain restaurant guy, but they do have their place, especially when traveling. There is a wonderful restaurant in Lexington, not far from the UK campus, called Ramses. I think they may have some other locations in town too. You can check MapQuest for the location. The Hot Brown is traditional Kentucky, and it is out of this world. They have a lot of other good offerings too. If you are looking for fancy, Ramses is not that, but it is a very nice place to eat and it is clean and always crowded. Lots of UK professors eat her too.
We moved to Cincinnati from New England about 2 years ago so I can give you the names of a lot of places in the Cincinnati area, but I'm sorry that I can't help you out more with recommendations in Lexington. We travel south quite a bit, and we look for any reason to stop at Ramses when we are traveling on I-75 headed south, or driving back north to Cincinnati. I'm sure you will enjoy the area. The drives out into the country along the horse farms are wonderful.
Breakfast / Lunch in Ann Arbor
I'm not sure I am putting this in the right place, but I wanted to thank all of you for your suggestions. My wife and I grew up in the Midwest, but we just moved back to Cincinnati from the Connecticut shorline. We spent 15 years in New England (a truly wonderful but expensive area) and we are starting to do some traveling in the midwest again.
Breakfast / Lunch in Ann Arbor
We will be traveling to meet friends coming from New Jersy to a wedding in Ann Arbor next weekend. We are planning to meet them for breakfast on Saturday. We will be staying at different hotels in the Ann Arbor area Friday night, and then meeting them the next morning. Can someone please recommend a place where we could meet, have breakfast and talk? Thanks.
RMC
Cincinnati Restaurant Week
I can't speak to you on any of the restaurants you have mentioned, but over the past few years (we moved back to Cincinnati from Connecticut in 2006) we have tried to go to one or two of the places on the list. One of our favorites has been Slims. Our expereinces have been very good each time we have gone there. It is now on our list for anniversaries, birthdays, etc. You may also appreciate the fact that they do not have a liquor license. You can take your favorite wines to enjoy with your meal and they do not charge a corkage fee.
Need advice (seafood) in Cincinnati.
We moved back to Cincnnati after spending 15 years in Connecticut. It became a tradition to have a lobster dinner each summer with our family while we were in Connecticut and we plan to continue that tradition here in Cincinnati too. There are several places to purchase lobsters, so that will probably not be a problem, but I was wondering about some of the other stuff, i.e. shrimp, clams and oysters. I see them in local grocery stores like Biggs and Krogers, but I wondered how fresh these items were and if anyone in the area had advice about where to buy seaffod. Thanks for your help.
Who has the best Walleye sandwich in the Twin cities?
Amazing! Great pictures. We're driving to the Cities from Ohio for a wedding later this month and you have given me some great ideas for places to eat. We lived in Saint Louis Park and Excellsior in the past, and I wish I had known about a few of these places back then, if they existed back then. I recognize some of them (Sunsets) so I know some of them were around in the 70's and 80's. Thanks again.
Cincinnati chowhound ideas?
One place you, and your sons, might enjoy is the Montgomery Inn (Boathouse) which is locaated along the banks of the Ohio River, just on the easten side of downtown. I think it must only be a half a mile east of the ballpark. The Mongomery Inn is an institution in the Cincinnati area (I have travelled throughout the country on business and I have never been to a place quite like it). The food is not bad (Barbecue), but there are lots of decent BBQ places, but the experience, as they say, is priceless. This is a very large restaurant. It is part of a small chain and the original is about 17 miles north of downtown in Montgpomery, OH, but this place is very close to the stadium, and if you are an out of towner, here for a baseball game, you will not be disappointed. I could go on and on abut the details about the place, but let just say it is a "sports place" like no other. The Montgomery Inn is a casual, but nice place. It is not a "sports bar" per se. If I was in town to see a Reds or a Bengals game, this is defintily one place I would not want to miss. Every out of town guest I have ever taken there has raved about the expereince. Enjoy.
what are your favorite restaurants in ohio?
MVR - Near the YSU Campus - Bar Rrestaurant - Good fish on Fridays -Youngstown - This is jim Tressels old hangout when he was the skipper at YSU before he moved south to OSU.
Boulevard Tavern - Bar Restaurant- Good fish on Fridays -Youngstown
The Hot Dog Shop - Warren - A blast from the past
Corky & Lenny's - Shaker Heights / Beechwood area (great Kosher food)
Tony Packo's - Toledo - A tradition - Hot dogs and Hungarian food.
Myra's Dionysis - Near the UC Campus - Cincinnati - Middle Eastern, etc. This place has very good for at unbelievable prices. Great soups.
Habanero - Near the UC Campus - voted the best burrito in Cincinnati
Anbar (Indian) - Near the UC Campus - Possibly the best Indian restaurant in a town with a lot of Indian Restaurants (in Cincinnati)
Tuckers (Breakfast) - Over the Rhine area of Cincinnati - The neighbor hood might look a little tough, but you shouldn't have any problems, especially at breakfast.
The Works - Loveland, OH - very good pizza for a midwestern toen, if you happen to like "brick oven pizza" like the pizza from the East Coast. If you are a Chicago style, thick crust kind of person, this is not the place for you.
Pompilios (Italian) Newprt, KY - I apologize, you said Ohio, but this place is just across the river from Cincinnati.
These are just a few. Hope they help.
Fish & Chips (mostly fish) in Connecticut
Td61 has some very good suggestions. I've eaten at most of these places and you you will enjoy all of them. We lived on the CT shoreline for 15 years before recently moving back to the Midwest. For my money, the best seafood we had while in Connecticut was at Lenny's (not to be confused with Lenny and Joe's), which is in Branford. It is located on CT #146, which is listed in Yankee Magazine and as one of one of the most picturesque drives in New England. The highway runs along the coast, teasing you with views of Long Island Sound and tidal pools between Branford and the Guilford Green. The Guilford Green was also listed as the 2nd best Green in all of NE by Yankee Magazine. Another recommendation is to stop in Madison at the Madison Beach Hotel. The food at Wharf, the hotel's restaurant, is not bad, but like so many other places along the shorline. The real reason to stop here though is to sit on the covered deck overlooking LI Sound and have a drink and/or an appetizer. This is undobtedly one of the most beautiful spot along the CT coastline to see LI Sound and available to anyone for the cost of a drink. On a beautiful day the view of the coastline, with the rocks that extend out into the Sound, can be breathtaking. On bad days it still pretty good! Take Route #1 back to OS. I know you are looking for seafood, and I would be too, but this area (New Haven especially) is famous for Italian food. If you don't have the time to go into NH and have pizza at Sally's or Pepy's (the last three presidents have stood in line [during their college days] at one of these two places just to get in to have some of the best pizza in America] on Wooster Street, stop in Clinton at Saldamarco's for a hoagy. Unbelievablly good food, and not very expensive! Good luck, I envy you.
