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Immediate help needed! Charleston
Please don't eat at 82 Queen. There's no way that's gonna work for you. I remain utterly confused as to why anyone ever recommends the place to folks looking for really good food.
Charleston Fine Dining (values?)
Charleston Grill has a lovely jazz trio several nights a week. It's a wonderful experience to eat there. I would go.
FIG is overrated.
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Charleston Grill
224 King Street, Charleston, SC 29401
Iron chef America- what are they doing? And why?
Julie White is a lesser goddess, you dope.
Charleston's Best Restaurants for NYC Foodies?
Jestine's is patronized solely by tourists, right? Hardly "local", in terms of the crowd lined up outside. Am I confused?
Winston Salem Breakfast Spots
Man, I was eating pigs-in-blanket at Cloverdale Kitchen 35 years ago. It's nice to know they still gots it.
Did they ever remodel? I hope not.
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Cloverdale Kitchen
2251 Cloverdale Ave, Winston Salem, NC 27103
Gu's Bistro- Buford Hwy- amazing Szechuan!
Steve,
Are you off the Tasty China wagon?
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Tasty China
2750 Buford Hwy Ste 2D, Duluth, GA 30096
inexpensive, good, and unique to Atlanta places?
Atlanta is mostly empty of anything resembling "great restaurants". The OP is coming from Toronto, for chrissakes.
And please, dear lord, stop recommending that indigestible filth they serve at the Varsity. I've had better food from vending machines.
inexpensive, good, and unique to Atlanta places?
Downtown Atlanta is not a city in the way you understand the concept. Atlanta is a car town, and the downtown area is abandoned every day at 5:00. Staying there, without a car, yes, you will be spending 4 days in a cultural and culinary wasteland. That's just the way it is. People who live in Atlanta seem oblivious to how odd this is, the rest of us...well...good luck....
Looking for Some Guidance in Charleston, SC
Al Di La is the best real Italian food in the Southeast, far as I can tell. Just over the bridge in West Ashley.
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Al Di La
25 Magnolia Rd, Charleston, SC 29407
HELP US DECIDE! One night in Charleston: Fig or McCrady's???
There is nothing "uniquely Charleston" about FIG. It's very good, but not special when compared to similar restaurants around the country. Just a wee bit pretentious, maybe a little overrated as well, IMO.
The Fat Hen might suit you. Haven't been there, want to go soon. We love La Fourchette, a little French place on King, I think.
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Fat Hen
3140 Maybank Hwy, Johns Island, SC 29455
La Fourchette
Charleston, SC, Charleston, SC
50 things to eat in NC
That's what I'm talking about. This Carolina boy loves this list, youngandsons.
I would add, the Cham at TJ's in W-S is pretty danged awesome, as are the onion rings.
Recommendations for Charleston restaurant for a large-ish group?
Please do not take anyone's well-intentioned advice to consider 82 Queen. Trust me on this.
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82 Queen
82 Queen Street, Charleston, SC 29401
Alice Waters on Bill Maher
Man, you really think for a minute that Alice Waters would agree to share a green room with anybody else? How incredibly naive...
Alice Waters on Bill Maher
Absolutely agreed. Alice always seems to come across as a bit snotty, a bit too self-impressed, a bit too full of airs, as they used to say. There's just something about her that rubs a lot of people wrong....
Pho Bac in Mt. Pleasant, SC: Noodle lovers rejoice!
Awesome. Why the heck did they ever move out to that creepy spot in North Charleston? Glad to have them back closer to town. Will visit this summer.
1st time in Charleston SC!!
Indeed. Charleston is easily one of the better food towns in the country, by any standard. Not to say that there aren't some misses, but I wish our home of Athens GA had a fraction of the culinary vibrance and variety and vitality that Charleston has.
Birmingham -- Mr. Chen's
Lordy, you certainly made the effort. No doubt. Maybe the place ain't what it used to be, but it was amazing not so long ago.
You're a true chowhound, though, to travel so far and stay for the chance to try it. I wish you'd had a better time. But I'll say it again, these Chinese restaurant chefs enter and exit at a frightening pace, it's just amazing. I don't know what to think of it.
Birmingham -- Mr. Chen's
That guy left years ago, and the food has been just as good ever since, FYI.
Birmingham -- Mr. Chen's
Tasty China is widely considered one of the best Chinese restaurants in the country. Our experiences there have been nothing short of revelatory, the food so good as to completely blow our minds.
Having said that, authentic Chinese restaurants in this country seem to go through chefs faster than most other sorts of restaurants, for whatever reason, and they may be on to new chefs and inferior food these days, I don't know. But if the folks in charge are still the same as earlier this year, it is certainly worth a very long drive for a visit. A VERY long drive....
Birmingham -- Mr. Chen's
Tasty China, just off 285 and 75 in Marietta, GA. Absolutely authentic, we understand, and mind-blowing good.
Birmingham Restaurants -- Specific Meals
Forgot to mention, we tried Red Pearl on our way our of town. Umm, this place could use a good scrubbing, to be honest. The bathroom/kitchen/receiving area was, umm, disheveled, I guess you might say, if you were trying to be euphemistic. Would not recommend anyone go out of their way if visiting from our of town, but might drop in occasionally if I lived there.
The fish tanks were drastically low, leaving the fish packed into the very bottom of the tanks and vying desperately to cope with the situation. It was a little unnerving.
Our "server", a young lady, was openly hostile, and even fielded cell phone calls while at our table several times, literally interrupting our ordering/serving process to take calls. Not sure about you guys, but this homey don't play dat.
The food was pretty good overall, the hot and sour soup being wonderful, the dumplings being average, and the pork and bamboo shoot dish being pretty darn good. But lordy, with the grungy atmosphere and questionable food-handling and truly obnoxious service, we'd have a hard time spending any more money there.
Athens, GA - updates, anybody?
Neither are merely "okay" or "middle-of-the-road", IMO.
And they're certainly not "great"
But really good, I think, especially for Athens. But of course Hillary's mileage may vary...
Athens, GA - updates, anybody?
We recently tried Thai Spoon, the place on Lumpkin near the Globe and Little Italy. Really good food, much to our surprise. The pad Thai was excellent, as was the basil duck dish, and the chicken and coconut soup and the mushroom soup were fantastic. The service was sweet and friendly, and we just had a great time. We're very excited to have some good Asian food available in town. I wish we had discovered this place sooner.
We also tried Taste of India, on Broad. Really good food, lovely atmosphere. Expensive, though, so I'll probably stick to the lunch buffet from now on.
Athens has really good Thai and Indian food? Heck yes! I been holed up out here in the sticks too long. It's good to be working (and eating) downtown again.
Birmingham Restaurants -- Specific Meals
We strongly preferred Chez Fon Fon to Highlands. The service and food at Highlands is very, very good, but the place is just a bit too formal/fancy (and expensive) for our tastes. Chez Fon Fon was a delight, though, with the frisee salad and the charcuterie really hitting the spot, and our server was a pleasure to interact with.
We had a great time in B-ham, lovely city!
Is zucchini worth eating? ;-)
Lord have mercy. You must not be from the South. Round here, fried summer squash and fried zucchini are a staple. Love that stuff.
Birmingham Restaurants -- Specific Meals
We don't need no stinking bears, high gravity or not. Bears are cute from a distance, but rather dangerous up close.
Birmingham Restaurants -- Specific Meals
Now, are the Unibroue beers considered "high gravity"? Cause we serve that stuff at the restaurant and that's some seriously great beer. Their Maudite is amazing. Such a complex flavor profile.
Birmingham Restaurants -- Specific Meals
Well, that charcuterie sounds like my most utmost favoritist cup of tea. Nasty bits make me so happy. And it includes a country pate, right? Heavenly.
I probably sometimes mostly prefer French, the wife loves Italian, it's like choosing between blondes and brunettes, right? Why choose? Enjoy them all!
Oh, wait. I'm married. And she'll be choosing for us, maybe when she wakes up sometime tomorrow, or maybe sometime next week, right at the last minute probably. And she mustn't read this post, because my pathetic attempts at racy humor will not amuse her as much as they amuse me...
Birmingham Restaurants -- Specific Meals
Alright, kids: against all odds, we're going to both have Friday off, so we'll cruise into B-Ham mid-afternoon and have the option (I guess?) of Chez Fonfon or Bottega for a mid-afternoon snack and beverage before checking into the hotel and getting ready for the rehearsal dinner.
They both seem to have their bars open all day? Which is the better bar menu? I see only references to "limited bar menus" being available. Bottega cafe serves pizza all day? We just want a few fabulous drinks and some REALLY good food from this Frank Stitt restaurant empire we keep hearing about.
I'll call my buddy, the guy who's getting married, and I'll call the restaurants as well, but any guidance you guys can give is much appreciated. Seems like ole Frankie could use some website updating....
