[Dining Review]
 

Don't ask about the square brackets...I just like them :p

What I thought might be "fun" is to post about interesting dining experiences. Let's face it, some restaurants are god awful, but then others are fantastic. Either the food is sublime, the service has an interesting gimmick or just the setting is a bit surreal.

For one, I always love the long table seating in Wagamama. Not sure if you have it in the states, but essentially it's a noodle bar. However the seating is communal. As in, your dining party sits directly next to total strangers who are in turn next to strangers. I always enjoy that just because it's fantastic for people watching...and listening.

Hmm, I think my favorite places to eat are Pappas, which is just a local diner-type joint, and Lucky's Coffee Shop, a great place with an eclectic menu.

Shoguns is fun....we have one in R.I.



Food's great too

I think my grandmother went to one of those. That's basically what she described to me and yeah, it does sound pretty damn fun. And it gives you a good reason why not to put your elbows on the table :D

I like Outback Steakhouse and Red Lobster. My wife loves Kobe Jap Steakhouse. I havent tried it yet. Speaking of, I was just at Red Lobster last weekend and the waitress was feeling all over my arms looking at my tattoos. Then while we were eating the manager came over to see my tattoos. I thought it was pretty rude for a manager to do that. Am I overreacting?

Depends how awesome these tattoos were! What are we talking here?

Show us a picture here \/

http://horror.com/forum/showthread.php?t=33520&page=4


Has anybody ever been to a Logan's Roadhouse? Every time we go to America we relish in those places. I mean, come on! It's done in the style of a roadside bar, but the gimmick is that each table has a bucket of shelled monkey nuts. You crack it open, eat the nuts, and chuck the shell on the floor. Nutshells everywhere. The food itself is...passable. Nothing fantastic but nothing disappointing.

Lol, I almost mentioned that place earlier in this thread. It has pretty decent food and the peanut gimmick is cool(my 2 sons love it).

I tried Outback Steakhouse once in Joplin Missouri, I thought it sucked and have vowed to never go to another one(dry, tough steak and stringy/rubbery lobster, yuck!)

ok, i posted my work.

No - its rude to maul someone without their permission. Its worse that its in an establishment that you were paying to eat in....

Whenever I go to the states which is about once a month I go to Jack in the Box, they have some of the best hamburgers in the world. In most cases the food in Mexico is better, but American hamburgers and pizza tastes like something you find in a barnyard.

Me and my hubby's favorite restaurant is this Mongolian Barbecue, the gimmick of the place is that you fill your place with a selection of meat and vegetables, then you take that to the chef who fry it for you. All i very nice, however you have this chef, and seriously he look like he belong as a bad guy in a bad Martial Arts movie, his face is like carved from stone and he never, ever smiles or changes facial expression, I can just see him tossing fireballs at the heroes and bragging about what he will do to the kidnapped Princess once he is done with them and when he manhandles your food you just know that this is not a guy to piss off. He makes good food though. :D

I have a double-bill. The Swiss Hutte. It's a bed and breakfast place in Hillsdale, New York (home of Hill House) with a five star restaurant. It's a ski resort, so it's nice and quiet (and cheaper) during the late spring/ early summer.

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thats because cows live on a farm. they might even live in a barn. hamburger comes from a cow....too bad your economy sucks or else mexico might be a nice place to live.

is this seriously the type of shit you think on a daily basis?

Yes it is and I am quite proud of it, I have fantasy, science fiction and horror on my mind constantly. I would ask you what you think on a daily basis but I suspect you do not think all that regularly so it would be a moot point.

making quick money. violence. and no, i dont think too much, i usually just act. you should think about jogging.

I am not much for jogging, I belly dance instead.

How classy. I know who is hiding behind your nick, you are my three year old nephew right? i knew you where a bright kid learning to write at such a early age, good for you.

your comments are failing at a miserable rate. go tie yourself up. have your husband whip you and slice your nipples with razors. it'll make you feel better.

Indulging in troll feeding have a tendency to fail yes. However it is oh so fun to watch you make a fool out of yourself, though you are right, bedroom activities might be more entertaining, at least until you get out of the puke and poop stage, after all like I said I have a three year old nephew, kids have a period around that age where such things are very interesting, and I get enough from him. It is no fun to make fun of a mentally challenged troll, it is just to easy.

Now if you excuse me, breaking the rules of this forum is just not worth it to make fun of a sad looser who have nothing better to do than to pick fights with random people on the Internet, for no apparent good reason. I do not know if it is that you are not intelligent enough to participate on the forum on a normal way, or if you are so upset that I disagreed with you on the religions thread that you have nothing better to do than to run around the forum and bother me. Now I am flattered by all the attention, I really am, but really, you need to get yourself a life. Anyway I am done with you, it was fun for a while but I would much rather discuss horror movies and books than to argue with a man with the maturity level of a three year old.

There's an all you can eat buffet about 40 minutes away in Cambridge that I went to like that. It is pretty fun, although I found I did the classic buffet mistake of thinking "I'll try that...ooh that looks nice...yeah, I can manage 30 of them..." and ended up leaving half of the stuff on my plate.

Has anybody been to one of those Sushi Bars with the conveyor belts? They look fun. I think I'm just a sucker for gimmicks...

picking fights isnt worth breaking the rules? LOL. Is there a fine to pay? So you type an essay on it anyway. Wouldnt it have made sense to just ignore me? I never called you any direct names, i just thought you came off as snotty in the religion thread. what do really expect in a RELIGION thread? Peace?

And why the hell is the word "troll" thrown around so much these days? troll this troll that. i think people on the internet are getting softer and softer.

My mother and I sometimes take the boat from Oslo to Denmark and sometimes to Germany, they have some great buffets on those ships. But yes the belly fill up before the eyes as we say over here. :)

So true. It doesn't help that all you can eat buffets are so uncommon in England! I swear, I thought I'd died and gone to heaven when I first went to America. Who gives a fuck if it makes people fat? They get fat happy.


Or perhaps a better word is Jolly..

I recently discovered a local place called Kyoto. Its a huge all you can eat buffet thats mostly chinese but has a little of everything. It also has the mongolian bbq buffet were you pick the raw stuff and the guy cooks it. Absolutely amazing! I swear I gained 20 lbs and waddled out.......

Well I am overweight and it was not the few times I can afford such restaurant visits that made me this way :P It is the everyday habits that affect ones weight not the days one do a little extra, or as my mother like to say, it is not what you eat between Christmas and New Year's Eve which makes you fat, it is what you eat between new Year's Eve and Christmas.

All you can eat buffets is not that common in Norway and they tend to be expensive, but boy are they good. A few times though the local pizza place have all you can eat buffets, last time I was at one was during the summer meet up of the the local Aspergers support group I am at. We wolfed down pizza and discussed horror movies and hauntings all to the dismay of the people arranging the meet up, it was great.

You want gimmick restaurants? Hit up New York City - its crawling with them.

My favourite by far: Jekyll & Hyde's. Whole thing's themed like an old-school monster movie...creepy Maître d' escorts you to your table, checks in on you from time to time to weird you out...picture frames on the walls that move...skeletons everywhere...classic horror trailers playing on screens...all kinds of awesomeness.

Its cheesy tourist stuff for sure, and the food wasn't anything special...but the atmosphere is just too damn cool to pass up.

If I am ever in New York I have to go eat at this place, I do not care what the food tastes like, sounds like an experience to visit the place in and off itself. :D

Anyone up for an HDC reunion? I think I know where we can go for dinner now ;)

It's odd though. In all of this debate of gimmicks and so on, I've forgotten about my favourite, oh so simple dining experience. A good old fashioned roast dinner carvery at a country pub. Can't beat that on a Sunday.

What is a "roast dinner carvey"?:confused: I've never heard that expression before.

buffets are shit unless you're on a cruise ship. you arent getting quality food. a meal at any restaraunt is too much for me to eat anyway.

Theres a local place here called Pablitos. They have the best quesotacos in the world. One is enough for a meal, I had two last time I was there and I know what you mean by waddling.

A carvery is what you get in most pubs and hotels on sundays. It's a one stop buffet roast dinner. There are usually four or five meats to choose from which the chef carves for you. You go on to select your vegetables, yorkshire puddings etc. and add gravy then go down and eat.

That sounds awesome! God i'm starving............:o

sounds like they stole it from the brazilians.

Hey, I had fish n chips at a local Brit-run pub here, they are out in Venice. It was really good! And the first time me having fish n chips. Always wondered what that stuff was like! And I believe there was brown sauce in a squirt bottle. It was brown and tasted like no other condiment sauce I have had.

isnt fish and chips just fried fish and potatos?

Basically, yeah. I was hoping there would be subtle nuances to the preparation, though, peculiar to the variation, and there were.

I live in New York. Hardly a week goes by that we don't have genuine New York pizzeria pizza. Tasty.:D

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