Good places to eat around the world

[badgalbetty]

Lots of you travel to different cities and towns either for work or holidays and sometimes you must wonder where is a good place to eat in a town you dont know.
I'll start........
Delta Cafe, Portland Oregon USA
Good food,lots of it,good drinks,tattooed fun servers and always more food than you can possibly consume.This is a CASH ONLY place, no plastic and no checks. They do have an ATM.

[Pip]

Good post, bgb.

Anywhere around Birmingham, AL you need to stop in and eat at Hamburger Heaven. Especially the original one in Irondale... Bobby Bowden eats there nd takes whoever he is with when he is in town. Freaking good food right there.

[RAT900]

Asheville NC

Nine Mile Jamaican Restaurant on Montford incredibly creative fusions that actually work

Mela Indian Restaurant on N. Lexington/Broadway best Indian ever

Twelve Bones Smokehouse on Riverside (down in the River District)  BBQ like it is supposed to be...really done proper, not par-boiled & baked slop

get the BBQ take-out and go across the tracks behind the building across the lot to the Wedge Brewery

[Grampa]

our house


lm is an awesome cook

[cyrus buelton]

Around the world:


No order:


1. Hillbillies Fried Chicken - Cork, Ireland (my god their friend chicken breast sandwich at 2am kicks ass)
2. Five-Star Pizza - Cork, Ireland (best garlic cheese bread I have ever had)
3. Candy Store in Amsterdam, Netherlands (no idea where this place is or the name, but I did eat a kilo of coke bottles one night in 2002. I might have been high)
4. Gyro Shoppe in Montpellier, France. (I can't give you directions, but I remember where it is. make the beast with two backsing awesome)
5. Bad Boys Burritos - Key West, Florida (hippy place, all workers are stoned, kobe beef burritto, and all veggies are cut up fresh for each burrito)
6. King Gyros Fast Food - South Bend, Indiana (might be a national chain, no idea)
7. Brueggers Bagels - Damn those softwhiches with jalopeno cream cheese is awesome

That's it for now

[mstevens]

Galveston, TX: el Nopalito (the original one on 42nd Street between Church and Winnie back behind the cotton warehouses). Amazing Tex-Mex / Norteño food. It's always surrounded by police cars because one of the owners was a county sheriff Mental Health Deputy. You can't get in on Sunday morning unless you beat the church crowds. It's a really seedy place that you'd never enter if you were in your right mind unless you've already been. My kid consists mostly of food from el Nop, since that's mostly what my wife ate for 3/4 of a year. My daughter would only eat the sauce from their chicken mole when she was in the hospital.

Cozumel, Mexico: la Candela. This is one of many superb family-style restaurants on the island but by a tiny margin our favorite. They have a great snapper in achiote steamed in a banana leaf, daily cochina familiar specials, and tasty micheladas.

I've got many "favorite" restaurants all over the world, but these are the ones I'd order my last meal from.

[red baron]

7. Brueggers Bagels - Damn those softwhiches with jalopeno cream cheese is awesome

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Hodads in Ocean Beach/San Diego

Joan's on Third Street in Hollywood (best sandwiches I've ever had)

There's a little place in downtown Fort Worth has the best brisket tacos known to mankind. Mi Cocina is the name I think.

[El Matador]

This is Desmolu's eating around the world album. Yes, I am jealous.

http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=home#!/album.php?aid=17119&id=100000213505997

[zzilla]

1. Dirty Martin's Kum Bak - UT Campus in Austin TX
       - Remodeled about 5 years ago when taken over by new ownership, but still has the baddest ass burgers in Austin.
2. Maui Mike's Fire Roasted Chicken in Wahiawa, HI (island of Oahu)
       - Simple recipies, all natural ingredients, homemade sauces, just delicious. If you're ever in Honolulu, make the drive up here.
3. Jamesons - North Shore Oahu, Hawaii
       - Bar/Restaurant with fresh fish caught daily. Clam chowder here is out of this world (sorry East Coasters) Blows the chowder that I had in coastal Maine out of the water. Calamari steaks lightly breaded and pan fried just melt in your mouth.
4. That place down the road- Shamal Khowst Province, Afghanistan
       - We didn't actually know the name of the place, but there was a "hotel" down the road from the outpost I lived in while serving in Afghanistan. Our interpreter would go down and order for us, then about 20 minutes later 3 children would show up with platters piled high with rice, sheep, and beef. And their flatbread was amazing. It was almost like a taco bar. You take the bread, fill it with the appropriate items, and eat. SOOOOOO GOOOOOD. Hope it's still in business.

[Desmostro]

omg I love this thread Brilliant!

breakfast
Tartine french bakery San Francisco, Ca.  . Almost better than France.
www.tartinebakery.com

Lunch
Chez Margherite  - Paris $$
low key, locals only, french tapas -stellar food.

Diner  - Paris $$$
www.kong.fr   OMG that's all I'm saying. Artsy, tres chic fashionable, ridiculous, $$$, amazing food/champagne.
reservations many weeks in advance.

Grumpy's  burgers $$  best burgers /beer in the city.
San Francisco, Ca.

Pizza Hacker San Francisco, Ca. $$
Best Pizza I've had in America.
traveling Pizza cart - you must twitter 

Ice-cream San Francisco, Ca. $$
www.humphryslocombe.com
Not your typical anything.
Flavors like :
Guinness Gingerbread; Jesus breakfast (wiskey and cornflakes); Strawberry candied Jalapeno...
And they are all fking amazing!!! 

I have to go there now, excuses me.  [moto]

[DW]

Pizza - Verona's in Southington CT.  Not fancy, kind of a dive, no exotic toppings, just the best most addictive wood fired pizzas I have ever found.  A large pizza cooks in about 3 minutes because the oven as at 800-900 degrees!  If it is good enough for Bill Clinton (President heart attack), it is good enough for me.

BBQ - Smoky's in Singapore.  Just the fact that you can find real American style BBQ in Singapore puts this one on the list.  Also has Archipelago beer on tap.  Good stuff.

[NoisyDante]

Stephanie's on Newbury - Boston, MA - awesome clam chowder.

Rothornstube - Zermatt, Switzerland - best steak I ever had.

Pizzeria Mozza - Los Angeles, CA - best pizza in LA, IMO.

Villa D'Este - Cernobbio, Italy - on Lake Como, beautiful surroundings.

Millennium - San Francisco, CA - vegetarian joint, had a great potato wellington there.

Kathmandu Guest House - Nepal - actually the chicken soup is awesome.

Moonshadows - Malibu, CA - really good seafood, had the black cod and tuna tartar.

[rgramjet]

Gaithersburg MD
Silver Van with "Mexico" spray painted on the side.  Best tacos Ive had.  Was there last Thursday.  Dos tacos de ceso, dos tacos de lengua, y una Coca.  Delicioso! 

[Nitewaif]

Galveston, TX: el Nopalito (the original one on 42nd Street between Church and Winnie back behind the cotton warehouses). Amazing Tex-Mex / Norteño food. It's always surrounded by police cars because one of the owners was a county sheriff Mental Health Deputy. You can't get in on Sunday morning unless you beat the church crowds. It's a really seedy place that you'd never enter if you were in your right mind unless you've already been. My kid consists mostly of food from el Nop, since that's mostly what my wife ate for 3/4 of a year. My daughter would only eat the sauce from their chicken mole when she was in the hospital.

OMG!  I used to go here all the time with the rest of the ER folks in the morning after work when I was at UTMB.  The breakfast burritos are as big as your plate, and delicious.

[swampduc]

OMG!  I used to go here all the time with the rest of the ER folks in the morning after work when I was at UTMB.  The breakfast burritos are as big as your plate, and delicious.

I went to med school at utmb, and that place was fantastic after a long night of, er, studying   
la estacion was great, too.