Do certain major cities really have better food? (Chicago pizza, NY bagels, etc.)

The Asian food in Toronto (now with a bigger Chinatown than SF) kicks ass.

Comments like “You will not find any good ice cream outside of New England” imply the poster has not been far outside of New England. Certainly not to New Brunswick or Berthillion’s in Paris.

I would agree the best Philly cheesesteak I’ve had was in Philly. But I don’t eat them regularly. And that is different from saying “Philadelphia is the only place to get a good cheesesteak”. It ain’t, and it might well not be the best, either.

As for bagels, I miss living on St. Viateur street in Montreal and buying them minutes after being baked over the wood stove. :frowning:

All I know is, I moved from Chicago to Nashville a little over three years ago and I’ve only had one decent Chicago-style pizza since – and that’s because my wife surprised me for my birthday by having a Giordano’s pizza shipped on dry ice from Chicago (you can order it from their website! yay!) You can also get Lou Malnati’s to deliver nationwide, and probably some of the other places. Not quite as good, because it’s been frozen before baking, but still lightyears better than anything local I’ve found.

It’s also damned hard to find decent BBQ around here. You should not be able to see through a bottle of barbacue sauce, people!!

i think Toronto does it best for “Other” food, as in food from a wide variety of countries. Seeing as there really no such thing as “Canadian” food

You ain’t kiddin’. And they give you these little cream cheese containers to spread it yourself and that makes a big difference too. There’s nothing like a damp salt bagel with a slab of cream cheese thrown on it and a nice diet pepsi for breakfast. Now don’t get me started on these new fangled flavors you find outside NY, like blueberry for the love of Christ! It’s plain, egg, salt, poppy, sesame, onion, garlic, cinnamon-raisin and everything. That’s it. No berries, no apples, no chocolate chips! They’re bagels, not muffins! Oooh, I’m just hot under the collar now!

Despite their misleading name, Detroit is the only place to get a proper Coney Dog. We also have great Greek and Middle Eastern Food, though I haven’t had those in enough other places to proclaim Detroit the best.

Oh yeah! There’s a big Vietnamese shopping center on Wilson Blvd. just south of Rt. 7 (I think it’s called Eden West) that has some of the best pho and Vietnamese deli subs anywhere. Springfield is also good for these.

Unfortunately Denver doesn’t really have a specialty food that I can think of. Being over here in the middle of land it seems like everybody managed to make it here about the same time(Asian from the west, Latin from the south, various European from the west.) So no particular ethnicity got much of a foothold to dominate stuff. Plus due to latitude and altitude we had crap for ingredients until refridgerated trucking, cause nothing to exciting will grow here .

But we are catching up(now that people have finally figured out to to bake bread at altitude which was the first huge problem we had to overcome). And we have a lot of damn good beer.

You happen to be the first Doper to pick up on that. If you’re a fan, you shouldn’t have to think twice about what it is. To the thousands of Dopers who don’t know what I’m talking about…keep wondering…:smiley:
…and box seats are coming your way…:wink:

I thought mooseburgers were the Canuck’s claim to fame :smiley:

I call bullshit on that one, sir. Oh, and the rolls are available outside of Philly.

I know that Bongmaster wants to show his regional pride and everything but the fact is that I made them for 7 years in Harrisburg, and I smoke Pat’s.

Come to Harrisburg and I’ll prove it.

A place here in Seattle used to sell bagels made with — wait for it — bacon bits. Now that just ain’t right.

They’re out of business now. I think a powerful deity decided to smite them.

Dan Savage wrote his greatest column ever about bacon bagels.

Old Forge Pizza…I’m from Scranton, about 5 minutes away from Old Forge, had my share of it, and I can tell you, without a doubt, that Old Forge Pizza is OVERRATED! Yeah, it’s good and all, but it’s not as great as it’s made out to be.

To the OP, the South in general, Louisiana specifically, is the only place you’ll get good gumbo, jambalaya, and dirty rice, unless you have a relative who can make it. Popeye’s may be OK in a pinch, but you ain’t lived until you had a homemade New Orleans seafood gumbo!

Ahhh … Nawwwwlens cuisine :: bowing ::