Pollo Campero, mentioned several times upthread, was phenomenally wonderful when I lived in the DC area 15 years ago. Last time I visited one, the one on 14th Street DC, the quality had taken a bit of a dive, probably due to a round of cost cutting. It was still okay, but in a city with many pollo restaurants, it was a bit below average.
I lived in China for a while and never saw any of these “American Chinese” restaurants there. Korea had a pretty notable one, Ho Lee Chow in Itaewon (the international district in Seoul), attached to the backside of the popular Hamilton Hotel. It closed down at some point in the last 5 years, unfortunately.
Kell’s Irish Pub in Seattle, run by a family from Belfast, opened a second location in San Francisco, on the edge of Chinatown close to the TransAmerica pyramid, IIRC. Not exactly a thriving chain, but both locations get a thumb’s up from me!
For a chain, The Keg is a fairly decent medium-priced sit-down steakhouse with a reasonable menu and a good bar and a modestly OK wine selection. Unlike that take-out embarrassment Tim Horton’s. How Timmy’s not only achieved success in Canada but also managed to inflict their shitty offerings on the US is beyond me.
Two Canadian chains that have no US presence but should have are Swiss Chalet (great rotisserie chicken) and Harvey’s (made-to-order flame-grilled burgers), both owned by the same parent company, Recipes Unlimited.
The one thing I was always impressed with at El Pollo Loco was their guacamole. Like their salsa it is obviously freshly made and restaurant-quality. Right down to being rather variable in presentation (thinner, thicker, spicier, milder) from day to day . Chunky and smashed, rather than blended. Better than most mom & pop taquerias IMHO (which tend to blend for smooth application in a taco or burrito). I find it distinctly odd that a huge soul-less corporation would nail that one little thing.
Your comment about guacamole reminded me that although we don’t do a lot of authentic Mexican in Canada, especially compared to the southern US, good stuff can be found, such as the Mad Mexican line of sauces in limited availability at some grocery stores. It’s not clear what they’re mad about or if they’re possessed by some form of insanity, but they do make fresh sauces that seem very authentic in my non-expert opinion.
So when you mail a letter to somewhere around there, you put down “Dallas, Texas” as the address on the last line, but it’s not in the city of Texas? Addison is an incorporated town. Why would the post office want “Dallas, Texas” in the last line of the address?
It’s my understanding that as long as the zip code is correct, the city doesn’t really matter that much. Mail is sorted by zip code first, then street. That’s generally enough. The additional information is always helpful, and missing standard info may lead to delays in processing and delivery, but it’s fairly common for people to not know the exact city/town name of a suburb and just write in the closest big city.
I’m not sure if It applies to Addison, but the “city” in an address more accurately describes the post office where the mail is delivered from. So if a carrier based in the post office of CITY delivers mail to a building in SUBURB , USPS will accept and possibly prefer an address of CITY, STATE. USPS might also accept SUBURB, STATE. Sometimes it’s even that he CITY1 post office delivers to addresses that are actually in CITY2.
Like I said, I don’t know if it applies to Addison but the fact that Addison has a post office doesn’t matter - the Beverly Hills Post Office neighborhood of Los Angeles receives its mail from the Beverly Hills post office and the addresses can be ( and almost certainly are) written “Beverly Hills, CA 90210”
Interestingly, this goes the other way around in Queens, which is one borough in the incorporated city of New York City. Many of the usual postal addresses there use the name of the neighborhood in Queens, not Queens or New York City. This is names like Long Island City, Flushing, Jamaica, or Rockaway.
Yes, and Rikers Island, which is actually in the Bronx gets mail delivered from the Queens post office of East Elmhurst ( because the only bridge goes to Queens). Can’t really be certain of anything with Post Office addresses.
The city of Addison appears to be split between two Zip Codes, only one of which (75001) uses “Addison.” The other one (75254, where the new Nando’s is) primarily includes locations in the city of Dallas, but also a few areas just inside Addison.
. Chunky and smashed, rather than blended. Better than most mom & pop taquerias IMHO (which tend to blend for smooth application in a taco or burrito). I find it distinctly odd that a huge soul-less corporation would nail that one little thing.