# Good, but not well-known, restaurants in your city **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 29, 2010, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-but-not-well-known-restaurants-in-your-city/555535 "2010-09-29T23:31:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![kuchi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7993a0/32.png) [@kuchi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kuchi)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2010, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-but-not-well-known-restaurants-in-your-city/555535/61 "2010-11-16T02:50:48Z")
I am in the pizza oven business, I have done work for a multitude of restaurants all over the place. Goodfella’s Pizza in lexington Ky. is the best pizza shop I have ever eaten at, hands down no debate. They are on mill street, if you are ever there try it. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2010, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-but-not-well-known-restaurants-in-your-city/555535/62 "2010-11-16T05:49:29Z")
> [@DCnDC](#): > > Ooh Ray’s. Have never been the RtS but have been to **Ray’s the Classics** many times. Haven’t been there for a while, but you used to be able to get a Hell burger at the bar. Great place. > > And when I used to work in Arlington I was right across the street from **Super Pollo**. I used to get lunch there every day. It was no **El Pollo Rico** as far as the chicken went, but they had much better sides and gave you HUGE portions of them. Not to interrupt the thread, but I think this was the 13 millionth post on the SDMB. ---
**Author:** ![Fionn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Fionn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fionn)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2010, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-but-not-well-known-restaurants-in-your-city/555535/63 "2010-11-17T01:52:25Z")
> [@lindsaybluth](#): > > **Six Penn Kitchen**. Best $15-high 20/plate American. Delicious. Fun, relaxed ambiance without being uptight. Great, comfy booths. I ate there when I was in Pittsburgh for a conference, and it was one of the best meals I’ve ever eaten. I loved the smoked chicken wings and the pork shank. For Austin: Hoover’s, the original location. Everything I’ve ever had there has been good, but my favorite is the chicken and dumplings they have on the breakfast menu. ---
**Author:** ![lindsaybluth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/90db22/32.png) [@lindsaybluth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lindsaybluth)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2010, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-but-not-well-known-restaurants-in-your-city/555535/64 "2010-11-17T03:05:01Z")
Glad you liked it! What can I say, I’m a connoisseur of anything I can put in my mouth and chew ;). I’d start a blog, but then I’d have to start making fun of myself. I forgot another for Pittsburgh - **Legume**. Located in Regent Square, it is decidedly a date night place. Seats maybe 25 people. 15-25/plate. The food is really spectacular. Second best steak I’ve had in my life. (The first by way of my best friend’s best man’s family, who are cattle ranchers. Hard to compete.) The appetizers are fresh and unlike what you’ll see in any other Pittsburgh restaurant. If you like your food fresh off the farm and a menu that changes daily (it’s posted at 5pm on their website, they do take reservations) then this is your place. If nothing on the menu is to your fancy, ask for “chicken under a skillet” - they sometimes have it when it’s not on the menu and then you’re in luck. I would not come here with a group larger than 4. It’s also BYOB, free or a nominal fee. And one more - **Jimmy Wan’s** in Aspinwall. _Actual_ Chinese food that’s totally delicious. Made by Chinese people too, something you don’t see in Pittsburgh. Known for sushi, but I’ve never had it. Fresh ingredients, deft hand at seasoning - it’s a place that takes your “I want it spicy” request seriously. They offer “steamed or brown rice” with most entrees - I like a place where brown rice isn’t a special request. Extensive beer and wine list. Get a reservation if you’re coming on a weekend night. Service is impeccable. Full disclosure, the owner’s niece is an acquaintance; she is dating my boyfriend’s best friend long distance. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2010, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-but-not-well-known-restaurants-in-your-city/555535/65 "2010-11-17T03:21:37Z")
> [@Stan\_Shmenge](#): > > **Los Angeles** : > > **Mariella’s Tacos** : About four blocks west of Vermont on 3rd. Probably the best taco stand in the whole metro area, but aside from people from the local hood and some office workers from nearby Wilshire, not known or mentioned by the foodie cognoscenti. It puts “King Taco” to shame. > > **Don Felix** : Not far from Mariella’s, at Virgil and Beverly. Awesome Peruvian food. I have never seen it written up anywhere and the customers are all pretty much Peruvian nationals. We had some Peruvian girls working at a place I used to work, and they had that stuff in for lunch one time. “WHERE DID YOU GET THAT! I MUST KNOW!” 😃 > > I will think of some other places and post back. FYI, I was specifically looking for LA places here and did a search to figure out where “Mariella’s Tacos” was. Note that there is a Mariella’s Tacos in Los Angeles and a Marielas Taco. I think you’re referring to the latter, not the former, which is a food truck serving mostly factory workers near LAX/Manchester. That’s a little out of my range for dinner tonight, so I’ll bookmark this and try it another time. Thanks. Peruvian also sounds like a good option. Any South Bay recommendations? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-but-not-well-known-restaurants-in-your-city/555535.md?page=3)