The Kabob and Curry in Providence, RI is awesome. I was visiting Boston last year on business and so I went to dinner up in RI there. It is always excellent.
Indeed. Don’t forget about Gloria’s, Bangkok City, India Palace/Roti Grill (like the Pei Wei to India Palace’s PF Chang’s), Kuby’s Sausage House and last, but not least, Cowboy Chicken
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In the great and noble state of North Carolina alone, I recommend Mama Dip’s and Crook’s Corner for those who are interested in an introduction to Southern cuisine. The good people of North Carolina would also invite you to try, at the very least, Wilber’s, before dismissing all BBQ.
(Just go to Wilber’s. Pay no attention to anyone who goes on about 'the Lexington Six-Pack. ;))
Wow, you Americans really don’t leave the country, do ya? I know that sounds like I’m bragging because all my choices are overseas, but surely there must be someone other than Jamaika a jamaikaiaké who has enjoyed food outside the US?!
There was a great steak place in Scotland in the middle of nowhere. I cannot remember its name. Kind of hard to recommend it when I cannot remember the name or the town.
I figured out it was near Kirriemuir, Angus, Scotland. The Birthplace of J.M. Barrie.
Jim
Biba. Northern Italian food at its finest. Voted a couple years ago as the best restaurant in Northern California. Ask to be seated in Carlo’s section.
For pizza, you can’t beat Zelda’s. Think “hole-in-the-wall”. They don’t accept checks or credit cards, but they make the best Chicago-style pizza west of the Windy City. Just make sure you call your order in before you go, or you’ll end up waiting 45 minutes for your pie to cook.
We spent a week in London a few years ago. One of the culinary highlights was a dinner at Veerswamy. The waiter was very good to us, since we had absolutely no idea what anything on the menu was; he recommended all of our dishes for us, explained the history of the restaurant (he pointed out the picture on the wall of Charlie Chaplin and Mahatma Gandhi eating dinner together), entertained our 4-year-old son, and generally made it one of the most pleasant dining experiences I’ve ever had.
Not a restaurant, but another memorable “meal” from that same trip was a snack of roasted chestnuts while we strolled through Hyde Park on a crystal clear, very cold morning after a rather impressive snowstorm the day before.
The best lasagna I’ve ever tasted was at a “truck stop” somewhere in central Italy, about 20 years ago, during a school-sponsored European vacation. I have no idea where exactly we were; it was wherever the coach stopped for lunch that day.
Really, truly (non-local, unfortunately), favorite? The Ratskeller in Munich, for me – and the Old Swiss House in Lucerne for both my dad and soon-to-be-ex-husband. A close second for my dad was the schweinhaxen in Ulm.
One of my biggest disappointments was The Sherlock Holmes in London. Mediocre food, negligent service, dusty Holmsian display.