# What's your Favorite Restaurant? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 15, 2002, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-restaurant/114232 "2002-06-15T16:09:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![ianzin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ed655f/32.png) [@ianzin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ianzin)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2002, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-restaurant/114232/21 "2002-06-17T00:46:38Z")
I live in London but my favourite restaurant is in Los Angeles. It’s the restaurant at the **Hotel Bel Air**. I’ve only been there once, but I plan to visit LA again and I will definitely re-visit. It is horrifically expensive, and in my view worth every cent. Here on home turf, my favourite is **Le Gavroche.** Best restaurant in London, easily, and possibly in Europe (according to a gastronomically knowledgeable French friend of mine). ---
**Author:** ![cainxinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7bcc69/32.png) [@cainxinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cainxinth)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2002, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-restaurant/114232/22 "2002-06-17T01:22:02Z")
My all time fav is a small Italian restaurant in Asbury Park, NJ called Jimmy’s Other favorites include Kyoko Sushi in Fayetteville, NY; Sagami in Collingswood, NJ, and Dinosaur BBQ in Syracuse, NY. ---
**Author:** ![WV\_Woman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e95f7d/32.png) [@WV\_Woman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WV_Woman)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2002, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-restaurant/114232/23 "2002-06-17T03:21:53Z")
The city I live in has a place called China House. Best crab rangoon and sweet & sour chicken in the world. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Carnage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/max_carnage/32/12775_2.png) [@Max\_Carnage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Carnage)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2002, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-restaurant/114232/24 "2002-06-17T04:09:55Z")
**Demos’** downtown. The only steak place I know where a bowl of spaghetti is a side dish! You can also get the world’s greatest hash browns as a side (I just discovered those about a month ago.) If anyone comes to town, look me up and I’ll take ya down there. ---
**Author:** ![Soul\_Brother\_Number\_Two](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/soul_brother_number_two/32/3515_2.png) [@Soul\_Brother\_Number\_Two](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soul_Brother_Number_Two)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2002, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-restaurant/114232/25 "2002-06-17T05:17:58Z")
Ike, where do you like to eat in NYC? ---
**Author:** ![colour\_wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/edb3f5/32.png) [@colour\_wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/colour_wolf)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2002, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-restaurant/114232/26 "2002-06-17T05:36:41Z")
My favourite place to eat in Kaohsiung (Taiwan) is a real grungy little Thai place. Absolutely the best Pad Thai and Coconut Chicken I’ve ever had. Chris ---
**Author:** ![hello32499](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/cc9497/32.png) [@hello32499](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hello32499)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2002, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-restaurant/114232/27 "2002-06-17T06:50:38Z")
T.G.I.Fridays or any place with a full bar 🙂 I’m still young. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2002, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-restaurant/114232/28 "2002-06-17T13:26:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by essvee \* > \*\*Ike, where do you like to eat in NYC? \*\* Don’t get me started. There are something like eight thousand restaurants in this burg. And my list of faves would run to the dozens. I picked George’s because it was safely well out of town, and a place I always look forward to. ---
**Author:** ![EchoKitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f4b2a3/32.png) [@EchoKitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EchoKitty)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2002, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-restaurant/114232/29 "2002-06-17T14:52:43Z")
La Francais, in Suburban Chicago. French, and fantastic. Way pricey, but it is French cuisine at its finest. ---
**Author:** ![Lissla\_Lissar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lissla\_Lissar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissla_Lissar)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2002, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-restaurant/114232/30 "2002-06-17T15:54:48Z")
Favorite restaurant… well, for what type of foo? 🙂 I’m afraid than I can’t pick just one. In Toronto, probably Pho Hung, on Bloor opposite the museum. Very good food, and also very cheap. Free jasmine tea, friendly staff, and perfect pho (vietnamese beef-noodle soup). I love Vietnamese and pan-Asian restaurants. Also the Red Tea Box for eclectic, interesting lunch stuff and beautiful cakes and desserts. It’s a bit out of my normal price range ($8 for a pot of tea. No, really it’s worth it. It’s amazing, organic, perfectly brewed tea) so I don’t eat there very often. There’s also a lovely British-style brew pub just down my street that has excellent pub food- bangers and mash, shepherd’s pie, roast beef sandwiches, fries and gravy. I’m starving. Lunchtime. ---
**Author:** ![Lissla\_Lissar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lissla\_Lissar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissla_Lissar)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2002, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-restaurant/114232/31 "2002-06-17T15:54:56Z")
Favorite restaurant… well, for what type of food? 🙂 I’m afraid than I can’t pick just one. In Toronto, probably Pho Hung, on Bloor opposite the museum. Very good food, and also very cheap. Free jasmine tea, friendly staff, and perfect pho (vietnamese beef-noodle soup). I love Vietnamese and pan-Asian restaurants. Also the Red Tea Box for eclectic, interesting lunch stuff and beautiful cakes and desserts. It’s a bit out of my normal price range ($8 for a pot of tea. No, really it’s worth it. It’s amazing, organic, perfectly brewed tea) so I don’t eat there very often. There’s also a lovely British-style brew pub just down my street that has excellent pub food- bangers and mash, shepherd’s pie, roast beef sandwiches, fries and gravy. I’m starving. Lunchtime. ---
**Author:** ![Soul\_Brother\_Number\_Two](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/soul_brother_number_two/32/3515_2.png) [@Soul\_Brother\_Number\_Two](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soul_Brother_Number_Two)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2002, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-restaurant/114232/32 "2002-06-17T16:10:54Z")
Aw, cmon, Ike! ---
**Author:** ![Philster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/13edae/32.png) [@Philster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philster)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2002, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-restaurant/114232/33 "2002-06-17T16:21:30Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by ivylass \* > \*\*Can be a chain or a mom and pop place, anything. > > There is a small privately owned chain of BBQ restaurants that started in Charleston, SC, and has since branched out to TN and north Florida and (I think) NC and KY. > > They are called Sticky Fingers, and I would crawl across a field of broken glass for a plate of their ribs. > > They have four kinds, wet, dry, Carolina Sweet and Jack Daniels whiskey. We’re talking shake the rib and the meat falls of the bone good. > > Yummmmm…it’s the only thing I miss from SC. > > I just realized this sounds a bit like a commercial. FTR, I am in no way affiliated with the aforementioned restaurant (although you can drown me in their BBQ and I would die happy) \*\* Okay…beings that I love ribs…I’ll add this joint to my list w/out ever eating there! My favorit is Fago Di Chiao (spelling)…the two I know of and have dined at are in Dallas and Atlanta. There is no way to explain this glutton fest of meat. 20 different guys have instantly named it their favorite place in my presence. ---
**Author:** ![Neidhart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Neidhart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neidhart)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2002, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-restaurant/114232/34 "2002-06-17T16:36:54Z")
Outback Steakhouse (I could eat a Bloomin’ Onion every day!) and Bertucci’s Pizza. (Though they just tore down the one near Tysons Corner. The office building it was in was less than 40 years old, but they’re replacing it anyway. Huh?) ---
**Author:** ![Leifsmama](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a698b9/32.png) [@Leifsmama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leifsmama)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2002, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-restaurant/114232/35 "2002-06-17T17:22:55Z")
Charlie Trotter’s, Chicago 302 West, Geneva, Il Mel’s Grill, Denver, CO The Beehive, Denver, CO Caroline’s Cuisine, Grand Lake, CO ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2002, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-restaurant/114232/36 "2002-06-17T21:20:07Z")
Dougie’s BBQ in New York City. 3 locations, one of which is three blocks from my house. Obviously (for those who’ve known me on the board), it’s Kosher, so know not to expect any pork, shellfish or dairy products should you ever desire to visit. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-restaurant/114232.md?page=1)