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Best Restaurant I ever ate at. Or Best Restaurant in my area.

Discussion in 'Food Talk' started by TRD-ED, Jul 21, 2017.

  1. Jul 21, 2017 at 9:38 AM
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    TRD-ED

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    Searched TW for a best Restaurant thread and didn't see one.
    So I though why not start one. Everyone here should have some little hole in the wall place or
    maybe it's a chain restaurant that's their favorite place to go.
    How about we give our reasons why and our favorite food to grab there.
    If you can't decide on just one then add in 2 or 3 good places to fill up. We're all looking for good placed to eat at home or while traveling in our Tacoma's!!
    I'll start.
    My wife works night's on weekends (6 pm-6 am) so I have to be quiet on Sunday's so she can sleep. I head to the gym around 9:30 for about an hour on Sunday mornings. Then to a little 50's style dinner named Carolina's Diner. Old time Diner food with old time country breakfast plates.
    Bacon, eggs, sausage, hash-browns, grits, and best of all biscuits and gravy!

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  2. Jul 21, 2017 at 9:40 AM
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    Tony's restaurant. Birch Run Michigan. You will not go hungry.
     
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  3. Jul 21, 2017 at 10:28 AM
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    What's their specialty?
     
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  4. Jul 21, 2017 at 12:00 PM
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    Breakfast or lunch and huge portions.
     
  5. Jul 23, 2017 at 11:49 AM
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    One of the 5 best meals I have ever had was the blackened crab stuffed pork-chop from Chef Point.

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    This place is just up the road from me in our new house and I haven't been in a while (shame on me). Neat story, too. The guy came here from Nigeria. He wanted to open a restaurant, but with no formal culinary experience, the banks wouldn't give him a loan. He could, however, get a loan for a gas station, so he took it. He opened the gas station and started serving food on the inside. The place blew up in popularity. Many of the dishes are what you'd expect to see at some fairly high-end restaurants, but he has comfort food like fried chicken and burgers, as well. Over-the-top Bloody Mary's there, too.
     
  6. Jul 24, 2017 at 3:51 AM
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    Bloody Mary's at a gas station?
     
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    I love seafood - best place around​
     
  8. Jul 24, 2017 at 4:04 AM
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    IMG_0104.jpg Best fried gator I think I've ever had.
     
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  9. Jul 24, 2017 at 4:21 AM
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    Is that the Chef sleeping on the job? Or the Special of the Day?
     
  10. Jul 24, 2017 at 4:31 AM
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    Probably full of gator
     
  11. Jul 24, 2017 at 4:44 AM
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    Never had Fried Gator. Nuggets? Fillet, on a Bun? all the above or other?
     
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    If you ever go to Puerto Rico, in Old San Juan there is a place called Cueva del Mar. They have the most mind blowingly good Fish Tacos. I love food, I've had $300 steak dinners and I would take that plate of tacos any day. I've debated flying down there just for those damn things.

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  13. Jul 24, 2017 at 5:03 AM
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    Those things do look good. You should add that place to the" Best place to eat Taco's" thread.
     
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  14. Jul 24, 2017 at 5:07 AM
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    I would say this is one of the top 3 BBQ places I have had the pleasure to eat at......
     
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    That place look and sounds great! read the story awsome
     
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    You are never more than 107 miles from Ron's Steakhouse, no matter where
    you are in the US. Average distance is 5 miles.
     
  18. Jul 24, 2017 at 6:13 AM
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    Ron's never heard of em. Pretty good steak?
     
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    Ate there many times. Pretty good Steak Burger!

    Can't believe I feel for it... :facepalm:
     

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