New Restaurant you just knew would go kaput

[Pablo]

Doesn't have to be a 5 star place at all, I've eaten at some pretty dumpy places with great food.

My main gripe with Outback is that chemical juice they put on the steaks, it runs out of the meat when you cut it....it really tastes gross. I had it twice and that was enough. Trust me I've had some great steaks and that isn't one of them.... I've had carne arechera in funky Mexican places, I've had a fat veal steak in Hong Kong....I've had grilled steak in Brazil.....all so very tasty...

 

[harrydog]

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You guys are too picky when it comes to eats, me thinks. Does it have to be a 5-star place to make you guys happy?

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Right you are Wayne. There's definitely a bit of the snob affliction going on around here. Nothing wrong with eating at a 5 star restaurant as often as you can afford it, but to turn your nose up at everything else is silly.
That's not to say there aren't plenty of truly bad places to eat that I'll avoid at all costs, but Outback Steakhouse isn't one of them.
With some of the posts in this forum it's obvious that the posters are enjoying a feeling of superiority over the "common folks". The need to feel superior indicates something not so good to me.

 

[sprintman]

Turkish is the new Chinese here. An upmarket Turkish without a liquor lic is atough ask

 

[GT Mike]

Never had Turkish. I had Ethiopian once, and it wasn't bad. A bit bizarre, but not bad. No utensils are used...You pull off little pieces of flatbread that had the texture of a sponge, and pinch little bits of various dishes into the bread. Wierd, but a new taste experience.

I'm getting more and more into Thai. There's a Thai restaurant here owned by a family that moved here from Thailand, and the food is excellent. I'm especially a big fan of red curry. Crank up the heat, brother!

In all reality though, I am a very picky eater. I have this wierd phobia of eating meat off a bone. Laugh all you want, I won't touch a T-bone, chicken wings, pork chops, or anything like that. However, boneless cuts of meat are just fine by me. My friends think this is just flat out wierd, but I'm content with it.

I also found out that soy sauce will make just about anything taste good. Even my ex-girlfriend's pot roast!

 

[sprintman]

Turkish everywhere here. Ethiopian is fantastic. The bread you used was Injera. In suburb near work (Dickson) there are two Ethiopian restaurants next door to each other. Both are good. They have Key Wat, Doro Wat, spicy pumpkin and too many other good things to list. Geez I'm hungry

 

[sprintman]

Other two breads are Kita (flat bread with spicy oils) and Hibishty (steamed bread from Tigray)

 

[jmac]

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There was a restaurant in the Norfolk, Virginia, area called the Spaghetti Warehouse. It doesn't take a genius to figure what the primary item on the menu was. Note past tense, as it's not quite around anymore.

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This is a chain that has been around since the 70's. I worked at the first one to open in St. Louis down in the Landing as a busboy, really it was The Spaghetti Factory then but same parent company, as since have been in Warehouses and exact same decor, menu, service, etc. Anyway, back then even though food was mediocre, because of atmosphere and relatively inexpensive plus being new and large and location, on certain nights we would have over 2 hour waiting lists, in a place that would seat at least over 100 ppl., and I think closer to 200 or more, as we would have 1 busboy for every 2 waiters, about 18 or 20 waiters, and at least 10 customers per waiter. Up until that time all of those restaurants were in cities to the East, then at some point in the westward and Southern expansion they morphed into Spaghetti warehouses. Boy did that job suck. And gave me my initial loathing for Northeastern Corporate Yankee types I think. I remember i was not old enough to drive at that time, and to get around child labor laws could not be scheduled for more than 30 hours a week, though the actual management would often make me go over that.
Also, any night that was a game night the place was a zoo.

 

[sprintman]

Were going to this place tonight for my daughters 'Names day' (a Russian thing). A couple of young blokes saw a vacant shop and in what the owner told me "was a monent of madness" decided to have a go with Firestone and are doing very well. I'll be having the crumbed and fried gorgonzola cheese with pumpkin parfait, and gnocchi with braised rabbit & porcini mushroom ragout. I don't think these guys will be going out of business anytime soon.

http://www.firestonepizzeria.com.au/menus/firestonemenu.pdf

 

[Shannow]

sprintman, I picked up a rabbit at the farmer's market the other day...trying to work out how I want to cook it.

The saltbush lamb chops and sausages were excellent, as were the biodynamic eggs.

 

[sprintman]

Just got home. Sensational meal, havn't had rabbit for more than a decade. Yes we get Saltbush lamb at the farmers markets along with just about everything else nearly all organic. Pork neck fillet is also something else. Biodynamic eggs are definitely the go. I'm off to Southside Farmers Market tomorrow mainly to see if trunkey creek pork have gammon. Had gammon last night, first time for my wife and yes she was impressed.

 

[NYEngineer]

This is pretty off topic, but this thread sparked this thought. I had a favorite Cajun restaurant here on Long Island that just couldn't serve a bad meal. I even brought a friend there who refused to believe it could be as good as I said. His exact words were "I've had Cajun food in New Orleans and this place blew it away". Well, some nut bought the place even though the original owners didn't want to sell, but he made them an offer they couldn't refuse. First, the place took a huge downward spiral and then he turned it into Southern pit barbecue. Now I can't get good Cajun anywhere.

 

[sprintman]

Sad my friend but it happens regularly. People just can't leave a good thing alone