Favorite restaurants?

[an anarchist]

What is your favorite restaurant(s)?

Mine is Texas Roadhouse, a chain restaurant in the US that is a steakhouse. Growing up, I would choose that place to eat whenever my family took me out for my birthday.

I'm a cook, and that place was my first job. It was really physically intense and fast paced. Loved it though. Pretty much everything is made from scratch every couple of hours. There are so many cooks and positions. The meat even is delivered fresh and there was the position of meat cutter who sliced up the logs of cow. I was mostly a baker, made fresh bread nonstop from scratch, as well as other tasks. The best bread in town.

I figured every restaurant was like that. Boooy was I wrong. I've worked in a number of restaurants now. Most are rather... unimpressive. Most stuff comes in frozen at most chain places. Cooks do a little bit of cooking but it's a lot of warming up stuff. And meats is usually coming in frozen. In such a operation, the positions are a lot more compartmentalized and there are less cooks.

I'm off to Denny's now. Anyone have the inside scoop of that place?

 

[ChristineM]

In order of country.

Twelve, Thornton, UK.

Guys, Bilsbarrow, UK.

The Fat Duck, Bray, UK

Sawadee, Cenac, France.

La Cantine, Daglan, France.

The Petit Paris, Daglan, France

Ferme Auberge Du Roc, St Pompon, France

The Flying Elephant, Chennai, India

Sublime, Goa, India.

Fugu Fukuji, Tokyo, Japan.

GW Fins, New Orleans, USA

Majordomo, Los Angeles, USA

That'll do for now.

A couple more I've enjoyed

DNR, Accra, Ghana.

Vixies, Accra, Ghana

And one @Sgt. Pepper reminded me of.

66 green, Perigueux, France, A great shame its closed down, it did the best vegi meals you could wish for.

 

[Sgt. Pepper]

I prefer a couple of nearby restaurants, and I usually stick with them since I'm a vegetarian and know what's on their menu. Unless I'm out of town, I usually don't dine at a restaurant that I'm unfamiliar with. Besides, I'd rather cook meals for my family at home or whenever I visit family, such as my in-laws.

 

[Revoltingest]

Lai Lai (Ypsilanti MI) - Chinese
Palm Palace (Ann Arbor MI) - Mid Eastern
Chela's (Ann Arbor MI) - Mexican
Everest (Ann Arbor MI) - Nepalese
Bell's Diner (Ann Arbor MI) - Korean
Ari Rang (Ann Arbor MI) - Korean
Cancun (Saline MI) - Mexican
Blue Nile (Ann Arbor MI) - Ethiopian
Yi Siang Dumplings (Ypsilanti MI) Chinese
Asia City (Ypsilanti MI) Chinese & sushi
Argiero's ((Ann Arbor MI) - Italian
Star's Cafe (Ann Arbor MI) - Lebanese
Zingerman's (Ann Arbor MI) - deli+
A&J Restaurant (Rockville MD) - Chinese
Subway (everywhere) - Decent food on the road

 

[Nimos]

I never go to restaurants, but I do like a burger from Burger king or my local burger joint once in a while

But other than that, I'm mostly to pizza.

 

[Jayhawker Soule]

Lai Lai (Ypsilanti MI) - Chinese
Palm Palace (Ann Arbor MI) - Mid Eastern
Chela's (Ann Arbor MI) - Mexican
Everest (Ann Arbor MI) - Nepalese
Bell's Diner (Ann Arbor MI) - Korean
Ari Rang (Ann Arbor MI) - Korean
Cancun (Saline MI) - Mexican
Blue Nile (Ann Arbor MI) - Ethiopian
Yi Siang Dumplings (Ypsilanti MI) Chinese
Asia City (Ypsilanti MI) Chinese & sushi
Argiero's ((Ann Arbor MI) - Italian
Star's Cafe (Ann Arbor MI) - Lebanese
Zingerman's (Ann Arbor MI) - deli+
A&J Restaurant (Rockville MD) - Chinese
Subway (everywhere) - Decent food on the road

I clearly need to spend more time in Ann Arbor.