Anyone had a good meal at a restaurant lately?

[Rome]

Jewish/Hebrew restaurants are my favorite.

[SD]

Estia...atmosphere is unreal. The reason you travel to center city is to experience a place like this.

ESTIA CHIPS
Zucchini and eggplant fried crispy served with tzatziki

Could have eaten these all night. In fact my g/f and I are going to a show at the Mann, we're going here for drinks and apps before...we're getting these again. We both drank this muddled drink with bacardi, one of the best mixed drinks I've ever had.

PLAKI
Chilean sea bass slow baked in fish fume and tomato sauce with onions,
tomatoes, green peppers, carrots, potatoes, capers, and thyme

g/f ordered this...it's what I should have ordered. Luckily she's tiny so she doesn't eat much. I polished the rest off for her. Incredible dish.

TONOS
Sesame seed crusted yellow-fin tuna grilled rare served with horta, beets,
and almond skordalia

I had this, was really good. Nothing I'd ever order again but was

Overall I liked it, my g/f loved it.

[PhillyPhreak54]

Damn I'm a boring eater. Italian, American, Mexican and Peruvian is about all I'm good for. Chinese sometimes.

I tried Mediterranean once and it was ok. One of my customers family owns a place and I like a couple dishes. But I wouldn't go outta my way to go there

[ice grillin you]

Damn I'm a boring eater. Italian, American, Mexican and Peruvian is about all I'm good for. Chinese sometimes.

MA

[Sgt PSN]

Damn I'm a boring eater. Olive Garden, Applebee's, Taco Bell and Eva Mendez's hoyda is about all I'm good for. Oriental Buffet sometimes.

MA

[PhillyPhreak54]

Damn I'm a boring eater. Italian, American, Mexican and Peruvian is about all I'm good for. Chinese sometimes.

MA

No chance. I'm not a chain guy bubba

[ice grillin you]

MA isn't just chains...its also a hearty diet of meat and potatoes pasta tex mex chinese fried twinkies ect...

no super ethnic or "exotic" foods

[PhillyPhreak54]

I don't like fried twinkies, Oreos, butter, snickers or anything like that.

I think eating South American food is certainly not MA.

But I'm not a big vegetable or fish person so that cuts a lot of stuff out

[rjs246]

Can we just take a second to marvel at the fact that we live in a time and place where someone can make a statement like 'I'm not a vegetable or fish person' and have it be totally within bounds?

For the entirety of human history, eating vegetables or fish or any goddamned thing you could get your hands on wasn't optional for people's delicate palates. Eat or die. Vegetables and fish were and are life-sustaining but we can dismiss them as optional.

This rant isn't really about Jay. My mom tells me all the time that she 'doesn't like water'. You know. Water. That thing that all life is based on? The one thing that literally everything on the planet needs? Water. She doesn't like it. Astounding.

[General_Failure]

I was going to go for a "hope you get hit by a truck so you can be a vegetable person" joke, but that's just depressing.

[Sgt PSN]

I was going to go for a "hope you get hit by a truck so you can be a vegetable person" joke, but that's just depressing.

That would have been corny. I know you've got better jokes than that. Lettuce have it.

[MDS]

ive been reading russell's posts for a decade

the hell

[PhillyPhreak54]

Haha I'm sure Rome is loving the vegetable joke.

I don't get the water thing. Sure it can be boring sometimes but it's not like it has a foul taste like brussel sprouts or squash.

But then again people don't get why I'd rather eat a peanut butter sandwich than a plate of trout and broccoli

[General_Failure]

Some places do have zesty tap water, but that's fixed with a cheap water filter.

[PhillyPhreak54]

True. Or bottled water.

Speaking of which -- I wonder if Matty drinks the tap water?