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Chowhound restaurant pet peeves
. "Okay, I’ll have a basic steak-frites. Do you have that?" He pointed to the sirloin, for $22. Nope. “Well then, how about the roast lamb?” They were out of that, too. We got up and walked around the corner to...
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article: Is Eating Out Cheaper Than Cooking?
that steak dinners also have low labor/initial startup costs. this generally means that steak dinners tend to be way cheaper to make at home than to go out for the equivalent dinner, esp becuase a lot of the steakhouses charge...
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I'm moving from NYC to London for univ...
As someone just pointed out one dollar equals one pound, I just came back from London and a pub lunch for two (fish and chips, steak and ale pie and two drinks each) was regularly about 30 pounds ($60). You’re best bet is...
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Your culinary history?
there. (REAL hamburgers weren’t gray and covered in slime.) I grew up loving veggies and meats and anything else my mom put in front of me. We also spent a ton of time in Maine and Rhode Island clamming and crabbing and...
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Is this food terrorism?
. Thought they would choose between steak or shrimp kabobs and in the end jfood decided that a surf & turf combo (plated versus passed) with a couple of sides would be a nice touch. didn’t think to ask and if some did not...
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How Did You "Deal" With Being Poor (and Young) Before You Could Afford to Dine Out (or eat well dining in)?
ramen noodles, hamburger helper, homemade spaghetti and jack in the box ($1 menu) kept me alive during my college years.
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please, a definition of "authentic mexican"
I don’t think that anything made by a Mexican is authentic Mexican cuisine ... what if that person is making pizza or hamburgers ... doesn’t make it Mexican. I think that this website pins it down nicely and suggest...
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Overrated disappointments
Hawthorne Lane was a big disappointment for me. The classically “Western” dishes (like the steak) was very good, but all of the Asian-fusion dishes missed one thing or another. The uni pasta was particularly...
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[PDX] Dining Guide & Tip Sheet v1.0
& Middle-Eastern | Hamburgers Italian Latin-American Mexican Mexican-American Northwest Cuisine Pizza Seafood Thai Vietnamese MARKETS Asian Farmer’s Gourmet/Organic Meat RESTAURANTS AMERICAN 1. Fife Restaurant
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Why keep eating the same ethnic dishes?
no one wants them. And by ethnic, I’m including everything that isn’t burgers and steak. How much lasagna and coq au vin can one eat anyway? However, when I’m eating my own cuisine, Polish, I do stick with the comfort dishes for...
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What do you have the most difficulty cooking?
Steak. I can destroy the best cuts and there’s always the anticipation of whether the smoke detector will go off. The hard part is if it does and I’m too short to reach it.
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Top Chef Episode #3
, he was dead on with his palate comment. If you take 100 people off the street and give them steak tartar, or foie gras, or raw tor, they will spit it out. If you give someone paella who doesn’t eat seafood, are they going...
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Understanding Americans: Food Terminologies
Not really, although there is a trend for it to be so called in the Midlands and North. Steak and Kidney pudding could not be called a dessert but the term is familiar UK wide. Bob
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london dining - the truth
(eccleston street) where i go to eat haggis, angus steak, and smoke a fat cigar with my after dinner scotch. 8. green papaya (mare street) disappointing pho, but some really nice stir fried dishes. lots of fresh herbs and...
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Organic foods, exactly what does that mean?
-end hamburger (which ends up expensive comparatively) to prime rib (which ends up dirt-cheap). Overall, it works out to savings, for a far superior product. Having the meat in my freezer, ready to go, means I make a couple trips...
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