Only For You
Food You Can Eat is a great resource of food that anybody can make. But tonight let’s talk about food that the rest of us can’t eat, because it’s made by someone else and you don’t have the recipe.
Have you gone to a restaurant recently and had a good meal? Or maybe you’ve gotten takeout or delivery from a place you like? Or for that matter, something memorably awful?
Maybe you have a donut place or bakery with good pastry where you like to stop, or a local sandwich shop or deli. Tell us all about something you’d recommend for (or against) if we were ever in your neck of the woods.
For Example
My wife and daughter and I went out to a neighborhood Mexican restaurant a couple of days ago. I had enchiladas and was tempted to get lengua, but ended up being good and got beans. I can’t say they were the greatest enchiladas, but they were cheese bombs, the dining crowd had a fun vibe, I got a good local beer, it was just a nice time out.
There’s also a nice liquor store nearby which has a small deli with great meats – prosciutto, speck, sopressatta, and so on. The one drag is that they insist on slicing them elaborately and laying them spread out before wrapping them up. But they’re awfully tasty and a little bit goes a long way.
Anyway, tell us all about a meal you’ve had out recently, with the ups and downs. Or maybe a coffee place you go to with a good cinnamon roll. Or for that matter a pizza place you tried on a whim with the worst crust ever that got delivered two hours after you called.
Or for that matter, a meal or dish some friend or family member made for you recently which was memorable in some way. Let’s talk about food the rest of us can’t eat!
Oh, we have a ton of excellent restaurants and bakeries, uncommonly many for a smallish city. For fancy, we have Josephine’s with Hollywood luxe decor, Gibraltar for seafood (lobster cocktail appetizer is yum), and anything from Bistro Barbaret’s pastry chef (Academie Culinaire de France and Chevalier de L’Ordre du mérite Agricole recipient). I don’t hold it against him that he made Donald and Melania’s wedding cake.
Real French pastry is amazing stuff.
Pączki. I recommend pączki. I can’t eat them any more, but if you’re at Ann’s Bakery on Chicago Ave and Leavitt St in Chicago, have a pączki. Tell them I sent you.
You can thank me later.
I got a box this year from the grocery store. My wife announced she didn’t like the raspberry filling, so I ended up eating all of them.
Bello’s Bakery is my favorite bakery in St Louis. Old fashioned style donuts, amazing turnovers and croissants. They do great streudel. Really just plan on going in and leaving with a lot of things.
My favorite thing is they have tons of cookie varieties you can buy by the each or by the dozen. They have a butter cookie recipe that takes me back to the desserts my German great aunts would make when I was a kid.
I don’t know the last time I’ve had good streudel.
In my case it’s food no one can eat. I miss Mom’s cooking. Last year, I realized something wasn’t right when I would come to my parents for Sunday dinner and her food tasted worse and worse so I just stopped eating dinner at my parents, but I would still come by on Sundays just to talk to my parents. I’m just glad that I made the time for them in the last few years even when I had to work OT that day.
I make some of the things she made or buy it from a local Korean store, but it is not the same. My sisters grumble about the same thing.
ive got a really good fishy van nearby
you know… not to knock all the local restaurants… they are good…but like…im reasonably sure you can find a good italian place or a good indian or sushi place most every where in the world…least in cities
never found fried fishies quite like they do them here anywhere else tho
That sounds delicious and I’m envious. Good fried fish is amazing.