/ck/ - Food & Cooking

How do Americans eat so many calories in one sitting?

>>10683200
So I just analyzed the menu and I have come to the conclusion that if you dont get one of the two rice bowls than youre probably a bitch

>>10683200
The typos and formatting issues aren't giving me confidence. The pictures also make it look tacky for some reason.

>>10683218
Why would you order an "Asian" sort of dish from a place that clearly isn't Asian?

You're that fucknut who orders the steak at the seafood house aren't you?

Why does New York name a cut of beef after its self?

the font (Arial?) doesn't look professional

>>10683200
I don't like the font, that's it.

>>10683200
It's terrible all around.

>>10683279
>continental
>asian
>italian
>steak
>chicken
>fish

too much going on I believe

>>10683237
>trying to educate 20 year old boomers

>>10683200
I think it's cheap as fuck. Just picking a random item, say, the petit filet. That would be $45 in WA State, easily. Sides for sharing items? $9 minimum, for the most basic stuff.

So unless all of their food tastes like hot ass, I'd be stoked to eat there.

>>10683335
Can't read the descriptions

>>10683200

fuck that I know where I'm eating

>>10683342
What makes their hotdog world famous?

>>10683428

They're boiled in a vat of ass water

It's a little bit all over the place. What's with the chicken parmesan? That seems really out of place with the rest of the menu.

>>10683200
starting from the top
>seasonal vegetables
>picture has broccoli, carrot, asparagus (spring), squash (summer) and what looks like... fennel? (fall)

you've got some weird-ass across the board cuisine, which means it's all probably done kinda poorly. there's greek, italian-american, british-indian, thai, japanese, canadian and american. pick one or two and get a chef who can do those well, because odds are that at least 2/3 of that menu is gonna be trash.

it also doesn't help food costs when very few of the ingredients overlap and you're using half-assed combinations to make it 'work', like rice pilaf in teryaki and 'vietnamese inspired vegetable broth' for pho.

also scrambled eggs aren't standard vegetarian (pad thai) - that's lacto-ovo or pescatarian versions.

basically, i'd never look forward to eating at this place and would go there only as a last resort. i'd expect a shit meal and hope to be surprised that it isn't trash.

>>10683905
Basically, everything came off a Sysco truck.

>>10683335
How do you do fellow Hoosier?

>>10683342
Looking at the AOL E-mail address, those prices are still way too fucking low even for 1994.

thoughts?

>>10683200
Looks like a place a middle class family would go to thinking it's a nice restaurant

>>10685292
I love restaurants that serve game meats. Gimme a Western burger with venison if they have it, buffalo if they don't, some onion rings, and lemme try one of those signature shakes.

>>10683200
>How do you feel about this menu?
I suspect it is British/former British influence, but likely Canadian, but same result. This is an insult, of course. Someone is just lacking some class with this one. It's not eclectic, but rather boring and lacking focus. No one has any clue what to order or not to order here. "perfectly grilled" isn't a proper description, but an unhelpful review; tell me if it's grilled over coals, wood or under a broiler element.
And sharing sides? When the mains come with sides...just call them appetizers or a la carte.
Mushrooms sauteed in nothing but extra virgin olive oil? No wine reduction? Bleh.
Overall, just bad descriptions is the main issue if you're sold on the actual menu items for your joint.

The design is bad. The giant oversized grilling guide top and foremost when only 2.5% of the menu is even affected by that is dumb. The wrapping of the wine pairing from one line to the next is ugly layout.

>>10685292
Lots-a-shroom buffalo burger, please.

>>10685329
>game meats
I know this idea requires a: friends, and b: friends who can cook a little, but my wife and I host a 'beast feast' every now and then. It's a potluck of sorts, but the requirements are that no supermarket meats are allowed, and that no couple can bring the same thing. We've had game meats like venison and bison of course, but the creative folks somehow get their mitts on snake, squirrel, raccoon (gross, btw,) and loads of others. Lots of fun if you're a culinary oddball.

>>10685354
>The giant oversized grilling guide top and foremost when only 2.5% of the menu is even affected by that is dumb.
I agree on principle, but as a resto mgr, I like the idea that it may save me monies on recooks because people are stupid.

another good place.

>>10685405
Looks like great food, but I don't get how the two recipes connote Democrat or Republican. Poblano sauce is typically reddish-brown, but tomatillo sauce isn't blue. What am I missing?

>>10685415
you know it's funny. I actually worked there for a summer, but never thought to ask. I guess it might have to do with the the democrat having avocado and the republican having sausage? All I know is that if you get one of each, we call it "crossing the aisles". They got a wicked secret menu too.

>>10683428
It's posted online, which is available world wide. Before that it was eaten by people who might have travelled to the rest of the world.

Hooray for marketing

>>10683200
Title says entrees but all those dishes sound like main courses.
Also what kind of place is this? It seems like a mix of a lot of different things from spaghetti to tofu and other asian dishes to greek salads.

I don't mind the dishes, I like the calorie mention but if these are starters then what are the fucking mains I wonder?

>>10685405
secret menu

JACK OF CLUBS – Fried egg, potatoes, black beans, crisp corn tortilla strips, shredded cheese, cilantro, sour cream and Diablo. Served on a flour tortilla.

ACE OF SPADES- Jalapeno sausage link, grilled brisket, a fried egg, green chile queso, cilantro, cotija cheese, sour cream and Diablo. Served on a flour tortilla.

TRAILER PARK HILLBILLY STYLE – Fried chicken, chorizo, chopped bacon, green chiles, green chile queso, shredded cheese, pico de gallo, poblano ranch on the side. Served on a flour tortilla.

MAD COW- Fajita beef, black beans, grilled corn, jack cheese, creamy chipotle and cilantro. Served on a flour tortilla.

THE HIPSTER- Panko fried tuna, with green chilies, chopped bacon, black bean relish, cotija cheese, avocado sauce, cilantro and a wedge of lime. Served on a flour tortilla.

THE MADATOR- Chopped brisket, grilled jalapeno, pickled onions, jack cheese, avocado, sour cream and cilantro. Served with tomatillo sauce on a crisp corn tortilla wrapped in a flour tortilla.

GREEN CHILE PORK MISSIONARY STYLE- Green chile pork, pickled onions, guacamole, jack cheese, cilantro, creamy chipotle on a crisp corn tortilla inside of a flour tortilla.

>>10685292
I strongly dislike "gourmet" burger places. Overpriced, and they're never any better than the cheap shitty burgers you get from anywhere else at a fraction of the cost. They insist on piling loads of extra (incompatible) shit onto the burger as well so you can barely even get the full flavor of the meat.

One of the worst memes in the restaurant world.

>>10683905
>also scrambled eggs aren't standard vegetarian (pad thai) - that's lacto-ovo or pescatarian versions.
>he thinks eggs aren't vegetarian
I fucking hate millennials so much. Isn't it bad enough that they have dozens of different labels for their sexualities and genders? Now they need a special snowflake label for their dietary choices too?

>>10685505
Sorry grandpa, maybe if you were capable of rubbing two brain cells together, you could comprehend distinctions between two things.

>>10685505
I fucking hate people who don't understand Latin prefixes. Didn't you fucking go to school?

>>10685405
I'll have three trailer park tacos, make 'em trashy, with sides of refried beans and Mexican rice. And a coke, mountain dew, or lemonade, whichever they have.

>>10685505
Nigger, millenials are from 1982-1999, get the fuck off 4chan if youre any older, fucking manchild

>>10685505
i'm the guy you responded to and i'm older than you or millenials. both of those labels are boomer inventions, you dumbfuck.
>>10685880
fuck you, too

>>10685405
the only way i'll eat at a place that doesn't have prices on the menu is if it's fine dining and i'm expecting to pay hundreds of dollars.

so yea, i wouldn't eat at this place

>>10685505
Nobody owes you anything, shitfuck

>>10683200
From /gd/ standpoint it's shit.