/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>17846706
>he doesn't like tossed salads and scrambled eggs

I ounce bought 6 pounds of beluga caviar from some Russians in Seattle.
It didn't end well.

>>17846706
I live in this shit hole and youre absolutely right. Places can get away with selling shitty for food an arm and a leg because of the rich techies who'll pay for it because they can't be bothered to cook for themselves.

>>17846706
Wrong. Chez Henri and Le Cigare Volant are world class.

>>17846706
You're right. There is practically no originality in the restaurant scene. Every new restaurant that would open would be the same hipster gastropub menu done 10 times already. Or a gourmet version of some cheap regional dish that snobby urbanites dress up and sell to saps as a novelty, because they have wouldn't know otherwise. The one caveat is that Seattle/PNW has some really comfy and good breakfast places. Also, amazing seafood, but go to a restaurant to get it, just cook it yourself.

I think some of the best experiences I had there were just cooking clams on the beach or eating fresh oysters from a small fish market.

What makes it worse imo is that Portland has exponentially better food despite the fact that you’re in Portland

>>17846706
clearly you've never been to shitty cities in the midwest where the best place to eat is olive garden.
seattle at least has good seafood

>>17846789
false. Dallas has anything and everything you could want. It's turning into a "foodie" city. Houston would be the correct Texas city to show.

>>17846706

I lived 20 minutes from Seattle and use to go there a lot for college, they got some good asian food lol, And at least you can get Yakisoba beef. You know i lived all over this country, and only in CA, and WA is it easy to go find a good jap restaraunt, or korean. Like i can find chinese food everywhere, but good jap or korean food? thats only in CA and WA.

Indy has a pretty shite food scene

>>17848263
Live in Indy
Can confirm

>>17846854
Cope, Houston has great food and it’s affordable

>>17846706
Seattle is a shithole but I will admit, as a midwesterner, your sushi and oysters are in another tier compared to ours.

>>17846899
Home of the BK foot lettuce.

>>17846852
>seattle at least has good seafood
people always say this but name three good seafood places
meme places on pike place don't count

>>17846941
Yeah I've noticed the same thing. I can't find chinese worth a damn up in the lynnwood/edmonds area, but I can find teriyaki and korean joints for days.

>>17846706
the thai food is good

>>17846755
they sound gay as fuck faggot

I know it’s a meme, but I like Dicks.

quite literally...

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>>17848870
Dicks is /COMFY/

>>17848870
Yup, it's not the best burger, but for the sheer value you get and the consistency and the price, it's a damn good deal. Plus they actually pay their workers decently and their cheeseburgers freeze really well if you want spare backup burgs for later.

>>17848801
Gee, I wonder why that is.

>>17848870
>>17848908
>>17848912
broadway dicks location reopen when?

>>17848928
No idea sadly. They said they were shooting for spring, and now they're saying "early summer". If it's that variable, there must be some supply-chain fuckery that's preventing them from getting things built/redone in there sadly.

https://www.capitolhillseattle.com/2022/04/with-plans-for-early-summer-reopening-of-capitol-hill-drive-in-dicks-brings-its-burger-and-shake-food-truck-to-broadway/

>>17848937
Yeah. Every restaurant opening/remodel in seattle takes a minimum of 3 months longer than it should. How long did it take H Mart to open, like 3 and a half years?

I live 10 mins from that Dicks and used to go all the time

>>17846706
Ask me how I know you're fat.

>>17848963
>living in cap hill
>enjoying dicks
that sounds very gay

>>17848937
god dicks is the fucking worst

>>17846706
NE Ohio tends to be a shitty food area, Cincy usually gets all the love and its barely in Ohio

Canlis is still comfy and has a great view.

If we're talking big, or at least medium sized cities, then Minneapolis takes the cake. Take everything everyone ITT has complained about Seattle, multiply it by ten, and then take a whole population who genuinely believes that they live in a world class city with world class food.
But if you just mean anything that can be called a city, then I'd have to say it's a toss up amongst Billings, Spokane, Butte, Coeur D'alene, basically everything between Spokane and Fargo really. Also, is Idaho range banned? I can't post unless I use my data.

>>17846706
as a Californian I really dont understand how other places screw up Mexican food
its one of the simplest forms of cuisine
and all variation of the same ingredients:
rice, cheese, beans, tortillas, meat, corn, cour cream, salsa
if you make bad mexican food it's like youre doing it on purpose

>>17846854
Houston has a spectacular restaurant scene downtown

>>17848868
Please remain in the relaxation grotto.

>>17846706
If we hurry we can get a table at le cigare volant!

>>17850535
>>17846755
Fuck I didnt see these.
Better drink away my sorrow with a white zinfandel

Visiting Toronto soon, is it a food city?

>>17846706
I went to the taste of seattle once and there was nothing special or regional that was impressive

>>17846706
Baltimore sucks because you put your life at risk to go anywhere worth going in the city

>>17846706
gg ez

>>17850880
Don't worry, Seattle is getting there. Homeless drug addicts roam the streets and even have tent cities in the middle of sidewalks in touristy areas. They assault people at random while the general population is too passive and sensitive to do anything about it. At least in the east if a homeless person fucks around they'll find out, not here.

>>17851023
Yeah and property prices are fucking spiking anyways. Time to pay even more in property tax lmfao

>>17846832
Portland is terrible (the city AND the food)

>>17850880
>>17851023
3rd world country

>>17851048
I honestly can't wait for all these work from home tech faggots to return to their offices so they can experience the hellscape they've created with their shit politics.

>>17851048
You think I can own property here? lmao, I live in a basement with three other 30 year olds. Housing is being gentrified but without the benefit of anything being nicer.

>>17846706
seattle used to be a mecca for dim sum, vietnamese etc but i cant imagine going there for anything when places with names like SUPER TERIYAKI #42 exist in some kent strip mall

>>17851145
Best pho and bahn mis I've had in a while are from Pho Dinh Restaurant in Des Moines near the marina.

Boston

>>17848870
I do like their burgers but their fries are absolute soggy shit tier

>>17851168
is the anthonys still good there?

>>17848263
First place that came to mind for me

>>17846706
100% True fuck this dogshit city. Some of the local chains are okay (Ma'ono, Dicks, etc), but literally every type of food has a better restaurant for it in a neighboring city.

>>17850462
Maybe you have bad taste and only try basic bitch tacos?

>>17846757
I loved the food in Seattle and miss it. Now I live in an east coast suburb and everything is corporate garbage and there are no good markets close by to get interesting ingredients. Seattle has great bread, the clams and oysters you mentioned, fish markets, asian markets, great seafood, excellent cheese and cured meats. Someone always has a salmon they caught that they'll share.

>>17850426
>If we're talking big, or at least medium sized cities, then Minneapolis takes the cake. Take everything everyone ITT has complained about Seattle, multiply it by ten, and then take a whole population who genuinely believes that they live in a world class city with world class food.
Simply not true; I hate Minneapolitans with a burning passion but they generally are aware that Mpls is not a top tier city - hell, most of those faggots are transplants from coastal cities and lament that they don't have access to the top tier restaurants in those higher-rated cities.
At the same time, it's somewhat true if they are considering it a top class city in the midwest outside of Chicago. Heaven forbid you say you prefer St. Paul in the twin cities.

I just wish Madison was the still the midwest's shitlib hipster faggot ground zero like it was over a decade ago.

>>17851173
This, also everything closes at like 5PM.

>>17848827
Palisade, Umi Sake House, and The Walrus and the Carpenter

>>17850880
>>17851023
>>17851059
Most of the poor/ghetto/high murder rate cities, if you're white and stay away from the worse areas, are not really that dangerous. NYC and the West Coast cities are genuinely unsafe outside the wealthiest areas, and being white just means you're more likely to have shit to steal.

bongos.

>>17846706
Was nothing good when I was stationed there.

>>17848797
>>17850469
Austin here. Don't normally agree with Dallas on much, but Waffle House and strip club chicken wing buffets are not what most consider a good dining experience. Get fucked H-town.

>>17852209
There are no nice areas in Seattle
Sure the bad isn't really all that bad, but even the rich areas have people brazenly shooting up in public

>>17852238
Thru have alright sushi... Had better in Dallas of all places though.

>>17852209
You can probably put Baltimore with the unsafe anywhere. It's a magical place where you can get your car pelted with trash at a light by youths right in front of Camden and watch a homeless tranny take a dump from the window of the Ritz. But most East coast cities have a pretty good handle on keeping the trash out of where you might want to go.

>>17846706
Seattle isn’t great compared to its peers buts it’s better than any city in WA. Everything else is expensive and fucking awful

>>17852915
T. Aberdeenite malding because he can’t live anywhere but hell on earth

>>17852238
Thank you for your service to Israel

>>17850362
you've only had the worst dicks at the worst times

>>17850912
Pill me
>t. Malmö, lots of great food regardless of price range

>>17850362
Nah. Not saying it's the best burger out there, but the fact they treat their employees well and you can get two Dicks Deluxes and Fries for just around 10 bucks is a goddamn good deal right now.

>>17853468
like 3 good restaurants, otherwise a bunch a copy/pasted combined pizza+kebab+sushi+thai joints carpeting the city
basically the same as malmo but not cheap and with worse kebab. bit of a joke as far as capitals go

>>17852238
fish tacos alone make SD good

>>17852238
>>17853636
And the burritos as well.

>>17852823
>Austin here
opinion immediately discarded

>>17848827
Ivar's :^)

No good BBQ
No good local pizza
No Whataburger
No In-N-Out
No Del Taco
No decent Mexican food
Ivar's is OK, but that's all we got.

i live in vancouver and am truly split on my opinion r.e. food
theres a shitload of genuinely fantastic stuff on the higher end and a decent selection of cheap mom and pop places(if you know where to look) that are rapidly getting priced out of the city, but literally everything in between makes me want to fucking kill myself, middling food, consistency, and prices are really fucking high

>>17850462
Anyone who posts up contrasted food pics are instantly invalid niggers

I've lived here for 6 years now and I... honestly fucking agree. There are some gems here and there, but the vast majority of it is garbage. The whole place is great if you want pho or poke bowls or breakfast food, but outside of those categories, your options for anything decent is narrow.

>>17848870
>>17848912
Yeah. It does one thing, does it reasonably well, and does it dirt fucking cheap and the money goes somewhere good.

>>17853624
Kek
Unrelated, any GBG anon who can weigh in on glenn cuisine?

>>17846899
This. Ohio food is worse than prison food.

>>17846706
best thing I had was some Chinese stuffed pastry just off of Pike's Place.

Fuck Seattle though

>>17846706
Sorry Chattanooga, but you’re the worst. You can’t do ethnic food, you can so american food, and big GOD i can’t even get a good hamburger here. Fuck this place, fuck YOU for reading this post, and above all, fuck ME for moving here.

Here in Seattle, the birthplace of chicken teriyaki, our streets are paved with the stuff. All strip malls are required by municipal statute to have a minimum of one teriyaki joint. Our faucets have a third knob for teriyaki sauce, and a fourth knob for that sticky sweet salad dressing. When you stop at a traffic light Koreans knock on your window and try to force teriyaki and evangelical Christian leaflets into your car. All restaurant meals are served with a side of wet iceberg lettuce mixed with three strips of carrot and one sliver of purple cabbage, just in case the main dish is teriyaki, which it is. I'm eating chicken teriyaki right now, and I don't even know how it got here or when I started eating it. Our state bird is chicken teriyaki.

>>17854721
As a fan of sloppa it's on my bucket list.
>>17848914
Kek

>>17850469
Lol no. Dallas on the other hand invented fine dining in Texas with Fearing and Pyle.
>>17846706
No contest Denver. An absolute shithole for food and everything else really.

>>17846706
just know where to look bro

>>17850808
ive never heard anything good about Toronto

>>17852187
went to walrus and the carpenter last week while passing through and can confirm. Oysters were $4 a pop, though.

>>17855344
had the misfortune of visiting Chattanooga and can confirm, it's a food desert where the best options are greasy fast food shit

>>17850912
no idea what city this is but I know for sure it's not in america
why is it that american cities are such dull grey smoggy shit holes and euro cities are so colorful and beautiful?

>>17848827
went to a place called Canlis while I was out there. was pretty damn good

>>17846854
Houston's the best food city in the US, gayboy

>>17855850
where did you eat? I’d love to commiserate

>>17855986
Imagine actually defending that shitty moldy hole full of brown people. The only use Houston has is the airport to get to Galveston.

>>17853279
Hey, someone has to make sure our greatest ally is safe.

>>17853740
>No Del Taco
I just checked this and you're right, which is weird because Lacey has one, of all places.

>>17855986
Some of Houston's food is really good, some is very strange, and some really oughtta be a crime against humanity. (Wholemeal pizza? WTF!)

>>17846706
What's wrong? You don't like heroin needles?

>>17855362
frighteningly true

>>17848870
I bet you do

>>17853740
Most of the best places in Seattle are around Seattle, not in the city.

>>17855362
Accreat. You will never not be short of Yakisoba, chicken teriyaki combo plates and fried gyoza.

>>17846854
Fuck Dallas and Fuck the cowboys.

>>17852823
>Austin here
Go back to California you filthy hippie. Your kind are not welcome here

>>17856814
There is one in Federal Way, which is closer to Tacoma than Seattle. I go there whenever I drive south.

>>17857684
Would you touch me like that Anon?

>>17857684
I'm up north of Everett so a Del Taco in Pierce County isn't very convenient.

>>17853740
>No good BBQ
Caveman Kitchen in Kent is pretty good.
>Ivar's is OK, but that's all we got.
Every town has at least a couple teriyaki and pho places and at least one of them is gonna be good.

>>17855960
The great architecture of American antiquity had to be destroyed to support the current historical narrative. The blank checks needed to recreate many of those buildings would be staggering.

>>17846718
man I love that show

>>17855822
from Toronto, can confirm

>>17850808
Is Canada good at anything food?

anything tasty in the middle of the country?(Kansas, Nebraska, etc.)

>>17854721
Not that I don't believe you, but do you have a frame of reference?

>>17855344
>One of those loser transplants that wants the new place to be the old place and complains about it the whole time.
You're free to go back. I'm sure chattanooga will be alright without you

>>17858047
Farmers markets for produce and meats. There's not a lot to do in flyover so people are pretty good at eating. idk a lot of region defining foods. Gooseberry jam, rhubarb, pond fish like bass and walleye, beef and noodles, meatloaf, there's probably a lot of casseroles that are painfully midwest.

>>17846899
best steamers tho

>>17846706
I was in the area a couple month ago and tried Skyline Chili and Jesus Christ that shit is disgusting.

>>17858075
What are you mad about? That I can compare cities? Am I just supposed to eat the slop here and pretend it’s great? Why are you in this thread?

chicago has good wieners

>>17858189
shut your mouth bitch

>>17858189
it really is goyslop

>>17846941
>good Jap food
Doesn’t exist, as for Korean just find an Army base and they will have a ton of Korean shit nearby.

>>17856121
Mexican place on bonny oaks and cookout

>>17858174
that's actually part of the reason I put Cleveland. When I think about it all I can think about is shit.

Salt Lake City has a fucking pathetic excuse for a cuisine scene.

>>17862358
I miss koko kitchen so much bros, arempas is a nice little spot and hub and spoke was good when I went if you can deal with the yuppie tone of it (I went pre pandemic so it might have shit the bed). But yeah you're right, the beer scene is awful too

>>17860481
Speaking of Chicago, anyone have any restaurant reccomendations there? I'm gonna visit somewhat soon for a few days

>>17851176
True, Venice isn't really the place to go for pizza. That's for Naples.

>>17851168
>Des Moines near the marina
sensible chuckle

>>17855362
lol

>>17853740
>No good local pizza
Isn't Pagliacci still in Seattle?

>>17858075
>>17855344
Been all over the USA. TN and KY are big shitholes with nothing going for them. Same with NC and SC.

>>17846706
Went to a German bierhaus in Seattle one time. Didn’t hate it. Currywurst and Mac cheese.

>>17846852
Seattle has become such a globalist hell hole that the whole "best seafood" meme is now outdated. The soi bois here would rather have a fiftieth vegan or "asian fusion" restaurant than anything containing the fading memory of a unique culture. Pike Place Market is now like that cartoon of chimpfricans looking at the native French people in a zoo.

t. native Seattleite

>>17853740
Taco Del Mar has always met my burrito needs. Tacotime is good too not sure if its regional. BBQ hard to say but roro and peco's pit seemed good to me. Kidd valley is as good as those burger places imo. Olympia Pizza & Spaghetti House is my pizza go to. I'd say Ivar's is only tourist bait tho

>>17851052
>Portland is terrible (the city AND the food)
You are fucking retarded. As much as I hate Portland, for many reasons, the city punches way above its weight concerning food. The Vietnamese food there mogs the fuck out of Seattle. Everything there, really, is better than Seattle. And as a city, I like Seattle better, but..

>>17846718
The best tossed salads are in prison

>>17858009
We've got a great BBQ and seafood scene

>>17864650
you sound fat

>>17864770
I am also im gay

>Ugh, I can't believe how terrible all 800+ restaurants in my metropolitan area of 4,000,000+ people are

I live in the most tasteless, whitebread, flyover city in the fucking country and there are at least 20+ excellent restaurants within an hour's drive that I could happily eat at in rotation every day for the rest of my life.
Shitposting aside, if you genuinely think your city has bad food it's because you're a shut-in who doesn't get out enough.

>>17864834
Someone's gonna claim you have no sense of taste or standards, but I'm sure you actually do have some great local restaurant reccs for your town.

Seattle restaurants are extremely overpriced, it is impossible to get a decent meal for under $20 with very few exceptions (teriyaki).

But the produce is so good and fresh that it's easy to just cook everything at home.

>>17851173
Ugh. I was super looking forward to the food in New England. Lived there 8 years total. Moved away recently.
Don't believe any of the foodie hype about Maine.
The food in Maine is abysmal. Probably ate at 60+ places below the Audi line. All of them overpriced, bad service, opened six months ago, white bread, late to the trend gastropubs that I hope we're shuttered by COVID. Portland should just quit serving food. My vote for worst food city.
New Hampshire was slightly better with North Conway and Portsmouth being decent.
Boston was ass the 40 or so times I ate in town. Everything looks like a restaurant in a casino and it's Lobster Ravioli till you shit yourself from the dunks.
Actually preferred Worcester for food. Excellent restaurants that don't all feel like a Cheesecake Factory trying to impress a capo.

>>17865280
>ugh.
wasnt planning on reading your og, but that made it really easy to stop right away

>>17861674
Hate Cookout. Fucking fat frat chodes always clucking about this cheap slop. BBQ sauce looks like Texas Pete and taste like food stamps.

>>17863783
Did you go to Memphis? The ribs are pretty legit.

>>17846706
any city of seattle's size is going to have decent options, it's not even close to the "worst" food city, but maybe disappointing for its size

>>17846854
lol completely wrong. it's got everything Dallas has in the bbq department but with better mexican and better asian food. probably has the best vietnamese in the country. if you want to dump on another city in texas for food, Austin is your best bet. a lot of the stuff that was good there 10 years ago has been franchised out and gone to shit and everything new is a generic hipster gastropub even though that trend died like four years ago everywhere else

>>17846706
Damn. Some friends of mine emigrated to Seattle (from here - New Orleans) about 20 years ago. Now I feel even more sorry for them.

Vegas food sucks.

>>17865339
Why are pretending that you're too smart to understand OP? You likely know exactly what they mean, what's the point in posting like you don't?

>living in an area with less than 20k people in the middle of the midwest
suffering is my middle name. nobody has any decent food options, only "muh steak n tators" or "muh applebees"

>>17846706
Heh. The restaurant in the space needle was pretty shit the two times I've been there (typical to bring out of towners there along with a ride the ducks and underground seattle tours)

>>17852238
Are you a retard San Diego has really good restaurants great views too you were just poor

>>17848871
go to nobu at park lane, then say that again

or rules

>>17865463
how am i pretending, knowing what he really means is what makes his post retarded. are you retarded too?

>>17852238
it's got respectable tex-mex and probably the best "cali-mex" outside of LA

>gentrify away all your good fried chicken and mom n pop soul food restaurants

>replace them with derivative boogie new american restaurants for buckhead faggots with shitty Sysco food sourcing trucked in from California


The best pizza place in Atlanta literally doesn’t let you pick your toppings and puts a asshole-shattering Calabrian chili pepper on every bite. All the chicken and waffles and collards and grits are made by hipster bearded tattoo soy white guys from Gwinnett County or New Jersey. All that’s left is $6 (per) vegan tacos, maple bacon bourbon butthole brussels, and criminally bad poutine. The real estate market is doing everything they can to kill the only good part of this food industry: the authentic ethnic restaurants on Buford Highway and 14th street.

>>17865632
Perhaps.

>>17865698

Forgot pic

>>17865698
>poutine
I've never seen the appeal to this. people actually unironically love this garbage, huh?

>>17862399
Top natch , Gino's deep dish

>>17850462
In my experience even in the smallest small American town you can find one good Mexican place run by an immigrant family.

>>17865953
Canadians are just desperate for an identity so they hype it up.

>>17864480
do the chad move and move to Kitsap

>>17852164
>>17850426

>massive German population
>massive Swedish population
>no European food to speak of

>>17850880

Baltimore has kino chink food due to all the bugs that come in to study at John Hopkins

>>17868892
>they don't know about the DMV mumbo sauce from the Chinese places
sad.

>>17868882
Common misconception. A lot of dishes just got adapted because when the poor European immigrants showed up to farm and mine, they found local prices were different. Beef was massively cheaper since American land at the time was more conducive to raising cattle, so classical pork dishes were substituted and became Americanized with beef.

Instead of mettbrot with raw pork and onions, you have the cannibal sandwich with raw beef and onions.
Instead of weisswurst with uncured veal and back bacon, you have white-hots with uncured veal and beef.
Etc.

Then there's the American ideal of convenience applied to classic European dishes. Frozen perogies, freezer pizzas, etc. which got back-imported into European culture. (Thanks, Germany...)

>>17868913
It's not just America either that has the whole "beef over pork" new world phenomenon. Look at Brazil, which is famous for its cattle, compared to Portugal (and Spain) where their pigs are world-reknowned.

>>17846706
I grew up in New Haven, CT.
The whole state is a culinary wasteland, glad I moved after high school.

>>17868913
Another weird trend: adapted dishes with names that reference their European origins but are mostly unfamiliar to people living in those countries now. Polski ogorkie pickles, Ukrainian sausage, kielbasa: very generic terms which refer to specific European-originated dishes in America.

Or the weird things like serving beef stroganoff on egg noodles or goulash with mini macaroni for whatever reason.

>>17862358
I remember going to a really good German deli downtown a couple years ago. Still think about that reuben sometimes