/ck/ - Food & Cooking

Did he do Primanti's? Because yes.

yeah, three times I believe. one was amazing, the other two were above average

Hodad's in San Diego. I hate to say it, but I have to agree with him. One of the best burgers I ever had.

I ate somewhere in Washington DC that he did a segment on.

It was ok.

>>4572984
Only hipster shits think he is wrong

He came to a place in my city. I went there with some friends and the service was terrible. Food was also underwhelming.

I used to frequent Magnolia Cafe in Austin before his show went there (inb4 calling me a hipster). It really is good, the first time my parents came to Austin that is where I took them. Creative stuff and some really tasty vegetarian dishes. Its also the first place I ever had butternut squash for whatever reason. It has always been packed and I'm sure now its even crazier.

Pete's Cafe in Ventura, CA. It was a pretty good breakfast joint-nothing special.

Triple XXX. It's nothing special. Decent root beer, but not much else.

Bludso's bbq in Compton. Actually eating some right now. It's pretty good and fairly cheap for bbq.

I've eaten in some of the places in New England before they were featured on the show.
Each place got worse after their respective episodes aired. I'm not sure why, entirely, but it makes me sad.

No, but he did go to an area I knew once, was kinda cool to see it on TV

Super Duper Weenie. Went there before his show. Went there after. It's good.

Tex Wasabi.

It was okay. Not a new favorite.

5 places. 4 were amazing. 1 was alright.

>>4573660
So, he featured his own restaurant on his own show. Douchenozzle. I live close to Tex Wasabi (closer still to Johnny Garlic's) and I'd never in a million years set foot in either place. That guy can go fuck himself.

I went to 2 of the restaurants that he featured on his show before he came here to Vancouver. Also went to one that he went to in Portland. I've also been to a restaurant featured on Man vs. Food hahaha.

>>4573664
>So, he featured his own restaurant on his own show.
He didn't, that poster is just retarded and didn't understand the topic of this thread.

>>4573619
>Decent root beer
it's probably Barq's

>>4573674

More like I just assumed because I've never actually watched the show.

>>4573674
He did feature one of his restaurants on his show

Ate at Thee Pitt's "Again" in Phoenix a few years ago.
It was good, but not memorable food.

>>4573700
Oh, didn't realize Haus Murphy's was on the show too.
Delicious, almost always eat there when I visit.

>>4572942
Chaps Pit Beef in Baltimore. Believe the Man v Food guy went there too. They make a mean sandwich.

On a vacation once I went to 6-7 restaurants in the Arizona/New Mexico area. All were outstanding.

>>4572942
no but i have met guys in button ups with flames on them

Like 10 of them.

I have no idea if I have, since I fucking hate that blonde douchebag. To the googles, to find out if I have been to any of the places on his show!

Turns out I have! I've been to Jamaica Kitchen. Amazing place, great Jamaican food, and the owners are nice as all hell. 10/10 would stuff patties down my gullet again.

Same for Scully's Tavern. Karaoke ever Wednesday and the food is good and also a little unexpected. It is a bit of a dive, and they serve escargot. Also, some amazing fries. I DO know that the Miami New Times voted their fries Best In Miami 2013.

>T-Bone Tom's Kemah, TX
Fucking awful

I always stop at Salsa Brava in Flagstaff when I drive from Albuquerque to Las Vegas. They have really good taco salads.

>>4572942
yes. wasn't bad at all

Comet cafe, milwaukee - wisconsin

not bad but a bit over priced

>ctrl+f
>no blimpy
Probably the best burger you can get in Ann Arbor. Shame UM bought their land out from under them.

>>4574138
forgot pic

Red Arrow Diner, some amazing stuff if you order right. Otherwise mediocre.

>>4572942
>actually ate at
*actually eaten at

I've gone to the Jefferson Diner in Lake Hopatcong, NJ.

The moussaka was so fucking good

http://www.foodnetwork.com/local/in-west-lafayette/triple-x-restaurant-restaurant/index.html#/38.736171/-97.222306/4/

West Lafayette, IN...Purdue
it's drunk food, that's it...not very good and way to greasy

yes a bbq place that even had his picture up on the wall, I got chicken there and it was SO FUCKING DRY and they didn't season the fries.
There was also no music or anything on and there weren't many people in there so it was awkwardly quiet. This was at dinner time too around 7

some greek diner in Nashville. was pretty good. nothing life changing, but the lamb burger was delish

Two different places, though for no reasons related to him. Doumar's and Route 58, here in VA. Not really into diner food so I unsurprisingly hated them both. I can understand why people might like Route 58 though. People only go to Doumar's because it's such a relic.

Thurman's in columbus, Ohio

Was pretty good, not sure if I'd go back.

I've been to the beignet place in New Orleans Alton brown listed as his favorite dessert. Also some catfish place that the man v food guy did a challenge at here in Oklahoma

Surprisingly, no. But I evidently have been to a bunch of places that have been on Eat Street though.

>>4573629

>each place got worse after their episode aired

Observe the hipster in it's natural habitat.

Merritt Canteen and Super Duper Weenie in CT

>>4573644
>CT Master race reporting in

>>4574459
It's generally true, though. That kind of exposure will draw in the general public in mass. That means more of the lowest common denominator, which in turn affects the quality of the staff and their performance.

>>4574459
A lot of the places featured on TV lower the quality of the food to make more money, because of the exposure.

The entire business reason for having good tasting food is for exposure, and if you get exposure from a TV show like Triple D you no longer need to serve as high quality food.

>>4574488

Yeh cause you've been to soooooo many of the restaurants and this fucking show has such a maaaaaaaassive audience that being broadcast by fucking Guy Fieri will ruin the quality of every single restaurant after production.

Go fuck yourself you pathetic little faggot. Try admitting you said something stupid instead of floundering to defend your idiotic statement and never admitting you're wrong.

>>4574494

All of those places were already busy and popular and local staples, often for decades. I really fucking doubt that the majority of them lower the quality of their craft (many of them are actually proud chefs) because of the minor boon in business caused by being a flash point on one episode of a mildly popular tv show.

>>4572942
I saw so many episode of this shit and he likes everything he eats, but there was one episode where he was trying out some green sugar chemical drink.

He was like "oh its uuuh okay" that was the only time he did not like what he was getting.

>>4574495
>lowest common denominator
Thanks for providing me with a perfect example of that.
Fucking retard....

nopalito: was fantastic

santa cruz diner: I live in santa cruz so I've been here tons of times. It's by no means gourmet food but it's very good for a diner.

los tapatios: it's a hole in the wall but had great tacos. I went there a couple of years ago and the name had changed and the food was shit.

naglee park garage: had some shitty service but an amazing burger.

>>4572942
I have. Ate at red wagon in Vancouver last summer.

I've been to the first Chino Banditos I believe its called. Everyone said its Mexican and Asian fusion but its really average americanized Mexican and Asian food on the same plate. I only found out it was featured on the show because they had a poster.
Food was ok but not worth the long wait which was essentially about 30 minutes for what was takeout quality food.

>>4574507

What? Jesus Christ the thought process which wrote the post you just made must be one of the slowest and least logical around. I proved your point how? By suggesting that since you haven't been to even a fiftieth of the restaurants on the show you probably aren't qualified to remark on how they have "generally" suffered in quality after their episodes broadcast.

But what do I know xD I'm just the lowest common denominator who thinks you should actually try something before proclaiming that it's now lessened in quality lol

>>4574514
I guess I could add to that. It was fantastic. The duck poutine and smoked tomato soup were very well received in my group. A fried egg came out with a broken yolk and a new one was brought out a few minutes later. Music was very loud.

>>4574522
Your the lowest common denominator because you believe everything you see on television and can't think outside of your own half-retard opinions. I don't need to argue with you. You're just looking to start an internet fight because you're an unhappy, sexually frustrated greasy neckbeard who for some fucked up reason, unbeknownst to anyone outside of your tiny, deficient mind, feels the need to defend Guido Ferry and all the grease bomb restaurants he visits. Even though you have no idea how restaurants work, have no knowledge of customer service, don't understand trending within the population or the laws of quality vs. quantity. Go watch some more epic meal time while drooling on yourself, you sad, sad, little person.

>>4574540

LOL

Good argument you jackass my only point is that these restaurants don't necessarily become lesser in quality after being broadcast on TV after you made the objective claim that all of them did.

You're (not your :D) a dumb little rage baby.

>>4574545
They can smell your butthurt all the way to China, dude. Just give up.
>hurr durr internet fight
Child.
And thanks for derailing a perfectly good thread, faggot.

>>4574563

>dispute claim that every restaurant visited on this show suffers in quality on the basis that the person making the claim hasn't visited one in one hundred

>lowest common denominator lol, proves it without me having to know anything

>butthurt, internet fight, derailing the thread

Are... are you really this stupid?

Never watched his show, but I go to a place sometimes that has a picture of him + the owner on the menus.

Marietta Diner

I ate at Gorilla Barbecue in Pacifica, I live about 3 minutes away from the place. Food was awful. The sauce on the ribs was sour, the meat was tough. And the pecan pie tasted like they bought it next door from Safeway. There's no place to sit and eat, because the place is basically a bright orange railroad car. Pretty awful. Yet I see a long line of suckers waiting for it every weekend when I drive by.

That spiky-haired cockball is a friend of Gorilla Barbecue's owner, so no wonder such a shit place was featured.

>>4574571
Do you even understand the implications? No. You don't. Let me spell it out for you, since you're fucking stupid.
>lowest common denominator
>defending restaurants you've never been too without understanding the business/social aspects
>having a rage fit using all sorts of low class language and circular logic
>reading things into what people post that aren't there.
>continuing to throw idiotic statements out that have no meaning but to inflame.
You're the dregs of society.

>>4574592

Keep going man, my only claim is that all of these restaurants have not necessarily declined in quality. You have absolutely nothing to argue with since you haven't eaten at any of the restaurants. I'm not defending restaurants, you are attacking them.

>>4572942
Yeah
Kumas Corner, Smoque, Hackneys, Glens Diner, , Paradise Pup, Cemitas Puebla, and a few others from the chicagoland area. They may not have been the greatest places, but I have never been disappointed by any of the restaurants aired on the show. Except Kumas got too popular for it's own good and is selling out/expanding locations without regard for the original qulaity of the food. It's a shame

Yes, several.

Friend of mine worked at one (Matt's Big Breakfast in Phoenix) - she HATED it, because after Shithead went there and put his mark on the wall they started getting tons of shitty customers (landwhales, bad tippers).

>4573449
Used to live by Magnolia South, good food.

>4574596
I know 2 personally that declined after being featured. Matt's and The Farm.

It's not hard to understand - making food for a small base of regulars and making food for a vast rush of one-time diners are different jobs. Try doing the latter with a kitchen designed for the former, and the food suffers.

>>4574614

>>4573449
>>4574596

Derp, fucked up my quotes

>>4574503
It was Green River soda, the GOD of lime soda's. He's never liked overly sweet stuff or eggs for some reason

>>4574616

No it isn't hard to understand it just hasn't been proven to me. I believe that some of the restaurants have suffered a decline in the quality of food, what I don't believe is that all of them have, or that they necessarily have to.

Most of the places on the show are already busy as fuck.

I've never been to a restaurant featured on Fieri's show, but I have been to all three of the restaurants featured on Man v. Food's Sarasota episode. Pic related.

Side note: according to the people who run The Main Bar (a local sandwich shop), Guy Fieri approached them about filming an episode there, but they declined because they didn't want to drive away their regular customers.

>>4574248
Most Purdue students I know don't even get drunk food there, at least in my circle. There's a Five Guys, AJ's, even a fucking Taco Bell that are closer to our shitty campus bars.

>>4572943
No he didnt. pittsburgh? me too

>>4574596
Actually, I was defending the original integrity of the restaurants. Goddamn you're thick.
Also, see:
>>4574614
>>4574623

>>4574659

If you think that's what your incomprehensible wall of green text phrases was supposed to mean then you should have articulated what you were saying.

>>4574661
Here we go with the idiocy again. Go back and try reading from the beginning, not just one post, slowly, maybe you'll finally get it.

>>4574670

>lowest common denominator

>>4574636
I always went to Pappy's for burgers.

Yes....he came to my town and visited one of the places that I go quite often. They dont seem to be too proud of the fact, because apparently he gives you a plaque for being on his show, and they have it hung in the back, next to the bathrooms.

Some of the clientele is pretty hipstery, but the food is great.

>>4574691
>Some of the clientele is pretty hipstery, but the food is great.

Hipsters hate Guy Fieri, he's strictly for middle America and late-adopters

I've been to The Wienery and Bryant Lake Bowl, though I've never eaten at the latter. The Wienery has pretty good food in the tiniest restaurant ever. Both are in Minneapolis.

>>4574696

Hipsters don't even know who guy fieri is. Only disgusting TV watchers are familiar with this. The only reason I know who he is is because someone keeps making threads about him. It's the same way I know about top chef, chopped, and various hair splitting seasonal changes to fast food menus.

>>4574707
> Bryant Lake Bowl

Oh, I went there once like 15 years ago. That's still around?

>>4574712

Fast food? You mean like from food trucks? I never leave Williamsburg, is this something new?

>>4574723
You haven't drifted over to "east" Williamsburg yet? Its much better. Newer bars.

>>4572942
Yes, he hit up the Dinosaur in Syrause NY, and a few other famous local spots.

>>4574726
> "east" Williamsburg

Would that be the real estate agent definition? Comprised of Bushwick, Ridgewood, Brownsville, Richmond Hill, East New York, and Ozone Park? Basically anywhere within 30 subway stops of Bedford Avenue?

>>4574742
Its basically just Bushwick. But brokers are trying really hard to rebrand it. One look at say criaglist shows that.

>>4574540
i like epic meal time :(

>leaving manhattan
>2013

>>4573449

Thanks for reminding about Magnolia Cafe, it's been a few years since I've gone.

I went to the Lake Effect Diner in Buffalo NY on more than one occasion. It was delicious, their apple tart was one of the best I've ever tasted. They handmake everything there too, got hot chocolate that they made from scratch in a mug big enough to be a soup bowl.

Guy Fieri is an enormous faggot, but the places he goes to are genuinely good.

>>4573677

>Barq's
>decent

lel

Yeah, he came here to visit a spot I've been to. But this is the middle of fucking nowhere and the dive is a good ten miles outside of town anyway, so his visit had no real impact on the place.

>>4574759

But... but business practices and the lowest common denominator dictates that the restaurant quality must have suffered.

>>4572942
actually stayed at the hotel next to quaker stake & lube in ohio. decided not to eat there and gtfo of that town, its in youngstown ohio, literally called murdertown u.s.a. or was that man vs. food?

that guy is so annoying looking

Gordy's in Cloquet, Minnesota.
It's nothing special.

I had eaten at a place that eventually got featured on the show...then the lines came. Then the 40 minute waiting happened.

>>4576099
Broken Record in SF by the way.
If any of you are interested or in the area, that kitchen got it's own place now.
called Rickybobby.

>>4574503
You can tell when he actually likes it and when he's just faking for the show.

Yeah I've been to Schooner or Later. It's always above average and better than most places in the area but not even close to the best DDD candidate in town.

>>4572942
Yeah, Hodad's.

God damn I love that place; I try to eat there at least twice a week when I'm in San Diego.

Fly Trap in Ferndale, MI.
Supino Pizzeria in the Eastern Market, Detroit.

Both excellent.