/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>6336788

Detroit, now go there and die.

>>6336788
New Orleans, LA
Memphis, TN

>>6336788
Topeka, KS

>>6336798
rude.

Any big city on the East coast. Philly, NYC, Boston.

The only city that matters.

>>6336811
San Francisco?

In no particular order:

New Orleans
Miami
Chicago
Las Vegas
NYC
Seattle
Baltimore
Boston
LA

If your city isn't listed, it fucking sucks. Deal with it.

>>6336811
oh god NYC must smell digusting. how can fresh, clean air get through when there are bazillions of tall ass buildings blocking it?

>>6336825
you are such a faglord

>>6336829

You must be from Minneapolis. You poor bastard.

New Orleans
New York
Austin
San Francisco

>>6336829
Typical response from flyover trash.

>>6336836
This guy gets it everybody else please go home

>>6336836
>Austin
>San Francisco
if you want to eat semen

I can tell you now that Portland has the best affordable/street food. Never have I ever had a better burrito, and I've lived in SoCal my whole life. Also voodoo donuts

>>6336867
portland is a shitter version of seattle with more raining, crappier economy, and more racists/leftists

>>6336867
>Portland
>good
Pick one.

>>6336836

Austin is overrated as fuck. The only thing it has going for it is street/BBQ, all of which are done better somewhere else.

>>6336828
NYC smells like a garbage dump.
That being said it has some really good places to eat.
I went there a few years ago. Ate at some place with a dumpster right out front whofting the smell of garbage into the restaurant. The place was really busy too.
Only in fucking new york does that shit happen.

>>6336872
I liked the food though. I'm thinking of moving there

>>6336865
San Francisco and the bay area in general have amazing seafood. Don't be so crabby anon :^)

>>6336872
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wgg9lNQ7t9Q

>>6336887
If San Francisco wasn't next to an ocean, it would be irrelevant. Any city with access to seafood is going to have a higher than normal amount of quality restaurants to eat at.

Take a place with good food AND put it next to an ocean, and you get New Orleans. If you think about it, San Fransisco needs to step their game up.

>>6336788
1. NYC
2. New Orleans

shut up with all of this other shit

>>6336897
SF has god tier asian food tho

Portland
Denver
New Mexico
Austin

>>6336919
>Portland
no
>Denver
no
>New Mexico
city? okay
>Austin
food was good but felt a bit like disneyworld

>>6336898
Any city in North Carolina beats New Orleans

>>6336919
>New Mexico

>>6336932
maybe you should try visiting new orleans again when you aren't so drunk the whole time. I have lived in many places in north carolina and grew up in new orleans. specifically charlotte,nc has the worst food I have ever eaten.

>nobody has mentioned chicago yet
Step it up plebs.

>>6336878
That's what happens when a neighborhood with the one of the highest concentration in poverty in the country is literally a 5-10 minute train ride away from a neighborhood with the highest concentration of wealth.
I love it

>>6336804
topkeka, ks

>>6336788
i am terribly sorry, but i must insist; can you be a little more vague?

1. New Orleans
2. New York
3. San Francisco

>From a small midwest town.
>Moved to a large city.
>Access to a wide selection of groceries and a butcher.
>Microbrews everywhere.
>Ethnic markets.
>That guilt when your parents call and ask if you're thinking of moving back home.

>>6338362
what's guilt?

>>6338362
what town and what city

>>6338362
>mfw I will never look back
At least you feel guilt

>>6338390

Moved from Ohio to Seattle.

Seattle isn't even a huge city, but I can't go back to walmart and strip malls.

>>6336788
lolz @ that passive aggressive denny ad.

>>6338405
joe pls

>>6338391
>strike my on my right cheek and I'll turn my left cheek
>strike me down and I will become more powerful than you can imagine

miami is severely lacking in any kind of asian food but the latin and caribbean food....god. i miss it so much.

>i can get jamaican and colombian food at the hot foods section of a normal supermarket
>i can't even find it in the frozen ethnic sections in ohio

the things you take for granted...

>>6336825
>Chicago
>Baltimore

Enjoy your knock out gangs and cultural enrichment

>>6336788
Nyc is the best. the only ONLY downside is that Barbeque isn't very common and hawaiian food id virtually nonexistant.

>>6336825
You would be completely right if you didn't forget about cali. San Francisco and Santa Monica have god teir food. you also have no barbeque cities

>>6336788
God Tier: New York City, San Francisco, New Orleans

Next Tier: Boston, Chicago, Portland (OR), Santa Fe, Atlanta

LA, Chicago and New York.

>>6336876
>Austin is overrated as fuck
I would also agree with this
austin is as impressive as anywhere in the northwest or even those poor ol` guys back east so proud of that lobster and chowder

>>6336788
DC. >dat ethiopian food.

>>6338473
Ive lived in chicago, portland and dc and i would say dc has the best food but I'm partial chicago has world class food at every price point which is great but a little harder to get more esoteric foreign cuisines than in dc. Portland was a disappointment, most food trucks were pretty good but they have them elsewhere now and there was NOWHERE to get good pizza (though I loved the now closed Hoyt Dogs cart to death)

The cities with the most immigrants, basically.

>>6338564
Honestly I don't like Portland for the food trucks. Food trucks have been a new thing, but there is some damn good salmon and some surprisingly good southern food. Also, good breakfasts.

You're right, there is no good pizza. Hard to beat Chicago for pizza though.

I haven't spent enough time in DC I guess, but wasn't THAT impressed the places friends who live there took me to. But those friends might not be the best, so who knows. I travel a lot though.

>>6336825
>miami

>>6336828
it does indeed smell disgusting. not because of the buildings though, rather because of the warm atlantic breeze combined with the complete american disregard for the well-being of others

>>6338583
OH yeah the breakfasts were yummy and the burgers were good and I still order tillamook white reserve cheese if i can't find it in the store and love buying oregon wine now and beer (and herb lol) but I couldn't deal with lack of good pizza since I honestly didn't mind deep dish in Chicago, and in D.C. we have good fancy neapolitan everywhere now and good cheap pizza too (thick cut pepperoni, half mozz/half smoked gouda mix, sweetish sauce thick and not too heavy on herbs and an almost shortening pastry like thick crust, is what I grew up on. Well, D.C. has a lot. Within a 10 minute walk I can get food from like 20 different countries at least.

>>6336788
not USA but Toronto is up there.

>>6336955
>Hasn't the thread read
Step it up pleb

>>6336825
>New Orleans

Ok Lil Wayne, lay off the cough syrup, you're trying too hard to be relevant.

Bump

>>6336788
San Fran docks is good, Seattle pikes place

any "bay" or seaside city has good seafood

>>6336788
None.

>>6338610
The Asian food situation in Toronto and Vancouver is better than any city in the US. Shut the fuck up California.

>>6336935
New mexico is one of the few places with a truly unique cuisine

>>6339352
>spic culture
>unique

>>6336872
Sorry buddy you actually have to have been here to make that judgement call.

>>6339241
Actually, I'm going to follow this up with a challenge. Make no mistake, I half desire to be prove wrong.

I'm allergic to the following (verified via ELISA of IgA and IgG. Never did IgE at the time unfortunately):
-Cheddar cheese
-Goat's milk
-Whey protein
-Chicken
-Coffee Bean
-Yeast
-Blueberry
-Cranberry
-Tuna
-Soybean
-Corn
-Wheat gluten and gliaden
-Peanut
-Sesame
-Certain mushrooms

Have sensitivities to the following:
-Tomatoes
-Histamine
-High levels of tyramine
-Certain meats, like beef and pork
-Etc. Things in that vein.

Can anyone name a single place I could eat, anywhere, at all? Ever? And more importantly, why I should trust them?

>>6336825
I live in Miami but
>miami

>>6336878
NYC smells like a garbage dump because many part of the cities don't have alleyways so they put shit like dumpsters and grease traps out in front of the buildings

civilized cities like chicago keep their trash in the back alley where it's out of sight out of smell out of mind

Las Vegas has incredible food. Not just the high end restaurants that pack the resorts. But the mom and pop shops off the strip and the taco trucks in nlv are amazing.

I used to live in Chicago where I worked in the gourmet food industry. My daily job consisted of traveling to a bunch of the cities top restaurants and interacting with their chefs. I got to know their menus pretty well. The city has a diverse enough immigrant population to ensure that you can get basically any kind of cuisine there. And there's enough wealth to support a thriving fine dining scene. There were ALWAYS new restaurants popping up everywhere. Things are a helluva lot different culinary-wise in the city than even 10 years ago. The recent trend has been smaller restaurants with smaller sized menus, but offering tasteful looking experimental food, but at much more affordable price points than in the past. So you can have a really nice meal that will make you want to talk to your friends about it that won't break the bank. The funny thing is that you really have to get out of downtown to visit any of these restaurants. You kinda have to already know of them in order to find them. They're tucked away on little corners in residential neighborhoods or on back roads in industrial areas. The one thing about chicago that's stayed the same are all the steak houses. Those are expensive places by definition and I think mostly cater to business clients and people having celebration special dinners.

When people on /ck/ think of chicago cuisine they think of hot dogs and deep dish pizza. Those are mostly just tourist traps. The locals don't really eat deep dish that often and I don't care for it either. I lived in an italian neighborhood and I don't even remember any of our pizza shops even offering deep dish. There's plenty of great non-deep dish pizza in the city, but i still have to admit best pizza goes to NYC.

>>6339523
>But the mom and pop shops off the strip and the taco trucks in nlv are amazing.
people who think that taco trucks and little hole in the wall dives are what give a city decent food. Is there really anything dynamic about the scene? Are they re-inventing the taco? Or are they just doing the same shit their illiterate dirt poor grandmother did? if you brag about taco trucks then you're totally oblivious to what cuisine means in this day and age. I know for one that if my mom and pop ran a restaurant then i for sure wouldn't want to eat there

what gives a city a good cuisine is dynamism. people need to be doing new things, experimenting with new flavors. opening new restaurants. making eating-out into a real exciting social experience that people can share together

sure i stop at the taco truck on my way home from work sometimes, but it's nothing that wants to make me go tell my friends how they MUST try it

>>6339495
Its too bad miami seems like it would be such a shit city to live in cuz the weather seems way better than here.

>>6339496
>Chiraq
>civilized

>>6336955
>bad pizza and hot dogs
WOW!

>>6336788
Chicago got best food in America! Skyline chili best and deep dish pizza is the best! Better than stuff in New York, or California. Can't dispute it cause it da best!

>>6339566
you sound like one of those people that make shit like oxtail poutine or whatever is cool with yuppies at the moment

sometimes food is good the way it is, simple. i've never understood the obsession with fucking up an easy, delicious meal by throwing a bunch of random bullshit on it

>>6339610
I thought skyline chili was crime Cleveland.

>>6339610
I was adding cinnamon and cloves and nutmeg to my chili before I knew what skyline was. A lot of greek-americans just do this cuz it tastes good to us. Skyline was brought to the us by greek americans anyways.

>>6340441

Cincinnati.

It's delicious, but Cincinnati blows.

>>6338610
>but Toronto is up there.
toronto is absolute shit compared to montreal

The best I've had city-wise was in Seattle.

There are great restaurants just about anywhere if you know where to look.

>>6339476

Jesus christ, you're a living histamine.

Are you sure you're even human?

>>6339476
I had a friend like that growing up. I was the weird gay kid and he was shy and could never eat anything but what his mom made so we both tolerated each other. Fucker has a pHD now got a perfect score on the SAT's etc. He couldn't be NEAR peanuts and was allergic to the pollen of all sorts of fruits and a bunch of other stuff. To this day I ask everyone I cook for if they have any food allergies, just because I'm so used to restricting myself.

>>6339476

Seriously, what DO you eat on a daily basis?

Now you've become a curiosity.

NYC plain and simple, thread over and done.

>>6340929
Yeah but manhattan smells like cat piss and everything is comically expensive and that kind of ruins it.

>>6340934

I would ignore it if I were you.

A lot of people who do or used to live in NYC think it's the center of the universe.

>>6340962
Typical shitkicker response. Now tell me how your garbage dumb of a small down in shittycunt nowhere has the best food on Earth.

no one saying Charleston.

thank god. keep you fucking plebs away.

>>6340980

>Now tell me how your garbage dumb of a small down in shittycunt nowhere has the best food on Earth

>>6340980
DC is a small [t]own?
Its pretty awesome. International food without quite the crowds of new york.

>>6336825
Replace Miami with Houston or Austin and we're ok

>>6340980

I'm not saying where I live has superior food, you inferring twat.

I simply don't think NYC has it the best by default. Any coastal city with high immigration and importation can do just as well and the rest is subjective.

My favorite city for the food is Seattle. That could be a bias for my preference in the atmosphere. Or the food could have simply been better. It's hard to say and I am probably biased.

If I could just drop everything and visit one of the two right now it would definitely be Seattle.

>>6340890
After a while it stops feeling like restriction. It just is. It's something you know will have a certain biological effect, like a poison, or a drug. And it gets evaluated on that basis. The only thing that does feel restricting is availability and how you have to plan and form patterns accordingly.

>>6340898
Sometimes ground turkey. Very low in neu5gc, good base, easy to season, etc. Lot of fresh mozzarella cheese. Other than that, apples, and occasional fruit juices to make up for any nutrient deficits. Raspberries, blackberries.

I avoid citrus fruits, they tend to be decently high in histamine. Grapefruit for example makes my face visibly change shape and my skin becomes squishy, also tends to have an addling effect. Most other citrus are tolerable in low doses.

Very occasionally I'll make chili or soup. Carrots, peppers, onions, beans, vinegar, some spices like paprika, turmeric (avoid too much of this one, does odd things to 5-HT / mood), cayenne. Beans and vinegar will trash my digestion though, so this remains occasional.

tl;dr - Main diet consists of fruit, cheese, and turkey. All attempts to phase meat out have failed, there aren't enough other options and I am eventually left wanting.

>>6336825
>Charleston, SC not listed

lel

>>6341061
>>6340865
>Are you sure you're even human?
The thought has crossed my mind, to be honest. Thought perhaps I was engineered (poorly), or not truly from this planet hence the immune system falsely tripped by what seems like anything and everything. It does make you feel a bit like you simply don't belong, there is a trippy "not quite right" aspect. Thought perhaps I was mechanical as well, in a robotic sense, with biological components. Until I had an MRI for other reasons, and it didn't tear me apart. Unless those are false memories I was programmed with to dissuade doubt, or the idea that ferromagnetic metals / circuitry are influenced by strong / rapidly switching magnetic fields is a programmed falsehood, or my perception is skewed.

Ultimately though, how could I or anyone possibly prove the nature of their existence actually is as they believe it is, or as they experience it. So I just accept the likelihood of being human, take things as they come, and don't really care much; take the path of least resistance out of convenience. Perhaps that process is simply part of many people's teens either way. Was for me. As a rule, the more weird and uncanny shit you have to deal with that you can't readily explain, the more doubts begin to accumulate, and the further those tangents of thought extend.

This is the wrong place to ask this question. Most people here are talking about cities that they've never even been too, let alone really experienced the restaurant scene off.

Even though /ck/ might have one of the higher average ages of most 4chan boards, still the majority of its posters don't eat food much better than taco bell or the local pizza hut. Just take a look at most of the threads, they're about fast food or frozen meals or cheap alcohol. The average /ck/ poster doesn't have enough friends to be able to point him/her to the newest, most popular restaurants, and even if they did they'd have nobody to go with, hence all the threads about whether or not it's acceptable to eat at restaurants alone

Most of the knowledge people are spewing here probably comes from television I reckon

>>6341085

I'd sort of wonder why people would even choose to post in this thread.

It's boggling to the mind really.

Then again, pure ego can make you an expert on anything when you don't have an identity to account for.

>>6341071

I've never been to South Carolina. What's the draw?

>>6341118
oh, south carolina is a shit hole except for charleston

https://www.google.com/search?biw=1920&bih=945&q=restaurants+in+charleston+sc&npsic=0&rflfq=1&tbm=lcl&sa=X&ei=osoMVc3aO8W-ggSSzoGABA&sqi=2&ved=0CB8QoSo#q=restaurants+in+charleston+sc&rflfq=1&tbm=lcl&tbs=lf_msr:-1,lf_tr:-1,lf_pl:-1,lf_od:-1,lf_oh:-1,lf:1&oll=32.79551670730689,-79.96151499999996&ospn=0.05057718285117119,0.087890625&oz=14

>>6341049
HOUSTON BRO

>>6341116
>It's boggling to the mind really.
I'm not sure why your mind is feeling boggled, anon. Potential reasons for any given individual's participation are fairly straightforward.

>Oh look, a thread about what places have good food.
>I know some locations that have had food I felt was novel relative to my overall framework of prior experience and expectation
>I know some places that have some sort of interesting clustering
>I want to share something I think
>Respond

No one is here pretending they're some well traveled guru that's seen the world and can lay claim to being an indisputable higher authority on food. People are just sharing their thoughts. In truth it's most boggling to my mind that you're having this kind of difficulty taking and using it as such.

I've been to Seattle, San Diego, and Chicago. I liked them all for different reasons.

Spent the most time in Seattle. All of the neighborhoods are unique and it's very walkable.

>>6341239
literally reddit: the post

>>6341239

I'm definitely no guru of anything.

I've travelled and there's something to it.

Opinions are all assholes and people might all have one. I want to see the guy who doesn't have an asshole.

That would save that horrible reality tv freakshow, show.

>>6341364
Says the one shitposting substanceless garbage.

lol: the post

>>6341409
The idea they don't have an asshole is an illusion based on finite or self skewed perspective. If you can accept that truth and not find it lacking, if it can satisfy you, more to ya I suppose. I'm more apt to harvest from everywhere, if I'm looking for information at all.

>>6341245

Seattle is nice, isn't it?

It's a much calmer San Francisco to me.

With the whole "making crazy assholes do things in their own residences."

Atlanta and the metro Atlanta area. Dat chicken capital of the world 1.5 hour drive north, dat atlantic 2.5 hours drive east, dat world's busiest airport for over a decade, dat huge illegal immigrant population, dat dirt cheap cost of living, dat 4-6% tax, dat buford highway aka the silk road, dat buckhead down the street, dat meth capital of the world, dat prostitution capital of the world, dat arc of the covenant hidden downtown, dat nigga culture of the world, Dat kkk always protesting down the street, dat one restaurant where you can drink and fight in the boxing ring. Dat feel when no one knows or remembers the greatest city in murica.

>>6340980
no one cares, smelly

>>6336788
test

>>6341474
my nigga

ATL is like one of the best places to eat in the world.

Buford Highway alone is worth 3 cities at least

>>6336872
Seattle hipster fag aka regular seattle faggot.

Goodnight bump

>>6341995
Goodnight.

>>6336788
i go on /pol/
ouch

>>6336825
all big ass gross cities. god and why miami. ive lived in FL my whole life... but MIAMI IS FUCKING SHIT.
only good thing is little havana for those sandwiches and espresso

>>6339476
What the fuck do you eat?

>>6340843
Are you kidding me? Montreal is a shithole when it comes to food. All the people do there is drink.

>>6339251

Just had sushi in Vancouver.

>20 pieces.
>$4.
>Canadian Dollars

>>6338568
Pretty much.

>barely anyone mentions memphis
It's a nigger shithole but it's got good food

>>6336788
Dallas.

We have the money to afford the good shit and we don't spend all of our money on rent.

>>6338405
Ah fuck I live in Ohio now and want to move to Seattle. I hate these 100 degree summers and -10 degree winters. I also hate the flat landscape. At least Columbus is bretty gud when it comes to food.

>>6336788
That fucking picture is one of the most depressing things I've seen all night.

>>6336811
pic unrelated of course

>>6336931
>food was good but felt a bit like disneyworld

Can you elaborate on that? I'm genuinely curious.

Buffalo is ok.

>>6338362
white guilt?

>>6340962
Is that why it has so many salty haters?