Restaurant Appetizers

[Anonymous No.18646473]

Post the top tier restaurant appetizers. I'll start with the gold standard - Outback Steakhouse's Bloomin' Onion.

A true classic, often panned for its off-the-charts sodium content and high calorie density. But the tangy onion, robust sauce and herbaceous batter combine for an unforgettable experience. My partner and I enjoyed one earlier this evening. We sat at the bar

[Anonymous No.18646475]

>>18646473
great appitizer for about 4 people

[Anonymous No.18646485]

>>18646473
buttered scallops

[Anonymous No.18646489]

>>18646473
initially though they are potatoes but i still remember the moment that my tongue contacted the gooey slippery onion inside.

[Anonymous No.18646676]

Pretzel or calamari

[Anonymous No.18646688]

>>18646473
Is this possible to make at home?

[Anonymous No.18646694]

>>18646688
No. You need 94 years chef experience and 17 Mexican laborers to boss around and threaten to deport if they tell anyone you're fucking their underage daughters.

[Anonymous No.18646696]

>>18646688
Yes I’ve made bloomin onion “petals” which are just fried pieces of onion. And they sell special tools to make an onion bloom. Just google the recipe, they actually turn out great when I use a deep fryer.

[Anonymous No.18646712]

Simple but delicious

[Anonymous No.18646812]

>>18646712
>soybean : $3 a kilo
>soybean, japan : $30 a cup

[Anonymous No.18646827]

>>18646473
Soup!

[Anonymous No.18646831]

>>18646827
Based tomato soup poster. Cream of mushroom would also be acceptable.

[Anonymous No.18647072]

>>18646473
Shishito peppers have become a popular appetizer but in my opinion they fucking suck ass. And I'm a fan of peppers and spicy foods

[Anonymous No.18647143]

I very rarely ever order appetizers, is that common? Genuine question. I don't see the point.

[Anonymous No.18647199]

Stuffed artichoke and gyoza.

[Anonymous No.18647335]

>>18646473
Easily the best thing on the menu. I'm glad you can order them to-go too.

[Anonymous No.18647339]

>>18646475
>for about 4 people
Anon, we are not starving chinese people, thats a single person serving.

[Anonymous No.18647346]

>>18646473
For my partner and I its the pu pu platter

[Anonymous No.18647395]

>>18646475
Lol ok small fry

[Anonymous No.18647638]

>>18647072
consider spanish padron peppers and add some salt

[Anonymous No.18648001]

Where my fried mushroom niggas at?

[Anonymous No.18648127]

>>18647339
>>18647395
>2k calories

[Anonymous No.18648153]

>>18648001
Too much mushroom. I think I would like these if the mushrooms were sliced. Same thing with fried pickles. Sometimes it’s just too much pickle.

[Anonymous No.18648161]

mozzarella sticks

[Anonymous No.18648183]

For me it's the 'peño bobbers

[Anonymous No.18649029]

>>18646473
Blooming onions are disgusting. Too oily, makes me nauseous. The single worst thing in Outback menu, which is quite the achievement. Outback sucks.

[Anonymous No.18649031]

>>18646473
day old bread

[Anonymous No.18649390]

>>18646676
You just know that pretzel cost 12 fucking dollars

[Anonymous No.18649493]

It's liver pate for me folks

[Anonymous No.18649568]

>>18649493
>you WILL eat the dog food

[Anonymous No.18650943]

>t. poorfag

[Anonymous No.18650966]

>for me its

[Anonymous No.18650988]

call me jeb

[Anonymous No.18650989]

>>18650988
>pls klap

[Anonymous No.18651078]

>>18647638
These are goat.

[Anonymous No.18651080]

I *hate* people who order appetizers. They always want me to “help them eat it,” even though I just want to enjoy my fucking entree without being full by the time it comes. Go die in the river, faggots.

[Anonymous No.18651088]

>>18646473
>My partner and I
gay not ok

[Anonymous No.18651150]

>>18646676
Those are my go tos too. Often restaurant pretzels aren’t that good, but nothing beats one and a pint of beer

[Anonymous No.18651162]

>>18646812
Retard. They're cheap as fuck there a lot of places just give you a serving for free when you sit down

[Anonymous No.18651172]

>>18651080
Yea I'm sure you totally eat out with other people often

[Anonymous No.18651188]

>>18649568
Your dog has better taste than you.

[Anonymous No.18651199]

Can any ameribros explain a blooming onion?
It looks like a battered deep fried onion where you eat the segments like fries, pretty tasty.
Do I just criss cross a big Spanish onion, batter and deep fry or is there more to it?

[Anonymous No.18651205]

>>18646473

Red Lobster's Cheddar Biscuits, Anons.

We literally went to Red Lobster one day, binged on their biscuits for 30 minutes, then realized we were too full and left. Lmao.

[Anonymous No.18651208]

>>18648001
So good, perfect balance of crunch and tender moist mushroom. Love when the restaurant serves them with homemade ranch too

[Anonymous No.18651250]

>>18646473
we recently upped prices on most of our menu but the onion is still $10
i get it for $5

[Anonymous No.18651251]

>>18647143
You see, humans require food to turn in to energy. I could see how a robot would get confused.

[Anonymous No.18651254]

As someone who exclusively eats appetizers when out, a proper fried calamari with the tentacles and not just the rings hasn't been beat yet, but bruscetta comes close.
Acceptable 10 years ago when prices weren't as shitty, wings.

[Anonymous No.18651258]

>>18649029
I went to outback for my rehearsal dinner. I ate a blooming onion and 8 coors lites.

[Anonymous No.18651266]

>>18647335
try the colossal tots or the new tasmanian shrimp

[Anonymous No.18651274]

>>18651162
Not true. I live in Japan and soybeans at the grocers are insanely expensive especially those that are unmatured like edamame

[Anonymous No.18651275]

>>18651199
there's a bloomin cutter machine they use

[Anonymous No.18651287]

>>18651275
>$600
Wtf, you used to be able to buy this shit for $20 off of the tv at 3 in the morning.

[Anonymous No.18651310]

>>18651199
Essentially, but I would start by doing what this anon >>18646696 did.
Keeping the onion in the blossom shape for appearance's sake requires a bit of careful cutting, thinness of batter and care in not letting it all just fuse together in a lump in the frying. Which is why they make entire stupid tools for it.
If you just deep fry onion petals everything is more efficient and tolerant of being done quickly and slapdash by a home cook. You can do a it in a shallow pan with less oil. You can try a few at a time and experiment with what you're doing. And functionally it's obviously the same.

[Anonymous No.18652724]

>>18646473
Absolute garbage that's carried by the sauce

[Anonymous No.18652755]

>>18646812
>>18651274
One is Monsoynto GMO crop harvested en masse by million dollar DRM farm equipment and the other is real organic hand picked by Filipino and Indian immigrants

[Anonymous No.18652756]

>>18651199
>>18651275
>>18651310
can't remember where I got the idea originally but you can also crisscross tiny onions, batter, and fry them. some recipes recommend cipollini but I usually used pearls and dipped in some ranch or a smoky special sauce. there were never any leftovers.

[Anonymous No.18652760]

>>18651287
Thats how much 20 dollars is worth now

[Anonymous No.18652829]

>>18651287
but with this you don't pay shipping. on TV it was 5 easy payments of $19.99 + S&H ($499)

[Anonymous No.18652882]

>>18646473
These some mozzarella sticks and breaded mushrooms

[Anonymous No.18652931]

>>18646473
This does not exist in Australia, just fyi

[Anonymous No.18652946]

>>18651080
I see your point. Appetizers actually work when the whole dining experience is spread out over hours and you have time to digest between courses. Having a bloomin onion, 32 oz sirloin, and the Aussie pineapple upside down whatever the fuck they serve cake in a span of an hour is gonna be awful.

[Anonymous No.18652983]

>>18652931

>Outback Steakhouse is an American chain of Australian-themed casual dining restaurants, serving American cuisine, based in Tampa, Florida. The chain has over 1,000 locations in 23 countries throughout North and South America, Asia, and Australia.

You telling me Subaru isn't Australian either?

[Anonymous No.18653382]

>>18652756
I would have legit never thought of this. Holy shit thanks for the inspiration anon.

[Anonymous No.18653395]

>>18652882
for me, it's the tower
the most whimisical way to be served an app

[Anonymous No.18653403]

Why do you write like a buzzfeed clickbait author

[Anonymous No.18653415]

>>18652755
and they taste EXACTLY THE SAME

[Anonymous No.18653429]

>>18650966
what is it?

[Anonymous No.18653504]

>>18646676
Nigga, they don't sell pretzels at the Asian places and they don't sell pretzels and the pretzel places don't sell calamari.

[Anonymous No.18653512]

>>18653504
Why are you randomly bitching about a gap in the market instead of filling it?

[Anonymous No.18653588]

>>18652755
>thing - :(
>thing ching chong - :0

[Anonymous No.18653590]

>>18653512
I think there should be a standard deviation between crazy and reasonable requests made in the form of the English language

[Anonymous No.18653592]

>>18648001
This place near me does giant mushrooms stuffed with fucking cream cheese, like 1/4 cup cream cheese per mushroom. Then battered and deep fried, sliced into quarters thank god. It’s good of course, mostly cream cheese followed by mushrooms then fried batter

[Anonymous No.18653626]

>>18653590
Who the fuck is going to decide if calamari pretzels are crazy or reasonable? God?

[Anonymous No.18653638]

>>18653415
What about tasteless poisons?

>>18653588
>defending mass produced frankenfood

[Anonymous No.18653654]

>>18646473
All I know is Outback needs to bring back their old tendies. The new ones they introduced like 2 years ago are fucking gross.

[Anonymous No.18653656]

>>18653638
>thinking genetically modified crops are any different from crops genetically modified over 100s of years

[Anonymous No.18653680]

>>18653656
>manually selecting and inserting DNA from other plant species is the same as crossbreeding plants
Go simp for daddy Gates somewhere else

[Anonymous No.18653685]

>>18653680
it literally is, it just takes a lot less time.

[Anonymous No.18653686]

>>18653638
>mass produced thing -:|
>honorubu flip mass produced thing - :0(<-3

[Anonymous No.18653728]

>>18653680
Chair guy got a divorce?

[Anonymous No.18653815]

>>18651080
Appetizers are the best part. Wish they made them full meal sized or they werent so expensive dang

[Anonymous No.18653886]

>random bar & grill
fried pickles, but NOT chips -- spears + beer
>nicer place where i'll order a bottle of wine
charcuterie + red
>TRES HERMANOS
chips & salsa + marg
>steakhouse
none, save room for more cow + bourbon
>uppity feminist joint
seared brussels + lighter cocktail

[Anonymous No.18654359]

Sichuan dumplings

[Anonymous No.18654378]

Cringe. I can make bruschetta at home that shits on any paid4goyslop thats posted

[Anonymous No.18654383]

>>18646676
I love this lil bitches even when theyre bad but it hurts to order em knowing how theyre probably the highest margin shit on the menu.

[Anonymous No.18654730]

>>18646676
can they be combined

[Anonymous No.18654736]

>>18648001
you are unbeloved by god

[Anonymous No.18654750]

>>18652756
that is a great idea

[Anonymous No.18654755]

>>18652931
Well that makes sense, it would be like those weird euro "american style" frozen foods trying to set up shop over here

[Anonymous No.18654756]

>>18653626
Hail Eris

[Anonymous No.18654759]

>>18653638
What "poisons" are in them? Please educate us.

[Anonymous No.18655042]

>>18651266
I'll keep those two in mind when I'm back in the states. Thanks for the suggestion