Whatcha Eatin'?

[BlutAusNerd]

Re: Whatcha Eatin'?

Best Mexican food I ever had... beef cabeza tacos from a food truck on the side of the highway outside of Reno. So random. so unexpected. pure fucking joygasm in the mouth.

Taco trucks are more authentic, and better, than many Mexican restaurants I've eaten at. When I went to Mexico, that's how they served tacos in town, small corn tortillas, meat, pico de gallo, and maybe some guacamole and salsa verde on the side. No cheese, no sour cream, no smothering in enchilada sauce, just some nice clean flavors that mixed wonderfully on my tortilla. I also like to get a bit adventurous with the meat, and the brain is fucking delicious. It's really rich, so I usually don't get more than 1 or 2 on a 4 taco plate, and usually mix al pastor and barbacoa pork for the others, but the tongue and cheek are also pretty great. Sent from my HTC PH39100 using Tapatalk 2

[FatherAlabaster]

Our trucks are hit and miss. But we have a shit ton of them: taco trucks, halal food trucks, chicken trucks, waffle trucks, coffee trucks... Some are very good, others, eh. Hands down the best Mexican food I've had in the city is at a restaurant called Taco Chulo. Great ingredients, totally customizable recipes, house-made sauces, and the drinks are banging too - the only place in the city that I ever order a mixed drink, come to think of it. Hard to go wrong. Still on my shepherd's pie! So good to have, now that I basically took a day off from eating.

[Iceni]

...followed by a nice cheesecake topped with lard' date=' wrapped in bacon and deep-fried?[/quote'] Careful, his conversion to Americanism must be gradual or we'll spook him.

[RelentlessOblivion]

Well Alabaster if I do end up heading to the US and visit New York next year I'll make sure to employ you as my guide to the best food in Brooklyn. Beers are on me

[FatherAlabaster]

There's so much good food in Brooklyn... where to begin? Although my favorite Vietnamese place, this little hole in the wall, closed up shop this past year with vague promises to return "at another location at some point in the future". I will miss that pho. Fuck, now I want pho.

[RelentlessOblivion]

There's a few good places down here in Adelaide as well. One place I really liked was the Tapp Inn but they changed their menu and frankly the new menu is uninspired and bland. I had some great food in Victoria earlier this year, great food in Ballarat and Melbourne. There was also some not-so-good food in Melbourne though.

[FatherAlabaster]

Ah, you can find crap food anywhere. It's the good stuff that takes some work. Man, I'm glad my appetite is back, but now I'm really hungry.

[RelentlessOblivion]

This was actually a nice contrast. The night before we (the family and I) went to this brilliant Italian place, It was pretty much the best pasta I've ever eaten and a top contender for the best food I've ever had period. The next night we go to a different Italian place and it was awful, I mean really bad, and it was expensive. Seriously that place charged WAY too much for what they plated up.

[SBird94]

Melbourne has a lot of good restaurants especially on Lygon street, they have a range of different Italian, Indian and Asian restaurants.

[Ghouly]

dinner was really nice. I had Mary's chicken (a really good humane local farm) wrapped and stuffed with collard spinach and zucchini, topped with a lemony parsley gremolata and a side of sauteed bell peppers and onions. Soooo delicious, and so healthy!

[RelentlessOblivion]

Lygon street was where that particularly bad Italian joint was. Wish I could remember the name of the good one. I think it was called Max's or somethng like that. Something starting with M and damn it as good.

[SBird94]

I think I'll be going into the city next week, I'll have a look at lygon street and find that good one

[Iceni]

Had different Papa Murphy's pizzas, they were OK but nothing spectacular.

[BlutAusNerd]

Re: Whatcha Eatin'?

dinner was really nice. I had Mary's chicken (a really good humane local farm) wrapped and stuffed with collard spinach and zucchini, topped with a lemony parsley gremolata and a side of sauteed bell peppers and onions. Soooo delicious, and so healthy!

Sounds awesome, I love all of those things. Sent from my HTC PH39100 using Tapatalk 2

[chaos212]

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Had different Papa Murphy's pizzas' date=' they were OK but nothing spectacular.[/quote'] Is that the buy and heat pizza place? Sent from my LG-MS770 using Tapatalk

[RelentlessOblivion]

Nah the good one wasn't on Lygon Street Birdy. I can't remember what street it was on.

[SBird94]

ahh ok, maybe i can find it haha

[FatherAlabaster]

Ghouly's dinner sounds great. I'm having an odd time cutting carbs down; considering that bread was most of what I ate, I just wind up not eating, and then being hungry. Also cutting back on the beer, which means less calories all around... I just finished the last of my shepherd's pie tonight. Up next, a traditional beef stew, or maybe a big pot of chicken soup? I need to learn how to make a pie crust, so I can make my own chicken pot pie.

[RelentlessOblivion]

I was right it's called Max's Restaurant in Hardware Lane (between Queens and Elizabeth streets). Thank you Google

[FatherAlabaster]

I'm envying you Aussies right now. My favorite Italian food in the city has gone to meh recently. We've got an ok place in the neighborhood (surprisingly) as well as one of my favorite pizza joints and an amazing Spanish restaurant, but I can't recall the last time I ate at any of them. We don't live in the most super-awesome neighborhood, and as it becomes more upscale I suspect we will be priced out.

[SBird94]

I was right it's called Max's Restaurant in Hardware Lane (between Queens and Elizabeth streets). Thank you Google

Yes! Thank god for google i'll be sure to check it out

[BlutAusNerd]

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I'm envying you Aussies right now. My favorite Italian food in the city has gone to meh recently. We've got an ok place in the neighborhood (surprisingly) as well as one of my favorite pizza joints and an amazing Spanish restaurant, but I can't recall the last time I ate at any of them. We don't live in the most super-awesome neighborhood, and as it becomes more upscale I suspect we will be priced out.

I haven't been to many of my favorite places in a while either. Money has been tight with baby expenses and other things, so we've been trying to cook more than go out. Some of that good Italian sounds wonderful right now, my favorite place in town makes fantastic carpaccio, and A lamb shank that literally falls off the bone. *drool* Sent from my HTC PH39100 using Tapatalk 2

[FatherAlabaster]

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I haven't been to many of my favorite places in a while either. Money has been tight with baby expenses and other things, so we've been trying to cook more than go out. Some of that good Italian sounds wonderful right now, my favorite place in town makes fantastic carpaccio, and A lamb shank that literally falls off the bone. *drool* Sent from my HTC PH39100 using Tapatalk 2

Aaargh, really, now I won't be able to get to sleep without my tummy growling at me! We definitely had to save a lot to prepare for our son, and we took quite a hit once he was born, but we did get to spend a lot of time with him right after his birth. That's really the most important thing. And then there was a window where we could take him with us to restaurants and he didn't mind. We're well out of that now! Can't take him anywhere except a park most days. It's a good thing, keeps us from spending money we shouldn't. Though I go a bit stir crazy sometimes. Tuna carpaccio... steak carpaccio... thanks for that.

[RelentlessOblivion]

Damn, you're making me drool over here

[Ghouly]

Ghouly's dinner sounds great. I'm having an odd time cutting carbs down; considering that bread was most of what I ate, I just wind up not eating, and then being hungry. Also cutting back on the beer, which means less calories all around... I just finished the last of my shepherd's pie tonight. Up next, a traditional beef stew, or maybe a big pot of chicken soup? I need to learn how to make a pie crust, so I can make my own chicken pot pie.

There's two schools for pot pie... flaky layered puff pastry style crust or pastry (pastie) type crust? I have a recipe for the latter which is amazing.