I tried it first with french bread and was sorely disappointed. I found a local baker who made pan cubano sandwich rolls to order. 100000000/10 would go to a stupid amount of effort to make one sandwich again.
At a local Italian place called Ozzie’s, they used to have a crab pasta that is easily my favorite dish from any restaurant I’ve ever been to (like lick the plate good). They took it off the menu about 15 years ago, and I was so devastated that I think I actually felt my soul leave my body when the waiter told me. He had to give me a few minutes to mourn, and to this day I still feel sad/hopeful when I go back in and look at the menu. Fuck. Now I’m sad again.
“Arabisches Reiterfleisch” after a long day out in the woods when I was at the “Pfadfinder” like scouts. Its a mix of bolognaise (vegan today), apples, pickle, potatos and more.
It’s heavily hyped, but authentic A5 Wagyu. It’s so rich you can really only enjoy a tasting portion, a few ounces at most (which for the price is all you should get anyway). It practically dissolves in your mouth.
Chef in a small town in a small town in Montana made ham hocks as a special. IIRC, he said that shit was slow cooked overnight for like 14 hours. I’ve never had pork that good since.
I’m gonna narrow this down to two categories because many foods could land on this list
Pizza: either Chicken Bacon Ranch or parmesan sauce pizza (also called Asiago). Recently discovered the latter and I honestly can’t go back to red sauce
Chinese Food: Crispy Honey Chicken from my local Golden Rice restaurant. They’re wildly old-school, drive thru with paper menus, a menu taped on the window and no modern drive thru. They used to be a dine-in location but last I knew they closed that part of the restaurant. They own my soul with their Crab Rangoons and once I tried the CHC, i never looked back
I ordered a Japanese Poke Bowl once. It was rather pricey but holy fuck it was good. I don’t remember the exact ingredients, but I think it was sushi rice, mushrooms, dried shallots, salmon, fermented quail eggs,… Don’t remember the veggies but man the combination of flavors and textures was just chef’s kiss
Lots of food, to be honest. The one that comes to mind right at the moment is the Teriyaki Glazed Hen of the Woods Mushrooms with Tomato Polenta, Sweet Red Peppers, Roasted Rapini at Equinox in DC - it was really good!
Oh! and the vegetarian b'stella at the old Marrakesh restaurant, also in DC.
The chocolate suicide cake and the beer-cheese soup at the 93rd Aero Squadron in Philly.
The pretzel shortbreads at Lost Bread, also in Philly.
There was this steak place in the town over i used to go to with my grandparents and I’d always forego the steak for their grilled chicken, i don’t know why it was so good but it fucking was
One time I went to this Afghani (Hazaragi) restaurant with friends in another city. Most of us were vegetarian, and they had heard this place had good vegetarian food, so that's what we ordered.
There was this simple garlic dal that I still think about. It was so perfectly flavored and balanced and seasoned, with a depth of flavour that surprised the hell out of me. I suspect the vegetable stock they used was cooked long and slow for a very long time, but I'll never know its secrets for sure.
Everything else we ordered was tasty enough, but this was next level. And it wasn't just me, everyone at the table agreed. And it was just a bowl of lentils! It's not like we hadn't had dal before.
They've since changed chefs/owners. The closest sounding recipe I've found is this one from a thankfully decent UX site (ignore the coconut milk in the url, there is none) but using stock instead of water and probably much less ginger. I still mean to try this recipe but with more fried garlic... perhaps I have underestimated the masala.
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