My husband and I are "Foodies", enjoying everything from fine dining to taco stands and dirty water hot dogs. (These are the hot dogs from the carts on NYC street corners.)
So, here are some Don't Miss Yummalicious things or places to go in my neighborhood and from some of my travels.
Ferrara's Bakery and Cafe, Little Italy, Manhattan - great service and gelato to die for.
La Puglia Restaurant, Little Italy, Manhattan - their pizza will make you sing along with the couple behind the electric piano.
Graeter's Ice Cream, Cincinnati, Ohio - This french pot ice cream is rich with hand poured chocolate chips the size of your thumb.
United Dairy Farmer's Convenience Stores, Cincinnati, Ohio - Their Chocolate Malts which provide a full day's servings of all your calories, fat, and cravings.
Skyline Chili Parlors, Cincinnati, Ohio - Greek style chili (different, very different than Texas style chili). Skyline chili is served over a hot dog with cheese (A Coney) or over spaghetti with your choice of cheese, beans, and onions. Good Stuff!
Smoked Fish Dip, Ft.Lauderdale, FL - you can get this at their retail store by Ft.Lauderdale airport. It's also served in seafood restaurants. It should carry a warning label, it's addictive.
Corn Toastees RIP, wonderful frozen corn muffin formerly made by Howard Johnson's. But alas, Corn Toastees are no more. :o(
New Orleans: haven't been there since before Katrina. I have family there and alot of restaurants have returned. Cafe Du Monde's chicory coffee and Beignets are required. Shrimp po boys are a staple.
Southern California:
Vallarta Latino Markets- La Cocina, Chile Rellenos (pasilla sweet pepper stuffed with cheese)along with a Aguas Frescas Jamaica (Hibiscus flavored "fresh water", delicioso!!)
Zankou Chicken, LA and Orange Counties - They serve rotisserie chicken, hummus, falafel, all served with this incredible garlic sauce and pita bread. OMG!!!
Providence Restaurant, Hollywood, CA - Michael Cimarusti is a Genius with seafood and Just Won Iron Chef America last month!
Downtown LA, Chinatown - Wonder Bakery, honey dipped Butterfly Cookies.
Chinatown - Chateau Mandarin Restaurant, Chicken with Sizzling Rice
See's Chocolates - delicious, clean, fresh, just as good or BETTER than European chocolates.
Newhall Coffee- local mircoroasted coffee with full bodied taste without being bitter.
Hawaii - Big Island, Hawaii- Kona coffee, you can't believe coffee tastes this good.
Kauai - Kauai coffee also wonderful, lots of depth and smooth as silk.
Maui - Sweet Onions and sweet onion potato chips. Need I say more?
and All Islands - Lappert's Ice cream- smooth rich, great flavors, worth the second mortgage.
Macadamia encrusted mahi mahi (fish so nice they named it twice)
Have to give a shout out to Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee even though I'm breaching the borders here. $40 a lb and worth every penny.
The local produce here in Southern California and Hawaii is incredible, in case you wanted to try something healthier!
Thank you so much for stopping by. Please let me know if you have fun insider food tips from your hometown or travels.
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Yummmyyy! Everything sounds good, and now I need to visit Ohio for one for those malts you mentioned!
I love a good hole in the wall as long as it's clean. I love, love, love Herrera's in Dallas, TX. They have amazing bean soup and the tacos al carbon are to die for!
Visiting for ICLW!
the place to get your shrimp po-boys in N'awlins is(was) Mother's. No, I haven't been back since Katrina, but my mom lived down there and theirs were the best in our opinion.
so far as local eats ... the typical St Louisian dessert is frozen custard, and Ted Drewes on the old Route 66 is the gold standard. But we have some excellent gelaterias as well.
thanks for the visit!
YUM!!!
Now I'm hungry. And if I ever get to your neck of the woods, I have a list of places to eat to take with me.
Thanks for the ICLW post. http://1crazymomma.typepad.com
Sounds like some amazing food! My foodie shout out would be for Casablanca's restaurant in Wilmington, Delaware. You need reservations on a Friday or Saturday night, plan to spend 3 hours there, because they take their time with the courses which is so nice! The food there is amazing, especially their appetizer dish that has eggplant (and I don't even like eggplant). You eat everything with your fingers! I've been to other Moroccan restaurants and this one I love above all!
Everything sounds so good! It sounds like you guys have traveled to a lot of fun places - do you have a favorite vaca spot? Here in Detroit there are a bunch of Coney Islands. So there's nothing like a late night coney dog or just some of their chili (no beans). There's a lot of good Polish sausage Kielbasa and pierogis. Dearborn sausage or Kowalski Kielbasa are two of the better ones locally. Sander's Ice cream parlors make great desserts locally and have Seven Sisters Cake (7 layers of chocolate) and Vernor's Floats made with that pop.
I loved your comment! I have to add Moon Beam to the top of my name list, and perhaps I'll save Hakuna Matada for her next sibling? I laughed so hard you have me rolling! My lady who gives me pedicures just had a grandchild (she's young herself and and her daughter was 16) just named Seveyn. It's pronounced like the number 7 exactly. Yikes - I can only see the other kids being cruel someday and saying what about "six and eight, nine?" I'm not mentioning it on my blog - but my favorite is Grace Cecelia (my grandma is cecelia). I think my husband actually likes it as well :-)
YUM-O! It's lunch time in these parts and I'm ready now!
Thanks for the comment on my blog.
Everything sounds amazing! I love skyline chili, I told E to pick me up some when he is in Ohio.
From ICLW.
ohh I love eating out too! and anything, so fun!
here from ICLW
Wow...now my tummy is growling!
Hi :) I am just visiting from "That's My Answer"
Ummmm, I love food too. Moosewood in Ithaca...even people like us who are NOT vegetarians love it!
If you ever make your way to the great state of Indiana you have to go to the WORLD FAMOUS St. Elmo's Steak House in Indy. They have, quite possibly, the world's best SHRIMP COCKTAIL. When Monday night football is in Indianapolis, the announcers always talk about how happy they were to be back and able to go to St. Elmo's.
Now I'm off to go eat!
(visitor's from ICLW)
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