Where are you eating, lately?

Some more...

Kl@tch - an independent coffeeshop with a family feel, selling hand-picked coffee and teas and other treats, including selections from Balthazar Bakery and the Little Pie Company. They have sugarless vegan muffins and bars that taste better than most regular baked goods. The limited lunch menu - soups and quiches - includes a summer special of delicious Niman Ranch hot dogs with excellent toppings including coarsely-grated manchego. Heard on the stereo: Magnetic Fields, The Band, Aerosmith, Peter Stampfel? I have a crush on one of the staff - don't nobody steal her.

Pearson's Texas Barbecue - Generally acclaimed as best barbecue in the city, focusing on meat and heat more than molasses and vinegar. I only eat chicken, so I can't say too much, but the sides and desserts are also noteworthy - OMG best onion rings ever, light and dark brown instead of industrial and alien-gold. But this place is valuable as much for the environment that leaves the neighborhood behind as for the food, especially if you go to the small bar-nook in the back where you can watch the kitchen and hang out with the waitstaff.

Zigolini's Famiglia - make-your-own or mix and match Italian salads and pasta salads kept very fresh by high turnover from Goldman Sachs across the street. Many of the vegetables - roasted peppers, artichokes - are good, but bought-in-high-volume spinach is key whether a base for salad with the house dressing or stuffed into baked chicken served over marinara good enough that it's ok the steam table pasta with it is a touch overcooked.

Nick's - best pizza on the Upper East? Mozzarella cheese, burnt crust, whole basil - a fresh taste of elements.

Chicky's on 86th - Well-done basic Greek fast food - gyros and souvlaki, etc. - highlighted by the Greek salad whose iceberg lettuce is transcended by its toppings, especially what Robert Sietsema calls "railroad ties" of feta

Vine - everything is light and good in the often Asian- and Mediterranean-influenced salad bar extension of this New American restaurant, one of the best in the financial district, but the tuna salad moves the prosaic towards the ethereal

I wish I had money.

Arthur, Ned, Bean, Jay and I had a gigantic plate of Korean beef, and water that was - roughly - the color of the liquid remaining in the bowl 2 flushes after diarrhea.

Yesterday evening I ate a prawn barbeque at a Korean restaurant in Kowloon.

I really suspect they may have been taking the piss as I was by myself - as they brought me assorted 10 bowls with the barbeque (kim chee, spicey potatoes, salad, various vegetables etc), a ridiculously large bowl of mixed rice, and soup. It was obviously going to be impossible for me to eat it all - delicious as it was.

here's all the places in Chicago I wish I could order from:

Leona's - where one dinner can feed you for a week.
The Pasta Bowl - really cheap, mighty tasty
Gino's - yeah yeah Lou Malnati's fans, whatever. a deep dish cheese well baked with the cheese a little black on top is the ultimate comfort food.
and the Cheef from Rosario's, I think it was called. some pizza joint in Lincolnwood that was close to my office on Peterson.

And I really miss Chipotle. I wish London had Taco Bell but I REALLY wish they had Chiptole. And since they're owned by McDonald's I'm surprised they're not actually littered all over London.

Just got back to Berlin, after the eatfest that was Montreal. While here, I like to go the falafel joint and grab a haloumi sandwich, with chili paste, garlic paste, mango sauce and mint. That and a beer costs you just under 5 Euro (if you know anything about falafel in Montreal, you can understand my love of this place).

Also, on the same street is Der Imbiss W, where they've got a tandoori oven, wherein are baked the most glorious naan. These are then topped with avocado, chipotle pepper sauce and argula. Heavenly bread and a great place to people watch.

I'm up to Helsinki tomorrow, where I'll no doubt be eating at one of my favourite places, Elite. Very good food and the most exquisite desserts.

beer

foodstuff most likely to enter my system (in order):
rice krispies
taco bell
subs
carrots
peanut butter & jelly sandwiches
macaroni & cheese

(in order of most common to least - though I get more macaroni & cheese than anything not listed)

Thai Cafe on George St - excellent Tom Kar
Jizo on Princes St - everything on the menu (Japanese)
Indian Summer on Moray Place - Butter Chicken

Thai/Oriental Cafe (Richmond) - around the corner from my work, they do great mix of Thai and Indian food, and have a yummy spinach and tofu curry and butter chicken that I have quite often, even though I really should stop buying my lunch.
Totos (Caulfield) - my old reliable home delivery restaurant. Does delish veal in mushroom sauce with veg, and reasonable pizzas too.

Of my own cooking: rice, rice and more rice - rice with peas, corn and onion, rice with curries, rice with beef stew. Pasta with tomato sauces, or pesto and cheese. Beef strog. Beef satay. Honey mustard chicken. Masterfoods sauce pouch thingies are GRATE.

also:

steak pies from the university

Last night I made an absolutely terrible mint julep. It tasted like dirt and asshole.

Arigato Japanese supermarket on Brewer Street in Soho. They do decent lunchtime takeaway canteenfood and the sushi is the nicest I've found.

Custom Coffee House in Auckland - It has lots of tea related stuff, but the best thing is this noticeboard with pictures of cats on it and you can vote for your favourite cat for 50c (money to SPCA), and if your favourite cat wins it gets a prize. Haven't been there for a while though because it's too far downtown and I've been spending my money too quickly.

Bodeans on Poland Street, oh pulled pork, how do I love thee, let me count the ways.....

gah i'm hungry

i would like to vote for my favourite cat and hope it wins a prize

Okay, I haven't actually been eating out yet but since I know what I like in Williamstown (and what's closest):

Spiceroot - v.yummy, cheap, and plentiful Indian food (student dinner special = whatever sort of curry, lentils, rice, & nan for $10.00), and the restaurant has a neat color scheme and light fixtures and silverware and everything. Happy place.
Thai Garden = not as interesting, but it's variety. Vegetarian pad thai is good comfort food.

Oh! Also, new college snack bar: bad - it's only open past 8 PM and it's not all cozy and wood, it feels like being in an empty dining hall, and it doesn't sell breakfast or juices anymore; good - it's on the first floor of my dorm. And my dorm dining hall is the best, pizza every night, oh yeah.

For dinner I made whole wheat soba noodles in homemade chicken and red wine broth, with an egg cracked and poached right in the bowl. Nuperb!

Junction 101 in Troy, VT. I had lunch. Great clam roll and salad. My wife opted for breakfast and the eggs looked pleasantly runny. We both left happy. A tenner plus tip.