What's Your Favorite Place To Eat

[Woussko]

Everyone has a special place other than at home where they like to eat more than any other place.

Plaese tell some about your special place to eat when not at home.


Right now I have to really think this over as I can think of 3 special restaurants where I really like going there. Each is different and yet in a way they are the same. None are chains and they are willing to do their best to make food the customer's way rather than their way in a mass production manor. All three of them have good basic American style food. One has some wild things on the menu that I don't think I'll try, but they have lots to pick from that I do eat. The other two are just good simple everyday food.

[oldslowchevy]

cracker barrel!! good food at good prices, my normal meal is grilled cat fish with 3 sides of there baked mac and chesse with lemond aid MMMMmmmm, a family of 3 can eat here for less then $40 easy.

[plumberscrack]

Woussko if you are ever in town find your way Black Salt it's in Palisades near Georgetown. Excellent seafood. Great service. Sunday brunch is a bargain. The oyster Po' Boy is yummy. They also have a Bloody Mary that's the best I've had anywhere.....mmmmm...spicey

[garager]

Grandma's Restaurant in Duluth and Green Mill. Great places to eat also and drink. I wouldn't say they are bargain places, but they have fantastic Steaks and Burgers and Pasta food. Me and the wife went to Green Mill yesterday for lunch, she had the chicken wrap and I went for the club sandwich. Dessert I had the Margarita brownie (no booze) Ice Cream and Brownies and whip cream drizzled in 2 kinds of sweet sauces in a tall Margarita glass, and the wife had cheese cake and strawberries. Total came to $26.00, not to bad plus coffee and pops.

[HVAC HAWK]

this is a little far for me but it is my best CAPTAIN GEORGES sea food in Williamsburg VA ,its an all you can eat .I'm there for about 2 or more hr and they don't mined .
but at home there are to many good places to choose 1

[Woussko]

HVAC
Are you anywhere near Chambersburg or York? It's best not to tell too much so a simply Y or N is fine. If Y, then I'll post about 2 places you might want to check out sometime. If N then I'll hush up.

PCrack
I've heard of where you're talking about but don't get down that way much.

OSC
That is a good chain restaurant and the one's not too far (not close though) have fun gift shops. I love their jars of apple sauce. Soooo much better than the mass produced *** from the market.


Have any of you been to or heard of Tastee Diner of Silver Spring, MD? Some time ago they moved the main building from where it was for years on Wayne Ave. Now it sits along with a nice addition on Camaron Street just off Georgia Ave. This is a few blocks from where Georgia Ave. and Colesville Road intersect by the METRO station. They are pretty good and run 24/7. Their other locations in Bethesda and Laurel are real dumps anymore. The Silver Spring location isn't bad at all.

The other two places are out of the way on back streets and most people end up getting lost trying to find them. One is known for good food and home made REAL ice cream. The other is a breakfast and lunch little coffee shop place. It's nothing special but it is clean, well run and the owner's family are the staff. They try hard to be good to their customers. I won't get into more info as there's not need to get people lost. There are lots of eating places all over. Some are good and others not, but in most towns you can find a good one if you hunt.

[ToUtahNow]

The cafe at "Big Rock Candy Mountain Resort" Marysvale, Utah.

Favorite Breakfast: Eggs Benedict Blackthorn

Favorite Lunch: Grown Up Grilled Cheese Sandwich with Cole Slaw

Favorite Dinner: Grilled Pork Chops w/Herb Wrapped Baked Potato and White Chile Corn Chowder Soup

Mark

[HVAC HAWK]

yes to both

[Woussko]

This may get Josh a bit upset as we are posting adds for eating places but here goes.

In the Chambersburg, PA area about 2-3 miles east of I-81 along US30 there's a nice place called Kriss' Country Kitchen. They are cash only but have good food at reasonable prices. They are breakfast, lunch and dinner, but no late nights.

Over in York, I like a place that's just east of I-83 on US30 called 'Round The Clock Diner. They normally are 24/7 and have good food. The place seems (to me anyway) very well run. Some of their waitresses are real nice and lots of fun. By the way if you do go there, look out back and up high. What an insane location their standby generator is in!!! Hint: It's up on stilts.

My bet is you know about both.

Now if you want to go a bit off the main highway, there's a nice place to the east of Waynsboro, PA along route 16 called Mountain Gate Restaurant which is in the the building that was Keystone Kitchen long ago. They have a nice Sunday breakfast buffet. Their main dining room is pretty nice. If you are in the mood for a simple lunch they have a counter too.

I know of more places, but they are too hard to find and along un-marked roads. No use getting really lost.

[Drain Medic]

Local my wife and i like Don Pablos, Mexican resturant....If we are in the mood for a drive, we go into Center City Philadelphia to McCormick and Schmicks, awesome seafood resturant or the Chart House in Center City, another seafood resturant on the Delaware Water Front.

[HVAC HAWK]

This may get Josh a bit upset as we are posting adds for eating places but here goes.

In the Chambersburg, PA area about 2-3 miles east of I-81 along US30 there's a nice place called Kriss' Country Kitchen. They are cash only but have good food at reasonable prices. They are breakfast, lunch and dinner, but no late nights.

Over in York, I like a place that's just east of I-83 on US30 called 'Round The Clock Diner. They normally are 24/7 and have good food. The place seems (to me anyway) very well run. Some of their waitresses are real nice and lots of fun. By the way if you do go there, look out back and up high. What an insane location their standby generator is in!!! Hint: It's up on stilts.

My bet is you know about both.

Now if you want to go a bit off the main highway, there's a nice place to the east of Waynsboro, PA along route 16 called Mountain Gate Restaurant which is in the the building that was Keystone Kitchen long ago. They have a nice Sunday breakfast buffet. Their main dining room is pretty nice. If you are in the mood for a simple lunch they have a counter too.

I know of more places, but they are too hard to find and along un-marked roads. No use getting really lost.

I'm going there for breakfast tomorrow ,we have dog training in York tomorrow and we meet there before we start. and yes good food

[MrsSeatDown]

I'm going there for breakfast tomorrow ,we have dog training in York tomorrow and we meet there before we start. and yes good food

Rosie seems to have the most fun-filled weekends:D

[HVAC HAWK]

yes but tomorrow its work day for her

[plumberscrack]

Woussko,
I saw a travel channel show where they did a short piece on Mom and Pop diners and Tastee Diner was one of them.

Been there a few times after a long nights at Merriweather Post. Nothing like greasy eggs to kill the hangover.:)

Drain Medic,
We have Chart House near us..........one of my favs too

[mrs. westcoast]

Ante's restaurant in san pedro-croatian of course

My kitchen- for breakfast- scrambled eggs with ham, peppers and a bit of parsley and itny bit of onions

Vincek-in europe,the best ice cream ever..let me see if i can post their picture from when my mommy e mailed me

1788

1789

[Woussko]

Zeljka or Joey

Ever eat any "German Trucker Home Fries"? No, they won't make you sick or fat (unless you eat too many of them). Working guys love them with eggs, toast and meat for breakfast.

[MrsSeatDown]

Never even heard of them,but I have eaten at that diner in MD you were talking about earlier.

What are they? Just potatoes?


Greg, we have McCormick and Schmit out here too. It is good seafood. Our one Charthouse isn't as good as it was years ago.

For a good steak we go to Ruth's Chris steakhouse. We have local favorites too that only the L.A. folk would know about. I ship y brother food from them all the time.

[gear junkie]

A chinese resturant in Rota, Spain called Shanghai. Best food ever and the waiter remembered what you ordered 2 years ago(I'm not kidding). In the states, it's a local chinese resturant called Dynasty. They have all you can eat sushi. They lose money when I show up. I get my 7 bucks worth!

[Woussko]

We have Ruth's Chris Steakhouse here near Washington DC too. A bit too snooty (one near me) for my liking.

The home fries I'm talking about are pan fried with some real butter, fine chopped white onion (any type you like) and some fine chopped green bell pepper. Now if you feel like being bad you add some dried well done bacon that you crumble up to them. I use Russet potatoes that I back about 3/4 done and then cut up to make the home fries.

Note: Woussko is not a German Truck Driver, but I know a truck stop run by a German family and that's where they know how to really make them.:) I stood and watched a time or two.:o Now I can make my own, only I hate cooking.:( :p

Joey, When you ate at Tastee Diner do you remember the street it was on? I doubt you would have been to the old Silver Spring location unless you were either pretty young or you hide you age very well. They have been around for a good long time in Bethesda and Laurel too. Those locations are today pretty sad dumps. The Silver Spring one where it is now is not bad at all. Us regulars get to know the servers and they tell us what to get that day or night and what not to order.

[Woussko]

WARNING TO ALL

If any of you are in the south central part of PA and happen to find a place along a country road out in the middle of nowhere called Dunger's Diner, take off fast with wheels spinning. That place has worse food than a prison would have. I'll gladly eat dog chow over their ****** food. My bet is they are long gone now, but just in case....

[MrsSeatDown]

I was nine years old and I am 32 now so 23 years ago. My brother got his PhD at the naval hospital in Bethesda.

My junior year of high school I spent the summer at Georgetown and went back.

But nope. . . I don't know the street.

We have those potatoes here to we just call them home fries. So I have had them.

[PLUMBER RICK]

my all time favorite burger is located in jackson hole wy. "billy burgers" are the best. i once ate there 5 days in a row.

my local burger place is the "apple pan" in west l.a. it's been around since the late 20's. the guys that work the counter have 20-30 years each.

first come first serve. standing room only. best fries too, double dipped/ extra crispy. drinks are served in "snow cone cups".

real apple pie and vanilla ice cream.

i gotta go now:D

rick.

[Woussko]

Joey

Was this the Tastee Diner of Bethesda that's not all that far from Navy Medical and NIH or the one over in Silver Spring? By the way anymore NM and NIH are under super armed MP guard. I remember when about anyone could just go in. NO more

I will say this much. If you ever came back you wouldn't think you were in the same place. Anymore it looks far too much like downtown NYC. Being a native and a good bit older, I remember farms not all that far. I'm sure at some time you were on "The Hellway" which is I-495. I remember all too well the days when it wasn't there.:eek:

As for the home fries some good steakhouses make them up about the same way. Most places here just fry up the taters and don't add the goodies to them. One place I go to now and then calls potato pancakes "Home Fries" as it's run by people that until a few years ago had no idea what a potato was like at all. They also thought a hamburger must be made out of ham. I have made burger patties out of ground ham, but they just didn't seem right to me when cooked.

Look out everyone this thread will soon be the new Cooking Zone.

Hey Rick, Hot apple pie just out of the oven with home made vanilla ice cream.... Um Um Gooooood.

[MrsSeatDown]

It was in Silver Springs. . .it was the first place my brother lived when he got there. It wasn't Navy Medical.I think it was a different place. He went to the Uniform Services University of the Health Sciences. Maybe it's the same. . .itis where the Pres. goes if he gets sick while on DC. It's been a while.

I still remember he stepped onto the threshold of a freight elevator as it dropped 2 floors. It took almost 2 days for my mom to find her civilian son in the naval hospital.

The only problem with applepan is that there is no a/c, just ceiling fans. In the summer it's miserable. Rick, it's almost time to go back;) They have good patty melts.

[biscuit]

Small world RIck, I too have eaten a Billy Burgers in Jackson Hole, WY.

I have only been to Jackson Hole maybe 3 times, but I always make time to go there. Its great.

Other than that, My favorite restaurant would be the Steam Room Grille in Jackson, MS. Best Seafood (Lobster) around. Not cheap, but damn good.


Regards,