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Post by Deleted on Mar 14, 2009 21:12:30 GMT
What is the last meal you ate at a restaurant (table service with waitperson)? What did you order and was it any good? And how much did it cost?
Today I took my mother to the restaurant right next to the hairdresser.
We had:
Vietnamese prawn salad
Vietnamese egg rolls with lettuce and mint leaves
Chicken with basil
Scallops with cashews
1 bowl of steamed rice
1 carafe of wine (50 cl)
Everything was good, but, as is so often the case, there was far too much sugar in the salad dressing. I saw that my mother was most interested in the scallops, so I let her have most of them.
Total cost of the meal was 33.20€
"Service" is included in the price in France, so the tip was 0.80€
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Post by bazfaz on Mar 14, 2009 21:38:18 GMT
Our last restaurant meal was in Hurghada, Egypt. We had froed fillet of fish, squid with vegetables, and a beer each. I don't remember the price - about 65 Egyptian pounds.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 14, 2009 21:40:15 GMT
That would be 8.88€
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Post by Deleted on Mar 15, 2009 11:18:45 GMT
After My MRI Thursday my husband took me to lunch. We went to a neighborhood restaurant situated by the river (Mississippi) where it bends. The restaurant is in an old barge board Victorian "shotgun" (so named as you can fire a shotgun and it will go clear from front to back of the house).
Anyway, we try to support the neighborhood establishments and we have eaten here many times but were very disapointed this visit.
They have a fixed price lunch buffet ($10.99) with a soup,salad (grown on premises),cold buffet of various meats,sliced turkey,roast beef,some cheeses,a bland shrimp remoulade (remedied by spoonfuls of Creole mustard),an entree and 2 veggies.
The soup was a crab,corn bisque also very bland
The salad is always good and made up for the rest of the meal
Entre was a bland,dry meatloaf with mashed potatoes and peas
All in all a bargain at a total of $24.00 plus tip I guess.
The handicap door was locked and I had to bang on it with my crutch while Mr. C. parked a few blocks away
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Post by auntieannie on Mar 15, 2009 14:44:33 GMT
Last meal at a restaurant was to celebrate a friend's birthday last week. It was a vegetarian restaurant as most of the guests were vegan. I had a tagine(vegetables and chickpeas) that was really good, although it rested on a bed of couscous that wasn't as good as the one I cook home. It was very filling and had a side of salad (that comes with the dish). I drank a herbal tea afterwards as I didn't feel like having a dessert.
The birthday girl had ordered some platters to share as starter, and as thank-you for attending. it was very good too!
Grand total I ended up paying was less than GBP 12.00.
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Post by Don Cuevas on Mar 15, 2009 16:02:05 GMT
The most recent restaurant meal (not counting some cheeseburgers at a tiny joint) was at Mariscos La Güera, our favorite Pátzcuaro restaurant. Doña Cuevas had a tostada covered with ceviche de calamar, a saucy spicy melange of sliced calamar in sauce. It looked so good that I had one. Her main course was a "small" platter of camarones para pelar (U-Peel-Um Shrimp), (about 12 medium to large shrimp) and an order of papas Francesas. I ordered a "small" Ensalada de Tiritas del Pescado (strips of fresh fish "cooked in lime juice.) Both our plates have the La Güera signature salad of cucumber slices, oranges and red onion rings. Sometimes comes with avocado and tomato, but not that time. Oh; I remember that I tried their breaded fried onion rings for the first time. Not at all bad. There was a plate of "blank" tostadas for nibbling with salsa and a basket of pan bolillo, which we didn't touch. Sure; and saltine crackers, which are obligatory in a seafood place in Mexico. Doña Cuevas had a naranjada, I a michelada (beer, lemon juice and chile salt) then a Cerveza Victoria. The bill came to $223 pesos Mexicanos, plus a tip. It's a very good deal. Less than $16 USD. Was it good? It was as good as ever, although the French fries could have been browned, but my wife forgot to specify that. Some photos taken on other occasions: www.pbase.com/panos/mariscos_la_guera |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 15, 2009 16:37:45 GMT
That meal sounds terrific, Don.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 15, 2009 16:38:21 GMT
Except for the bit about the saltine crackers.
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Post by hwinpp on Mar 16, 2009 3:54:59 GMT
I was out with two friends on Saturday, we went to Restaurant 69 on 205St, a very popular real restaurant, no karaoke, no girls in wedding dresses.
We had fried squid with garlic, pork laab, fried katchet (a vegetable that looks like mimosa) with fried pork rinds, clams in tamarind sauce, steamed eel with banana flower, grilled eel and beef tongue with ant eggs. Also three jugs of beer.
Came to 30USD, each dish 3USD, 1 jug of beer 2USD.
After that we went to a steam bath, 5USD for non- hanky panky version, included steam room and sauna, 4 pools of water with different temperatures, unlimited time.
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 16, 2009 4:20:16 GMT
*packs bags for Cambodia*
What a great way to spend an afternoon. Had you tried all of the more exotic items before? It all sounds good, even stuff I'm having trouble imagining, like the clams in tamarind sauce.
They eat wasp eggs around here, but I've never tried them. I think it's an at-home dish. As far as I know, it's the little bitty black wasps that make the papery nests.
Ants are also eaten, another traditional thing not seen in restaurants. It's some kind of flying ants that only appear once a year. They come at night & seems to lose their wings immediately. I've never had them either.
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Post by hwinpp on Mar 16, 2009 4:37:04 GMT
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Post by Don Cuevas on Mar 16, 2009 12:44:40 GMT
Yesterday we went on an excursion with Los Amigos de La Biblioteca Bocanegra, to benefit improvements in our local library.  The excursion involved driving 5 miles west of Pátzcuaro, past Huecorio, to the embarcadero for the Isla Uranden. There we boarded tour boats for a trip around the bucolic island, after which we disembarked, not 100 meters from the shore where our cars were parked. A set of stairs went up steeply through the well-groomed village to the rather new restaurant. The view across Lake Pátzcuaro was very fine. Waitresses in pretty traditional outfits served us. We'd preordered when buying tickets so that the staff could paln for the 60 or so guests. Our table was set with a dish of guacamole and totopos (corn chips) and a bowl of pickled carrots and jícama. They were overcooked and had no chile. But they weren't bad. Our dining companions had a spicy mole con pollo and rice. My wife and I both had enchiladas con pollo estilo Pátzcuaro. The enchiladas are simply tortillas that have been dipped into a salsa roja, then fried. The chicken came one piece per customer, just fried to a crisp and other wise unadorned, The dish is supposed to come with cooked cubed carrots and potatoes, which I received but my wife did not. The enchiladas are dressed with crema, a sort of creme fraiche popular in Mexico; and a pickled chile jalapeño. The enchilada part was very tasty and the piece of chicken was passable. We didn't eat the shredded lettuce, due to recent unpleasant effects after eating elsewhere in the region. A pitcher agua fresca de jamaica (sweetend red hibiscus tea) came with the meal, but Doña Cuevas and I drank cerveza Bohemia. (extra, but reasonable at $20 pesos each) The Sopa Tarasca ( a light puree of beans in a brown broth, garnished with toasted strips of chile pasilla, fried strips of corn tortilla and more crema) arrived after we finished our main course. It was tepid but tasty. This was a special combination deal of excursion and dinner, at a very reasonable $100 pesos Mexicanos per person, approximately $7 USD at current exchange rates. The service was sincere, amiable and helpful, in spite of the newness of the restaurant (open only Saturdays and Sundays other then special events by reservation only.) |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 16, 2009 12:48:26 GMT
Will look for 'water mimosa'at the Vietnamese market here. haven't been able to go but will make a special effort,thanks .
Are you sure the "flying ants" aren't termites Bixa? (sees $$,'blackened termites','termite etouffe"...)
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 16, 2009 15:57:44 GMT
No, they're actual ants -- I've seen them. There are pictures here. Do NOT open this link if you have a bug aversion. |
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Post by Deleted on May 8, 2014 17:06:01 GMT
One of our favorite restaurants in NOLA which opened in the last year and where we have dined on 3 or 4 occasions, recently won the award for James Beard award for BEST NEW RESTAURANT in THE U>S> While I don't take these awards that seriously, this particular one, I do. And so, last evening, we were special guests of the owner and his business partner, freshly returned from NYC to a feast for about 60 people, all regulars, and or friends of our hosts. We were actually guests of a dear friend who frequents the establishment on a regular basis. PECHE www.nola.com/dining/index.ssf/2014/05/peche_seafood_grill_named_coun.html#incart_m-rpt-1 |
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Post by Deleted on May 8, 2014 18:31:34 GMT
Oh, I had completely forgotten this thread! Thanks for reviving it.
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Post by htmb on May 11, 2014 1:45:48 GMT
I had never seen this interesting thread. Now I'm going to have to think back to the last meal I had out!
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Post by bjd on May 11, 2014 6:17:33 GMT
10 days ago some Italian friends phoned and said, "We're in Toulouse, come join us for dinner", so we went downtown. Since we don't eat out very often and are not well-informed about restaurants, we went to the same place we had been with them several years ago. We got a table for 6 in a small restaurant called Le May. It is a popular place and always full, probably because the prices are reasonable rather than because of the food. I had no starter, the others had either sardines marinated in lemon juice (daily special) or duck paté (not foie gras). Verdict was that the sardines were "just okay". For the main course, 3 had the day's special of fish with a sauce with mushrooms, small servings of various veggies with it and a spoonful of rice. The 3 others had steak with a foie gras sauce, same mixture of veggies and rice. The peas tasted canned, in my opinion. Dessert there is mostly ice cream. I had nougat ice cream with red fruit coulis, my husband had vanilla with chestnut purée, the others had a mixture of various flavours. We shared a bottle of wine from Hérault (also their day's recommendation)-- nothing special. Prices were 17€ for 3 courses, 15 for 2 and the bottle of wine cost about 14€, although it tasted like something you would pay about 4€ for in the store. I just found their website: r/ |
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Post by Deleted on May 12, 2014 14:02:01 GMT
To get the store prices of a meal in France, you divide the wine prices by 4 and the food prices by 2 or 3.
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Post by tod2 on May 12, 2014 14:48:35 GMT
Yesterday , being Mother's Day in South Africa , found us having lunch at our local pub called The Keg and Hedgehog. The roast of the day was beef and pork with vegetables consisting of creamed spinach, butternut squash, roast potatoes, Yorkshire pudding, yellow rice and a savoury brown gravy. Sauces of apple and horseradish were on the table.
But before this main course we started with a prawn cocktail and my mother had crumbed mushrooms with tarter sauce.
The meal ended with a lovely light cherry trifle.
Each complete meal(starter,main & pud) was R95.....which is about 7euro, 5.5 British pounds, or $9
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Post by Deleted on May 12, 2014 16:50:17 GMT
Wow. That is cheap. You would probably spend at least $40CAD here. That's 381ZAR.
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Post by Don Cuevas on May 12, 2014 22:23:15 GMT
Yesterday , being Mother's Day in South Africa , found us having lunch at our local pub called The Keg and Hedgehog. The roast of the day was beef and pork with vegetables consisting of creamed spinach, butternut squash, roast potatoes, Yorkshire pudding, yellow rice and a savoury brown gravy. Sauces of apple and horseradish were on the table. But before this main course we started with a prawn cocktail and my mother had crumbed mushrooms with tarter sauce. The meal ended with a lovely light cherry trifle. Each complete meal(starter,main & pud) was R95.....which is about 7euro, 5.5 British pounds, or $9 YUM! |
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Post by Don Cuevas on May 12, 2014 22:25:45 GMT
Our most recent restaurant meal was at La Plazuela del Bosque, a charming, small Cuban restaurant in Morelia, Mexico. The $180 peso Banquete Cubano is tempting; everything from a mojito, appetizers, main dish and dessert, but it's ofen too much food. So we ordered a la carte. I described that in "What's For Lunch", a few days ago.
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Post by Deleted on May 29, 2014 16:12:05 GMT
My husband and I were on Whidbey the other day to work on the land. After a shower at the local marina, we went for dinner at Primo Bistro, my favourite place to eat on the Island. I had the prix fixe (yes, they call it that, Europhiles. I know.) because that way we two get to share the entrée and dessert, while the other orders simply a main. So: green salad with goat cheese, hanger steak and frites (me), trout grenobloise (him) and a creme caramel. I had a glass of Cahors red, he had a local white. Altogether, about $80 US. Service was casual Island style, but competent. Lots of fleece and pressed khakis, save for the table of three girls in high heeled fringe boots, tiny dresses, rhinestones and huuuuuge hair.
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Post by mich64 on May 30, 2014 1:21:42 GMT
Tonight we went down the road to take my father-in-law out for his 84th birthday! It is his favorite place to go. He just wanted some chicken wings, mom had a pizza, husband had a club wrap and I had a Thai spicy chicken wrap all came with fries, we had a few beers and some wine. $84.00CDN, pub meal for 4.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 12, 2014 2:47:26 GMT
We had Thai on a patio tonight. A beautiful summer evening. We had pad thai and eggplant and beef stir fry with rice. Stella Artois. $38 US.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 12, 2014 16:59:26 GMT
I ate with a former colleague yesterday at Prêt-à-Manger. It was like being in London.
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Post by htmb on Jun 12, 2014 18:01:52 GMT
This evening I also ate with a colleague and had penne pasta with pesto sauce and a glass of wine.
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Post by Don Cuevas on Jun 12, 2014 21:01:24 GMT
Our most recent meal in a "restaurant" was in a Burger King in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico. It was just adequate.
Did you know that the term for a person of Nuevo Laredo is "Novolardense"? I saw that on the front page of a local newspaper. Your imaginations may draw whatever conclusions they wish.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 12, 2014 21:11:49 GMT
That is pretty amazing, but so many of the French names of residents of certain "complicated city names" are equally weird.
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