The Friday Five - Restaurants

[elrhiarhodan]

From this week's entry in thefridayfive :

1. What's your favorite restaurant in your city? Well, it's not in my city, per se, since my city is fairly small, but it's in my region. Hands down, has to be Peter Luger's, a traditional German steakhouse that serves the most delicious porterhouse steak imaginable.

2. What do you like to order there? And yet, when I go there, I often order the lobster. Because their lobster is MAGNIFICENT, too.

3. What's your favorite appetizer, at any restaurant? At any restaurant? That's kind of a silly question, because I'd never think of ordering fried calamari at an Indian restaurant or pot stickers at a burger joint. So I'm going to answer for Peter Luger's, and say that without a doubt, it's the bacon. A single slice of quarter-inch thick house smoked bacon that's flash cooked under a 1200-degree broiler. It would make a vegetarian weep and ask for seconds.

4. What's a restaurant dish you've tried to make at home? A pasta dish who's name I can't remember, but it has sausage, sautéed onions, tomatoes, mushrooms, in a red sauce and topped with chunks of fresh buffalo mozzarella. Usually with a hearty pasta, like rigatoni or orrichetti or best of all, raddiatori.

5. What would make you refuse to go back to a restaurant? Bad service, hands down. And of course, bad food, overpriced food, bugs in the salad, but most often, bad service.


If you want to play, here's the code and then link your post to this week's entry at thefridayfive:
<B>1. What's your favorite restaurant in your city?</B> <B>2. What do you like to order there?</B> <B>3. What's your favorite appetizer, at any restaurant?</B> <B>4. What's a restaurant dish you've tried to make at home?</B> <B>5. What would make you refuse to go back to a restaurant?</B>

Comments

[spikesgirl58.livejournal.com]

That sounds like one of Nick Stellino's dishes - Sausage and peppers over rigatoni (it also had tomatoes and onions in it). It sounds wonderful.

As you say, for me it depends upon the restaurant when considering an app.

We lost our one German restaurant and I really miss some of their dishes, especially their sausage trio. Mmm, want lunch now...

[elrhiarhodan]

Hmmm, maybe - but the dish I had had no peppers (which I really dislike, so I would never have ordered it). I think it's a variation on a traditional country dish - made with whatever vegetables are available.

I'm stuck on a call and am STARVING.

Damn this adulting thing.

[spikesgirl58.livejournal.com]

We love peppers, so they tend to show up in everything. He has another variation that has prosciutto, sundried tomatoes, and peas. That's very nice as well, although I might be partial. He's my favorite chef, aside from the one I'm married to, of course.

Yup, being an adult and responsible tends to put me in a world of hurt more often than not.

[pooh-collector.livejournal.com]

Damnnit! Now I needz a really excellent steak! And, I haz to go to Denver if I wantz one. And, I'm NOT driving to Denver no wayz, no how.

BLECH!

Sadly, I must settle for leftover tonight.

[elrhiarhodan]

Hugs the little bear. Who, if she comes to visit, will get dinner at Peter Luger's.

[pooh-collector.livejournal.com]

That's some serious bribery right there.


*HUGS*

[sinfulslasher]

PETER LUGER'S!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

*flails like a flaily thing*

(that is all)

[elrhiarhodan]

We can go back there, you know.

[sinfulslasher]

I'd love to. I really would!

Would have to be your treat though. :(

I'll happily slave away in Backyard Wonderful putting those wooden tiles down in payment. *g*

[hurinhouse.livejournal.com]

And conversely, excellent service is what keeps me coming back.

I guess I need to put a visit to Peter Luger on my bucket list. :)

[elrhiarhodan]

Yes, I agree. The best service, I've found, is exponentially enhanced when I become a repeat customer.

And yes, definitely put Peter Luger's on your bucket list. But bring cash or a debit card, they don't take credit cards.