Best ______(food) in your hometown

[thewasher418]

The best ANYTHING in my hometown is cooked by my mom. Too bad for the rest of you!

[summer_gphib]

Where I grew up, no doubt Lambert's Cafe. (Kinda famous too... Travel channel's #1 place to pig out.

Where I live now, Meg O'Malley's is hard to beat... the best potato soup ever.

[TonyB06]

Best Chili: Skyline Chili, where you can have it 3-way, 4-way, 5-way(s).

Best Pizza: LaRosa's

Best Ice Cream: Graeter's Ice Cream. (when I go home with my daughters, we literally cannot leave town until we get Graeter's.)

[pshsx1]

Originally Posted by TonyB06

Best Chili: Skyline Chili, where you can have it 3-way, 4-way, 5-way(s).

*Starting fights* I can't stand Skyline Chili. When I was visiting Cinci, I was told it was better than chili [and food] at Detroit Coneys.



Incorrect.

[KDCat]

St. Louis is a BBQ town. I think Super Smokers is the best BBQ, but 17th Street BBQ has won the most awards. A lot of people swear by Pappy's, though.

Best frozen custard: Ted Drewe's

Best Vietnamese: Pho Grand

Best Thai food: Sen

Best food truck: Chop Shop (sushi)

Best sushi: Miso on Meramec

Best roadhouse: Fast Eddie's

[ellebud]

titos tacos.....pinks......

[Mevara]

Originally Posted by ellebud

titos tacos.....pinks......

Pinks is good... oh but that line is killer!!

[PhoenixAzul]

I know that this goes without saying buuut...

Fiori's Pizza, West Liberty Blvd, Brookline neighborhood of Pittsburgh.

Best pizza anywhere, but especially the best in Pittsburgh. And I will eat your face off if you disagree.

[Kevin]

In OKC,

For burgers, 2 places:
1) Nic's Burgers--for onion burgers, which is a traditional OKC recipe which came about during the depression, where cooks would save hamburger by using fried onions as filler in burgers.
http://www.eataroundokc.com/nics-gri...oklahoma-city/
2) S&B Burger Joint--more traditional burgers and sliders, very creative combinations
http://sandbburgersokc.com/

For BBQ:
1) Iron Starr BBQ--calls itself "urban" BBQ. It's sort of upscale, very unique, extremely well done BBQ.
2) Leon's BBQ or Bedlam BBQ--tossup between these for your more traditional paper-towels-on-the-tables sort of joints.

For steak:
1) Red Prime--(pretty upscale, last time I went it was about $150/plate), steaks are excellent, 40-day dry aged. Sides are exquisite. They have a halfway decent happy hour as well.
2) Cattleman's--this is a more classic restaurant. It's more than 100 years old, which is significant since OKC was only settled in 1889, located in the middle of the stockyards. Their meat is wet-aged according in a process they claim is a secret. If you're brave, try the lamb fries (which are battered and fried testicles from steers).
http://www.cattlemensrestaurant.com/

Most unique:
Bobo's Chicken
This is a food truck which parks on lot at NE 23rd Street & MLK in OKC and is open up (not dependably) around 9PM and is open well into the night. Expect long lines. If you're travelling and don't know the city very well, this is in a very sketchy part of town, there have been shootings, but nothing random. They serve either fried chicken wings, fried catfish or fried shrimp. Go for the chicken. It comes with honey and rolls which I'm pretty sure are fried. The chicken is smoked and fried.
http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/46/15151...-Oklahoma-City

We also have a number of unique localvore type things popping up. Our whole food scene is getting fairly trendy as of late.

[DubaiSis]

I'll start a war but I don't think you can beat Giordano's for Chicago style pizza. Sausage & mushroom or spinach & mushrooms. Order less than normal unless you can store leftovers.

I haven't made it to Sprinkles yet even though I work at Fashion Island. I'm looking for recs for best Lebanese and Persian restaurants inOC or LA. Good Lebanese is worth the drive!

[chitownxo]

Originally Posted by DubaiSis

I'll start a war but I don't think you can beat Giordano's for Chicago style pizza. Sausage & mushroom or spinach & mushrooms. Order less than normal unless you can store leftovers.

I was a huge Giordano's fan, but I think the quality has gone down lately. If I'm downtown, I'll go to Uno's; if I'm on the Northside, Malnati's; Southside, Beggars.

We spend a lot of time in Greektown, too. We're a Parethenon family; my husband likes the Greek Isles. Both are good (the Parthenon's better, though).

[barbino]

I'll second Lou Malnati's for pizza in Chicago - there are two locations in downtown Chicago, one in Lincoln Park, and locations in many suburbs. I would suggest that you have Chicago-style pizza at more than one place!

[Cheerio]

Originally Posted by barbino

I'll second Lou Malnati's for pizza in Chicago - there are two locations in downtown Chicago, one in Lincoln Park, and locations in many suburbs. I would suggest that you have Chicago-style pizza at more than one place!

IMPORTANT FYI: not all suburban Malnati's locations are sit-down. Visiting out-of-towners get very disappointed arriving with family and being told "this location is take-out only" (not even my Dad knew his local Malnati's did not have sit-down).

[barbino]

Originally Posted by Cheerio

IMPORTANT FYI: not all suburban Malnati's locations are sit-down. Visiting out-of-towners get very disappointed arriving with family and being told "this location is take-out only" (not even my Dad knew his local Malnati's did not have sit-down).

Thanks for the reminder! I always go to one location and it is sit-down, so I forgot about this.

[Mevara]

Originally Posted by DubaiSis

I'll start a war but I don't think you can beat Giordano's for Chicago style pizza. Sausage & mushroom or spinach & mushrooms. Order less than normal unless you can store leftovers.

I haven't made it to Sprinkles yet even though I work at Fashion Island. I'm looking for recs for best Lebanese and Persian restaurants inOC or LA. Good Lebanese is worth the drive!

If you like the NB Sprinkles FB page they give out a free cupcake a day. You just have to keep an eye out for the word of the day and head over within 1hr or they run out.