Your unpopular food opinions

[Sal 1088]

4 hours ago, closetojumping said:

Reading this thread for the first time in months ... yeesh. Matt's El Rancho is awesome. NOLA is fucking great as a food town. Someone posted a picture of Chili's nachos as the "right" way to do nachos. Listen, I like them prepared that way as well, but you don't have to enter a fucking Chili's to make that happen.

Also, Korean food blows. I mean, I've never eaten a single Korean dish and thought "yeah, I'll have that again."

Also also, I don't know what the fuck is going on in Houston with Dish Society, Common Bond, Local Foods, and Cafe Express. Women always bring these up as places where we should meet for lunch. They're all different versions of tasteless shit. I met one today at Dish Society in The Heights. I didn't feel like arguing over text, but she should have known better. Anyway, I get there and I see a "Houston Hot Sandwich", so I figure, well, maybe this won't suck. Nope. Tasteless crap. Just saute some fucking cardboard and throw it on a pretzel bun.

Finally, any new "craft" burger joint probably sucks and serves a fucking burger that looks way better than it tastes. Hubcap Grill in The Heights is the last good one I've been to that was worth the hype. Beck's Prime makes a bland, tasteless burger that people harp on. Bernie's Burger Bus used to get the same credit. Most of the acclaimed burger places in other towns like NYC have the same problems. Just give me a QPC over unseasoned burger pic porn.

Agree with most of this but you should try a legit Korean BBQ place, which is just stuffing your face with meat anyway.

[ztejas 43419]

2 hours ago, Deej said:

Fonda's is a hipster place? It's also not Tex-Mex.

It's fairly tex-mex. That line gets blurry sometimes, though. 

Ain't nothing wrong with Korean food. Love bbbop in Dallas and Chi'lantro. There's a good Korean place up on far north Lamar that knows how to fry a bird.

[Deej 76766]

If you want real ethnic food, far North Lamar isn't a bad place to start.

[Patricio Swayze 17058]

Ethnic food is a funny term.

[FunkSoulBrother 931]

42 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

If those are Korean places, not only have I never been, I’ll never go. I’ll buy you lunch at a Thai, Vietnamese, or other SE Asian food joint of your choice instead. 

Ever try Filipino food?

[Viper 12109]

57 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

If those are Korean places, not only have I never been, I’ll never go. I’ll buy you lunch at a Thai, Vietnamese, or other SE Asian food joint of your choice instead. 

It's a Korean wing joint though I haven't been to the new location. Still, I worked in Chinatown for 15 years, I know places for com tam, bahn cuon, bun bo hue, bo lu loc, dim sum or even just pho. 

[South Austin 52484]

7 hours ago, Patricio Swayze said:

Ethnic food is a funny term.

Foreigner food?

[Guest]

Cheddar's is damn good and offers really good value. It's one of the few sit-down chains in Austin I go to, and I also love that it's never crowded.

Come at me bro, but bring the croissants with honey butter when you do.

[South Austin 52484]

16 minutes ago, FirstTimeCaller said:

Cheddar's is damn good and offers really good value. It's one of the few sit-down chains in Austin I go to, and I also love that it's never crowded.

Come at me bro, but bring the croissants with honey butter when you do.

They say their food is made from scratch.  It must be good.

[956 Worldwide 34707]

14 hours ago, ztejas said:

It's fairly tex-mex. That line gets blurry sometimes, though. 

Ain't nothing wrong with Korean food. Love bbbop in Dallas and Chi'lantro. There's a good Korean place up on far north Lamar that knows how to fry a bird.

Korean food kicks all kind of ass. I will make a bold claim and say that kimchi fried rice with a runny egg is the superior fried rice. And Korean wings slay. 

[NeverMarryAStripper 21905]

27 minutes ago, South Austin said:

They say their food is made from scratch.  It must be good.

[closetojumping 62647]

13 hours ago, Viper said:

It's a Korean wing joint though I haven't been to the new location. Still, I worked in Chinatown for 15 years, I know places for com tam, bahn cuon, bun bo hue, bo lu loc, dim sum or even just pho. 

Some of that I have regularly and some of that sounds terrifying and I have a pretty high appetite for risk.

[Skipper 6135]

I'll fight anyone hating on Matt's.   My perfect fall Saturday is an early SWA flight or Von Lane from Dallas to Austin, Matt's Patio for several hours of Margs and Food, Tailgate, then Night Game at DKR.  Matt's is an essential piece to that puzzle. 

[ztejas 43419]

3 minutes ago, Skipper said:

for several hours of Margs

Have to achieve that brutal Sunday hangover somehow.

[South Austin 52484]

9 minutes ago, Skipper said:

I'll fight anyone hating on Matt's.  

You like getting your ass kicked?  Weird fetish. 

[HornOnTheBayou 8921]

5 hours ago, FirstTimeCaller said:

Cheddar's is damn good and offers really good value. It's one of the few sit-down chains in Austin I go to, and I also love that it's never crowded.

Come at me bro, but bring the croissants with honey butter when you do.

I will give you credit for posting this in the correct thread. 

[smuggs 9353]

7 minutes ago, South Austin said:

You like getting your ass kicked?  Weird fetish. 

Well he did say he promptly follows Matt's with a Texas football game.

[Underdog 28620]

6 hours ago, FirstTimeCaller said:

Cheddar's is damn good and offers really good value. It's one of the few sit-down chains in Austin I go to, and I also love that it's never crowded.

Come at me bro, but bring the croissants with honey butter when you do.

Their chicken pecan salad was good.  

[Guest]

2 minutes ago, Underdog said:

Their chicken pecan salad was good.  

They also have a ridiculously cheap drink menu. 

[conVINCEd 21469]

6 hours ago, FirstTimeCaller said:

Cheddar's is damn good and offers really good value. It's one of the few sit-down chains in Austin I go to, and I also love that it's never crowded.

Come at me bro, but bring the croissants with honey butter when you do.

Do you get the bourbon street steak and the Oreo shake?

[Cap33 384]

22 hours ago, Deej said:

Fonda's is a hipster place? It's also not Tex-Mex.

If by "hipster place" he means "where the asshole waiters bring you what they think you should have ordered instead of what you really ordered," then I agree completely.

[South Austin 52484]

12 minutes ago, Cap33 said:

If by "hipster place" he means "where the asshole waiters bring you what they think you should have ordered instead of what you really ordered," then I agree completely.

Still fuming over that one?

[Cap33 384]

18 minutes ago, South Austin said:

Still fuming over that one?

[mchookem 16330]

10 hours ago, South Austin said:

They say their food is made from scratch.  It must be good.

my niece works at one. she's a granola crunching vegan but even she says the kitchen is legit.

[FartingMonk 3606]

I love Korean BBQ.  GEN is one of my favorite places to eat.  

[CooterBrown 18007]

Everyone should go to Seoulju on North Lamar. South Korea has one of the highest rates of bing drinking in the world and Seoulju is based on drunk Korean bar food. Get the military hot pot and some soju to wash it down.

[ztejas 43419]

Just now, CooterBrown said:

Everyone should go to Seoulju on North Lamar. South Korea has one of the highest rates of bing drinking in the world and Seoulju is based on drunk Korean bar food. Get the military hot pot and some soju to wash it down.

Yeah that's the place I was referring to earlier. 

[FartingMonk 3606]

Korean corn dogs is a new trend.  That stuff is great.  But you can't beat Korean Fried chicken.  It is something from the heavens

[MNLonghornFUKM 8817]

People hate cheddars? Why?

[futureman 22457]

On 11/11/2021 at 10:19 PM, Patricio Swayze said:

Ethnic food is a funny term.

 

[Braff Zacklin 13561]

56 minutes ago, CooterBrown said:

Everyone should go to Seoulju on North Lamar. South Korea has one of the highest rates of bing drinking in the world and Seoulju is based on drunk Korean bar food. Get the military hot pot and some soju to wash it down.

Let's hope not. Mr. Crosby was reportedly a rather mean drunk.

[Neonmoon 38129]

Austin people crowing about Matt’s El Rancho is as funny as Fort Worth people talking up Joe T’s. 

[boilerhorn 1376]

16 hours ago, conVINCEd said:

Do you get the bourbon street steak and the Oreo shake?

That's Applebee's, not Cheddars.  Close, though.  Cheddars is what you get when Applebees hires a better interior design firm.

[boilerhorn 1376]

13 minutes ago, Neonmoon said:

Austin people crowing about Matt’s El Rancho is as funny as Fort Worth people talking up Joe T’s. 

Matt's is fine, but I do not understand waiting in line for 45 minutes for it.

For many, love of these restaurants is as much about the experience and nostalgia as anything else. 

Panchos is a great example.  Our parents took us there because of the price, not the food quality.  We could eat until we could eat no more - and we would still eat more.  We think of it fondly because of the family memories, nostalgia, and raising the flag - not for the food.

[Guest Lobo]

10 hours ago, FartingMonk said:

Korean corn dogs is a new trend.  That stuff is great.  But you can't beat Korean Fried chicken.  It is something from the heavens

I only have one absolute food rule.  I never order anything with the word "dog" in it at a Korean restaurant.  Just policy, man.

 

Side note---after years of bagging on Matt's El Rancho.  I have come around on it.  It's always solid.  Drinks are good.  Staff is nice.  I never seek it out but if I get invited an event or a meeting there, I always accept.  It's good enough and close by.

[conVINCEd 21469]

19 minutes ago, Neonmoon said:

Austin people crowing about Matt’s El Rancho is as funny as Fort Worth people talking up Joe T’s. 

Knew a girl who went to TCU and waited tables at Joe T’s.  She got her masters in accounting and took a pay cut when she took a job at a large accounting firm.

[South Austin 52484]

The nostalgia at Matt’s far exceeds the food quality. It isn’t terrible. It’s right at or below mediocre depending on the day. I’ve been there many times since college, usually for a firm lunch because it’s a place relatively close to our office with plenty of seating for a group event. I’ll eat it. But there are so many other average to very good Tex-Mex joints in town.

Go there if it gives you the warm and fuzzies about your college days. We all have our places like that, the restaurants that we’d never go to but for some history or emotional attachment. But recommending Matt’s to others solely for the food means that you don’t like people.

[Brisketexan 105110]

Austin people crowing about Matt’s El Rancho is as funny as Fort Worth people talking up Joe T’s. 

I have enjoyed quite a few meals at both. The food is good. Not as good as some other places, but good. And both are partially about the experience and timelessness of the place. I’m a fan of both….although I rarely recommend either.

[Hank_Hill 18804]

Asadero tacos at Matt’s are legitimately good. Joe Ts is meh but will get you laid.

Edited November 13, 2021 by Hank_Hill

[Parliament 14257]

Wendy's has good chili.  It may not be proper "chili," but whatever it is properly called, it tastes good.

Ranch dressing is overrated.  

Pizza is better the next morning.  Cold.

[Llewelyn Moss 210]

On 11/11/2021 at 9:19 PM, Patricio Swayze said:

Ethnic food is a funny term.

Reminds of me when Andy told Ron Swanson they should get some burritos: “I don’t much go for ethnic food.”

[closetohumping 17440]

Livers, onions.  Love them both

[MNLonghornFUKM 8817]

Wendy's has good chili.  It may not be proper "chili," but whatever it is properly called, it tastes good.
Ranch dressing is overrated.  
Pizza is better the next morning.  Cold.

Get yourself a #1 double cheeseburger with pickles only, fries and a large chili Add cheese and onions to it.

Pour the chili all over the burger and fries.

[Js1 85318]

8 hours ago, Parliament said:

Wendy's has good chili.  It may not be proper "chili," but whatever it is properly called, it tastes good.

Ranch dressing is overrated.  

Pizza is better the next morning.  Cold.

Cold pizza is best pizza 

[Brisketexan 105110]

Cold pizza is best pizza 

Troof. One of my all-time favorite breakfasts: cold deep dish sausage and mushroom pizza, with a glass of cold milk.

[Js1 85318]

1 minute ago, Brisketexan said:

Troof. One of my all-time favorite breakfasts: cold deep dish sausage and mushroom pizza, with a glass of cold milk.

My sister and I used to race downstairs on weekend mornings to be the first to get the cold pizza for breakfast. 

[fellside 1114]

I feel welcome now that the cold pizza crowd is out.

While we're on it, cold leftover steak quesadillas are pretty dang good too.

[South Austin 52484]

2 hours ago, Js1 said:

Cold pizza is best pizza 

I don’t agree, thought I like cold pizza, and never saw that as an unpopular or outlier opinion.

[ztejas 43419]

 

[Judge Roybeanbag 11819]

2 hours ago, MNLonghornFUKM said:

Get yourself a #1 double cheeseburger with pickles only, fries and a large chili Add cheese and onions to it.

Pour the chili all over the burger and fries.

No fool, you dip the burger and fries in the chili, and then drink what is left afterwards.