Post that Restaurant Menu... The one you want to go to....

[The empressof all]

I've been dieting big time and even though I just came back from vacation, I'm dying to go out to eat.

We have a new restaurant close by that I've been salivating to eat at.

http://www.preservationkitchen.com/menu.html

Coffee crusted rack of wild boar, Savory golden beet custard with vanilla vinaigrette, Polenta tots! I'm dying.....



BTW when we were in Florida we ate at one of those Brazilian joints that are popping up all over the place. We had a great time and a terrific meal. The cold table "salad bar" was the best I've ever seen and included all kinds of cheeses, cured meats and smoked and pickled fish. Although it was pricey I felt we got our moneys worth. The meat came in an endless stream and was tasty and succulent. We went with a large group and had a lot of fun!

http://www.texasdebrazil.com/

Turn your sound down if you click on the link due to annoying music.

[wildflower]

1. I wish I could be at this one tomorrow (not technically a restaurant)

The Inaugural Luncheon: http://inaugural.senate.gov/luncheon/index.cfm

There's a .pdf there with the recipes. Or did someone already post that here? Sorry about my age-addled brain. :)

[Phentex]

2. when I eat at those, I'm not hungry for four days!

It's almost a diet. :)

I want to try Craft which opened up here but I'm too cheap. They are actually calling the polenta grits. ;)

http://www.craftrestaurant.com/craft_atlanta_menu.html

[The empressof all]

3. Oooooooh Bacon Marmalade!

I could do that but I tell you I'd be reluctant to eat from their dinner menu because I'd want EVERY SINGLE ONE of their desserts.

Brown Sugar-Crème Fraîche Cake
Ruby Red Grapefruit & Brown Sugar Ice Cream


Pine Nut Tart
Candied Cranberries & Tupelo Honey Anglaise


Valrhona Chocolate Cake
Almond Toffee & Malt Ice Cream


Apple Crisp
Pumpkin Seed Brittle & Rosemary Ice Cream


Hazelnut-Brown Butter Financier
Poached Pears & Cardamom Ice Milk


Glazed Chocolate Cake Doughnuts
Apple Sauce & Vanilla Whipped Cream

[Phentex]

4. I'm thinking I could plan the office party there

that way I wouldn't have to pay for it! So much food, so little time.

Just hoping there IS an office at the end of the year.

[eleny]

19. "Ruby Red Grapefruit & Brown Sugar Ice Cream"

I want to make that so I found a recipe. Mmmmmmmm

http://www.inmamaskitchen.com/RECIPES/RECIPES/Desserts/ice_desserts/bwnsugar_icecream.html

[The empressof all]

20. I recently read about a browned butter ice cream

Here's a recipe for that using brown sugar. I'd leave out the peanut brittle

http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/Brown-Butter-and-Peanut-Brittle-Ice-Cream-241123

But since we were talking about sweet and salty in another thread I could really see this topped with some crispy bacon.

[eleny]

21. Holy jumping calories!

Have you tried bacon salt? http://www.baconsalt.com/

I found their Original flavor at a local shop. Pretty darned good flavor-bang for the sprinkle.

[The empressof all]

26. I've seen the bacon salt

Thanks for reminding me about it. I keep meaning to pick it up but forget when I'm shopping. I'll try to remember to get it this week.

[hippywife]

32. Oh now...

was that really necessary? No way I'm showing my other half this recipe. No way! LOL

[Stinky The Clown]

5. Esca

http://www.esca-nyc.com/dinner.cfm

[The empressof all]

6. Oooooh Seafood

I'm such a snob when it comes to the Fishies but for an eastcoast joint it looks pretty tasty.

Appetizer I'd get:

Fritti
Crispy blowfish tails with lemon jam or

Vongole al Forno
Long island littleneck clams baked with prosciutto san daniele and peperoncino We rarely see baked clams out here in the PNW. I don't know why :shrug:

For the Primi

I'd get the Maccheroni alla Chittara
House made guitar cut spaghetti with sea urchin and crabmeat even though it doesn't say what kind of crab it is.

I'd also be tempted by the Gnocchi di Ricotta
Sheep’s milk ricotta gnocchi with tomato, eggplant and bufala mozzarella but I'd so want to order fish I don't know if I'd head in a non seafood Primi

For the second I'd go with

Scorfano Rosso
Whole crispy scorpionfish with capers, lemon and rosemary

Just because I've never had scorpion fish and ya just gotta try new things.

The desserts didn't blow me away but I wouldn't turn down Caramel Gelato.

[Stinky The Clown]

8. On the east coast, there is only one crab .....

..... blue crab!

Italians really aren't all that big on desserts. Any gelato would be fine with me, too.

[hippywife]

11. The thought of lovely seafood. Mmmm!

I ate at a wonderful place in the Italian section of Baltimore that was very lovely. Another business trip. I don't remember the name but there were old men playing bocci out back. Then we went to Vaccaro's and got cannoli and Italian ice and shared them on the park benches along the street.

http://www.vaccarospastry.com/

That's another area that I would love to visit once again but probably never will.

[The empressof all]

12. I'd kill for a good Italian Bakery

We don't really have the kind of bakeries out here in Seattle like I grew up with in New Jersey. We have places that make great bread. Great Donut joints and I live near a terrific French Bakery that makes wonderful Choux based pastries and terrific croissants. No Italian bakeries to get a Rhum Baba. No generic bakeries where I can get a prune danish. Our best white cakes come from Costco or you need to make it yourself. I can get a canolli only because my Pizza guy is Italian and he makes them for himself and he likes us.

[hippywife]

13. I can sympathize.

Boy can I sympathize! Oklahoma thinks it has Italian restaurants in an area south of here in McAlester and Krebs. Trust me, they don't. With few exceptions, all the "ethnic" restaurants in Tulsa are cookie-cutter chains. This place is a vast wasteland when it comes to good food.

The upside is that I've had to learn to make anything I want and was used to having. That was what really launched me into the kitchen to start with, that and being married. I used to eat out all the time when I was single and only went to the grocery about every two weeks for a few things. If I felt like cooking, I had the occasional dinner party, so the desire was there at least.

I miss my grammy and my great aunts and their cooking so much, too. If I had one culinary wish it would be to go back to those huge family dinners with all the aunt's, uncles, cousins...everybody and all that wonderful food. Sigh.

[The empressof all]

14. I'm ashamed to say but I've always assumed Oklahoma was

a wasteland when it came to food that wasn't deemed conventional. I'd think you'd be hard pressed to have a wide variety of ethnic restaurants or even anything remotely adventurous. I bet you get terrific beef though. One of these days it'll change and it'll change quick. When we first moved to Seattle over 20 years ago the food sucked. Then it was like the whole city woke up one day and we had a massive Renaissance in local cuisines. Southeast Asia places opened all over and suddenly people recognized that Italian food was more than lasagna or spaghetti and meatballs. It takes just one or two places to start a revolution. I bet there may be some little joint playing with local produce and meats that will fan the flames. Find them and spend some money. It'll be good for economy and you'll get in on the ground floor of helping to inspire Oklahoma nouveau cuisine. Who knows in a few years we could see Top Chef---Tulsa!

[hippywife]

17. There are a few nicer places in Tulsa

that serve the kind of food we would eat - local and organic, they tend to buy from the farmer's markets when local produce is available, but they aren't ethnic restaurants and they are way too spendy. The local slow food movement here seems to be dominated by the urban elite and they aren't they kind of crowd that I tend to want to spend time with.

There are also upscale restaurants, again we don't frequent them for the same reasons above.

We don't eat much meat at all but what we do buy, I get from local farmers through our coop so I know where it came from, the farmers' practices, where and how it was harvested and processed. Otherwise there would be no meat of any kind eaten here.

Tulsa does have a long way to go yet. Oklahoma tends to be way behind the curve on most things. It's the state that's last in anything good and first in most of the bad things when they do national surveys on the best and worst of anything.

[Stinky The Clown]

22. Vaccaro's is a local institution

A restaurant in Little Italy with old bocci players out back .... that could be anywhere! :)

[Tab]

33. Well, then, get this book

It was on my list of "books I won't do without" or whatever....



Young Man and the Sea: Recipes and Crispy Fish Tales from Esca

[hippywife]

34. I only dream of seafood

with very few exceptions, we don't eat seafood anymore. The oceans are too over-fished and the farmed ones are fed trash. Sigh. Seafood is a thing of the past in my kitchen.

Sounds good, tho, and I wish things were different because I really do love it.

Oh, and about that steak and pistachio ice cream...what the hell kinda drugs they got you on, anyway?????

:hug:

[Tab]

35. That was pre-drugs

Scary, eh? But, actually, it's a hell of a combination.

Would also be good on certain fish. Can't speak to vegetables (well, I tried with my Uncle Larry, but I digress...)

[hippywife]

36. Glad to see you're keeping

your sense of humor, my friend. :thumbsup:

[The empressof all]

37. Well...I don't know if I'd try it on steak but

I'm a big fan of dipping Sour Cream and onion potato chips in my Chocolate chocolate chip ice cream. Barbeque chips go well with Cherry Garcia and French Fries with a little malt vinegar are quite lovely with a simple vanilla. :shrug:

[Lucinda]

7. My top two are a little unconventional...

One is a little place called P & G Super Burger in Covina, California. I haven't been there in years, but I used to love their food. The other place would be In N Out Burger. I grew up in California and miss both those places. If we ever hit the state, I'd go to both.

My fella and I both prefer to cook at home and have small groups over for dinner. We do try new Chinese, Cuban, Latin American, and Japanese retaurants when we travel, but I don't have a wish list.

We prefer small, hole in the wall, sorts of restaurants when we're just exploring. Family businesses. Authentic ethnic. Our best meals have been off the beaten track.

I'm enjoying the other posts a lot though! Great idea for a thread.

[The empressof all]

9. Do you know I have dreams about White Castle

I not only taste them but smell them and feel their mushy soft greasy pillowy goodness in my hands and in my mouth. I worry I'll wake up with onion breath!

Needless to say when ever we're back east it's our first and last stop. The frozen ones just don't do them justice but can give me a hint of a sense of satifaction when I get the craving.

I've heard tell of the In & Out Burgers but I haven't had them yet. Next time I'm in So Ca I'll make it a point to give them a try.

I like the little ethnic joints alot too. We have great Thai and Vietnamese by us. We're also blessed with a few fabulous sushi joints within 15 minutes. So much food....So little time.

[Lucinda]

16. I've never had fresh Whitecastle, but I imagine the lust is the same!

:)

P&G made a bean burrito to die for. I still remember all their food well. :) I can taste In N Out now, as I type this, and it's been a loooong time so I can relate to that sense memory!

If I want Thai or Vietnamese I have to cook it. I'm still learning to work with the flavors and I have yet to make anything really OMG!!-ish. Nothing authentic around here at all. We live in a heavy tourist area with a million pancake houses, and lots of family type restaurants, but nothing really exciting. Fortunately we LOVE to cook. :)

[Tangerine LaBamba]

24. Once, a long time ago,

I got twelve White Castles into my mouth without chewing or swallowing.

It's one of my proudest accomplishments. And you're right - the frozen are passable, and they ease the craving, but there's nothing like sitting at the counter, where the stools are so low (remember?), watching the guy putting them together.

Oh, the smells, the warm feel in your hands, those weird little onions..................

[The empressof all]

25. For a week before Thanksgiving all I could thing about was

My incredible craving for White Castle Stuffing.

http://www.recipesource.com/fgv/stuffing/white-castle-turkey1.html

I add a couple of beaten eggs, some additional fried onions, a little chopped apple and a few tablespoons of melted butter.

[hippywife]

10. I can never go there again.

The restaurant is still there but the owner died in 1996 and there are new owners. Sigh. Plus it's in Pittsburgh and I'm in Oklahoma. Sigh.

It's Louis Tambellini's on Saw Mill Run Blvd. I used to live in Columbus and traveled to Pittsburgh frequently to meet with clients. Even with all of the high-end restaurants available, they knew if I was coming, we were going to Louis Tambellini's. It's a huge place with the large dining area to the left and the bar to the right as you came into the hostess area. It had that kind of old, run down outdated look to it's garish Italianate decor, because it was old and run down.

We would wrap up our meeting early enough to hit the bar before the dinner crowd arrived, and sit there sipping wine and eating crackers with bleu cheese spread and watch a pack of young good fella types at the end of the bar while we caught up on our personal reunion.

Then onto the dining room. As soon as you rounded the corner into the large dining area, the smell of seafood wafted over to greet you and beg you come sit, come eat. I loved the veal scallopini ala marsala (I no longer eat veal.) and the angel hair pomodoro. And, of course, more wine and lots of bread.

I really, really miss the place and the people who used to share it with me whenever I came into town.

Sigh.

I also miss the first place I ate Thai food ever. It was in Columbus and no longer exists either. It was the scene of our first date and the other half's first Thai. And I miss the little dump on OSU campus that had the best shwarma and hummus, that is no longer there, either. I'm so glad I didn't grow up in Oklahoma. I might never have gotten to experience ethnic foods if I had.

[Tab]

15. Michael Ruhlman's description of being invited to the French Laundry

I can look to see which book it was, but it sounded heavenly. Not the French Laundry Cookbook (although many of it are in there) but his description makes it sound just ethereal.

[AwakeAtLast]

18. This one is local to me

I would love to try it

Elements

http://www.elementsindy.com/

[The empressof all]

29. That looks like a lovely place

I'd love to try their Roast chicken...even with the fois gras sauce. (Oh yum---but so so wrong :spank:) I thought it odd that for a place that states they focus on local products all their seafood is salt water. Still it's great to see this new trend in promoting local products.

[Tsiyu]

23. You people are making me hungry

Goodness knows, coming from upstate NY I really, really miss the bakeries. But my sis got married in November and Mom had Italian cookies flown in from the Yankee Lands.

I'm enjoying all this talk of food.....I have issues with appetite ( as in I don't have one without help -you guys are helping tonight!)

[spinbaby]

27. The place I want to eat at closed years ago

We used to have a local restaurant called Max and Luigi's. They served Italian and Jewish food--an inspired combination. You could get pasta with a side of latkes. Knishes with ravioli. A nice kugel with your antipasto. They were big on starches and they were great.

[The empressof all]

28. What a hoot---and you just reminded me of one of my favorites

I'll never forget the first time I went to Sammy's Roumanian in NYC. I walked in with my prospective inlaws and thought what the heck am I getting myself into.

Here's a link to their dinner menu

http://nymag.com/listings/restaurant/sammys-roumanian-steak-house/menus/dinner.html

I can't say it's gourmet. The portions are huge and I think very authentic to their roots. Very spendy but a place that is fun and well worth spending an evening with friends here. I've been several times and although I wouldn't make a point to go when I visit NY, I wouldn't turn down an invitation to go again.

[cali]

30. Hen of the Wood in Waterbury Vermont

is my favorite restaurant. Here's Bittman's review that ran in the NYT a couple of weeks ago:

"With a setting like this, if the food were merely acceptable, the overall experience would be positive. But some of the food is terrific. Do not miss these: calamari (from Rhode Island) with breadcrumbs, lemon and chilies ($10); wild mushrooms on toast with poached egg and (incredible) bacon ($13); sheep’s milk gnocchi, impossibly creamy and rich, with winter squash, pine nuts and sage ($16); rib-eye (local, of course, with sufficient fat, real flavor, and cooked as it should be), with beets, potatoes and garlic ($35). That’s not all, but I do not think naming more dishes can do much service. (O.K., one more: seared scallops with sunchokes and breadcrumbs, just killer.)

Some things are irksome: The wine list is all-American, and this may be pressing the point because it’s only about a thousand miles more to Paris than it is to Seattle, and the wines to our east are on average better, and not more expensive, than the wines to our west. Still, the Montinore Estate Pinot Gris was interesting, refreshing and, at $32 a bottle, downright cheap.

It’s easier to be supportive of the all-local cheese list, but though these carefully chosen Vermont cheeses — 14 on my last visit — are high quality, they have a way to go before they reach the levels of complexity displayed by the European originals on which they’re modeled. (I’m reluctant to single any out, since at least one is made by Consider Bardwell Farm, co-owned by my literary agent, so I would get in trouble no matter what.) Still, sitting 300 miles south, in my apartment in New York, it’s difficult to think of a restaurant here in the city that can generate such feelings of satisfaction, fulfillment, culinary pleasure and near-joy as Hen of the Wood. But as I’ve implied, I’m sort of in love with the joint."

http://travel.nytimes.com/2008/12/28/travel/28choice.html

The food is wonderful and the setting, in an old Grist Mill, beautifully and not at all hokily done, is gorgeous.

[The empressof all]

38. That looks like a terrific place

It's so wonderful when you have a great chef cooking in a beautiful location. Their menu seems very basic yet focuses on complex flavors with a twist. I'd go there! I love that they offer a cheese selection. I'm such a cheese snob! It's good that this practice is becoming more commonplace in restaurants focusing on local products. Bittman is a bit of a snob about the lack of French wine though eh...It's an American restaurant for goodness sake!

[Tab]

31. This is out of your normal fare

But this restaurant is nearby, and the owner will do in-home classes... I will hopefully will arrange something tomorrow - can't wait. I've eaten there, and everything there is great.

Menu
Please note, we use a variety of peppers and spices that enhance our food. Feel free to ask for assistance with menu selections to ensure a pleasant dining experience. We use only olive oil for low saturation during the cooling process. No taste enhancers or preservatives. Thank you from the staff of Cafe Momo. Namaste.

Appetizers

Momo $8/$10
Eight traditional Nepali Dumplings, delicately seasoned with a choice of chicken, lamb, shrimp, sacllops or vegetable.

Calamari $10
Atlantic calamari sauteed with vegetables and spices.
Choila $8
Jerked chicken integrated with fresh cilantro, red onion and chilies.
New Zealand green mussels $12
Sauteed in the shell and bathed in a tomato stock. Can serve as a light dinner option. Eight in an order.
Asian Greens or Beans Bite $5
Sauteed baby bokchoy or Sautéed string beans on cumin seeds.
Flat Herbed Bread $3
Steamed Basmati Rice $3 Homemade Nepali Pickle $2

Soups

Gundruk $5

Lentil $5
Red and yellow lentils prepared with tomatoes, onions, cilantro and traditional seasonings.
Bamboo $5
This soup is loaded with hand cut vegetables, textured soy and marinated bamboo shoots.


Lunch
Every order is freshly cooked.

Chicken Chili $10
The chicken is sauteed in a mixture of mustard oil, soy sauce, sesame oil, dry spices, and onion and spicy green chilies until they are golden brown.

Chicken Tarkari $9
Seasoned pieces of chicken breast in a tomato based sauce and mixed with fresh fruit, herbs, and vegetables.

Mushroom Curry $10
Portobello mushrooms cubed and bathed in a curry along with seasoned vegetables.

Shrimp Tarkari $10
Seasoned pieces of shrimp in a tomato based sauce and mixed with fresh fruit, herbs, and vegetables.


Main Entrees
We only use hand-cut fresh vegetables and spices, which is very healthy. Every order is freshly cooked. Most dishes served with Basmati rice.

Lamb Nepali way $18

Two to three pieces of lamb chops marinated in rosemary basil and thyme sauce and grilled on cast iron skillet on olive oil, red wine and ginger garlic, which is served with cilantro sautéed rice.

Lamb Mushroom curry $17

A curried combination of marinated lamb and Portobello mushrooms, mild and flavorful

Goat Curry Rice $17

Marinated goat meat prepared in its own juices and mix vegetables.

Salmon on Asparagus $17

Wild caught Salmon fillet marinated with fermented mustard sauce and white wine served a top of Asparagus and fresh seasonal vegetables cooked and served to the perfection. You will love it.

Cashew Coated Haddock $17

Half a pound of haddock fillet bathed in fresh lime juice, white wine ginger garlic and cumin powder and seared on cast iron pan on olive oil. Served a top of asparagus, green beans and a lot of seasonal vegetables.

Brown Guy Special $17

A combination of sea scallops and extra large shrimp marinated in white wine and spices. Sautéed with fresh hand cut vegetables, topped with a white poppy seed sauce.

Shrimp Stir Fry $16

Lightly seasoned combination of jumbo shrimp and vegetables.

Mustard Coated Pacific Tilapia $17

This nice white fish takes on a whole new personality when it is bathed in a coating of ground mustard, and seared in our authentic Nepalese cast iron cookware. Served a top sautéed mix vegetables.

Chicken Tarkari $13

Seasoned pieces of chicken breast in a tomato based sauce and mixed with fresh herbs and vegetables.

Basil chicken$15

Chicken breast pieces bathed in basil lime sauce and sautéed with different fresh vegetables and spices

Katmandu Chicken $16

Chicken breast drenched in almond and cashew flour cooked in a vegetable stock with seasonal vegetables. Topped with yogurt and cream.

Rama's Chicken $16

Named for our beloved cook, this boneless, skinless chicken breast is marinated in cumin powder, ginger garlic and cilantro avocado sauce.

Tass $13.00 Chicken $16.00 Lamb
Dry rub boneless pieces of chicken or lamb authentically cooked in a cast iron skillet with vegetables

Vegetarian Delights



Tarkari Bhat $13

Seasoned vegetables and a serving of basmati rice. This dish is a daily meal in Nepal.

Katmandu Thaili $15

A crepe made of black lentil flour with cilantro and scallions steamed into it and then it is filled with seasoned sautéed vegetables cooked to perfection! This filling entree is topped with Avocado cilantro sauce.

Beans Mushroom Curry $15

Several different types of slightly sprouted lentil beans and portabella mushroom cubed and cooked in tomato base curry sauce.



Mushroom Curry $14

Portobello mushrooms cubed and bathed in a curry along with seasoned vegetables.

Paneer $15
A mild homemade cheese cut in cubes and combined with vegetables, including fresh basil, Japanese eggplant in a spicy vegetarian tomato sauce.

Our Chilies
Nepali chili dishes contain a mixture of chilies and onions, which give it a pizzazz. The meat or mushrooms are all sauteed in a mixture of mustard oil, soy sauce, until they are golden brown. The beauty of these dishes is their simplicity. Wonderful flavors combine to perfection to give you an unforgetable plate!

Chicken $13
Shrimp $15
Lamb $14
Mushroom $13


Drink and Dessert Menu
Spicy Black Tea $2.00
Lassi $4.00
Cold homemade yogurt drink lightly spiced Add fruit .50 Soda $2.50
Sparkling Water $3.00

WINES
Pinot Grigio $8 glass, $35 bottle
(ask the server for the vintage)

South African Red $7 glass, $30 bottle
Goats Do Roam

Pinot Noir $8 glass, $35 bottle
(ask the server for the vintage)

BEER
Harpoon, IPA, Kingfisher, Singha, Heineken Light $4

COCKTAILS
Momo Mojito $5.50
A balance of fresh lime juice, mint leaves, and rice wine.

Cucumber Cooler $5.50
A tranquil combination of lime juice, cucumbers, and rice wine.

DESSERTS
Rice Pudding $5
A simple pleasure.

Sikarni $5
A creamy medley of yogurt, spices, and fruit.

Gudpak $5
Tree gum cooked with dates and aniseed accompanied with coconuts, cashews, and almonds.

[The empressof all]

39. Oh Goodness....I haven't had Indian food in months and months

It's one of my very favorites. Your joint looks great. I've never had Tree gum. It's good to see they offer goat. My favorite Indian place doesn't offer it on the menu but sometimes has it if you ask for it. My place makes an amazing Mango Chicken and a Curried Mussel dish that I must have with Garlic Naan. We also usually get an order of Palek Paneer. We enjoy these dishes so much we rarely stray away from our usual order.