Unknown must visit restaurants in your city

[Kyle]

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We need a thread for each city to do this right, and then just have them archived so that when you are going on a random trip you can look it up and go.

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This is a great idea.

I just moved to atlanta last month anyone have any suggestions?

[Dids]

Seattle:

Thai Tom is often thought of as the best Thai place in town. I won't go there because it's too small, and they have a nasty habit of opening when they feel like it (which jibes with my lunch schedule). If neither of those things phase you, the food is amazing.

Judy Fu's Snappy Dragon: Best hommade noodles ever.

[Aloysius]

Los Angeles:

Due to the ethnic diversity and sheer size, LA is *the* US city / metropolitan area for having "unknown" must visit restaurants, imo.

If you're visiting LA, a great book to pick up is Jonathan Gold's "Counter Intelligence". It's slightly dated, but most of the stuff is still around. He also writes a food column found in LA Weekly.

Asian cuisines are the ones you should look most closely at - Shanghai-nese (the best are in the San Gabriel Valley - people love Din Tai Fung, which is very well known, my favorite is Giang Nan), Vietnamese (Golden Deli has the best Cha Gio known to man), Korean (Shik Dorak), Thai (Samnaluang).

Also if you like Mexican go on a taco truck food crawl (Gold has a great list, as does The Great Taco Hunt).

Of additional note are Armenian places (Chicken Zankou, not exactly unknown, but one must go there), and Ethiopian (little Ethiopia in Fairfax Village).

And for pastrami lovers, Langer's might be the best pastrami in the country (I lived in NYC for a while, so I feel ok making this statement [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]).

-Al

[JordanIB]

El Malecon - 175th and Broadway. NYC.

[SL__72]

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Guys, make sure you list the city and some sort of address when you list these restaurants. If its not in the guidebooks, its going to be har to find them by name!

but some good suggestions so far, keep them coming.

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Searching for:

+restaurant +city +restaurant's name

on Yahoo should give you a map of where almost any of these are...

/edit and usually a rating + some reviews.

[TripSearching]

If you want good seafood and especially want a huge lobster in NYC I reccommend Francisco Centro Vasco. You can get 8lb+ lobsters.
http://centrovasco.citysearch.com/pa...Home_Page.html

[TheDudeAbides]

Yes to all the Toronto suggestions. I've been to all three and wholeheartedly agree. For a real dining experience, try Dangerous Dan's burgers on Queen East. Great burgers, real diner experience with old bus seats as booths. And if you're really feeling frisky, try the:

Quadruple C
"Collosal Colon Clogger Combo"
24oz burger served with a quarter pound of cheese, a quarter pound of bacon, and 2 fried eggs. Also comes with a large shake (flavor of your choice) and a small poutine.
$ 21.99 (Royale 25.74)

[The DaveR]

Dumont in Brooklyn. Terrific burgers, unreal mac n' cheese, terrific fries, everything is great.

[StevieG]

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Minneapolis,

"Al's Breakfast"

Its a hole in the wall breakfast joint that is located in Dinkytown, by the University of Minnesota campus. only open in the morning until about 1pm.

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Good one. Used to live near Dinkytown and ate there often. I have friends that went there once with me close to 15 years ago. I was together with them last month and the "Israeli omelette" came up in the conversation.

[Pudge714]

I'll comment on the Toronto stuff.
Golden Rhino,
Duffs on Bayview south of Eglinton has the best wings in the city, better than than Bistro IMO.

Gildwulf,
Another really good cheap sushi place is Sushi on Bloor really good value and good sushi. It's on Bloor two blocks south of Spadina.

TBA,
I have heard so much about Dangerous Dan's but have never gone there, whenever I planned on going something else came up.

ahnuld,
I'll try that breakfast place.

Firstyearclay,
Berns is very good. I really like how it is such a huge restaurant, but since it is broken up in to smaller rooms it feels really small. As well the service was exemplary when I went. That being said the best steakhouse I have ever been to is Harbour 60 in Toronto if you ever go to Toronto I really suggest you go I have been to several top level steakhouses and Harbour 60 is clearly a cut above the rest.

Most of my Toronto suggestions are well known places, but two really good fast food places are
The Burger Shack Eglinton in between Yonge and Avenue and Belly Busters Submarines just south of Yonge and York Mills.