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Houston's Doesn't Suck: What's Your Favorite Slightly Fancy Chain Restaurant?
foodinmouth says there's no PF Changs or Cheesecake Factories in NY. If you mean NYC, ok. Otherwise, check out their websites & locate. Out on LI there's two Cheesecake Factories...Smithhaven Mall in Lake Grove & The Mall at the Source (who names these damn things?) in Westbury. Westbury has PF Chang's as well, & Houston's is next door at the Roosevelt Field Mall. I haven't been to any of them but it's on my list of things to do.
How Do You Eat Your Bagel?
It's true what annien says about it being a shondeh re: discussing this topic when the objects of desire are out of reach due to the holidays! I'm pretty sure my LI bagel haunt (Bagel Boss in Plainview) is closed till after Yom Kippur. While I agree with Ed, I have my own bagel ritual. I like a sesame or sourdough bagel (haven't found any good organic bagels...yet...and have no kitchen at the moment to bake my own though I have done non-organic in the past), cut in half, toasted, buttered (organic), schmear of cream cheese (organic) on each half, shredded nova on each side, chopped scallions or onions (organic & local when possible) on each side, and I'm a very happy camper. But I will say...buying warm good bagels late at night & not being able to wait...I'll rip pieces off one of them & scoop into a container of scallion or veg cream cheese purchased at the bagel store. It's all good! My boyfriend thinks I'm nuts but then again, he's a big honkin' wad of cream cheese kinda guy who'd be happy with sushi sized pieces of lox if he'd have the chutzpah (and cash) to ask for it at the counter :) .
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Houston's Doesn't Suck: What's Your Favorite Slightly Fancy Chain Restaurant?
Hi Ed. I just found this post while trolling the web for Houston's Key Lime Pie recipe/ingredients. I waited tables in the Rockville, MD Houston's from 1993-1995. Having seen Houston's and more than a dozen independently-owned restaurants from the waiter's side of the table, I agree with everyone's positive comments about Houston's. It's one of my go-to spots when I want to treat myself (and I live in Manhattan).
Although more personal non-chain restaurants are great, only Houston's made me memorize each ingredient in every dish before letting me serve a customer. We had line-up every night where we were quizzed on the number of ounces in the coho salmon and the marinade for the Houston's Hawaiin ribeye. I learned how to give 110% to a job and what to expect as a guest in a restaurant.
Houston's Doesn't Suck: What's Your Favorite Slightly Fancy Chain Restaurant?
I love Houston's. Plain and Simple. It's never disappointed and If I was forced to choose a place for my last meal, this would be it. Want to know why?
Houston's Doesn't Suck: What's Your Favorite Slightly Fancy Chain Restaurant?
Next time you go, you must order the smoked salmon appetizer served with toast points and a delicious dressing. Melt in your mouth and crazy good! I promise, you'll love it! They discontinued it and brought it back because of demand.
They used to serve a fantastic steak platter and the most outrageous mashed potatoes w/celeriac. Unfortunately they discontinued it but like the smoked salmon appetizer, I'm still hoping they'll bring it back.
Win Your Thanksgiving Turkey!
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Win Your Thanksgiving Turkey!
the "oyster"-- hidden on the inside of the breastbone
Win Your Thanksgiving Turkey!
The wishbone! I love to fish it out, eat the meat off it, carefully wash it and leave it out to dry in a place the cat can't get it. When we pull it apart after it's dried, our wish is for a happy and healthy year until the following Thanksgiving.
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