CantStandYa
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None of these joints can hold a candle to the Monte Cristo at Bennigans.
I don't know if they're really comparable. Momofuku is a lot weirder.
I mean, isn't it ultimately up to the taste buds of the beholder?
When I see lists like this I think "Yeah, I can easily see that place being the restaurant I'd recommend someone to go to if they had one night in town."
Interesting question...could an argument be made for anything in ATL to be the best in the world? I submit defs no. Best losing argument, maybe post gangsta rap scene from late 90s to 2000? Still p lame. Coke is good but you can get that anywhere.
Not sure why you quoted that post, but I agree with everything in it. Zahav is definitely on the short list in Philly of places I'd recommend if a person had one day.
I think it's on there because this list is "essential" restaurants, and since Momofuku sorta launched the ramen craze in America, and Chang's empire
Have not been in a long time but at one point between the Spring Street Ballet, the Gold Club and the Pink Pony you could argue the strip clubs were the best...
Eater is pretty bobo. They do a good enough job but their writers are usually basement dwellers / young kids that dont know ish. Websites like that dont pay shit to their writers and have a shoestring budget to actually help offset the cost of eating and reviewing those places.
I've been to 5-6 places there. Agree MU is solid but not life changing. I will say if you go in the summer early fall when all the veggies are poppin its pretty impressive. Staplehouse, Eugene, Cakes & Ale, Atlas are all probably 'better' than MU though.
Husk Nashville is probably the best meal I've had in America in the last 5 years.
Yeah the Baltimore pick is just a really good, really popular farm-to-table place with a Top Chef guy in the kitchen. Yes it's really good and can hold its own anywhere in the country but it's also not giving you the 50th best meal in the country.
Why is Husk Nashville better/different than the one in Charleston?
I don't know if they're really comparable. Momofuku is a lot weirder.
What'd you get at Husk?
Yeah the Baltimore pick is just a really good, really popular farm-to-table place with a Top Chef guy in the kitchen. Yes it's really good and can hold its own anywhere in the country but it's also not giving you the 50th best meal in the country.
Why is Husk Nashville better/different than the one in Charleston?
I dont remember everything, went with my brother last minute bc we were in town for wedding. No rez but scored two seats at the bar in the basement. Ordered a bunch of smallish plates, a salad with some sort of heritage breed shaved celery that was like nothing id ever tasted but at the same time seemed like what real celery should taste like. And then like a spin on shrimp and grits with crispy rice and an egg instead maybe. We ended up sharing like 5-6 plates. All were unreal. I still want to try cat bird seat in Nashville, but it would be hard to not just go back to Husk if I only had one meal.