Friday, June 10, 2011

Back to the meat of the matter

So let's get right down to it.  I love food and South Florida has some real finds out there.  I know that many of my friends have their favorite places.  I want to start a list that's real and doesn't take any prisoners.  All of the newspapers, yelp, etc. don't really live up to billing much of the time.  I'm looking for real info for the people that live here.  I'm going to start this list and keep adding to it.  I'm sure I'll figure out the tech part as time goes on and the list grows.  I will need help and want to go and eat at places that I've missed. 

Here is an example of what I'm saying when I say overrated.  Versailles is awesome but not for it's food which can be fair to excellent.   People watching is the reason to go there and get a dessert and coffee product of your liking.  If you want to eat Cuban food you try to find a nice family restaurant near wherever you are in South Florida.  My neighborhood spot is Don Carlin restaurant in Sunrise.  If the fam is looking to eat Chinese food we almost always eat at Toa Toa Chinese Restaurant.  They have dim sum all the time, the service can be evil, the food is excellent and most importantly there are always Jews and Asians eating there.  That's all I need to know when judging Chinese restaurants.

Those are my tidbits for the day.  Time to go start eating mangoes and lychees.  Feel like a monkey when I eat this way but it sure is tasty and fun.

2 comments:

  1. Don Carlin is indeed the bomb--I've been eating there since it was on Sunset Strip. I would go there with my statistics homework (I took it at BCC after I graduated from New College), and eat, do my homework, and nosh. Fun times--and the statistics was fun too!

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  2. As for favorite restaurants, well, I ate at one of my favorites yesterday, Ted, and you should know what's coming: Sushi One, some of the best, most inexpensive sushi and Japanese food in South Florida. I had a New Times roll with jalapeño, a spicy tuna roll (because I forgot to order the Jalapeño-yellowtail roll... and my absolute favorite, their vegetable udon noodle soup.

    And to think that I've been going there for over ten years, and it only occurred to me yesterday (!) to ask Mitsue-san her name! (She sure as heck knows mine--the service my wife and I get there can only be described as miraculous.)

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