Restaurant thread....the best place to eat...Where!!!
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Nobody has commented on whether the mentioned restaurants make their General Tso chicken with white or dark meat. A lot of places use the dark meat which is gross. I can only eat it if it’s made with white meat chicken otherwise I am throwing it out as shit. Please include this info in the reviews or it’s of no help to me.
Baton Rouge has a light version. Lightly dough and sauce..! Serving with a salad mixed . It’s quite surprise how good and more healthy.
Americanization of Montreal Dishes
I have been travelling through New England recently and I have noticed an attempted Americanization/Fusion of Montreal and New England dishes appearing on more New England menus. In New Hampshire a month ago I saw a "Montreal Smoked Meat Sandwich", which appeared to be getting served with swiss cheese, Reuben style, with Thousand Island Dressing. I was intrigued, but did not order it. Another Americanized Canadian dish I notice was "Tater Tot Poutine", described as follows:
TATER TOT POUTINE 8.95
tater tots topped with white cheddar curds, house gravy, and chopped bacon
I did not order it but I was wondering if the above described dish can be had in Montreal or whether I can only get this in New England. It sounds not bad to me depending on what gravy they are using. I vastly prefer tater tots to french fries and I would be much more likely to order poutine with tots if made as noted above.
Now keep in mind Americans have been taking dishes from other countries to a higher level for a long time now, some examples being New Haven style pizza (refinement and improvement on the Italian version due to improved ovens being used in the process to create a charred, thin crust; General Tso's Chicken, ostensibly Chinese in origin, but really an American spin on Szechuan cuisine; New York style bagels and cheesecake and pastrami); etc. What I am interested in knowing is whether any of the downtown Montreal restaurants are picking up on these regional refinements of Montreal cuisine and putting the American spin on local menus for tourists. The only restaurants in Montreal I saw do this tried to feature "American style pancakes", making them with crepe batter, which is totally fucked up because American pancakes are made with a buttermilk batter that fluffs when fried, whereas crepe batter does not fluff and has a totally different texture, thus robbing the dish of it's distinctive American feature.
Has anyone seen these things offered? My best guess at a downtown restaurant that might do something like this is Deville Dinerbar. They are running a lot of interesting fusion dishes on their menu, such as their "Seoul Tacos" which merges Korean and Mexican cuisines and is one of the best fusions I have tried in Montreal.
I have been travelling through New England recently and I have noticed an attempted Americanization/Fusion of Montreal and New England dishes appearing on more New England menus. In New Hampshire a month ago I saw a "Montreal Smoked Meat Sandwich", which appeared to be getting served with swiss cheese, Reuben style, with Thousand Island Dressing. I was intrigued, but did not order it. Another Americanized Canadian dish I notice was "Tater Tot Poutine", described as follows:
TATER TOT POUTINE 8.95
tater tots topped with white cheddar curds, house gravy, and chopped bacon
I did not order it but I was wondering if the above described dish can be had in Montreal or whether I can only get this in New England. It sounds not bad to me depending on what gravy they are using. I vastly prefer tater tots to french fries and I would be much more likely to order poutine with tots if made as noted above.
Now keep in mind Americans have been taking dishes from other countries to a higher level for a long time now, some examples being New Haven style pizza (refinement and improvement on the Italian version due to improved ovens being used in the process to create a charred, thin crust; General Tso's Chicken, ostensibly Chinese in origin, but really an American spin on Szechuan cuisine; New York style bagels and cheesecake and pastrami); etc. What I am interested in knowing is whether any of the downtown Montreal restaurants are picking up on these regional refinements of Montreal cuisine and putting the American spin on local menus for tourists. The only restaurants in Montreal I saw do this tried to feature "American style pancakes", making them with crepe batter, which is totally fucked up because American pancakes are made with a buttermilk batter that fluffs when fried, whereas crepe batter does not fluff and has a totally different texture, thus robbing the dish of it's distinctive American feature.
Has anyone seen these things offered? My best guess at a downtown restaurant that might do something like this is Deville Dinerbar. They are running a lot of interesting fusion dishes on their menu, such as their "Seoul Tacos" which merges Korean and Mexican cuisines and is one of the best fusions I have tried in Montreal.
Only thread I can find but in Kamloops BC at a pub called On the Rocks, waitress perhaps in the top 5 best looking girls I have ever seen and extremely friendly. Anyways, they have cauliflower crust pizzas, never heard of before, very good, superb I may say.
Was at Marcus at the Four Seasons over the weekend..... HOLLY crap I hadn't seen so many gorgeous women in a long time. Beautiful setting, delicious food and very social... might have found my new hangout.
@EagerBeaver might have a point...I'd probably prefer white meat too for General Tao (although I wouldn't throw it out if it's dark meat, lol).
Snow crab season is here... anyone have reccos ?
I'm already planning to go to Maestro svp and Lucilles. Curious if there are other known places.
I'm already planning to go to Maestro svp and Lucilles. Curious if there are other known places.
Both of those hot dogs are steamed and I prefer the Connecticut style, grilled.
In any event I was scrolling through some old Montreal pics on my phone and a lot of them are food pics. Here is a pic of the "English Breakfast" I had at the Burgundy Lion on Notre Dame on the morning of August 13, 2016:
Here is a Montreal "Everything" Bagel with cream cheese and lox which my phone says I ordered on my very last trip to Montreal, May 4, 2019, in lower Westmount. I will be damned if I can remember where I ate that bagel, but its something I always order when in Montreal. It sure looks good. On that trip I was in Montreal with NYCBadBoy, and maybe the BadBoy will remember because I took most of my meals with him:
I apparently ate well on August 13, 2016, because my late lunch that day at 2:15 pm consisted of this veggie crepe from the Chez Suzette Creperie in Old Montreal:
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