(06-26-2014 09:29 AM)invisiblehand Wrote:  As for Tulsa,

I'd pit Burn Co. BBQ against any and all challengers. It's sad that they moved a bit away from campus for a larger venue... But they're still hands down the best I've had.

Killkenny's on 15th street has an amazing Irish atmosphere and great Irish food. (Try the almond brie as well as the Paddy Melt.)

McNellies has is a very, very large two story pub with good pub food and any beer you can think of. (and a lot you couldn't think of for that matter)

While your in town, try a Marshall's Sundown Wheat (beer).
Marshall's is a brewery founded by a TU and Sigma Chi alumn that's really picked up a lot of fans and distributors around Tulsa. It's very good stuff.

Any idea if this is distributed down here in FL? Curious to try it.

(06-29-2014 04:47 PM)Knightsweat Wrote:  

(06-26-2014 09:29 AM)invisiblehand Wrote:  As for Tulsa,

I'd pit Burn Co. BBQ against any and all challengers. It's sad that they moved a bit away from campus for a larger venue... But they're still hands down the best I've had.

Killkenny's on 15th street has an amazing Irish atmosphere and great Irish food. (Try the almond brie as well as the Paddy Melt.)

McNellies has is a very, very large two story pub with good pub food and any beer you can think of. (and a lot you couldn't think of for that matter)

While your in town, try a Marshall's Sundown Wheat (beer).
Marshall's is a brewery founded by a TU and Sigma Chi alumn that's really picked up a lot of fans and distributors around Tulsa. It's very good stuff.

Any idea if this is distributed down here in FL? Curious to try it.

I doubt it, haven't seen it outside of OK

(06-29-2014 05:22 PM)invisiblehand Wrote:  

(06-29-2014 04:47 PM)Knightsweat Wrote:  

(06-26-2014 09:29 AM)invisiblehand Wrote:  As for Tulsa,

I'd pit Burn Co. BBQ against any and all challengers. It's sad that they moved a bit away from campus for a larger venue... But they're still hands down the best I've had.

Killkenny's on 15th street has an amazing Irish atmosphere and great Irish food. (Try the almond brie as well as the Paddy Melt.)

McNellies has is a very, very large two story pub with good pub food and any beer you can think of. (and a lot you couldn't think of for that matter)

While your in town, try a Marshall's Sundown Wheat (beer).
Marshall's is a brewery founded by a TU and Sigma Chi alumn that's really picked up a lot of fans and distributors around Tulsa. It's very good stuff.

Any idea if this is distributed down here in FL? Curious to try it.

I doubt it, haven't seen it outside of OK

Will have to keep an eye out for it next time I'm in T-town.

Houston has several Tex-Mex eateries. The best ones I've been to are actually outside of the city limits. Also, we got good pizza here, too. Star Pizza always serves the best pizza I've ever had. (I've mentioned this pizzeria before in other threads.) There are a couple Pink's Pizza locations, too. (Don't go to the one off the north loop. It wasn't as good as I was hoping it would've been.) The best burgers in Houston are, in my opinion, at Prince's on the northbound feeder road (access or frontage road for you non-Texans out there) of Southwest Freeway. I always get the Royal, which is a burger with sauteed mushrooms and Swiss cheese. The buns they use are a poppy seed bun, but they'll give you a regular bun if you ask for it. It's really, really good! There's also a place out in Baytown called Ricky's Thick and Juicy Burgers. If you want a really good bison burger on jalapeno cheddar sourdough, that's the place for you.

(06-28-2014 09:10 PM)Pony94 Wrote:  

(06-28-2014 08:55 PM)The T-Shirt Wrote:  If any of you all make the trip up to the Queen City, a lot of the locals are gonna shove a pizza place called Larosas down your throat. IGNORE THEM!!! Sauce is bland and cheese 90% plastic. Much better local pizza places.

Stick to the chili places. Skyline and Goldstar, cant go wrong with either. Some smaller one location type places are around too.

Pick up some Goetta to take home with you, too. Mmmmmmmmmmmm!

You put beans in chili, that's illegal in Texas

I've never done that ever in any of my visits to Skyline. Beans are strictly optional. The chili isnt made with beans in it either.

I recommend getting a coney with no mustard and no onions (beans arent even something you to tell them to take off, they just dont come on it). Then put a few dabs of their own hot sauce on it. Heaven.

I saw it mentioned a few times but definitely fresh Seafood in CT... Particularly along the shoreline. So many nice places to eat at. Plus New Haven and the pizza.

(01-26-2014 03:05 PM)stxrunner Wrote:  Whoever plays an away game in Cincy during the week of Oktoberfest in Zinzinnati in September, count yourself lucky and make sure you make the trip. 2nd largest Oktoberfest celebration in the world behind Munich, Cincinnati's sister city, of course.

Fantastic german food, excellent beer, and football. A great weekend. I make it back every year.

If you get to come to Tulsa during late October,
you HAVE to go to our Oktoberfest... we were ranked top 10 right next to Zinzinnati (who has the largest)

I've lived in Florida practically my entire life of 46 years, and while there are PLENTY of good places to eat, I can't really say this area is "known" for anything. I guess you could say the cuisine is a microcosm of the population here, kind of a melting pot of different cultures. I mean, there's really good non-chain places to get pizza, BBQ, steaks, Chinese, Cuban, burgers, etc., but there really isn't that one particular thing that the area is known for.

I just met someone who was bitten by the Lone Star Tick and is now allergic to red meat including pork. Can you imagine never having BBQ again (yes I know there are far worse things in life)

http://www.globalmeatnews.com/Industry-M...o-red-meat

(06-29-2014 03:07 AM)AirRaid Wrote:  

(01-25-2014 08:14 PM)HuskyU Wrote:  

(01-25-2014 08:10 PM)transitt Wrote:  Just watched a Travel Channel show about BBQ. I got to thinking about our conference and places to eat. From that standpoint, we DESTROY all other conferences..

Memphis, NC, Texas, -BBQ
Memphis- Two of the well known fried chicken places in the country in Gus's and Uncle Lou's
Philly- Ummmm, the sammiches, nuff said
Cincy- Cincinnati chili plus a wide range of great German food!
Texas- texmex!
Tulsa- STEAK!
New Orleans- nuff said
Orlando/Tampa- Gulf Seafood.


Man a munchie tour of this conference would be fun!

New Haven, CT is considered the birthplace of the hamburger. New England also has the best lobster.

That would be hamburg, germany

Untrue, The Library of Congress has officially declared that Louis Lassen of Louis' Lunch, a small lunch wagon in New Haven, Connecticut, sold the first hamburger and steak sandwich in the U.S. in 1900. New York magazine states that, "The dish actually had no name until some rowdy sailors from Hamburg named the meat on a bun after themselves years later".

(01-27-2014 11:35 AM)UConnFB Wrote:  The conference's top three food wise.

Memphis has the Rendezvous and Corkys. Two of the best BBQ places I will ever eat at.

ECU-Hello Carolina BBQ

Temple-Philly, enough said.

Give me a break... New Orleans is one of the culinary capitals of the entire world. One might say the city's entire economy is built on it.

Cincinnati Style Chili...the best

(08-12-2014 10:17 PM)Bearcats#1 Wrote:  Cincinnati Style Chili...the best

You show me the best and I will tell you where to get the best brisket

(01-25-2014 08:10 PM)transitt Wrote:  Just watched a Travel Channel show about BBQ. I got to thinking about our conference and places to eat. From that standpoint, we DESTROY all other conferences..

Memphis, NC, Texas, -BBQ
Memphis- Two of the well known fried chicken places in the country in Gus's and Uncle Lou's
Philly- Ummmm, the sammiches, nuff said
Cincy- Cincinnati chili plus a wide range of great German food!
Texas- texmex!
Tulsa- STEAK!
New Orleans- nuff said
Orlando/Tampa- Gulf Seafood.


Man a munchie tour of this conference would be fun!

Hmmm...with all the Germans here, you'd think Cincy would have a wide range of German food. Maybe a wide range of German-influenced food, but as far as German restaurants go...eh...

Mecklenberg is my favorite, but outside of that...

We have the first Hofbrauhaus outside of Munich, but sad to say the food is mediocre, and that may be generous.

Cincy still has plenty of butcher shops and independent bakeries, which I've always attributed to the German influence.

Craft beer has been booming and the efforts to bring the "brewery district" to life appears to finally be bearing fruit. Beer in general has always been big here, and an important part of social life.

Lots of brats and metts and sausage.

And goetta. People here call goetta German, but it's not German. It was created by poor Germans immigrants here who couldn't afford sausage. Other places call it scrapple, but we call our version goetta. And we hold two festivals in its honor. Fancy restaurants try to do funky things with it and put it on their menus from time to time. But mostly we fry it up for breakfast.

For anyone visiting Houston for a game, here's the food I'd suggest that is within the 610 Loop.

Breakfast: Kolaches (not from kolache factory), The Breakfast Klub (chicken and waffles or catfish and grits), Tacos A-Go-Go (Breakfast tacos)

Lunch: Barnaby's Cafe (american fare), Les Grival's (vietnamese & bahn mi), Bombay Pizza (interesting indian/pizza fusion), Ziggy's (american fare)

Dinner: Hugo's (upscale texmex), Chuy's (downscale texmex), Pappa's Seafood, Goode Company (BBQ... if you're willing to drive, I'd recommend the Brisket House in Deer Park or the Rib Tickler in Humble)

Drinks: Haymerchant/Underbelly, The Gingerman, Flying Saucer

(07-02-2014 09:52 AM)Knightshift Wrote:  I've lived in Florida practically my entire life of 46 years, and while there are PLENTY of good places to eat, I can't really say this area is "known" for anything. I guess you could say the cuisine is a microcosm of the population here, kind of a melting pot of different cultures. I mean, there's really good non-chain places to get pizza, BBQ, steaks, Chinese, Cuban, burgers, etc., but there really isn't that one particular thing that the area is known for.

I'd say the Tampa/Orlando area is known for cuban food and Spanish inspired cuisine. Also known for really good fish houses that do different things with Gulf fish.

But beyond that you're right, we pretty much have good options for all kinds of food but there's no one dominant style.

(08-13-2014 08:26 AM)The Knight Time Wrote:  

(07-02-2014 09:52 AM)Knightshift Wrote:  I've lived in Florida practically my entire life of 46 years, and while there are PLENTY of good places to eat, I can't really say this area is "known" for anything. I guess you could say the cuisine is a microcosm of the population here, kind of a melting pot of different cultures. I mean, there's really good non-chain places to get pizza, BBQ, steaks, Chinese, Cuban, burgers, etc., but there really isn't that one particular thing that the area is known for.

I'd say the Tampa/Orlando area is known for cuban food and Spanish inspired cuisine. Also known for really good fish houses that do different things with Gulf fish.

But beyond that you're right, we pretty much have good options for all kinds of food but there's no one dominant style.

It stands to reason that Cuban/Latin and Seafood would be *amazing* in Florida. The one thing Texas really lacks (Houston especially) is good Italian food. I imagine it's likely also under-represented in Florida as well.

(08-13-2014 08:31 AM)ElectricCoogaloo Wrote:  

(08-13-2014 08:26 AM)The Knight Time Wrote:  

(07-02-2014 09:52 AM)Knightshift Wrote:  I've lived in Florida practically my entire life of 46 years, and while there are PLENTY of good places to eat, I can't really say this area is "known" for anything. I guess you could say the cuisine is a microcosm of the population here, kind of a melting pot of different cultures. I mean, there's really good non-chain places to get pizza, BBQ, steaks, Chinese, Cuban, burgers, etc., but there really isn't that one particular thing that the area is known for.

I'd say the Tampa/Orlando area is known for cuban food and Spanish inspired cuisine. Also known for really good fish houses that do different things with Gulf fish.

But beyond that you're right, we pretty much have good options for all kinds of food but there's no one dominant style.

It stands to reason that Cuban/Latin and Seafood would be *amazing* in Florida. The one thing Texas really lacks (Houston especially) is good Italian food. I imagine it's likely also under-represented in Florida as well.

No way, all the northern retires demand quality italian, especially on the east coast of Florida.

As stated by other Tulane fans, New Orleans is a WORLD CLASS food destination. You can go to the typical tourist places (Commanders Palace, Brennens, etc.) or you can go Nouveau (Emeril's, Mr. B's Bistro, etc.) or find a place on Magazine St. or thereabouts and make a new discovery. I like Atchafalaya, which is just off of Magazine St.

Then again, you have three meals a day. I will say that the sandwiches at Maspero's are awesome, and you can use the NOLA.com website to find the best roast beef po-boys, which are to die for! Fried Oyster po-boys are also amazing. Cooter Browns makes a good one as does the Acme Oyster House.

'm not giving away our favorite breakfast, though. The Grill needs to be discovered on your own!

Here in CT, as someone noted the Hamburger was invented in New Haven, which also has some of the best Pizza anywhere. Try "Bar" for a potato & Bacon pizza.

ROLL WAVE!

(08-12-2014 02:41 PM)DSquiz Wrote:  

(06-29-2014 03:07 AM)AirRaid Wrote:  

(01-25-2014 08:14 PM)HuskyU Wrote:  

(01-25-2014 08:10 PM)transitt Wrote:  Just watched a Travel Channel show about BBQ. I got to thinking about our conference and places to eat. From that standpoint, we DESTROY all other conferences..

Memphis, NC, Texas, -BBQ
Memphis- Two of the well known fried chicken places in the country in Gus's and Uncle Lou's
Philly- Ummmm, the sammiches, nuff said
Cincy- Cincinnati chili plus a wide range of great German food!
Texas- texmex!
Tulsa- STEAK!
New Orleans- nuff said
Orlando/Tampa- Gulf Seafood.


Man a munchie tour of this conference would be fun!

New Haven, CT is considered the birthplace of the hamburger. New England also has the best lobster.

That would be hamburg, germany

Untrue, The Library of Congress has officially declared that Louis Lassen of Louis' Lunch, a small lunch wagon in New Haven, Connecticut, sold the first hamburger and steak sandwich in the U.S. in 1900. New York magazine states that, "The dish actually had no name until some rowdy sailors from Hamburg named the meat on a bun after themselves years later".

Not only is this true, but the establishment is very close to Bar where you get Bar Pizza! They won't let you put ketchup on your burger, either!