Competition - Surprising Food Finds!
What unexpected locations have you found that offer up a brilliant menu?
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It can be a backwoods diner, roadside cafe or a burger van at a racetrack, but they've got to be serving up a dish or drink that just blew you away? A grotty old pub in rural nowhere that makes an excellent martini, a gas station restaurant that makes the best fried-chicken. What hidden gems have you been to? We want to know in the comments section. If you've got a picture? Even better! Best food find wins 250 Tribecoins!
Y'all have a week to get your found food favourites in.
As an example, I'm always blown away by the hot chocolates at racetracks. I don't know what they do, but they are always smashin'!
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For me it was a small tavern on top of a mountain in Greece.
When we got there, we were the only customers. The owner spoke about 3 words of English. Wife in the kitchen and the son was the waiter.
The owner kept reccomending this "Special". When we asked what it was, he just kept saying: "Big Horns!" whilst making big hand gestures to drive the point home.
When we said: "Is it Deer?" he exclaimed: "YesYesYes!"
After our starters, the main course arrived (great local produce, bread was still warm from the oven).
It was absolutely amazing!! The meat was slowly stewed, moist and practically fell from the bone. Could've eaten it with a spoon!
We even got 2 carrier bags full of grapes just because I picked one from the vine and said it tasted good.
Back in Holland we obviously told all of our friends about this amazing place.
Fast forward to a year later. Same place, but this time some friends of ours decided to join.
They were very excited to eat this fabulous Deer they heard so much about.
Upon our arrival the owner looked quite shocked to see so many people (just 7 of us) and hurriedly called his nephew to help in the kitchen.
He had apparently learned about 5 new English words since we last saw him.
Upon telling him the story of our amazing Deer, he seemed quite puzzled. After a few seconds his eyes lit up and said:
"Deer? Noooo.. no Deer... GOAT!!"
And that's how we found out that our exquisite Deer, which we praised to everyone back home, was in fact Goat!
Sometimes you do find fantastic dishes on holiday, and often tucked far off of the tourist trails! An excellent story! Thanks for submitting.
Travelling through wine regions of South Australia my wife and I came across Crafers Hotel is located in Crafers, small town near Adelaide. I love ducks, but most of the time ducks are not prepared well in commercial environment, La Tour d'Argent is exception. They had duck breast on their menu. We stayed over night, so I asked manager to explained to how I want duck to be cooked. My wife said that I am pretentious know-everything Melbourne tosser. When we came down for dinner, waitress told us that chef followed agreed with do it my way, but added his own little twist. I don't know what the twist was, but I have never had a duck done that good in any commercial setting. If anyone is travelling around that part of the World, I strongly recommend to check this place out.
The competition is off to a strong start! I’ll agree with you that duck can be brilliant, but can also be mucked up so easily.
The Crown Chiswick - it looked like another quaint London pub as my uncle and I were making our way along the street, checking out pubs and restaurants before picking one for a final dinner in London. But this one stood out, because rather than the usual 'shepherds pie', 'toffee pudding', 'fish and chips with damn mushy peas', 'sea bass' - which seem to be London pub staples, I saw one thing on the menu outside -'rabbit leg'. We decided this was the one, and I was having exactly that, cause I've never had it before.
However, turns out it was popular, and there wasn't actually any room. But the waiter who met us was great - he sat us down at the bar while he double-checked, and turns out, there was a cancellation. So, I had stunning rabbit leg, my uncle had partridge, and then afterwards, the waiter explained how the pub was originally a police station, and gave us a tour of the cells, now wine cellars.
Still my favourite restaurant.
London does have some “hidden” gems. Despite being tucked away they can prove hugely popular!
There is a diner in my town called Carl's Townhouse and a majority of the people around here know them for their sliders. They have been around for many years and when it use to be a smaller place you could watch them press the burgers on the flat top. They have daily specials as well but I usually just have the sliders. I can't find my pictures but here is a post I done on them.
foodtribe.com/p/my-hometown-diner-in-chillicothe-evqq8TlNSNCdnhb7iEKImA?iid=VOHMZsW0R9SZXmi-sempHg
There's a few for me... getting a bit tipsy in a record bar in Seoul and stumbling out at 1am to the glorious sight of a chimaek (fried chicken) shop. A group of us had baskets and baskets of the most PERFECT fried chicken, with the most incredible sticky, spicy South Korean sauce, just stood on a backstreet. I don't think we even really spoke to each other while eating... just devoured the chicken.
Or while doing a bit of a road trip around Italy with my parents. We were snaking up a mountain pass somewhere (blimey I can't even remember which part of Italy... it was 15 or so years ago), and came upon this tiny place with a big sign outside that said EL GOBBI. My dad though the name was hilarious, so we stopped. Turned out to be the most perfect little restaurant in the middle of nowhere. The counter was a huge glass cabinet full of fresh mushrooms, and the owners didn't speak a word of English, but we managed to order some food. I had the most perfect plate of fresh, fat pappardelle with a simple tomato sauce. And I still remember it. Sometimes it's the simple things.