In manion writes: > >... But the bread isn't the same. > >Do you mean to say that Mrs. Bairds Bread, "the family bidness" (sic), I >believe one of the Baird boys says, do you mean that it doesn't match >Pgh's own Braun's bread (which is actually out of "bidness" now anyway) ?! No way!!! Normally I eat froo froo bread, you know the kind that has 18,000 different grains in it. The kind you get in Whole Foods Market or you make in the bread machine. Healthy stuff. But, I'm a systems admin and when I focus on following packets and dealing with angry users, I tend to forget to eat and drop weight. By the time I get home - late some nights, I want calories - white bread - the unhealty stuff. It has to be full of enough preservatives that five days after you buy it you can squish it down to some form of gooey matter the size of a dime. Slather that stuff with peanut butter and jelly and you can consume a days full of calories in a jeff and fall into bed. Bairds? *boggle* a day after you buy it - you can break a piece of it in half. Not like good old Brauns. My cocker spaniel Buford won't even eat it a day or two after I buy it. > > > >> >> Ya'll need to come down here for a week or two and eat your way through >> >> some of these wonderful restaurants. After living in Pgh for a long >> time and having to travel a good way to get good food here there are >> several wonderful places just around the corner. > >Stayed in Houston a couple of days 2 years ago while my wifw was at a >convention. Went to a couple nice places. But ate several times at El >Fenix -- I know, I know, you're gagging now, but we stayed at one of the >Sheraton's in the Galleria, and we used to live in Dallas in the '70's, >and really miss some of those chain Mexiacan slop houses. My wife had >enough after one meal, but I had to have 2 more. >Another place we ate was at a place in Galveston; it was Mexican too. It >was in an old house, it fact it may have been called The Old House or Old >Home Mexican Restaurant. Thats a northern thing..... I got burned out on chain mexican food after a year of living here. Now when I do mexican I tend to go to the small family run tacquarias - I can't spell worth a damn - you sometimes risk food poisoning but the food is wonderful - different than the chain stuff. One time I was in a feed store in the Heights (funny they would name a place that here - there isn't anything that is even remotely above sea level and yes they have feed stores all over the place) There were a couple of mexican guys in there that had a burrito wrapped in tin foil that smelled and looked heavenly. We managed to beg it from them and consumed it on the spot fighting with each other over every crumb. They had purchased it a little bitty family mexican restaurant in the barrio and they very nicely went back and got another for themselves. That was my first introduction to mexican family cooking. >We kind of liked that too. Galveston was not so nice tho. Native Texans we >knew in DAllas said it was great. Maybe it changed alot in the intervening >years. I found Galveston disppointing as a city. Not much there. But the beach calls me several times a year. I live about 40 mins away from a wade into the surf. They do have some new hotels worth a stay. And there is always the Kema area - you might look into that next time you are down this way - I have friends who sail up around there and they love the atmosphere, I find it pretty nice. > >> >> >> But there are a few things I miss from there - Beef Wellington from the >> grill in the galleria (the best I ever ate - an unforgetable >> experience) > >This place may be closed now, I'm not certain. Is it the one that used to >be in the North Hills on McKnight- The London Grill. It did move to the >Galleria, but I never hear about it anymore. Its still there - my friends call me and taut me with their descriptions. > >> Fried Zuchini at Tambellinis on 2nd Ave. I think that is >> where it was. > >7th street. Great zuchini. Yeah....... drool... > >> They sliced the the long way thin. Fried rice at the >> Peacock in Mt. Lebanon sticks in my mind. Big boy hamburgers at Eat n >> Park. Any kind of polish food - can't find that here very easily. >> Pasta at Juno's (do I have the right name?) in one of the buildings on >> Grant Street and Barbaque Chicken Fillet sandwich from the basement of >> the same buildng. > >Oxford Center. Juno's there and in Ross PArk Mall is closed now. The same >owner owns Dingbats in Oxford Center basement and Abate and Dingbats in >Waterworks, just outside of Fox Chapel. They are the only ones left of >that restaurant empire. Never did like Dingbats. Everything always tasted the same there. > >> And......last but not least - the peanut butter and >> bacon sandwiches in the diner/restaurant in the Grant Building. > >Nickies something ??. Still there I think. Folks have told me about it, >never ate there though. Its great solid diner cooking. I found a couple of places here that do the same kind of stuff - like Ritters - One place is named Mama's Cafe. They also have great Tex-Mex in addition to the diner stuff. > >> >> Sigh...greasy eggs at Ritter's at 3:00 in the morning. > >Same grease you had 9+ years ago. Sob!!! I miss it. > >If you come back here the best in restaurants currently are 3 tiny little >places owned by the same person: Davio's, Palio's, and Alla Famiglia. They >serve rustic, freshly prepared (homemade) Italian. Excellent, excellent. >Worth a trip back to Pittsburgh. Love Italian - my favorite restaurant here is Michaelangelos on Westheimer. Try it if you get back here. Best carpagia I every had - again I am probably spelling it badly. Raw filet and Shaved Romano cheese with chopped tomatoes and mushrooms covered with herb infused olive oil and served with crusty hot bread. Chicken breast with Dijon sauce and artichoke hearts and mushrooms. OK, now its happend - I'm starving!!! > >Ah, memories and nostalgia. Nourishment for our psyches. Yep - have an unfrozen perrogi for me - with extra onions. > >Enjoy. Likewise to you. Suzanne > >PManion > >> >> >> >
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