Road Trip!!!!

[duchess of malfi]

Eating great food in memorable settings is one of the highlights of any trip for me. Here is a thread where we can put up links to outstanding restaurants we run into while on vacations or otherwise on the road. That way we can recommend them to each other.

I will begin with this romantic gem from the Wisconsin Dells area:
Ishnala Supper Club www.dells.com/display.php?id=420

[Lady Revel]

Seacrets, Ocean City, Maryland

The atmosphere is incredible, the food delightful. One of my favorite restaurants of all time.

You can eat in a shipwrecked boat on the beach, laze in the water on rafts while the waiters serve you drinks (they wade in the water!), or just sit inside and listen to some Jimmy Buffet. There is a stream going through the center of the restaurant with little footbridges crossing it.

If you are headed for O.C. Maryland, don't miss Seacrets!

[stonemaybe]

Eating is the best bit of holidays!

I'm just back from a long weekend in Barcelona (top suggestions - anywhere along Avenue Gaudi - near Sagrada Familia- or along the beach in the Olympic zone) and the food was just wonderful!

But it makes me mad - although we ate more than we normally do here in the UK, it was healthy stuff. Why oh why do fruit and veg and seafood taste so bland and boring here, so favour-icous and yummy in Spain? It's so easy to eat healthy there compared to here!! E.g. their tomatoes - here in the Uk tomatoes are water and crunch. Their tomatoes taste like tomatoes. so nice, in fact that very often instead of putting butter or margarine on a piece of bread, they'll half a tomato and rub it on the bread.

[High Lord Tolkien]

I'm confused by this question.

Doesn't everyone go on vacation to eat?
Isn't that the whole point?

[Cail]

I leave the 17th of July for a week in Cancun, can't wait to stuff free food and booze down my throat!

[onewyteduck]

www.dambrewery.com/

In Keystone, Colorado. Best Burger Ever. Period!

www.storiestreetgrille.com/

Blowing Rock, North Carolina. Pricey but well worth it. Humus appetizer, yum! Chunk of dead cow like butter.

[Menolly]

www.dambrewery.com/

In Keystone, Colorado. Best Burger Ever. Period!

Will they make them rare when ordered that way? Paul and I both like our burgers rare, and here in FL anyway, finding palces that will serve them that way is becoming difficult to find. Paul will eat a burger that 's cooked up to medium, as long as it's juicy. I won't eat a burger that's only lightly pink.

[drew]

The reason most restraunts won't cook a burger rare, as opposed to a steak that they will cook rare, has to do with the way bacteria forms on beef. It tends to stay on the outside on the meet, so a steak, as long as it's seared is okay...but ground beef has all of the bacteria mixed inside and out.

Now I'm sure you guys have been eating rare hambergers for years without any conciquenses..but a restraunt can't risk anybody getting sick.

_best bet...get a rare steak while, and cook your bergurs at home however you want them.

[dlbpharmd]

Finding great restaurants and eating great food is what vacations are all about, in my book.

[Menolly]

The reason most restraunts won't cook a burger rare, as opposed to a steak that they will cook rare, has to do with the way bacteria forms on beef. It tends to stay on the outside on the meet, so a steak, as long as it's seared is okay...but ground beef has all of the bacteria mixed inside and out.

Now I'm sure you guys have been eating rare hambergers for years without any conciquenses..but a restraunt can't risk anybody getting sick.

_best bet...get a rare steak while, and cook your bergurs at home however you want them.

Yeah, yeah, we heard it all before. We still prefer our burgers rare...

[drew]

It's the worst when you eat at a crappy restraunt while on vacation.

Vacationing in the States when I was younger, We had a run in with Denny's....why do you Americans love that place; it's beeen over fifteen years and I still remember how much it sucked.

Good memories include: Dunlop Burgers (on Dunlop street) in Barrie Ontario, and a Chineese Bufet in Montreal, where we went three nights in a row...the thrid night I asked what was up with the tiny chicken drumsticks......they were frogslegs.

[Cail]

Had an amazing shepherd's pie at an Irish pub on Yonge St. in Toronto last Summer.

[onewyteduck]

www.dambrewery.com/

In Keystone, Colorado. Best Burger Ever. Period!

Will they make them rare when ordered that way? Paul and I both like our burgers rare, and here in FL anyway, finding palces that will serve them that way is becoming difficult to find. Paul will eat a burger that 's cooked up to medium, as long as it's juicy. I won't eat a burger that's only lightly pink.

Can't answer that. All I know is that we all ordered medium and they were all perfectly coooked.

[Creator]

White Castles sliders!!!! give me a sixpack of 'em

[Alynna Lis Eachann]

Had an amazing shepherd's pie at an Irish pub on Yonge St. in Toronto last Summer.

Was thinking about going to one of those Irish pubs while we were up there Canada Day weekend, but we ended up at the Pickle Barrel on Yonge one night and at the Loose Moose Tap & Grill on Front Street the next. Awesome fish and great veggies at the Pickle Barrel, and the best steak sandwich and fries ever at the Loose Moose. Even the food at TGI Friday's in Niagara Falls was awesome, and that place usually doesn't impress me at all. Also stopped at Tim Horton's and had a strawberry tart, which was very good for a chain food place. I can honestly say I did not have one bad meal while in Canada.

[Cail]

Agreed. I have nothing bad to say at all about any of my trips to Canadia.

Maybe I should stop making so much fun of them.....

[Menolly]

Oh, I had a great Guiness and kidney pie while eating at a quaint old English-style Inn in Niagara-on-the-Lake when we visited MIL in Welland (I think the town was called Welland) a couple of summers ago. But I can't remember the name of the Inn.

[drew]

Also stopped at Tim Horton's and had a strawberry tart, which was very good for a chain food place

Ahh Good ol' Tims.

The Starbucks of Canada..except the coffee doesn't acctually taste good unless you load it down with cream and sugar (and everyone exclaims, 'Boy this Tims is so good, it's so creamy and sweet')--and all the bake goods are pre-baked and thawed at the individual shops--but it;s a lot more affordable then Starbucks.

The Word "Tim's" has begun to replace the word "Coffee"

-"Do want a cup of Tims?"

and the term "Double/Double" was one of the top threee phrases used here in 2005.

[Alynna Lis Eachann]

LOL. I don't drink coffee, but as far as prebaked, thawed pastries go, good stuff. Chain stores aren't my cup of tea, but my mom just had to get a strawberry tart.

[onewyteduck]

White Castles sliders!!!! give me a sixpack of 'em

White Castles and/or Krystal's......the lepers of the burger world!