Comments on: Giveaway: Au Revoir to All That by Michael Steinberger

By: Haideh

Haideh — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 02:30:39 +0000

Best and most memorable meal: at the Hotel Chateau de La Tour restaurant in Chantilly, France on 6/6/08. The dessert was six tiny and delicious flavors of Chantilly with nuts, fresh fruits, and/or pastry.

By: Jasmurph

Jasmurph — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 22:49:22 +0000

One great meal: Lunch outside on a gorgeous late spring day in Beaune at Le Jardin des Remparts on my honeymoon.

By: Scalpa

Scalpa — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:41:17 +0000

Best meal, Le Bernardin, not very original but the quality was the most beautiful experience I had in NY, light, taste the ingredients with just fade accents that enhanced the whole thing, not hid the inner power of the fish.

By: Royale With Cheese « Around The Sphere

Royale With Cheese « Around The Sphere — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:50:13 +0000

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By: BillCMS

BillCMS — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 04:13:47 +0000

Commanders Palace in New Orleans, 1995,on the second floor, among the trees. Spicy French Creole menu washed down with champagne. Runners up include great meals at Bacco in NO in 1997 and Bayonna in NO in 1999.

By: Rod King

Rod King — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 02:59:35 +0000

A memorable meal…scene: The front porch of a small house in a tiny village high in the Peruvian Andes….with a wonderful mountain view…the only ‘restaurant’ for fifty miles.
There was no menu, the patron served me a vegetable soup followed by a stew…tasty but with chewy meat pieces.
ME: “Que es este carne?” (What is this meat?”)
Padron: “Pero, senor?”
Well, in my minimal grasp of Spanish, I knew that ‘pero’ meant ‘but’ in English. I was baffled, repeated the question and got the same answer.
I finished the meal, and the next day found out that ‘pero’ does mean ‘but’, but perro means dog.

By: Big Dave Pearson

Big Dave Pearson — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 05:04:07 +0000

I had 3 fish tacos composed of mackerel and fresh corn tortillas and a really cold Dos Equis at a walk up tacqueria in Puerto Vallarta. There was a variety of salsas covered with plastic wrap that were unlike anything I’d ever tasted in the States.

It was so good I ordered the fried fish skin afterwards.

I still don’t know the name of the place but it was near Los Arcos.

By: sam f

sam f — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 13:16:52 +0000

Best meal ever, easily: squid ink pasta in Agrigento Sicily. A dish of jet-black spaghettini that left me gasping …

Toro magazine has published a nice review of Au Revoir To All That: http://www.toromagazine.com/?q=node/1893. Cheers.

By: Dr. Vino

Dr. Vino — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 13:08:01 +0000

Thank you for sharing these fine memories!

I was interested to see that it took over 20 comments for anyone to mention a restaurant in France but French restos did gather some steam in later comments.

Whether you are a winner or not in the drawing, you are in for a delectable treat when you read the book. For a taste, check out the excerpt published on Slate.com or Mike’s discussion on BBC 4 Radio.

So, who are the winners? Well, I just surfed over to random.org–my destination for all my random integer needs–and generated three numbers: 2, 14, and 41.

So Dave H, Torie, and Patrick, come on down! Or, at least send me your mailing address and I’ll get your signed copy out to you ASAP.

And if anyone stumbles on this post later, feel free to share your favorite meal with us or thoughts about the book.

Cheers,

Tyler

By: winechick

winechick — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 02:53:19 +0000

What immediately comes to mind is a meal at Tommy Toy’s in San Francisco over 20 years ago. The food was superb, fresh popping flavors, steamy temps (even with the waiter’s deft, swift handling, splitting everything table side), simple but beautiful presentation. The service was perfect, minimal but not wanting for a single thing, always magincally there at the right moment, not hovering. Romantic ambience, warm, but not too dark.

By: Esther

Esther — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 00:43:06 +0000

Folk – Philadelphia
reasonably priced, simple, delicious, good people.
http://forkrestaurant.com/

By: Adam

Adam — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 23:53:36 +0000

Gramercy Tavern tasting menu, June 2005. Thanks to Pastry Chef Michelle!

By: Melinda Y.

Melinda Y. — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 21:24:35 +0000

Restaurant: Celadon
Address: 500 Main St, #G, Napa, California 94559
Web: http://www.celadonnapa.com

I’ve always had a great food and experience at Celadon whether it’s lunch or dinner and will continue going back. I love this place! It’s a place that is inviting and gives you a warm relaxing feeling. Their service and staff are excellent. Chef & Owner, Greg Cole, is always hospitable and you will frequently find him out on the floor talking and getting to know his customers.

By: Mark Wallace

Mark Wallace — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 21:17:42 +0000

A not-so-haut, but memorable and tastey street encounter: roasted corn on the cob slathered in mayo and sprinkled with chili powder on a romantic square in Guanajauto, the Concord of Mexicon independence.

By: jim boyce

jim boyce — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 20:42:46 +0000

I have lived in Asia for nearly 15 years, but it was only three weeks ago that a friend dragged me to a side street in Beijing, sat me down on a tiny plastic stool, and made me eat my first… “donkey burger”. The meat, thinly sliced and reminscent of roast beef, came in a pita-like bread that had been lightly fried on both sides and contained parsley and slightly salty and spicy peppers. It tasted even better when another friend showed up with a bottle of Dijon mustard and this, in turn, caught the attention of the Chinese who are regulars – I guess we all witnessed fusion cuisine in the making. Total cost of the donkey burger: four kuai, or about 65 cents. And that stall is now on my list of stops for any visitor coming to Beijing. (Apologies to Daniel Boulud’s restaurant here in Beijing – you guys are good but you don’t offer this kind of value!)

Cheers, Jim Boyce

PS We washed down our burgers with Yanjing beer but next time I’m going to bring a few bottles of wine and see what works best…