Food/restaurant rant

The signs are there because Tampa is an easy place to get lost. Although I must say totally whitebread North Shore of Long Island is the easiest place I've ever found to get lost in in the United States.

 

Hyde Park is most certainly not the ghetto. Bern's is in a place where you might not expect to find a high-end restaurant, but just north of there is the busiest restaurant/bar district in the city. I'll have to take you up to Suitcase City sometime if you want to see the ghettto.

 

In a proper Quebecois dialect it sounds like poo-TSIN (last syllable rhymes with bin).

 

Great city to eat in, indeed, and while I am partial to Halifax, Montreal is a great drinking city too.

 

I can hear you pronouncing it like that too!

 

I haven't been to Bern's in a few years, but it's pretty great. In my top 5 steak houses. Along with Craft Steak, Sparks, Del Frisco's and Wolfgang's. I was underwhelmed by Lugars.

 

I always thought it was Poo-tehn, very soft on the n. I regularly get mocked for my piss poor Quebecoise accent though!

@Huggy. I have had any bad/fun nights at The Liquordome...not real original I know.

 

The wife and I cashed our tax refund checks today, and it was only a few hundred dollars so we got cash and put some aside to go eat tonight. It always feels kinda boss to give the waiter cash ($93 in this case; would've been cooler if it was a crisp Franklin) and just say, "Keep the change."

 

My trip to Chez Aston in Quebec City, it was pronounced as Chet says. It was outstanding poutine, BTW.

I had one of the best times of my life at The Liquordome. I made the mistake of trying to keep up with a couple of NHL wonks from the Maritimes (a Spud and a Newfie). While that night was a hoot, paid for it the next day.

 

Oh, I'm talking hard core working class Joual. LOL

 

I must be lucky. Love the Cracker Barrel restaurants I've eaten at in my area, and I've never had a problem at the Bob Evan's in town.

 

If I could eat the biscuits and gravy special at Pancake City in Kirksville, Missouri every breakfast for the rest of my life, I'd die a happy man - though sooner than I should and I'd need a piano box for a coffin.

A huge fluffy biscuit drenched in homemade sausage peppered gravy, plus a trough of hash browns (with cheese), 2 eggs and a choice of meat - preferably ham steak. All for about $7. Great post-bar food, too.