July 9, 2001

2:44 PM

I like to eat.Chowhound has regional restaurant message boards with varying degrees of detail. The New York Boards are particularly active with dozens of people offering their favorite soup dumpling purveyor/ramen shack/barbecue hut. What other regional or cuisine-specific food sites / online communities have you found?
posted by sfz (11 comments total)

It's not a board (I guess it's cuisine-specific), but I can't resist a plug for Spiedie, a central New York treat. It's basically marinated chicken (or other meat), but it's one of those things that you really have to try to appreciate.
posted by amyscoop at 2:49 PM on July 9, 2001

Seattle has a newsgroup, seattle.eats, which gets a fair amount of traffic.
posted by shinybeast at 3:02 PM on July 9, 2001

Chowhound is cool, I just wish they had better board software. Maybe I've just gotten spoiled, but I don't want to wade through all of that.

Still, I managed to find good Boba Tea discussion, an argument about the origin of the french dip (as an aside to the "oldest restaurant in LA") and I even got a chance to plug my wife's dancing. Very worthwhile.

... except now I want a french dip, a glass of bubble tea, and ... uh.... I gotta go.
posted by CrazyUncleJoe at 4:24 PM on July 9, 2001

No particular favorite one, but just wanted to share the local version of Chowhound (San Antonio, Texas) . They just went "live" a few months ago, and they had a little contest to generate interest. I submitted a very brief (VERY brief!) review of a favorite place of mine called "Biff Buzby's Burgers." Ta-da! I won...a $25 gift certificate for TW cable, a grab bag full of snax & candy, and a cute little cookie-tin emblazoned with the Road Runner logo. And my fifteen minutes of fame came when they took a pic of me and posted it on the local Chowhound site with my review. Now, when I go to Biff Buzby's, I see my review hanging proudly on the wall near the cash register. :-) By the way, I have no idea if Chowhound from the original post is in any way related to the TW-Chowhound...don't appear to be, but who knows?

(mmmm...burgers....)
posted by davidmsc at 4:25 PM on July 9, 2001

I like to eat pancakes.
posted by aaron at 5:29 PM on July 9, 2001

And in a few hours it will be tuesday. Doesn't that mean ice cream?
posted by trox at 6:56 PM on July 9, 2001

Know what's unexpectedly good on vanilla ice cream? Tabasco sauce.
Seriously.
posted by dong_resin at 10:04 PM on July 9, 2001

I've nearly finished with Tuesday over here, you can have it in a couple of hours. I had ice cream AND pancakes for breakfast BTW.
posted by davehat at 10:10 PM on July 9, 2001

steamed mussels in garlic cream white wine sauce is a summer favourite where i come from - check innchef for lots and lots of seafood ideas. yum yum mussels and salmon for dinner tonite!
posted by hannahkitty at 10:05 AM on July 10, 2001

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posted by iceberg273 at 10:17 AM on July 10, 2001

Ever bucking the pancake trend, I'm having waffles with ice cream and chocolate syrup.
posted by CrazyUncleJoe at 11:18 AM on July 10, 2001