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Monday, December 15, 2008
Where Would You Eat — If You Could Eat Anywhere?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
WOULD YOU FLY TO PARIS JUST FOR A BOWL OF CHERRIES?
Photo: TONY BERARDI/KRT
My blog a couple of Mondays ago about Lubi’s in JAX got me pondering an old notion of mine: If I had my own jet, where would I go to eat at the drop of a hat?
A spot in Corpus Christi, Texas, called The Old Mexico was my family’s first introduction to real Mexican food. We would visit it every time we were there, which was often, since my mother did a lot of growing up there and my grandparents lived there for many years. The tacos there are ethereally puffy, and filled with beef; beer mugs come round and frosty. I’d go every weekend if I had the chance.
The Berghoff, in Chicago, was a favorite bar of mine when I would skip class at Northwestern and take the L into the city to go to the Art Institute of Chicago and hang out. Fridays were always the day to get a fish sandwich, and back then 19-year-olds could drink. There were rarely even bar stools to sit on, so we ate our sandwiches — a golden-fried fish fillet between buns — standing up.
L’Ardoise, in Paris, offered one the best meals I had there. My daughter and I simply loved it, and have tried to recreate it many times at home with some success. But I’ll never forget the bowl of fresh cherries, soused in brandy and crowned with a perfect quenelle of sorbet, that came for dessert. It was like eating a mouthful of summer.
Where would you eat if you could eat anywhere you wanted?
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