What did you have for lunch?

17hr smoked pork butt sandwiches with coleslaw.

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Originally posted by Seaquam:

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Originally posted by wine+art:
Bouillabaisse, enjoyed with NV Gonet Medeville Tradition 1er Cru.

Interesting pairing. I have never thought to have Champagne with bouillabaisse. How was it?

It worked well, Seaquam. The restaurant had a rather smallish list.

What would your wine of choice be?

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Originally posted by wine+art:

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Originally posted by Seaquam:

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Originally posted by wine+art:
Bouillabaisse, enjoyed with NV Gonet Medeville Tradition 1er Cru.

Interesting pairing. I have never thought to have Champagne with bouillabaisse. How was it?

It worked well, Seaquam. The restaurant had a rather smallish list.

What would your wine of choice be?

Personally, I like the traditional match with southern French rosé, Bandol or Tavel being my first choices. A good acidic white works well too, so I can see where Champagne could work though, as I wrote, that would not come to me intuitively.

Another food/wine combo to add to my bucket list, I guess.

Just came back from Schwartz in Montreal. Had the smoked meat sandwich, poutine, and cole slaw. I have to admit that this is much better than Katz's.

Bravo!

New Orleans has always had good Vietnamese restaurants but most places used be on the West Bank. After Katrina the number of places opening up in downtown and uptown area multiplied. We had a nice lunch on magazine street that included pho with chicken, Saigon spicy rolls, pork rolls and something else with pork.

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Originally posted by mareff:
Just came back from Schwartz in Montreal. Had the smoked meat sandwich, poutine, and cole slaw. I have to admit that this is much better than Katz's.

Bravo!

We almost crossed paths! We stopped by around 1:45 to pick up some smoked meat to take back to Ottawa but the line, even for take out meat, was too long!

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Originally posted by mareff:
Just came back from Schwartz in Montreal. Had the smoked meat sandwich, poutine, and cole slaw. I have to admit that this is much better than Katz's.

Bravo!

Well done, mareff

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Originally posted by KSC02:

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Originally posted by mareff:
Just came back from Schwartz in Montreal. Had the smoked meat sandwich, poutine, and cole slaw. I have to admit that this is much better than Katz's.

Bravo!

Well done, mareff

As a frequenter of Katz's, I am going to echo mareff's comment. Love Katz but Schwartz serves up some fantastic and moist smoked meat. I only wish the very thin slice of bread it was served on held together better.

I do give Katz the nod for their steak fries, however.

Bobby Flay's Burger Palace (or whatever his Burger joint is called)

Went there for the second time since it opened near my house. Had the driest turkey burger ever today. Standard beef burger ~1 month ago is better. All in all, a decent joint, reasonably priced . . . avoid non-beef offerings!

Julienned carrots, quinoa, wheat berries, feta cheese & almonds with some drizzled olive oil & balsamic vinegar. Have to eat light for tonight!

"The Original" burger at Umami Santa Monica.

Awesome burger.

Bratwurst with spicy mustard and homemade sauerkraut on a pretzel roll

2 hard boiled eggs. Too many wine dinners and three days in Bermuda have hit me hard.

Home-made lobster roll with no mayo. Simply dressed with Boston lettuce, sauteed shallots, squeeze of lemon. Pretty good except the bread started falling apart.

Left over medium rare prime rib roast with lots of horseradish, accompanied by Reininger Ash Hollow Vineyard syrah.

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Originally posted by bman:
Left over medium rare prime rib roast with lots of horseradish, accompanied by Reininger Ash Hollow Vineyard syrah.

Howdy, bman! Never could understand horseradish with good beef.

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Originally posted by Board-O:

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Originally posted by bman:
Left over medium rare prime rib roast with lots of horseradish, accompanied by Reininger Ash Hollow Vineyard syrah.

Howdy, bman! Never could understand horseradish with good beef.

I can't imagine good roast beef without it!

Maybe it's a Canadian thing.....

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Originally posted by bman:
I can't imagine good roast beef without it!

Maybe it's a Canadian thing.....

+1 on the horseradish and roast beef combo. The hotter the horsey the better.

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Originally posted by VinT:

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Originally posted by bman:
I can't imagine good roast beef without it!

Maybe it's a Canadian thing.....

+1 on the horseradish and roast beef combo. The hotter the horsey the better.

+52, so hot it hurts the back of your head. I love the taste with cold beef. Match made in heaven.

Chicken avocado cobb salad.

Good, but all this talk about roast beef and horseradish has my mouth drooling.

Oatmeal with a really nice Grade A light amber VT maple syrup, blueberries and blackberries.

A nice departure from the hoards of red meat I've been eating lately and have been motivated by the weight loss thread!

green salad with scoop of tuna salad. Very exciting

Went all out today. Peanut butter and banana sandwich.

Squirrely bread was going to go stale and the last banana was getting extremely ripe.

6/10

Fish tacos made with Dover sole and a cilantro cream sauce. Enjoyed overlooking the ocean from the Fairmont Hotel in Santa Monica.

Quick & easy was my theme today for lunch and dinner -- Chipotle soft tacos for a quick 10-minute lunch

Light salad w chick peas. Few raw almonds. Slice of low sodium deli chicken.

making up for a "bad" day yesterday -- fasting for the time being

Chili Cheese Dogs.

Still making up for "bad choices" earlier this week -- oatmeal with a little light maple syrup

Progroesso Calm Chowder GRosso

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Originally posted by Ed Bowers [i.e. FlWino]:
Progroesso Calm Chowder GRosso

Now I'm feeling slightly better about my boneless wings and fries at Chilis the other night!

Sweet potato crusted dolphin over a bed of mixed greens, tropical fruit and green beans.

Chicken roti & a ting.

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Originally posted by vinoevelo:
Chicken roti & a ting.

You get Ting up there? Wow, I am impressed.

A few slices of deli chicken breast.

Carne asada, shrimp, rice, chipotle cream sauce burrito.

Chicken and Wild Rice Soup.

Brebirousse de argental, tierno, 24 month aged prosciutto, duck rillettes, elk/moose/venison pate with cranberries, bread sticks & crackers.

2006 boekenhootskloof Cabernet.

Fresh Dungeness crab

left over chicken paprikash over rice

perfect on a cold NE afternoon