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Posted on 3/3/20 at 9:03 pm to Oilfieldbiology
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In New Orleans you have Cajun, you have creole, you have Italian, you have French, you have Asian, and you have country cooking/fried food
You've posted some really shite takes, but wow.
You're using fried food as a barometer for which city has better food?
Obviously, NOLA has better Cajun and Creole since that is the home of that food. Just like Houston has better Mexican. And not just Tex Mex bullshite, real mexican food.
Houston Asian blows NOLA out of the water. There is a China town, there is an India town. There is better Vietnamese, Thai and sushi. This competition isn't even remotely close.
There is very good Italian in Houston as well.
Probably every category other than Cajun/Creole and maybe French is going to be better in Houston. There are more places and more people from those regions and, therefore, there is naturally going to be better options.
Anyone who says the NOLA is a better food scene is likely biased towards their home state and biased towards Cajun/creole food. Honestly good cajun/creole can barely even be found in Houston.
Posted on 3/3/20 at 9:07 pm to GynoSandberg
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It’s nice not having to travel through tolls and loops and concrete just to get to your spot. I don’t need 10 different places doing the same cuisine as long as I have 1 go-to that does it right. I don’t yearn for any type of food in NOLA. It has everything I need
Fantastic. You are proud of your town.
Literally, none of anything you just said has anything to do with who has better food.
You may have a go to place in NO for a type of food, however, that doesnt mean that Houston doesnt have a restaurant that produces better food.
Posted on 3/3/20 at 9:09 pm to CnAzInCA
The quality and scale of the New Orleans food scene is obscenely impressive given its size. I won't disagree that the average joint there is better than the average one in Houston.
The belief that Houston, even with its sheer #s, can't compete with New Orleans is patently false. Sure, it doesn't have a renowned native cuisine, but I'm fine with that since I'm more than content to have quality across a much, much wider spectrum of cuisines.
The notion that I have to drive from one end of the earth to the other to find good food in Houston is also lol.
The belief that Houston, even with its sheer #s, can't compete with New Orleans is patently false. Sure, it doesn't have a renowned native cuisine, but I'm fine with that since I'm more than content to have quality across a much, much wider spectrum of cuisines.
The notion that I have to drive from one end of the earth to the other to find good food in Houston is also lol.
This post was edited on 3/3/20 at 9:17 pm
Posted on 3/3/20 at 9:23 pm to bdevill
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New Orleans though, has its own cuisine which can't be duplicated or translated successfully, anywhere. No other city in the country can make that claim.
Wat? I just went to a place called Gumbo Bros in New York. The owners are from NOLA and it tastes exactly like what you get in NOLA. In fact, most of their ingredients are sourced from LA. They get Liedenhiemer bread for their poboys and seafood sourced from the gulf coast.
This isn’t 1890 where you can only eat food from your general area and the only thing people bring with them to a new place is chlamydia.
Posted on 3/3/20 at 9:59 pm to FulshearTiger
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Fantastic. You are proud of your town.
Literally, none of anything you just said has anything to do with who has better food.
You may have a go to place in NO for a type of food, however, that doesnt mean that Houston doesnt have a restaurant that produces better food.
You order $80 king cakes from New Orleans
Posted on 3/3/20 at 10:06 pm to GynoSandberg
Your avatar is fire, G baby
Posted on 3/3/20 at 10:07 pm to Louie T
Ty gent
I’ll buy you dinner at maypop and we can hit the blender next time your in town
I’ll buy you dinner at maypop and we can hit the blender next time your in town
Posted on 3/3/20 at 10:10 pm to GynoSandberg
Cheers, baw
Posted on 3/3/20 at 10:52 pm to TheChosenOne
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Gumbo Bros in New York.
Posted on 3/3/20 at 11:08 pm to CnAzInCA
quote:there are a ton of recs for Houston on this board, literally a few times a week it gets posted I think
Finally, someone actually answers the question - albeit unintentionally - with a couple recommendations
Posted on 3/3/20 at 11:44 pm to The Egg
Which is it? Literally, or you think?
This post was edited on 3/3/20 at 11:45 pm
Posted on 3/4/20 at 8:11 am to TheChosenOne
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I just went to a place called Gumbo Bros in New York.
You went to one restaurant in New York that serves gumbo.. That's great. Out of the thousands and thousands of restaurants in New York, there's ONE New Orleans themed restaurant owned by New Orleanians who source all of their products from the New Orleans area. One. While you completely missed my point, you inadvertently proved it.
Good for them, though. I hope they do well.
Come to think of it, we had a New York themed restaurant in New Orleans at one time.. It was opened by Naomi Campbell, Elle Macphereson, Christy Turlington and Claudia Schiffer called Model Café. It lasted about 2 months.
This post was edited on 3/4/20 at 8:56 am
Posted on 3/4/20 at 8:17 am to MettShow69
I couldn’t agree more. Thank you for your brave opinion sir
Posted on 3/4/20 at 10:27 am to CnAzInCA
quote:There is a significant difference between “destination dining” and “a good food scene.”
Could you name some of these wonderful, memorable dining establishments to which traveling foodies flock to Houston on their vacations? Believe me, I shall try some of them the next time I’m in Houston, which should be in April.
You have described the former. Yes, people fly to New Orleans to enjoy a few days of delicious Creole and Cajun meals, and it is unique in being able to provide that experience.
I think that a “good food scene” is a much broader concept and relates more-closely to locals. In a “good food scene,” you can eat a delicious meal of a different style every night for a month, with no repetition or overlap.
As much as I love eating Creole and Cajun in New Orleans, you would have real trouble arguing seriously that New Orleans provides the breadth of Houston’s overall “food scene.”
Posted on 3/4/20 at 10:42 am to AggieHank86
It’s kinda making sense why y’all think they way you do. You have a jaded tourist understanding of the food here.Thinking creole, Cajun, poboys, Gumbo, jambalaya etc represents the current NOLA dining scene
You can go through the top 50 current best restaurants here without hitting on any of that stuff. The majority of the current best chefs here aren’t from New Orleans.
It would make a good meme. “What people think we eat” ... “what we actually eat”
You can go through the top 50 current best restaurants here without hitting on any of that stuff. The majority of the current best chefs here aren’t from New Orleans.
It would make a good meme. “What people think we eat” ... “what we actually eat”
Posted on 3/4/20 at 10:53 am to bdevill
You still have not addressed the assumption that NOLA cooking cannot be duplicated anywhere outside NOLA.
Based on what you are saying, I would not eat Chicago or NY style pizza or any sort of BBQ in NOLA because it can't be duplicated.
(Maybe I'm missing the point, and I am not trying to be a jerk. Picture that we are having this argument sitting at a bar together to capture the tenor of my comments)
Based on what you are saying, I would not eat Chicago or NY style pizza or any sort of BBQ in NOLA because it can't be duplicated.
(Maybe I'm missing the point, and I am not trying to be a jerk. Picture that we are having this argument sitting at a bar together to capture the tenor of my comments)
Posted on 3/4/20 at 10:55 am to GynoSandberg
Yeah
Gumbo from Link/Folse restaurants is about the only time I'll order that sort of stuff outside of a poboy.
Gumbo from Link/Folse restaurants is about the only time I'll order that sort of stuff outside of a poboy.
This post was edited on 3/4/20 at 10:58 am
Posted on 3/4/20 at 11:09 am to Tigertown in ATL
Yea.. I believe you are missing the point. My point is that New Orleans has its own type of cuisine that is specific to the area and that it doesn't easily translate outside of the area because the cuisine is a deeply ingrained part of the ethnicity and culture that is exclusive and unique to New Orleans.
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Based on what you are saying, I would not eat Chicago or NY style pizza or any sort of BBQ in NOLA because it can't be duplicated.
I'm not sure what you're trying to say here..
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