🚀 go-pugleaf

Professor vonroach wrote:


> On Sat, 08 Feb 2003 15:32:39 GMT, "Gregory Morrow" <gregorymorrow@att.net>
> wrote:
>
> >I am *always* willing to assist the fine denizens of houston.eats,
Professor
> >;-)  This is one of the better local food NG's on Usenet,
actually...check
> >out dc.dining or stl.dining if you want to see something pathetic...even
> >chi.eats ain't that hot.....
>
> Too bad, IMHO Chicago has the mother load of fine steakhouses. I never got
a
> really bad steak in Chicago including a strange little place in Melrose
Park
> where we were cautioned not to get too friendly with some young ladies who
were
> members of a large Sicilian family. There was another Bohemian Place just
beyond
> Elmhurst on North Ave.  Several places in the Loop area are terrific. But
you
> are right, when I'm through with steakhouses, I'm left with hamburger
joints and
> frankly, `New Town' or `Old Town' or what ever is a phony - once got
catsup in a
> steak place billed as a `secret sauce'. After a good steak, it is time to
sample
> the little bars on the near Northside.  The Ambassador East was a great
> restaurant/night club ($200 + -night back in '50's when money was money)
but now
> I hear it's closed..


The Ambassador East is still open (along with the fabled Pump Room) - mebbe
you are thinking of the Ambassador West?  It has been turned into luxury
condos.  IIRC Benny Goodman "discovered" a very young Peggy Lee at the
nitery of the AW in 1941 or so.....


 Special pancakes and the rice pudding at the Palmer House
> are worthy of mention. Take some comfort in the fact that there is hardly
a good
> steak restaurant left in the whole State of Texas. Maybe Stockyards Inn in
Fort
> Worth if it is still open. (Excellent steaks still available for a price
at
> private Houston Club - a customer of Stockyards Packing of Chicago).

I ate at the fabled old Stockyard Inn here in Chicago when my father took me
to the 1967 Chicago Auto Show...it's long gone.

The cuisine
> goes down fast as one gets out of Chicago metro area.

You ain't kiddin'...although Wisconsin has some culinary "specialities":
cheese, fish boils, bratwurst, and more cheese...and beer.  Wisconsin leads
the nation in morbid obesity.....

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Best
Greg