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Re: Restaurants
« Reply #378 on: April 21, 2025, 08:12:38 AM »
I'd want to hit Holeman and Finch for a burger.
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« Reply #379 on: April 21, 2025, 08:15:01 AM »
Quote from: 847badgerfan on April 21, 2025, 07:41:24 AM
How's the view?
a hot dog at the ball park or a runza at Memorial stadium in Lincoln
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Re: Restaurants
« Reply #380 on: April 21, 2025, 08:50:07 AM »
Quote from: 847badgerfan on April 21, 2025, 08:12:38 AM
I'd want to hit Holeman and Finch for a burger.
There is one close to us, we tried it twice, once for lunch, once dinner.  We might not have ordered the right thing, dunno, it was mediocre we thought.  Just across from it is a place a friend started up that we do like a lot.

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« Reply #381 on: April 23, 2025, 10:51:00 AM »
Quote from: OrangeAfroMan on April 20, 2025, 12:13:57 PM
All the Chicago-connected restaurants in Phoenix all look the same.  They look like antique shops with every inch of wall space covered in photos and shit.

Why does a place to eat need to look like a hoarder's house? 

So Uno's, Giordano's, Lou Malnati's, Rosati's - I don't disagree (all Italian/Pizza chains), but who else?

Speaking of Italian/Pizza, you ever do Oregano's? They are not Chicago based (only in the Phoenix and Tucson areas), but boast Chicago-style pizzas & sandwiches. What gives them the edge in the Italian game (IMO) is fusing a bit of latin flair into what would otherwise be mostly an Olive Garden menu. Like the chipotle sauces and pepper mixes added into their pasta dishes. I always make a point to take my Dad to their Tempe location. Oregano's interiors are definitely antique-shoppy:





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Re: Restaurants
« Reply #382 on: April 23, 2025, 11:26:07 AM »
It's flare, you need a minimum of 28 pieces, some choose to have more.
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« Reply #383 on: April 23, 2025, 07:05:20 PM »
I like Oregano's. 
I don't know the names of the Chicago places, but there's a beef sandwich place near 7th/camelback maybe and another Chicago slider place at 38th/camelback. 

It just seems to be a theme to me.  A Chicago pizza place in Vegas was similar as well - just infinite small, framed photos of everything.  Even Portillo's is like that, with photos and wagons and random shit hanging up by the ceilings.
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Re: Restaurants
« Reply #384 on: April 23, 2025, 07:09:28 PM »
Maybe Cracker Barrel made it widely spread, dunno.  
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Re: Restaurants
« Reply #385 on: April 24, 2025, 07:51:03 AM »
It's a Chicago thing.

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Re: Restaurants
« Reply #386 on: April 24, 2025, 08:16:49 AM »
I noticed a hot dog at the Braves' stadium was $9.69.  We had an event before the game with "free food", so I didn't partake.  They sent me a survey about how I liked the game, I gave mediocre to low marks.  My wife told me she enjoyed the game, which surprised me a bit, I didn't respond until she asked what I thought.

"I realize they try and cater to younger folks and families, which is fine, but to me, it isn't "baseball", it's some show that happens and in between some folks play baseball."

I go to one game a year because it's "free" and I get to see guys I know, fine, but the game itself today in person is not something I enjoy, and yes, I'm old and crotchety.  Part of it was sitting in the second desk down the right field line, I could barely see the ball.
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« Reply #387 on: April 24, 2025, 08:38:13 AM »
I lean to thinking a lot of "crap" on the walls is to cover up having mediocre food, but obviously that's an over generalization.  It doesn't do much for me unless it's a collection of interesting old photos of something.  I dimly recall sports theme restaurants where the photos are of the owner and some pro ballplayer who dined there.

There is a steak house in Cincy called "The Precinct" that I'm told was considered the place to go for visiting baseball players.  I dined there 2-3 times on the company's dime, I thought it was only "OK" foodwise, but we were a larger group.  They had a lot of photos on the walls.

I wonder if it survived.  Yup, this fellow Jeff Ruby runs a lot of steak houses in Cincy.  I guess it's better than bare walls.  Mebbe.

The Precinct | Cincinnati's Original Upscale Steakhouse
The Precinct | Cincinnati's Original Upscale Steakhouse

The Precinct is the first of Jeff Ruby’s nationally-acclaimed steakhouses and where his vision for The Jeff Ruby Experience was brought to life. Opening in 1981 in the old Cincinnati Police Patrol House No. 6, it is now the longest continuously-running fine dining restaurant in the city. For more than four decades, The Precinct has served its guests timeless memories right alongside the ultimate dining experience.

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Re: Restaurants
« Reply #388 on: April 24, 2025, 08:47:48 AM »
Lots of those national chains put a lot of crap on the walls. 



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Re: Restaurants
« Reply #389 on: April 24, 2025, 08:51:48 AM »
this was a place in Lincoln, burger bar....... PO Pears - no longer there



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Re: Restaurants
« Reply #390 on: April 24, 2025, 08:54:51 AM »
I understand why national chains do this sort of thing.  It comes with the turf, fine with me, I avoid them, mostly.  I think some of the midrange national chains are "OK to decent", if I'm somewhere new I might seek one out in lieu of something locally owned, or not, usually not.

I don't know of any "national chains" in Europe beyond fast food places.  

I'm still kind of rolling my eyes at seeing 7-11s over much of Asia everywhere, on every corner, and of course a ton of McDs and BKs and KFCs, especially the latter.  KFC seems really popular overseas.  

I can recall as a kid when Dad would bring home a bucket it was a cause celebre.
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