Fave restaurants

in the world?

Tein Le Chow — great Chinese place in Chicago but its takeout Taboon grill is also very good.

Shallots (high-endish place) was always too expensive for me, but they make an amazing pineapple burger, the other food there is also excellent. (What you went to shallots to get a burger??? Yea I did because it was the only place open and I just came in on a flight.)

Pardes

Two outside New York that resulted in my best meal ever for that cuisine.

Pizza Gourmetti in Montreal. Best kosher pizza anywhere. Don’t let the fact that the restaurant is tiny throw you off. I tried to talk the owner into moving to New York but he likes Canada.

Darjeeling in Paris. Best Indian meal I’ve ever had. Unusually for a kosher Indian restaurant, it is a meat restaurant.

Both these places are worth a special trip.

My friend swears by the deep-fried pickles at Wolf and Lamb.

ISRAEL:

agas vitapuach (train stop of kotel through yaffo gate) get spaghetti with cream sauce and salmon!

Papagaio – all you can eat, best food I tasted

Tierra Sur

Stateside: 2nd Avenue Deli, Ben’s Best, Ben’s (for deli), the V Spot (for their Latino cooking), Buddha Bodhai, and Lin’s Chinese (for Chinese), Mendelsohn’s, Bravo, Viva, and Pizza de Solo (for pizza), Tevere 84 (for Italian), Olympic Pita (for Israeli), David’s (for Syrian), Grill 212 (for Temani), Gotham Burger Company in Teaneck, Mexikosher in LA, Milton’s BBQ in Chitown, Kens Diner in Chitown, Basil in CH (best dairy Italian), Burritolam in Teaneck (for quick Mexican), Shalom Bombay, Ladino Tapas, Madras Mahal, Arzu and Salut (for Bukharian)

Israel: Papagaio, Little Italy, O’Connell, Black Bar and Burger, Uno (Tel Aviv), Galileo, Etzle haTurki (only kosher Turkish restaurant in the world probably, since Piyaz in Queens closed).