Originally posted by tautology
lol...900 Grayson is a very fine restaurant (though it is a casual lunch and brunch venue).
I doubt there are many folks on this site who have a wider range of culinary tastes, or that spend more on fine dining than I do (though I encourage everyone to make me a liar ).
I am happy to drop 4 figures on a very advanced menu at the French Laundry or Manresa, but I'm also partial to home-style truck stop food, whether prepared by a Michelin decorated chef or the local pancake flipper.
Something prepared from reasonably fresh and unadulterated ingredients rather than processed 500 miles away...that's the key
I'm begining to like you more and more Taut.
I can guarantee that I could match your wide range of culinary tastes. However, I'm pretty adventurous in that i am just at much at home having blowfish at Urasawa in LA as I am a kebob from a street vendor in Istanbul or a slice of tomato pie in Trenton. And frankly, probably more comfortable in the atmosphere of the latter two, than the first one.
But I'm with Jsully, there is just no better than foot than a great Italian meal. Maybe that's the Italian in me showing some love.
I've been to quite a few places around the globe, and I'm always trying local dishes. However, best meal I ever had was a simple plate of fettucini, peasant bread and some chianti in Venice.