where are those beef and lamb ones from ???
they look dope.
in LA or ???
I was Correct on the dumpling and wrong on the restaurant.
AWESOME suggestion and find!!
THANK YOU, sir!
I’m not sure if it was beef or lamb. It was at Ginza in St. Petersburg, Russia.
Good gawd…soooo NSFW
Restaurants can get real scampi from specialty suppliers but it’s hard to find places that serve them using Google since the word is so often used for crawfish or shrimp dishes. They’re insanely expensive so they’d turn up at high-end places only. The last place I recall hearing about them in California was at Saison in SF.
An interesting read about how Chef Bartolotta in Las Vegas managed to obtain a source for his live langoustines from an obscure secret location in the Mediterranean…
I believe Joshua Skenes thinks the best ones come from Scotland.
Yeah made my way over to his resto shortly after reading the article. But at $20+ a pop… Kinda expensive.
The purveyor was featured on a recent episode on Andrew Zimmern, Faroe Island I believe.
Maybe different but can get a whole plate of split and grilled langoustinos at piccolo Paradiso on Beverly. Fresh and tasty and they have em most days.
i’ve always felt bartolotta is one of the most underrated restaurants
in the country.
i’ve had few meals as good as the ones i’ve had there.
I cry UNCLE!
This one here, I enjoyed all over Barcelona, #kingoftapas
where’s bartollato ???
is that the las vegas restaurant with the fresh fish flown in from fucking Italy by the pound ???
thanks man.
I know that I might get flamed for loving a Yelp favorite, but I really truly enjoy Burma Superstar in the Bay Area. I’m frankly surprised, given the success of the small chain, that nobody (including Burma Superstar) has brought a similar idea to fruition down here. The popularity of Burmese food is a no brainer to me – similar to Thai food in some ways, but more colorful, layered and complex. Done right, I feel like it should be the next “big thing” down here. Similarly, there is a great Indonesian place in Berkley called Jakarta that I have been on a mission to find something akin to locally, with no success. I have sought out and had some success finding Indo food in OC (where I reside), and there are a handful of places offering some Burmese options, but they are rather hole-in-the-wall-ish (actually, come to think of it, Jakarta in Berkley is kind of a hole-in-the-wall, though you can order an Indo beer ;). I’m fairly adventurous, but it can be daunting to walk into a place and have no idea what you are ordering. Hole-in-the-wall places certainly have their place, but I think Burma Superstar really opened the door to a lot of people who would not otherwise be inclined to venture into a Burmese restaurant. I know that there are detractors of just such a thing. And some likely despise it’s hipster appeal. I myself enjoy that the place has some ambiance and that I can get a really interesting cocktail to go with my really interesting meal. In a way, it sort of is the gringo-ification (if you will) of the cuisine. I don’t mean dumbing down the flavor of the food, because I think that has remained intact. I just mean making it more accessible to the non-indigenous eater. I think the hipsters and Yelpsters are on to something with Burmese and Indo cuisine and I, for one, wish there were more options in our area.
Saison is just absurdly expensive period.
There are 2 places in LA where I’ve seen them.
Marche Moderne in OC. I get them every time they’re in. 2 large ones, sweet, usually paired porcini or truffles and pasta.
Vertical Wine Bistro in Pasadena. Part of the best bang for the buck chilled seafood tower in town. We usually add an extra order of langoustines. These towers are insanely generous. Any other restaurant in town would charge 2-2.5x for it. I always wonder if they’re losing money on the tower.
Yeah. Think it’s at the Wynn
Mr_JJ…do you live in LA? I just called a few local TJs and they all said they used to carry them but haven’t for years. Which TJs did you see them at, and how recently did you see them? Thanks in advance.
Curds don’t travel very well, unless they’re refrigerated from dairy to store (especially in our seemingly never-ending summer heat), which is why it’d be nice if some local dairy started to make them.
yes, and been a while but did a poutine night last year (or so) and gottem from TJ Fairfax/3d. sorry this is so elusive.
You can read my Barcelona and Madrid trip reports on Chowhound.
We are going to Portland in a few days and while researching I came up with a few places that offered tasting menus for under $100. A few are Castagna, Holdfast dining, Nomad PDX, Nodoguro, Langbaan.
San Francisco has plenty of new affordable tasting menus such as Progress, Al’s place, Aster.
I have seen them in stores at my local Haggen as recently as two weeks ago. You may want to give them a holler.
Worth a shot.