As I have frequently mentioned in this blogcast, I can be a very picky eater. Part of this is due to the fact that my mom is a horrible cook. She has been known to mess up even the most simple of dishes. I didn't even start to appreciate chocolate cake until I was in college because of her. I am also sort of a super-taster. I can detect sublet flavors in various foods. Not always, but often enough to be put off from eating certain things. This also means I sometimes combine some odd pairings of foods, to my enjoyment but not always for others. This is also why I took up cooking. When I couldn't find anything I liked to eat, I would create something on my own. Okay, I admit I mostly jazz up pre-packaged items, but I do make a few things from scratch. I also have been known to force myself to try new foods and recipes whenever I can. Back in the 90s, I would try as many new things as I could. Sometimes, it was just one new food per week. At least once, I had a new food or recipe everyday. This includes eating out. When I was very young, I had a difficult time when eating out. I could only eat a few things at a few places, and I couldn't be forced to try anything else. As a grew older, I would venture beyond those few meals and places and try newer things. Admittedly, I still don't go too far outside the lines, but then I don't have that many opportunities either. One of the things I am most proud of though is my ability to recreate and adapt meals I've had eaten out and duplicate them at home. I know, but it isn't as scary as it looks.
I had been thinking a lot about all the places where I have eaten out from, and I have decided to write about them in my latest blogcast series. This is going to be a very detailed bunch of posts. I will be grouping these place geographically, like I did for my series on comic books last year. I will dedicate a post to each location that has at least two place where I have eaten out at. Each post will have between six and ten places on it. For those locations with well more than ten spots, I will have multiple posts until I cover them all, with bonus posts on Saturdays so that I can cover an area faster. Locations where there was only one place will be grouped together at the end in a final post, or two. I haven't counted them all out yet. Places that are still open will be in blue, at least as of the start of the year. This status may have temporarily or even permanently changed due to recent flooding, but they were open in January and that is what counts. Places that are closed will stay black. This includes places that I am unsure of their status, either because I was too young to remember much about them or too lazy to look up a place I was at only once and didn't care to check up on it. Places in brackets, [like this,] are 'honorable mentions.' This can mean a couple of things. First, it can mean I only got a fountain drink or something like that there, and not any actual food. It could also mean that other people I was with did order something there, but I didn't. Finally, it can mean that I was planning on eating there, but changed my mind before ordering. The actual entry will explain. Places with a star after them, ⭐, means that I have eaten at that place at least once in the last three years. I chose that timeframe as it felt recent enough to show my current tastes, but far back enough to show how much those tastes have change. Abbreviations after the place show just how and where I ate. DI means I actually ate in the lobby of the place. TO means take-out, and I ate either at home or, the more likely lately, at my store. Finally, DEL stands for delivery, and the food was brought to me. The entry will explain the details. I will try to describe some of the things I ate at each place. I will also include some further tidbits about why I like each place. However, I won't be going too negative about any location that I think I will be returning to. Places that I know I won't be going back to will be graded harshly if I feel it is necessary. Future installments will not contain this legend, but I will probably include a link to this post so I won't have to keep explaining things. I hope you are hungry, for there is going to be a lot to digest.
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