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Best of Indy dining: Dish it out, part II
Posted: Feb 12, 2008 in Dining
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It's that time of year again folks, when we gear up to put together the most comprehensive Dining Guide around.
It's a mammoth task, and we're tired of toiling away at it alone. So we need your help.
Over the course of five days this week, we will post 25 probing questions on www.indy.com in order to find out which local restaurants make your "favorites" list, and why. The best answers might appear in print when we unveil our upcoming annual dining guide.
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So get to it. Your time starts now.
Dining guide questions
Tell us what you like about the place, what sets it apart, and why all of Indy should try a meal there.
6: Favorite place for a perfectly grilled big, fat, juicy hunk of meat?
7: Favorite place to ingest raw fish with rice?
8: Favorite location for gustation of ocean crustations?
9: Favorite house for a finger-lickin BBQ baste?
10: Favorite sandwich place, be it open-faced / grilled / panini or otherwise?
6: 96th St. Steakburger - perfect beefyness goodness
7: SAKURA!!!
8: Sakura
9: Hawg Wild
10: Jimmy Johns
A note - When you're making a list, place two spaces after the end of each item on the list. This will keep each listing on a separate line for a more organized look.
6.) Eddie Merlot's
7.) Sakura
8.) Not a big fan of seafood, but the calamari at P.F. Changs is the best around.
9.) Bourbon Street Distillery
10.) Northside News Cafe
6) Capital Grille
7) Ocean World
8) McCormick & Schmick's
9) Judge's Tip of the Rib
10) Stars Sandwich Market
6: Are we talking hamburgers or steak? They way these questions are formed sucks. I prefer 96th Street Steakburgers for hamburgers also.
7: Pass
8: Not big in to seafood other than shrimp.
9: GT Souths, hands down. This category is done
10: Jersey Mike's for subs. If you've never had them, do it. It will change your life.
6) Red Robin (hamburger), Texas Roadhouse (steak)
7) Pass
8) Pass
9) Another vote for GT South's ... big fan
10) Quiznos.
6) Texas Roadhouse (pick your own steak, it can be cut to any size!)
7) Kabuto's
8) Kona Grill
9) Texas Roadhouse (see below reasoning!)
10) Paradise Cafe & Bakery
just for full disclosure, I work for Texas Roadhouse. For the value you get, the care that goes into the food can't be beat.
6: Mo's
7: Pass (don't do seafood much)
8: Pass
9: Pass (don't do BBQ much, either)
10: Hoaglin's
6: Favorite place for a perfectly grilled big, fat, juicy hunk of meat? Marco's
7: Favorite place to ingest raw fish with rice? Sakura. No contest.
8: Favorite location for gustation of ocean crustations? I assume this means crab. I don't know from crab.
9: Favorite house for a finger-lickin BBQ baste? GT South. Their Brunswick stew is sublime.
10: Favorite sandwich place, be it open-faced / grilled / panini or otherwise? Northside News Cafe - The Cuban Sandwich. Oh lord, do I love the NNC Cuban sandwich.
6: pass
7: pass
8: pass
9: now this one, I know. Dick's Bodacious gets money from me every week. They have daily specials, and their downtown location is aound the corner from my office.
10: I agree... Northside News has an OFF THE CHAIN CUBAN. I went to get a magazine, and I asked for a suggestion on lunch, and that's what they got me.
6: pass. I don't do steak
7: Mikado, I eat sushi, but not the raw fish kind.
8: pass.
9: pass (although I enjoy some backyard bbq)
10: Shapiro's
6- St. Elmo's
7- PASS
8- No real "favorite"
9- Squealer's BBQ - yum.
10- Cousin's or Reggie's
6: If we're talking burgers, 96th St. Steakburgers. If we're talking steak, honestly, probably Ted's Montana Grill
7: Naked Tchopstix--YUM
8: See #7
9: GT Souths
10: Penn Station