Your post brings to mind a happy memory of an engagement party that I attended in that area years ago. Near Fall River, there’s a place in Swansea, Mass. called Venus de Milo that matches your description.
Fun fact is that the American chef Emeril Lagasse cooked there as a young man. The Venus de Milo has a quite a history in the community. The original owner has since sold the business.
As Hatch season draws near, a swing through New Mexico would be a great way to get to Texas, in particular central Texas for barbecue, Tex-Mex (including puffy tacos in San Antonio), real Mexican food, and Texas style burgers. I have been to and eaten in the lower forty-eight and most of the larger Canadian cities. Texas is, to me, the home of comfort food, but the fresh seafood, wine, produce, and dairy of Oregon (and Washington) are pretty special.
I’m in SF, have visited LA but not in many years. I saw the show with Bobby Flay and his daughter Sophie in LA and was captivated by his visit to Jitlada … the owner is so outgoing. Macrogonoff, who lives in LA loves the place (Thai) but says the food is too spicy for her husband so he just orders the mango with sticky rice. That’s so sweet …
In SF I would take you to Farolito on 24th Street for a chile relleño burrito with Mexican Coke.
I like a lot of Tex-Mex, but the puffy taco was a one-and-done for me. We got them last November at Henry’s Express in San Antonio, which was billed as one of the inventors of the genre, and I have to say it was distinctly underwhelming. We had a lot of much better food elsewhere on that trip.
I have always heard people sing the praises of SA for puffy tacos. I have never been there for them. I get them at La Posada in Austin and like them a lot, but my favorite restaurant tacos (as opposed to food truck tacos, which are quite often at a whole different level) are the carnitas tacos at Angie’s. Her freshly made tortillas are thick and delicious, somewhere between puffy, crispy, and soft. There is a new place here called Nixta that my daughter raves about. Soon.
I want to visit Farolito. I’ll take a rain-check for a meetup on my next visit. (Maybe 2024 or 2025? I hope!)
My cousins brought me to Cancun in the Mission for a burrito in October 2010!
Yum
There are a few but not all offer chile relleno.
Next time I visit NYC, I want to visit the Fraunces Tavern and Pete’s Tavern.
Also, the Gramercy Tavern and Keen’s. They have been on my list for years, and I haven’t made it work yet.
Jay’s Artisan Pizzeria in Buffalo.https://www.jaysbuffalo.com/
Definitely go for the history. Definitely do not go for the food.
My ‘See food’ cravings…
• pan fried abalone from the north central west coast
• Striped Bass like mom made it (poached in aw light tomato/
onion/white wine herbed liquid)
• sand dabs and sole Meunière
• pan fried calamari steak with lemon wedges and my tartar sauce
• Steamed clams and mussels of all sorts
• big, steamed, NE type lobsters
• Dungeness crab
• Rainbow or Brown trout, Sierra mountains river caught and fried river side
• seafood fritters: crab, conch, shrimp lobster
that’s it for now!
I think the food served at the museum in Fraunces Tavern is better than the food at the bar itself.
Our see foods are cioppino, Crab Louie and crab cakes.also, Oysters Rockefeller when I see them on a menu. Bbqed oysters at Morro Bay.
Morro Bay reminds me to revisit Taco Temple some day.
There’s food at the museum?
Exactly.
The museum does not serve food.
Oh.
Where are you finding this?
I’m craving this. The last time I had fresh coastal abalone was 30 something years ago. I purchased some frozen from Giovanni’s in Morro Bay a few Christmases for a gift to the roomate.
Interesting . Abalone harvesting has been banned in California for commercial and sport since 2017 .
The last time I was in Monterey, there was an outfit selling farmed abs. I think they were on the municipal pier.
