When we got married in 1974 in Berkeley, a Kansas City friend of my father’s sent us an ice chest with 20 pounds of Bryant’s barbecue as a gift. We left on our honeymoon the next day (camping in Lassen - so 70s), so my family ate it all and we never got any of it!
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And unaffordable to me now.
Quelle domage.
We might have told somewhere on this site our Bryant’s delivery story:
After business in KC area, we were going on to East Coast before next business obligation, spending weekend with friend who knows where to eat and what to order, wherever . . . Friend (who always came to airport gate before 9/11) notes itinerary and casually observes: "You’re delivering ribs of course . . . "
At the MCI then-perfunctory X-ray scan, as the takeout goes through, I say to TSA guy watching screen, “Bryant’s.” Grinning, he turns to partner, “He thought you looked like a Gates guy.” (Actually, our brother went to Gates instead of Bryant’s, his one time in KC.)
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NY Too many places Hard Roll w/ butter (but I’ll give a shout out to the Rockland Bakery!)
VT Corn Chowder Elementary School 1962 Yes it made an impression 
Maine Becky’s Whoopie Pie & her Haddock F&C
KS Nabil’s (long gone) Chicken Picatta They also had a delicate Dill salad dressing that was fab. My Bryant’s tale-- got dragged there by college friends in '78 & the free burnt ends had run out 
The ribs were good.
RI Providence Roast Beef Sandwich
NJ Roast Beef Wedge – a sub from “The Wedge Deli”.
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Christmas Chile Relleno - La Choza, Santa Fe New Mexico
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How sad … why couldn’t they have frozen some for you?
Red’s Eats, Wiscasset, worth standing in line for the lobster roll, loved their whole belly fried clams too.
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Thanks. It would have never occurred to my parents to freeze some for us! 
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That’s incredibly rude. Wow.
But, but, we’re family!
Just to clarify. I didn’t tell this Bryant’s story to gain sympathy. We all thought it was pretty funny. Several weird things happened during our honeymoon so this just fit right in! We’re still married though after 48 years. 
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I’m sure your family just didn’t want all that good food to go to waste 
After 48 years I’m sure there’s no hard feelings.
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MD (Baltimore), Pierpoint: Smoked Crabcakes
Any ratty old lobster pound on the Maine coast: Lobster roll
CA (San Francisco), Sam’s Grill: Charcoal grilled salmon in season, or sand dabs
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Atlanta, GA: Fried Chicken at The Busy Bee
Atlanta, GA: Buttermilk Pie at Buttermilk Sky Pie
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North Jersey - Stretches Famous Chicken Savoy, The Belmont Tavern, Belleville
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Although we’ve already spent our California vote on a Tommy’s chili cheeseburger, the runners-up might be Sam’s petrale or Tadich Grill’s sand dabs, either with creamed spinach (Sam’s get that vote).
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Sometimes a meal is truly memorable. I’d only been in SF a few months, was working as a secretary in the financial district until I got a CA teaching certificate. I don’t know how I found out about Sam’s Grill, was very hesitant to eat alone, sat at the counter, ordered Filet of Sole Marguery and a glass of very cold house white wine, great sourdough and butter came with the meal. The sole with cream sauce and crab and shrimp?? was fresh and very hot, combined with that cold wine, was so perfect to me. Had it a few other times, then it wasn’t on the menu but they said they could still make it for me.
Several years ago I was treating a special friend to lunch there and we didn’t like the food at all and I haven’t been back. Maybe it was a substitute cook that day but I’ve always enjoyed my meals at Tadich so that’s where I go. But, I have that beautiful memory!
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A good while ago, we savored an abalone steak at a dinner show in a Nevada casino ! Never seen abalone offered the few times at Duarte’s, but surely would have ordered — our loss.
Get enough of a crowd together and sit in either’s curtained booths. All you all in that gathering will remember the occasion. Do that enough times, and it’s a mindless ritual, like Friday lunch at Galatoire’s, though not mindless in the sense that you don’t know why you’re there.
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It’s a miracle but Tadich takes reservations now. It was hard to fit 5 into a booth but we managed. They were out of Sand Dabs, unfortunately. I always read through the menu then order the fried shellfish minus the calamari. My daughter always orders the Oysters Rockefeller. Also, now they close for a while in between lunch and dinner.
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