Favorite Calgary restaraunts Part 9

[Calgary Flames]

Toms is overated in terms of Pizza, but they're baked Chilly is amazing.

[asian_persuasion]

Lol! Interesting topic but i'll bite here's mine:

Tony Romas - Best Ribs in the city!

Oscars- Best dry ribs and ceaser salad (but they closed down)

The Cactus Club- Really great steak there!

Chilis- LOve there boneless wings! MMMMMMMM!!!!!!

[Hakan]

You guys should make the trip out to Vancouver. There are tons of absolutely awesome restaurants out here.

[Clarkey]

What exactly are boneless wings?

[Hakan]

My friend works at that barbeque place. wierd.

The rugby club is okay for food. I do like to be able to order items 'a la carte'. And the booze is ridiculously cheap there. $2.35 for Guiness? Forget about it. I saved a receipt for 53 guinesses one drunken night there just because, hell 53 guinesses between 4 guys?

[Incinerator]

Originally posted by Clarkey@Jul 29 2005, 04:19 PM
What exactly are boneless wings?

they are bite size pieces of chicken that are prepared like wings, tastes like wings, but have no bones to deal with.

[Hakan]

My friend works at the barbeque place on Commercial Dr. The Rugby Club is yeah sort of near Granville on Broadway near Oak St.

[Flames_Gimp]

Volo's pizza is my favorite for pizza

[Flames_Gimp]

Originally posted by Hakan@Jul 29 2005, 09:12 AM
You guys should make the trip out to Vancouver. There are tons of absolutely awesome restaurants out here.

Takkis taverna is a really good and affordable greek restaurant, my favorite place in vancouver. (it's on davies though, don't go there if you find assless chaps hard to look at lol)

[Mike Oxlong]

Originally posted by Flames_Gimp+Jul 29 2005, 05:13 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Flames_Gimp @ Jul 29 2005, 05:13 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-Hakan@Jul 29 2005, 09:12 AM
You guys should make the trip out to Vancouver. There are tons of absolutely awesome restaurants out here.

Takkis taverna is a really good and affordable greek restaurant, my favorite place in vancouver. (it's on davies though, don't go there if you find assless chaps hard to look at lol) [/b][/quote]
Aren't you talking about Stepho's?
I eat there everytime I go to Vancouver. Awesome food and cheap.

[Mike Oxlong]

I am surprised no one has mentioned The Sultan's Tent. AWESOME food and you get to eat with your hands.

They serve incredible Morrocan food and the place has a really cool atmosphere. It isn't cheap but it is worth it. If you take a lady there on a date it is very romantic and sensual, especially eating with your hands. You are bound to get lucky after that.

Go for the Sultan's Feast....mmmmmmmm!

[Crazy Flamer]

For those who are fans of Thai food, The Rose Garden on Stephen Ave Mall is simply to die for, and you get a good bang for your buk there as well. Try the Thai beer, its actually pretty damn good!

[Foxy]

Originally posted by JiriHrdina+Jul 28 2005, 09:27 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (JiriHrdina @ Jul 28 2005, 09:27 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>

If you're talking about the Pearl Dragon that's right on 9th, it's now a Vietnamese Restaurant.

Really? That's horrible. Are you sure you're not thinking of the Inglewood Palace half a block down? [/b][/quote]
Firefly is mistaken.

Dragon Pearl is still a Chinese restaurant. What used to be Inglewood Palace has changed it's name to a Vietnamese sounding name (although the exact name escapes me now) and is indeed a Vietnamese restaurant.

She must not have explored 9th Avenue all that well if she lived/lives there but doesn't know Dragon Pearl!

[calf]

Originally posted by Incinerator@Jul 29 2005, 12:02 AM
Catching a road game--Schanks North, Crowfoot Mall next to Cineplex. Biggest screen in town, waitresses are always pleasant, boneless wings...hmmm. I simply won't go anywhere else for a road game unless I'm actually on the road.

Skanks North licks donkey balls. You must be living in opposite world - they have by far the bitchiest waitresses, slow service, half-ok food but that's it...ugh, Skanks sucks.

[TheCommodoreAfro]

Not living in Calgary, I'll tell you the places I miss:

- Thai Sa-On (endorsed by Owen Wilson and Jackie Chan, too!)
- Ho Won - not the dim sum, but a lovely way to feed yourself for a week with a take out order
- Silver Dragon - in Calgary, this is still the best Dim Sum.
- Pegasus
- Sultan's Tent
- Saltlick'
- Clay Oven Restaurant

[Phanuthier]

Originally posted by TheCommodoreAfro@Jul 30 2005, 11:18 PM
- Ho Won - not the dim sum, but a lovely way to feed yourself for a week with a take out order

When I used to work downtown last summer, my group always went there because there was alot of food and cost about $5 each and man were we pigs.

Being cheap and poor (good combo) I go to Chanti's alot for dates. Might be cardboard to some, but I think its pretty good and, well, cheap.

Tom's House of Pizza... never caught on to the facination. The best pizza I've had in Calgary is probably downtown in the TCP building. The little european market thing, at the very back... made Italian style.

[Crazy Flamer]

I just got back from the Chicago Chophouse.

Overrated, in my opinion.

The decor was generic, the service was average, the food was fantastic but over priced. I don't think I'd go back. I'd rather go to Murietta's or Wildwood.

[RT14]

Originally posted by TheCommodoreAfro@Jul 30 2005, 04:18 PM
Not living in Calgary, I'll tell you the places I miss:

- Thai Sa-On (endorsed by Owen Wilson and Jackie Chan, too!)
- Ho Won - not the dim sum, but a lovely way to feed yourself for a week with a take out order
- Silver Dragon - in Calgary, this is still the best Dim Sum.
- Pegasus
- Sultan's Tent
- Saltlick'
- Clay Oven Restaurant

After living in an Asian country for the past 2 yrs, I don't understand how you could possibly miss Asian quisine in Calgary if you live in Tokyo. Don't you get enough of the real stuff there? I know I do.

Definately no Asian restaurants on my list of missed restaurants. Give me a juicy steak or hamburger anyday.

I can't believe an ALBERTA favorite restaurant list includes so many, Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese an Thai menu's. Where's the BEEF?

[TheCommodoreAfro]

Originally posted by RT14+Jul 31 2005, 03:56 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (RT14 @ Jul 31 2005, 03:56 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-TheCommodoreAfro@Jul 30 2005, 04:18 PM
Not living in Calgary, I'll tell you the places I miss:

- Thai Sa-On (endorsed by Owen Wilson and Jackie Chan, too!)
- Ho Won - not the dim sum, but a lovely way to feed yourself for a week with a take out order
- Silver Dragon - in Calgary, this is still the best Dim Sum.
- Pegasus
- Sultan's Tent
- Saltlick'
- Clay Oven Restaurant

After living in an Asian country for the past 2 yrs, I don't understand how you could possibly miss Asian quisine in Calgary if you live in Tokyo. Don't you get enough of the real stuff there? I know I do.

Definately no Asian restaurants on my list of missed restaurants. Give me a juicy steak or hamburger anyday.

I can't believe an ALBERTA favorite restaurant list includes so many, Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese an Thai menu's. Where's the BEEF? [/b][/quote]
Chinese food in Tokyo is tasty - but it's damn expensive and the portions meagre. Dim Sum is expensive as hell too - two dumplings in say, a middle of the road pricewise restaurant in Yokohama's chinatown will run you about 8 dollars Canadian. Thai is the same - there isn't a better Thai restaurant that I've been to outside of Thailand. You'll also notice that I didn't list any Japanese restaurants though, as I don't miss or really care to eat Japanese in Calgary. And there are more than enough Korean restaurants in Tokyo to also allow me to not miss it when I'm back home. I've lived in Japan for a total of five years now (spread over the last decade and change), and good eats are good eats no matter where you are.

Of course I could always go for a good steak, but to tell you the truth, the best steak in Calgary according to me was a good cut marinated with McNally's Extra and garlic and barbequed at my place. When it comes to Alberta style comfort food, the best stuff come from my mum's kitchen. So when I went out, it was almost always because I couldn't do it myself at home - that's why you won't find those kind of downhome places on my fave Calgary restaruant list...

[jam26]

Originally posted by Hakan@Jul 29 2005, 04:12 PM
You guys should make the trip out to Vancouver. There are tons of absolutely awesome restaurants out here.

Good restaurants, but very few good hockey players.