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[mylo]

Where is there good fish n chips in town? That's a fav of mine but I hate to fry fish and stink up the house especially when it's so hot and the AC is on. No airing out the house.

Kings used to be the best in town, IMO, but I'm okay with their replacement.

My favorite, lately, is actually the Halibut Fish'n'Chips at Scotts. So good!

[Bill Z]

Excellent feedback, thanks Bill

I like the way you put it too - "look to order things you are less likely to make at home"

Out of all the different nationality foods, which one would you say is your favorite that you would always go back for?

I love Korean food, but because we don't have a local restaurant, I don't have it very often.

I like Thai, Japanese (cooked offerings), Chinese, Mexican, Italian, & American.

I've never been overly impressed with Indian. It's never been like "gross, I won't eat that", it's just never been "wow, I gotsta have more of that". It's always been "ho hum" to my palate.

I liked the Afghani place we had in town.

If we had a good Korean restaurant, one where you cooked your own food at the table, I would be a regular customer. When I used to go to Irvine, CA on business travel, I used to look forward to eating at this Korean restaurant in Tustin, CA.

[Nancy]

Anything gluten free.

When we have more money to spend on going out to eat on a regular basis, I'm planning on approaching some of the restaurants in Folsom to see if they are open to developing a small gluten free menu (like five or so items). There are very few things anymore that I can't make an excellent gluten free version of, so any restaurant that was willing to do it would be able to.

Gluten free would be a goldmine for Folsom restaurants. GF people have been known to drive for a hundred miles to be able to sit down and eat at a restaurant that is willing and able to cook for them. With all of the touristy and shopping options here in Folsom already, a GF friendly restaurant would be able to draw a lot of people just from that. Personally, I'd love for just a place to go have just a regular American breakfast in Folsom. Breakfast is so easy to do GF, but it would be nice to go to a restaurant instead of having to cook it at home every time.

By the way, if any restaurants are interested in developing a GF menu, PM me and let me know.

Other than that, I agree. Anything that's complicated or a PITA to make. And fish. Ugh.. I've always wondered why the smell of fish lingering in the house is so gross, but the smell of beef stew is yummy.

Someone mentioned recently on another thread that Folsom needs a good bakery in town. (Not talking about GF at all, although that could be done too.) Folsom would be the perfect town for a place like Ettore's. Actuallly, maybe Ettore's should just set up a second location in Folsom. They'd do great here.

Nancy

[Deb aka Resume Lady]

Someone mentioned recently on another thread that Folsom needs a good bakery in town. (Not talking about GF at all, although that could be done too.) Folsom would be the perfect town for a place like Ettore's. Actuallly, maybe Ettore's should just set up a second location in Folsom. They'd do great here.

Nancy

Ettore's used to have a bakery in Folsom -- where O'Brot! is located now. In fact, O'Brot! carries some of Ettore's cakes, although -- as I pointed out in another recent thread, O'Brot! only picks up cakes from Ettore's every other day so I'm not sure about freshness.

Ettore's is worth the drive.

[eVader]

We try to balance eating out and making meals at home but some of our typical reasons are to go somewhere with a variety of foods to satisfy steak, pasta, fish or more sophisticated entrees with sauces or technique or for the ambiance.

It might be a $10 burger @ TJ's, a wood fired oven pizza, Scott's seafood, dinner at the Edgewood golf course (Stateline), Evan's American Gourmet Cafe (So Lake Tahoe), German specialties at Old Europe, good pub food and beer or wine like Manderes (NOT microwaved pub fare either like other bars\pubs in US or UK), a special night at Sequoia in Placerville or a good get out of the house and get a good breakfast at Ernies or Gold Miner or Lake Forest Cafe.

As noted many times by a lot of us the key thing most of these eating out places provide is GREAT FOOD, GREAT SERVICE and a unique dining experience (kozy cottage, scenic view, fun food choices etc). Got one factor but bad at the rest and buzzzzz! won't be back.

[Thinkingoutloud]

Anything gluten free.



Nancy

I was just in Portland and ate at an Italian restaurant that offered zucchini noodles instead of regular wheat noodles as an option. So cool! They were hand cranked/ribboned so they looked like noodles, acted like noodels and gave the same effect as regular noodles - just a bit more waterey.
It was delish!! Im not a GF person, I ordered just for the health factor, and I would order again in a heart beat!

I would love to see that at Visconti's here...

[Thinkingoutloud]

We've really cut back our eating out, and typically it's just lunch these days. But when we do go out for dinner, as others have mentioned, I typically go for things I don't make at home, which usually means ethnic foods or fancy steaks.

Agree with others, the food and service must be worth the money, or I won't go back.

So dave - what's this all about? Doing some research becuase you're opening up a restaurant or something?

[Deb aka Resume Lady]

Since I do a lot of cooking, including ethnic cooking, we don't go to certain places just because we can't have it at home. Sometimes it's a convenience thing, though, if I just don't have the time or it's a special dinner out. We enjoy most kinds of cuisine. We're motivated to go back to a restaurant if the food and service are excellent.

A few times in the last year or so I've written to restaurants to let them know of dissatisfaction with the food or service, only to not hear back. A restaurant that can't take the time to respond to a customer loses this customer, permanently.

If we can't find what we have a taste for here we go to Sacramento. I'd like to keep our dollars here, but c'est la vie.

[Dave Burrell]

So dave - what's this all about? Doing some research becuase you're opening up a restaurant or something?

that thought is always in my head (I'll admit its a dream) but I'm not ready yet (need to win the lotto first heh)

Food is one of my passions, not just eating, I really enjoy cooking, and I'm always interested in whats going on in the market around here. We see so many places come and go and I'm trying to figure out the "science" of it all...

what makes or breaks a place besides the obvious factors: food quality and service. I've always been curious, what do the masses want? What appeals to more then just a few people - what would compel diners to want to come back again and again for more.

I look at places like Chicago Fire and its a given what makes them successful, its their really good high quality food and the ambiance and service. I look at places that failed like Abs Bar and I understand why that failed, they didn't have the food, their drink prices were too high (likely because of very high rent) and the service was not very good.

but then I look at other places that serve mediocre to crappy food and yet they have been around for years... how is it that they are making it? do people like bland food sometimes? are those places destined to fail as soon as they run out of financial backing? I can think of a few right now that I expect to be gone within 6 months..

There are so many factors in making a restaurant successful and there has to be a proper balance between it all - ambiance/layout, the menu, the quality and most importantly the service. I also think location factors in a lot as well, a place can have great food but if its in a crummy location - how well would it survive?

I'm just very interested in the food business and I like hearing what other people enjoy - its good to know what compels people to go out and spend their money on foods that sometimes could be just as easily made at home.

I really appreciate the feedback everyone - please keep posting more on this when you can. Thanks!

[Deb aka Resume Lady]

Too many people open the same old same old type of restaurant -- and most are mediocre. This town needs a GOOD deli -- preferably Jewish. There's a huge need for one and it would make a killing.

[Dave Burrell]

Too many people open the same old same old type of restaurant -- and most are mediocre. This town needs a GOOD deli -- preferably Jewish. There's a huge need for one and it would make a killing.

I fully agree!

[Robert Giacometti]

I try and get things that are either difficult or annoying to do at home.

John Edwards felt the same way.

[giacomo]

Too many people open the same old same old type of restaurant -- and most are mediocre. This town needs a GOOD deli -- preferably Jewish. There's a huge need for one and it would make a killing.

Looks like Folsom is getting another Pizzeria (Pizza joint, if you prefer) Straw Hat. believe Folsom has just passed Italy for most Pizzeria's per capita.....

[Deb aka Resume Lady]

Looks like Folsom is getting another Pizzeria (Pizza joint, if you prefer) Straw Hat. believe Folsom has just passed Italy for most Pizzeria's per capita.....

Ah, but Italy's pizza places are probably all superb. Most of ours are ... well, far short of superb!