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+1.....I also look at the top 10 restaurants on Trip Advisor.
One rule I always follow, while on the road/vacation I never eat at any restaurant chain we have at home.....WHY would anyone ever do that!
I will admit, in times of desperation I will concede to a chain if the local options are unsavory. One time in Sandusky, Ohio the Fridays was really the only viable restaurant option. That had to be 5 years ago and I haven't visited one since!
That's a real shame. You should have tried Bay Harbor or Famous Dave's on the Cedar Point peninsula. Good eats!
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When I dine out, I almost always eat fish or shellfish, so I always try to find good restaurants that specialize in seafood--preferably wild-caught.
I'm pretty much the opposite. I live a couple miles from the largest fishing port on the east coast. I cook seafood constantly. I rarely eat it in restaurants because I can do it much better myself and I buy from a local fish market where I know how fresh it is. When I travel, I pretty much never eat seafood.
The only exceptions are sushi and shrimp dishes. For whatever reason, I'm fine with farmed frozen shrimp and I'll eat that pretty much anywhere. I'll probably die of those Chinese and Thai toxins some day. Japanese restaurants tend to be very good with their food handling. Flash-frozen fish handled properly as sushi/sashimi is good pretty much anywhere.
I always look for the local specialties, whatever the city or region is known for.
Mainly this one. Or a food I haven't tried that we don't have at home (eg: Ethiopian).
Otherwise anyplace with fresh ingredients that are made into creative dishes.
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That's a hard one. When we travel to the US, it just depends where we are, but on the whole I'd say great US Steak, Szechwan Chinese, and California Mex. The same in Europe, but we tend to favor the local food, except when we are in the UK, Germany, Austria or Eastern Europe; then we search for high-end restaurants, where we don't get fish and chips, schnitzel or gollasch.
We also like classic burger places in the US. In San Mateo, CA we found by accident a Chinese place that was cheap and fantastic and Burger joint out of the '60s.
I love Neapolitan cooking....smoked cheese lasagna, yum, yum and real Caprese pizza.
But in Denmark, my number one food is romsnegl, which you can only really find in Copenhagen (where i live). It's a kind of danish pastry.
We search for the local specialty foods first. Second choice might be a chain we've heard about that doesn't exist in our area. In-and-Out burgers is an example of this kind of chain. Since we don't have a local Dunkin Donuts, I'll stop in there if it's nearby.
We also search for local dive bars and stop in for a drink or three.
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I would go out of my way for a real Jewish deli, In 'N Out Burger, and super fresh grilled seafood.
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