Cops and work trucks. Both drive around constantly and eat lunch on the road. My family uses this trick when travelling in the US, it has not let us down.
In Germany, that’s more likely to lead you to an early heart attack than good food.
To find good food here, go to a restaurant with food from another country, where people from that country eat.
True in most places with large immigrant populations, and goes double if it’s not just “<country name>” cuisine, but “<specific region in country name>”. There is a place around the corner from my work that specializes in Lanzhou beef noodles - it’s down a side street in a little shopping arcade, I’m guaranteed to be the only white guy in there but it’s absolutely fantastic food
There was this fantastic Greek place who’s sign was literally just a hand painted map of the town the owner grew up in. Amazing gyros, unbelievably cheap. IIRC they were only ~$4, and then for like $1.50 more you could upgrade to a “plate” which meant you got EASILY double the filling.
Homie might have been treating us special bc we were regulars and were always chatting with him and his sons, but either way it was by far the best restaurant experience I’ve ever had.
Indian food restaurants have been a blessing in this although there are many Pakistani-Muslim owners posing as Indian ones in US.
It’s been a perpetual source of surprise to me that curry houses are so ‘non-specific’. Pakistan and India together make about 1.7 billion people, about a third of the planet’s population, and I’d have thought an easy way to distinguish a restaurant would be to offer something more region-specific, but it’s fairly rare.
Here in the UK, the majority of curry houses are Bangladeshi - used to be the vast majority, now it’s more like 2/3rds. We’ve a couple of ‘more specific’ chains - both Bundobust and Dishoom do Mumbai-style, and they’re both fantastic - and there’s a few places that do well with the ‘naturally vegan’ cuisines, but mostly you can go in to a restaurant and expect the usual suspects will be on the menu.
Same goes for Chinese restaurants - I don’t believe that a billion people all eat the same food, it’s too big a place for the same ingredients to be in season all the time. Why are they not more specific, more often?
This is kind of funny. I live in Germany and I’ve got better German food in the US. Very often German food here is kind of aiming to be cheap and filling, but kind of bland and boring. There are a few exceptions, and what you say about food from other countries makes a lot of sense.
Instruction unclear: following cop in hope for great food but instead found a huge scandal involving international human trafficking.
Oink oink
Only restaurants you’ll find following cops are the ones that give them deals.
I’m sure it’s still the case but in Toronto at Danforth and Donlands is a restaurant called Square Boy. It was jokingly referred to as the safest place in Toronto because it was always serving police and firefighters. Best goddamn gyros I’ve ever had. Their burgers are lit too.
yeah it’s such a bummer to point out inequality, much more socially polite to suffer in silence like the good ones
i’m just so tried of hearing about other people’s strife, it’s really starting to bum me out!
