3. What We Grew Up Eating and Local Restaurants

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Ashley, Chloe, Ian, and Sierra mention their go-to restaurants they enjoyed as they grew up. 

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Unknown Speaker 0:00
Hi, I'm Sierra Amin. I'm Chloe.

Unknown Speaker 0:03
I'm Ashley.

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And we're the unqualified culinary critics, a podcast centered around food and cultural experiences. We want you to only share our own experiences. But hope these stories connect some way to each one of you as well.

Unknown Speaker 0:16
So yeah, I think, I think a good spot today to start off with, obviously, last last time, we talked about what we had at home. But I think a cool aspect of food and cultural experiences is, you know, going out and getting out and seeing different things. So I think today, we wanted to start with talking about some of the maybe local or, you know, more known restaurants that we've all been to, and our hometowns as well, obviously, we're not all here from Vegas, and some of us have different experiences and, and, you know, stories to tell. For me, I think one of the most, you know, cool things that me and my family used to do, before my grandmother passed was that we, every Friday, we would do a family dinner night, and not just like a little family dinner. And I mean, the whole family would get together. And we'd all go to a restaurant. And we had like, four that were in a good rotation. And the the most the one that we went through the most often was a little Mexican restaurant, it was a little hole in the wall place. But we knew the family that owned it and ran it. And it was called mi casa. And so if you don't know what that means, that means my house. And it was kind of built like that they had pictures of their kids, they had paintings all around. And it was just a very small spot. And it felt like you were going and visiting your other you know, a family friend. And it was the food wasn't like the most amazing Mexican food you've ever had. But it was good. And it was a place where you could just go and connect with people and just and regroup and see how everybody's been doing throughout the week. And it was just nice. It was just nice to get together as a larger group and as your family and just, you know, be together and spend time together. And that was something that I miss and that we used to do all the time.

Unknown Speaker 2:02
Yeah, one of the restaurants that I used to go to a lot mainly with family, sometimes it would be with just parents and anything. Um, so I'm local here. Usually the places that I would go to one of my favorites is Metro pizza. I don't know if you guys have ever been there. I just tried it last week. It is so good. I recommend the Nook fries. I'm like crying. Yeah, it's so good. And their sauce. Very good. But yeah, I think that that's one of the places if anything, I don't really recall any like Mom and Pop kind of restaurants that I went to when I was younger, it would always kind of be like my grandmother, when she wanted to go out it would always be all of garden. So that was the thing, but Metro pizza is just probably the most memorable one.

Unknown Speaker 2:51
I feel like all of a garden is that place that is criminally underrated. I know people say like It's like chain Italian food, but it's still good. You can still go to Olive Garden, you get the unlimited breadsticks, maybe a glass of wine, and you're gonna have decent Italian food and come away full and satisfied. At least I have every time

Unknown Speaker 3:12
when you're there your family when you are there, your family. One thing that we don't have in my small town is a lot of chains. Like are they're weird. They're not exactly we're changing. Like if you're going out to dinner or like birthday, it's like you're going to Applebee's. I'm driving down like the main street in my head right now. And I mean, like we have Cafe Rio and like McDonald's and stuff like that. But like, that was like the most like big chain, I guess that I can think of I mean, there were like looking back there were predominantly Chinese restaurants and Mexican restaurants. Like that was it like if you wanted anything else, you were kind of out of luck? We did have like a lot of burger places that were kind of like independently owned and they always had like fry sauce and every I'm sure Have you guys had fry sauce? Yes, I have not no Bri sauce is my jam fry sauce is the tangy zip of miracle websites Miracle Whip and catch up. And then my mom puts a little bit of vinegar in it. I know people like back home there's the chill grill and they put pickle juice in there fry sauce any stirred up and it's so good to put on fries. It's good on tater tots. Like it is like the best thing. And that's kind of one thing that I have realized, like being out here that not a lot of people have had before. But it's so good. And then there's like the Santa Fe grill, and they're not like they're margaritas and stuff like that the soap appears and they have their tangy whiskey sauce and I don't know why whiskey sauce is at a Mexican restaurant. But when you're in Wyoming, you can break the rules like that. But they also had because was the same family and they also had a noodle place. It was like Chipotle where you'd go and you're like okay, I want penne noodles and I want an Alfredo sauce. And I want meatballs like you can just kind of make your own pasta. It didn't last very long. That's kind of the thing with independent restaurants.

Unknown Speaker 5:00
That's an interesting way to do like pasta, right? Like a serve as you go almost like a salad bar type thing. But that's, that's really interesting. So you pick your own pasta, like like a bass, and then you add all the other stuff on there. That's interesting. It's too bad that like, you don't see that very often. But I'd like to see how that worked out.

Unknown Speaker 5:17
I'm kind of surprised it didn't work out because I would be there so much.

Unknown Speaker 5:23
The reason I'm like the population to sustain it.

Unknown Speaker 5:26
Yeah, I spent a lot of time in Montana. And I've been all over Montana. I've been to Missoula billings, I mean, the whole nine yards. And that's you don't see a lot of diversity and restaurants, it is a lot of like burger spots. And that's like what you see, because that's kind of what the population is, you know, represented by so you see a lot of burger spots and like, stuff like that. But it's very like American cooking out there. You don't see more diverse options. But that's because that's the population. So that's what those people want. But so that makes sense. Why that would be the case out in Wyoming because I've been to Jackson Hole. I went visited for like a day or two and then Jackson

Unknown Speaker 6:02
Hole is not a good representation, because Jackson Hole has like the it caters to different populations. It's catering to the to the tourists that come in, and they have Thai food like it's, and they've had places that run diners, drive ins and dives. And yeah, that is not.

Unknown Speaker 6:19
And it's funny that you say that the diners, drive ins and dives because the two of the restaurants we went to were two of the the restaurants on the show. There are tourist spots, so they do cater to that. But that being said, it's probably one of the bigger cities in Wyoming

Unknown Speaker 6:32
is actually I think the 11th biggest County. I don't know if I've explained this to you guys yet. But um, right, Wyoming is divided into counties. So the biggest counties county one, and you know, it goes in order from there. So I'm from county four, and it says it on our license plates. So you'll always know where someone from Wyoming is from look at their license plate. So there's a guy in my apartment complex, who like left a note on my car. He's like, hey, Wyoming. I'm from County, whatever, from Cody, as you're from Rock Springs. And you just like always know where someone Wyoming's from,

Unknown Speaker 7:03
you know, or you know, where else is like that is Tennessee, they have their actual names have their counties on the license plate. So if you're from Davidson County, let's say your license plate says Tennessee and at the bottom says Davidson County. And so it has all of their counties listed. So wherever you register your car, whatever county you're in, you get a license plate with that county on it, so there's no escaping they know where you're from

Unknown Speaker 7:25
every time. Are you seeing you here today for breakfast, Ashley

Unknown Speaker 7:28
pornos and I grew up in a family that is diverse, and we like to go to many places, whether it's Chinese, Filipino, Italian, Mexican, you name it, etc. But I will admit, we haven't tried everything in the globe yet. So we have gone to, there's this, I remember growing up because I was from I'm from LA to I'm from East LA. So I grew up in Monterey Park. And there were a lot of places there that served so much Chinese food, and sometimes you would have Dim Sum there, or we'd have dinner and just like, you know, come as a family, and just talk and eat and have a good time. When I moved to Vegas. You know, I've been here for 15 years. And I just, it's just so much memories now because it's in the past. My dad, my grandma, when they were both still alive, we would go to this place here called joyful, which is also Spring Mountain indicator. And they serve like pretty good, authentic Chinese food. And we would go there and eat and just, you know, have a good time, we would go to like Mexican places like I think, well, the Mikasa that I'm referring to is in Silverton. And then we went to this place called the palm in Caesars Palace. And that that was like the place that I grew up going to as a kid. And that's the one that serves like the good steak house.

Unknown Speaker 8:48
I think that's what you expect going somewhere inside Caesars though. Yeah,

Unknown Speaker 8:51
but I will admit I haven't been all the way like inside the whole Caesars place. So I've only been stuck at the poem. But that's like my favorite restaurant and my family. We would diner get a good steak. We kind of have expensive taste admittedly. So we just like to get all kinds of good stuff. And just, it's more about the family. It doesn't matter what well, it doesn't matter what we eat. Because, you know, you don't want to eat bad. No, we also want to enjoy the culture and enjoyed environment. And I mean, we miss it right now because we're still going through a pandemic. So that's just what I went through growing up, but it's when we go out it's family, good food, good restaurant, good culture, etc.

Unknown Speaker 9:33
Yeah, I feel that for sure. It's actually funny because like the only place that's one thing I've missed being in Vegas last two years, as I haven't found places that are authentically the culture they're representing right? So I haven't found like an authentic Chinese restaurant like the place we used to go to 10 Bellflower and it was called I want to say it's called either red walk or Red Dragon something like that. And it they do delivery which most that's a different thing. But the Chinese food is so good. The fit my favorite thing on their menu was the salt and pepper short ribs, they were the best they you can eat a whole little serving of them just myself. But so we would get like a bunch of different dishes and they did it family style. So you get a bunch of different dishes, you take your serving of, of each one gets some rice, get some chow mein and and it was just authentic Chinese food was so good. I think that's one thing, not being from a certain place you you don't know the little secret spots that are like the best authentic and then of whatever culture they're representing. If

Unknown Speaker 10:34
I may ask, if you had dim sum before

Unknown Speaker 10:36
I have I have had it, I think I enjoy it. I actually enjoy a lot. I enjoy a lot of different things. That's something that I've learned to do. When I was growing up, I was really picky, really, really picky. And as I got older, I wanted to not be so picky because I realized how difficult I make it for myself to eat. So I started just trying things. And if I liked it, I was like, oh, add it to the list. If I didn't like it, still, I'd say you know, that's still not for me. And I just kept going with that. And it's it's opened me up to a lot of different cultural foods that I really enjoy. One. It's different is Ethiopian food. I really enjoyed it when I tried it. And I had like real Ethiopian food in Tennessee, they have a actually right outside of Nashville, they have a large Ethiopian population, a lot of people what's the was sought asylum there. And that's where they took them. And so there's a large group of Ethiopian people there. And there's a lot of really good restaurants there. That sort of Ethiopian food. That's traditional Ethiopian food. It was really good. It was really really good. I can't name a the restaurant specifically, because they have difficult names, but they were really, really good. So that I do like trying new things. And if I don't like it, I don't like it. But if I don't, it's just it's one bite olive, you know?

Unknown Speaker 11:50
Yeah, yeah, of course,

Unknown Speaker 11:51
I will say there's a place here it's on Sunset. And I want to say Pecos or a street in between Pecos and Eastern I forget the name, but it's called Table Thai. If you guys like Thai food, it is the best. I love it. I get it as much as I can now that I'm across town, so I get the spicy herb tofu. I'm vegan, but it's so good. They make you rate like the spicy level out of five. But even three, it's got your eyes watering and your nose running. It's so good, though. And I think it's like a mom and pop kind of shop to they're the best over there. That's another favorite. Yeah, I

Unknown Speaker 12:32
think I think the mom and pop shops are always the way to go. Like, if you're looking for a local spot, because they just for whatever reason, they make things just with more care, I think almost obviously, they may not have like, the nicest looking kitchen with all the super fancy equipment that you might have somewhere else. But it's made with love. And that's like, there's something there's something to be said for things being made, that you can do it at home. Right or, or that I can't necessarily do at home, but they can and there's something to be said for for that being in your food, you know, you can almost taste that care for you.

Unknown Speaker 13:05
Or that carrying on traditions and wanting to you know, make something you're proud of for your community.

Unknown Speaker 13:09
Exactly. Exactly. Yeah, definitely.

Unknown Speaker 13:13
And I think less of it's probably coming out of a frozen bag and being processed and just like I mean, if you go to like PF Changs versus an actual like, you know the difference Yeah, very different. Like while PF Changs is still good. Of course it's going to taste different because it's kind of more American style Chinese food to like Panda Express. Yeah, Panda Express. I think that one's a little overhyped. I'm not gonna lie. Maybe unpopular opinion is just not my favorite

Unknown Speaker 13:42
meat eater. I I will personally just go straight to joyful or any other Chinese food place that will serve that into kind because they have the spices that I you know, I grew up liking. There's like salted fish, which we call him you and you know, there's like fried tofu with salt and pepper. There's even like fried fish, flounder, that kind of stuff. I don't think Panda Express or any other like PF Changs still would really maybe PF Changs would serve it. I don't know, but I don't think Panda Express would serve fried flounder.

Unknown Speaker 14:14
No, I don't think so. It's all chicken. Yeah. And it'd be RAM and pork and all

Unknown Speaker 14:19
that stuff.

Unknown Speaker 14:20
Have you guys seen God duck? No, I have not. We need to talk about it. It is kind of amazing. And I don't know if but it's disgusting. They actually shirt serve at restaurants and Caesars and I was thinking about it when you were talking about how you liked to say it was the palm Yeah, it's still there in Caesars and it's it's a geo duck. And it is like seasonal. I'm going to show you what a geo duck is. It is. It's kind of like an oyster I would say but it looks like this. And what you do is they come out of like holes in the sand and you put like salt, and it's kind of disgusting. It's disgusting. It's this

Unknown Speaker 14:59
Oh I've seen those I know exactly what you're talking about.

Unknown Speaker 15:03
Let's see what the description says.

Unknown Speaker 15:04
It's almost like is it like a sea cucumber almost. It's like a it looks like a mixture of the of the two that is wild.

Unknown Speaker 15:10
It's expensive. It's like, I remember I went, I was like, Oh, I'm gonna try it. And they were like, Yeah, that's gonna be like $75. I was like, You know what? I don't want to try it that much. I was like, yeah, no, she was like, gonna eat it with me.

Unknown Speaker 15:24
Well, that's market price that's kind of expected to be that much

Unknown Speaker 15:28
crazy. The GAO doc actually pronounced gooey duck is a large clam native to the west coast of North America. They burrow into deep, soft, muddy or sandy sediments. And the long neck is actually a siphon that the clam uses to bring clean seawater down to the deep buried shell.

Unknown Speaker 15:44
So when you open it up, so what do you actually eat after you have I think you're eating the siphon? No, so Okay, so that's how I was gonna ask are you opening up the shell and eating what's in there? Are you Oh, like a normal clam? Or are you eating the entire thing? I don't know. I've never even seen that.

Unknown Speaker 15:58
I've seen videos on social media looking at that, but it was not in the way to show off what it was. It was more like people freaking out because it looks a split explicit. Yeah,

Unknown Speaker 16:11
it does look a bit fat. That's

Unknown Speaker 16:12
I mean, I get that but I like I'm not opposed to I really like seafood. I grew up I grew up my my great grandfather basically had us growing up on a boat besides doing everything else. He loved fishing, and so he would take us fishing. I remember in Mexico, we my dad caught a hammerhead shark. We cut that thing up on the boat and had sushi of from hammerhead shark we had just caught and it was so good. Like fret actually having like fresh, fresh seafood is just unbeatable. And it just makes me curious because I've had oysters. I've had clams. I mean, I'll eat the whole nine. But or at least try it but that's interesting because I wonder what part of the the geo duck you're eating? I don't know what for whatever reason, because the word duck I was like it's gonna be some kind of bird or something.

Unknown Speaker 16:58
That's what I thought. Yeah,

Unknown Speaker 17:00
I think I said, yeah, the actual bird.

Unknown Speaker 17:02
Do you guys eat mushrooms?

Unknown Speaker 17:03
I hate mushrooms. Oh, eat some but

Unknown Speaker 17:05
I have a story about mushrooms. So I recently saw a video on tick tock about this mushroom kit. And and it grew really fast. This video was like a time lapse and I'm like, you can grow mushrooms. So I bought a mushroom kit and actually just harvested the mushrooms today. It's an I got to find out with a camera come up with the recipe to cook these oyster mushrooms that kind of has me thinking and this is what they looked like today when I harvested them. Like they were they're so weird. And they grew and when I thought they were growing out of this box. I thought they it was mold. It was just so disgusting. With they've grown so much. It only took 10 days.

Unknown Speaker 17:44
Well that's I mean that's what a mushroom is it's a fungus. So

Unknown Speaker 17:47
yeah, I thought like if you just like look at it, I mean I thought I was like doing something wrong was like what was like over watering it had it like you know, been too moist in there.

Unknown Speaker 17:57
But you go to a restaurant with the same mushrooms that you grew in 10 days and you make something that you're gonna make at home that's at least like 50 bucks, especially in Vegas. Nothing is really that cheap.

Unknown Speaker 18:08
Oh no, but Vegas just has the Vegas price tag.

Unknown Speaker 18:11
Exactly. And like Ashley, you said when you went to the restaurant, Caesars, Caesars is a little more uppity.

Unknown Speaker 18:18
It is. I mean, like if you're gonna have steak, expect it to be like $50. Even for Philemon. Yeah, at least I think is Yeah, at least maybe more than that. You know, it's just, I'm like she has it's overpriced, but

Unknown Speaker 18:29
they get away with it. Because Taurus, they will buy it because they're like, well, when in Vegas, when am I going to come back? They will buy it in it. Like, it's so crazy.

Unknown Speaker 18:39
And so the I'm on vacation mindsets, like I've saved up all this money to blow on vacation.

Unknown Speaker 18:44
I mean, good for them, but I could not if I spent over like 100 bucks on a piece of steak. I would not forgive myself.

Unknown Speaker 18:53
I don't know if you forgive yourself for eating the steak.

Unknown Speaker 18:55
I would not eat the steak. But if I ate the steak, if I ate meat, and I paid that much for a steak, I would not be happy. It better be the best thing ever. You go

Unknown Speaker 19:04
out to eat often since you're vegan or is that just kind of like a thing where you know, it's just easier if I cook at home?

Unknown Speaker 19:09
I do. I'm more often than not since I am a broke college kid. I will cook at home and then kind of have meals for the week. But when we were talking about seafood, it kind of made me remember there's a vegan sushi place here. Oh, it is very good. It's called chikyu it's on Silverado Ranch. You guys might be like okay, vegan seafood, but they it's very weird because they can make so much. And then there is another are they using

Unknown Speaker 19:38
tofu as like the protein are they using like it's a good marinated carrot?

Unknown Speaker 19:42
That's a good question. I'm not too sure because they had one that was like, crab. Yeah. And I had it and it was very good, but I could not tell you what it was. Yeah. And then there was a Chinese restaurant that I went to it was chef something I cannot remember the name, but it was really good and it was like It just it was really good. The sweet and sour chicken. They have duck there and it's all vegan.

Unknown Speaker 20:06
I don't know what it is vegan duck. How does that work? I wonder how what they what they use? How can you

Unknown Speaker 20:11
say this is duck and this isn't just chicken. Why are you like this is specifically duck?

Unknown Speaker 20:15
Yeah, I don't know. Maybe they're trying they whatever they're using to make that their infant they're using it or something. But yeah, they're using it to imitate the flavor of duck. Yeah, I don't know. It's interesting because I wonder if that whatever they're basing the protein off of is the same as what they base off their chicken substitute or not or if it's different, but that's interesting. It is interesting. So I

Unknown Speaker 20:37
googled it really quick. A general thing from Wikipedia. So who knows how accurate it is. wheat gluten mock duck is a gluten based meat substitute. It is made of wheat gluten oil, sugar, soy sauce, and salt.

Unknown Speaker 20:50
My question is what's in the soy sauce because sometimes they put seafood in destroy that I'm

Unknown Speaker 20:55
not too sure.

Unknown Speaker 20:56
I would assume that if they're, if they're touting it as vegan, they can't be putting seafood into the soy sauce. They

Unknown Speaker 21:01
gotta be careful, but it's like false advertising, which is so annoying.

Unknown Speaker 21:06
You gotta get the low sodium soy sauce, soy, because soy sauce gets wild. So what I like to do, like, I don't know if you've ever had had like, fresh, really good. ahi tuna, tuna. Okay, well, so you haven't had that? Definitely. But so the way I get them, I'll buy like a ahi tuna steak, and I'll just see are both sides. So just cook it for like a minute and a half on one side and a minute, half an other side. So it's just around the outside and the inside is still raw, because that's I mean, if you're eating fresh fish, it's horrible speed. I'll be honest. So what I do, what I cook it in is I marinated in soy sauce, sesame oil, some honey, and then salt and pepper. And the soy sauce obviously gives you that Asian type flavor that you're looking for. And it's really good. That's it. That's the only way I'll cook it now. Because before I was just doing it and put it on like salads and stuff like that. Can't do like that anymore. I make it a whole meal. So serve a rice and maybe some brussels sprouts or asparagus or something like that. And it's really, really good.

Unknown Speaker 22:03
Do you taste the honey on there?

Unknown Speaker 22:05
Um, it kind of gets cooked out a little bit but I add some sweet you can taste it because I mix it into the marinade. So I mean, you can put as much or as little as you want. Yeah, you can you get the the notes of the sweetness from the honey. You do. Yeah, it's in there.

Unknown Speaker 22:19
It's very weird, though. Because sometimes I've made stuff with very random items, but you don't even taste it like me and my grandma used to make a cake, but you would put a whole tub of sour cream in there. I have done that as well. Yeah. And I think it was for like texture or consistency purposes. It's the best thing ever. Yeah. Mashed potatoes

Unknown Speaker 22:39
too.

Unknown Speaker 22:40
Yeah, mashed potatoes. Sour cream is like goes in mashed potatoes. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Unknown Speaker 22:44
Yeah. But you can't really you're right. straight man. Sour cream. You

Unknown Speaker 22:48
like sour cream? I don't know. Mashed potatoes. It makes sense. But like with a cake, it would add some Tang, some you know,

Unknown Speaker 22:55
you're putting so much sugar in with the other stuff that

Unknown Speaker 22:58
Yeah. And then I put chocolate chips in it. So then you really can't Right,

Unknown Speaker 23:03
right, right. Yeah, that makes sense. But it is yeah, it is one of those things that it can it can thicken things up. Right? That's kind of what you're going for when you're cooking.

Unknown Speaker 23:11
Do you guys go out to the huge restaurants here much so. So

Unknown Speaker 23:15
I do have like so my dad and his friends have always done what started with my grandpa. They've done a trip for Super Bowl Sunday in Vegas. He's been doing it for like 45 years. And he's kept it going through the pandemic. He drove all the way out here just for the Saturday to say he came for the weekend and drove back the next day. But my dad and his friends do it as well. And so in February Super Bowls are Super Bowl Saturday. I know I'm gonna get a nice free meal at some nice restaurant because that's what they do. Because they're grown men they make they make money they can splurge. It's their one big trip of the year. So we went to car mines. And that place is on Rio. So it's an Italian restaurant, but it's also a steakhouse. And they serve it family style. So you order all your dishes and these guys went nuts. They just started saying stuff. They knew what they were doing. I showed up I was like, I'm just here for the ride, I guess. And yeah, we just ate like kings. But it was quite expensive. Because at one point, I was like, alright, well, I want to you see the menu and see what things cost. But let me see the bill. I want to see this. And then I saw it and I was like oh god. I was like that's that's grown men stuff right there. That's That's no joke. But yeah, it was it was really, really good. And then I've also been to I don't remember if it's called to Monaco's, or Delmont, whatever it's called the steakhouse in the Venetian. Very, very good. And they also do they make a Bananas Foster. And they they come and make it right next to you. Like it was an experience. And it was very, very, it was a very, very good experience. Yeah, the restaurants are really nice. They're very upscale, and they'll take care of you and you'll have a nice experience but it's gonna it's gonna set you back a

Unknown Speaker 24:49
little cheap dinner. I recommend Korean corndogs there was a place off of Spring Mountain called crunchies and like they are like so crunchy and like there's, you know, ones that are complete, like hot dogs or some that are half hot dog and half cheese or fully cheese, and it's the best thing. So that's my recommendations for a fun cheat meal. And it's so crunchy, so good and gooey, and I just love it so much. There's always kind of a line, but it's kind of

Unknown Speaker 25:18
where it sounds kind of good. Honestly, a place that's kind of close to us right here is because I really like Pokey, and it's I'm big on it being allergic, that's going to hurt you. Yeah, you're not doing that. But the place right here just off of Maryland, that pokey Heaven or whatever it's called. It's just a family spot. I've gotten a number of times and they've had their kids sitting there doing their homework, like that kind of family spa. And it's really good. And it's it's pokey is pricey because of it being seafood. But it's, it's worth it. I think every time I've left satisfied,

Unknown Speaker 25:46
a place that I one final recommendation that I would give would be a family style Italian restaurant. Obviously, I like sticking to the Italian ones. But it's Buca di Beppo if you guys have ever been there, it is the best all the pictures and portraits on the wall. It's my favorite thing. And the food is so good.

Unknown Speaker 26:07
Yeah, definitely it is. It's it's so I thought because it's a chain. I was like, oh, it's not gonna it's not gonna match up to everything. It won't stack up. And then I had it and I was like, they have converted me. This is a place that makes some quality stuff here. You got you're a winner. But yeah, that place is really good. All right. So with that being said, I think that's where we're going to stop for today. I think we're running out of time here. Yeah, I'd say just keep your eye out for your local spots. See what see what's good in your area and and let us know let us know what where we should be trying food next, because I'm always willing to find a new spot

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