Top 10 Restaurant Pig-Outs
When I posted an earlier entry on heart attacks on a plate, I didn't think I would get a Top 10 out of it.
But sure enough, all of you came through. I had more than enough ammunition for a Top 10 Restaurant Pig-Outs. Thanks for your suggestions.
I loved this comment by Trixie, which epitomizes the enthusiasm with which you approached this topic: ...
Am I wrong to admit that I would actually like to try a beer battered burger? I mean seriously, break it down...Beer, batter, and burger. How could it be bad?
* Ale Mary's Saints and Sinners sandwich, served at brunch: fried egg, sausage, bacon, and cheese between two Krispy Kreme honey-glazed doughnuts.
* Chick & Ruth's Super Colossal Reuben with two meats (three pounds), cheese, sauerkraut, and Russian dressing on grilled rye with a six-pound milk shake.
* The Dizz's Fat Ass Crab Skins: Baked potatoes hollowed out and filled with cheese, bacon, and crab (served with a side of sour cream).
* Fogo de Chao's all-you-can-eat meat fest. Because it costs $46.50, you want to eat a lot to get your money's worth.
* The beer-battered burger stuffed with cheddar and deep fried, called the Heart Attack on a Plate, at Mother's Federal Hill Grille.
* The Pigwich at the Parkside: scrapple, bacon, ham, American cheese with tomato and onions on a hoagie roll with a side of fries.
* Brunch at Ryan's Daughter. I was going to say any all-you-can-eat brunch, but I looked at the menu and out of 16 items there is one vegetable (broiled tomatoes) and the fruit is a "seasonal fruit display." Every other dish is a pig-out waiting to happen.
* The Great Steak Challenge at Steak & Main: a 26-ounce Delmonico steak, an 8-ounce filet mignon, a 12-ounce New York strip, a 12-ounce veal chop, and 16 ounces of flat iron steak, as well as a baked potato and a side of vegetables.
* Vaccaro's Little Italy Monday Night Special. All the dessert and coffee you can eat and drink for $12.95. From 6 p.m. to 9 p.m., holidays excluded.
(Amy Davis/Sun photographer)
Comments
I can see it now. Someone will no doubt order the "Fat Ass Crab Skins" (hold the sour cream) with a diet soda.
Posted by: Dahlink | November 3, 2009 6:21 AM
1) I've been in more food-pain than discovering the all-you-can-Korean BBQ at Wong Galbi on Rolling Road. Oh, the delicious agony!
2) I feel like this is also a good time to point out This is Why You're Fat to readers who haven't yet discovered it, as a public service.
Posted by: El Generalissimo | November 3, 2009 6:29 AM
Well this is embarassing -- just noticed someone pointed TWYF earlier in the week.
I blame jetlag. Carry on.
Well, I'm glad you didn't just abandon us. EL
Posted by: El Generalissimo | November 3, 2009 6:38 AM
Dahlink, I know you'd be all over the "Fat Ass Crab Skins"! Come on, aren't you dying to go there just to be able to say to someone "I will take an order of the Fat Ass Crab Skins, s'il vous plaît".
Posted by: Trixie | November 3, 2009 8:00 AM
Only in America.
Posted by: billy butterbean | November 3, 2009 8:45 AM
Man Vs. Food - did both the Chick and Ruth challenge and Steak and Main challenge. Didn't catch the Chick & Ruth's episode to see if he did it, but he def. couldn't eat all the steak!!!
Posted by: DeAnna | November 3, 2009 8:58 AM
Monday night's at Vaccaro's. Diabetic coma!!
Posted by: sturmy | November 3, 2009 9:06 AM
I'm trying the steak challenge at Steak and Main this Friday.
Posted by: Kevin R | November 3, 2009 9:16 AM
There are certain days on which the 48 oz at Shula's seems completely within reason. At least, until I actually see it. Skip the starches, though..they just take up valuable stomach room.
Dahlink- that's me. So many years drinking diet soda that real sugar soda tastes odd to me now. And, I'm not a huge fan of sour cream either.
Posted by: Frequent Little Italy Restaurant Visitor | November 3, 2009 10:12 AM
I can't image eating $46.50 worth of anything in a sitting...
Posted by: Maggi | November 3, 2009 10:15 AM
O.K. Maybe Truffles...
Posted by: Maggi | November 3, 2009 10:17 AM
There's an online report that the Wong Gal Bi on Rolling Road has closed...........
Posted by: Alexander D. Mitchell IV | November 3, 2009 10:42 AM
If I knew I had some serious life threatening illness or that a nuclear attack was going to take place, I would spend my last Monday in Vacarro's, happily stuffing down cannoli and coffee (with splenda, Dahlink!)
Posted by: Joyce W. | November 3, 2009 10:46 AM
Is anyone else thinking of the "Who can eat the most fried chicken" story that Art Donovan has told 10,000,000 times? (I think it involved my namesake versus someone else, but I am recently out of the hospital and a bit foggy on details). I am pretty certain that it is in "Fatso" (Donovan's excellent autobiography). Please someone who isn't under the influence of NO2 withdraw help me out here!
Posted by: Big Daddy (not Lipscomb) | November 3, 2009 11:11 AM
Maggi - caviar - lobster - crabs - imported cheese - I can go on and on
Posted by: Kitkat | November 3, 2009 12:11 PM
Caligula and his fellow Romans would haved loved living in America in the 21st century.
Posted by: bill | November 3, 2009 3:36 PM
Vacarro's is o.k. but for real Italian pastry and a warm welcome, I love Piedigrotto on Bank Street.. You feel like you are in Italy.
Posted by: Maria | November 3, 2009 7:52 PM
Vaccarro's is amazing, not only the cannolis but the cookies as well, I've loved them since I was a little kid.
I saw that burger on the Mothers menu but I've never been there to actually sit down and eat. If I do, that's what I'm getting.
Posted by: Marcus | November 3, 2009 10:36 PM
Vacarro's stuff is huge, but not all that tasty, although I like the hazelnut gelato. I'm with Maria - Piedigrotto has the real stuff. Their bread is pretty bad, though.
Posted by: Lissa | November 4, 2009 5:55 AM
BREAD!
The bread of ALL bread!
Posted by: Joyce W. | November 4, 2009 6:15 AM
sorry about the double post. I realized that I hadn't filled out the info portion of the program and the blogware evidently accepted it anyway.
Lissa, you are right about the pastries but the cannolis and the cookies (especially the pine nut cookies) are great!
Posted by: Joyce W. | November 4, 2009 6:18 AM