Anyone For A $9 Doritos Taco?

[St1ck]

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/taco-bell-going-upscale-really-174142062.html#

 

[TobiasFunke]

I'm not down for a FREE Doritos taco

[Adam]

Fried chicken tacos?

 

This fusion shit is out of control. 

[Angel Dog and Beer]

Curious as to why they would choose HB for their first restaurant location, given the fact that there's already a ton of mexican-style food places, from Wahoo's to your local madre and padre spots to everything in between.

[Adam]

Curious as to why they would choose HB for their first restaurant location, given the fact that there's already a ton of mexican-style food places, from Wahoo's to your local madre and padre spots to everything in between.

 

Because those places don't sell macaroni and cheese burritos

[Angel Dog and Beer]

lol, I'll be sure to try the spam fried rice empanadas.

[Adam]

The lasagnastada is to die for

[Brandon]

The food boom has been interesting. When society started getting down on fast food they flipped the script and started having fast food walk in places with healthier "looks"....Chipotle, Qdoba, etc. And now they are going to sit down places more in line with what I guess can be called fine dining.

 

There was a suggested read on my FB home page from Forbes or WSJ about society increasingly jumping on this food train (noting that we all eat out way too much as it is), but there seems to be a huge upswing in food trends and people wanting to try new places but also share them on social media. There is just an overall upswing in profit margins to the once declining food industry with places doing fusion dealios or simply offering craft beer with a hamburger in a brionche bun and charging $9-12 for the burger and $7-10 for the beer.

 

Kind of surprising really when you consider produce and food costs have gone up quite a bit, so these places pass on the costs but also are getting away with higher mark ups with the trend.

 

Strike while the iron is hot. 

[Adam]

The food boom has been interesting. When society started getting down on fast food they flipped the script and started having fast food walk in places with healthier "looks"....Chipotle, Qdoba, etc. And now they are going to sit down places more in line with what I guess can be called fine dining.

 

There was a suggested read on my FB home page from Forbes or WSJ about society increasingly jumping on this food train (noting that we all eat out way too much as it is), but there seems to be a huge upswing in food trends and people wanting to try new places but also share them on social media. There is just an overall upswing in profit margins to the once declining food industry with places doing fusion dealios or simply offering craft beer with a hamburger in a brionche bun and charging $9-12 for the burger and $7-10 for the beer.

 

Kind of surprising really when you consider produce and food costs have gone up quite a bit, so these places pass on the costs but also are getting away with higher mark ups with the trend.

 

Strike while the iron is hot. 

 

Totally. The marketing has surpassed the food quality now. 

[Brandon]

Burger at Carl's Jr, $6.

 

Grass fed organic male dick beef, $15

[Adam]

lol @ dick beef

[St1ck]

Dick beef is delicious. 

[Brandon]

I'll splurge on a good burger, but the one's that trip me out are wine bars or shopping mall Italian places that throw in a contemporary wine rack and counters and start charging $23 for some noodles and pasta sauce....add $4 for chicken.

[Adam]

I'll throw down some bucks for a premium steak, legit bbq or amazing seafood, but pasta, burgers, chicken... you can almost always prepare a better version at home. 

[Ray McKigney]

Trying to steal Super Mex's biz.

[Brandon]

I'll throw down some bucks for a premium steak, legit bbq or amazing seafood, but pasta, burgers, chicken... you can almost always prepare a better version at home. 

 

Definitely a steak.

 

I'm finding legit bbq to be ridiculously hard to find and keep pushing my radius to drive and still coming up empty handed.

 

Anyone have any good bbq places? I don't even care anymore and will drive out to south OC. There is nothing in the Inland Empire....used to be one, but they closed.

[Adam]

Definitely a steak.

 

I'm finding legit bbq to be ridiculously hard to find and keep pushing my radius to drive and still coming up empty handed.

 

Anyone have any good bbq places? I don't even care anymore and will drive out to south OC. There is nothing in the Inland Empire....used to be one, but they closed.

 

Not in CA. 

[Brandon]

Yeah, the many trips to KC have ruined me.

 

I almost wish I never ate out there and thought Lucielles or Tony Romas was good. I may have to just pick up Dickey's but throw on some sauce from Arthur Bryants. There are a couple good places like Beachwood in Long Beach, but I need a transplant from North Carolina, KC, or Texas that has a run down building with no a/c and a smoker as big as the dining area.

[Caralho]

Yeah, the many trips to KC have ruined me.

 

I almost wish I never ate out there and thought Lucielles or Tony Romas was good. I may have to just pick up Dickey's but throw on some sauce from Arthur Bryants. There are a couple good places like Beachwood in Long Beach, but I need a transplant from North Carolina, KC, or Texas that has a run down building with no a/c and a smoker as big as the dining area.

 

I'm not a bbq expert by any means but there is a place in Bellflower called Hambone's that I have heard friends talk about. 4.5 stars on Yelp, maybe it's crap compared to KC but you might want to give it a try.

[Brandon]

I'll check it out, thanks Rob. I've come to grips with accepting a California 9 or 10 bbq.

 

KC bbq is just prep. Out here we are go, go, go and the food places usually cater to that mentality and is more pump and dump. Although, ironically, two of the KC best, Gates and Arthur Bryants, are catered to fast food or quick dine in. And everyone that walks into Gates gets greeted with:

 

 

They have to do it and it's just custom.

[Caralho]

There must be a lot of people in the kitchen doing prep to serve quality BBQ quickly in a place like Arthur Bryant's. 

[Brandon]

I watch a lot of the bbq shows on tv and bbq is all prep and letting it sit and smoke. You get someone to do that and put a shit load in a heavy duty commercial smoker and you're golden. Just check it when needed and add the apple juice or whatever when needed.

 

The funny thing is I think there are only two Arthur Bryants, one around downtown KC and one, ironically of all places, on a casino boat (in Missouri gambling is illegal on land, so casinos are on legit river boats like some Huckelberry Finn novel) and looks like some mall food court or school cafeteria style, but the brisket and burnt ends are the business.

 

If you are ever out that way there is a place called Jack Stacks BBQ that is more of a fine dining and is like the Ruth Chris of bbq places.....formal, expensive, but argued as some of the best bbq. 

[JAHV76]

Try Blake's BBQ in Brea and Los Alamitos pretty good as well.

[HaloFan85]

[Brandon]

Try Blake's BBQ in Brea and Los Alamitos pretty good as well.

 

Thanks, will do.