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Thanks for all the great info!
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Do Onboard Cruise Restaurant Dining during voyage count as "In the Middle of Nowhere"? :p
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Originally Posted by GolfTravelr
(Post 10479799)
Hitching Post - Casmalia, CA (just north of Vandenberg AFB) - Campy but great steaks cooked over a mesquite fire.
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Sounds of Silence - Ayers Rock Resort
If you ever get a chance to visit the Big Brown Rock in the middle of Australia, make sure you pay the premium and have dinner at Sounds Of Silence.
The food is awesome, the scenery spectacular At the Sounds of Silence experience you can dine under the canopy of the desert night, while your very own storyteller shares tales as told in the stars Sunset canapés. Your journey begins on a lone sand dune. A path takes you to an uninterrupted, three hundred and sixty degree view of this vast landscape. In front of you is the fabled Uluru; behind you are the domes of Kata Tjuta and, possibly the most spectacular sunset you have ever seen. Here you enjoy sparkling wine and a selection of delectable canapés. Dining under the sparkling outback sky As the sun sets, you feast on a BBQ buffet of authentic Australian delicacies examples include barramundi, kangaroo, emu and crocodile, bush salads and classic desserts, complemented by some of Australia's finest wines. Stargazing Attention then turns to some of the world's best stargazing, as our startalker takes you on a tour of the spectacular southern night sky. As you wind down after dinner, you are offered a choice of tea, coffee or port. In winter, guests gather around a campfire to savour a special treat of hot mulled wine. Sounds of Silence is highly recommended, and we encourage every visitor who comes to Voyages Ayers Rock Resort to join us for this unique event. |
Originally Posted by kudzu
(Post 10472318)
Less than an hour from TVC, in the little town of Ellsworth, MI, are TWO of the region's best - The Rowe Inn and Tapawingo
Worth the drive ;) And I'll add an entry- Vito's Ristorante in Punta de Mita, Mexico. About 40 minutes outside of Puerto Vallarta. Maybe the best northern Italian food I've eaten outside of Italy. The restaurant is located in the backyard of the family's home-which has been transformed into a little version of Italy. Menu changes daily when the chef/owner goes to the market to see what's fresh. I highly recommend this place. |
Another great restaurant in the middle of nowhere:
Johnny McNally's Fairview Lodge, Riverkern, CA Home of the 40 oz. porterhouse and the 24-oz filet mignon, cut from flavorful butter-tender local beef....that will make that piece of meat you paid big a$$ dollars at Ruth Chris's or even Morton's or Peter Luger seem like 2nd rate shoe leather. Sure, the place is rural cafe casual... But you are not here for overpriced "atmosphere" and snooty waiters but good food...especially the MEAT. (although local rainbow trout is darn fine too!) |
Originally Posted by stut
(Post 10446890)
Round our way (East of England) there's a mix of old-school restaurants that have survived through sheer quality, and newer ones that have been established to revive the fortunes of struggling pubs.
Gastropub, been around for years (before gastropubs were the in thing) in the middle of the Fens to the north east of Cambridge, that has won numerous awards for it's food. You have to book way in advance. I've been taken to it a couple of times in winter and it's totally in the middle of nowhere in so much as you drive down lane after unlit lane and finally along the top of a dyke, without so much as a house or signpost for what seems like miles. |
Originally Posted by prncess674
(Post 10443112)
Middendorf's is in Manchac, LA. Unfortunately they were hit with flooding during Ike.
http://www.middendorfsrestaurant.com/ |
Hitchin Post Saloon and restaurant
3640 Las Vegas Blvd North
Las Vegas, NV 89115 Opened in August, they are way up in the middle of NOWHERE but have an excellent chef and the food is fab. 24 hours a day you can get all items on the menu. Excellent steaks. Amazing, considering it looks like a biker bar next to a no-tell motel in front of an RV park. BTW, that is precisely what it used to be (well, the motel and RV park are still there, but the bar is now a restaurant)! |
Originally Posted by FlyingOnceMore
(Post 10546157)
Now I'm going to have to do some research, as the name of the place I'm thinking of escapes me. Maybe you know this place stut.
Gastropub, been around for years (before gastropubs were the in thing) in the middle of the Fens to the north east of Cambridge, that has won numerous awards for it's food. You have to book way in advance. I've been taken to it a couple of times in winter and it's totally in the middle of nowhere in so much as you drive down lane after unlit lane and finally along the top of a dyke, without so much as a house or signpost for what seems like miles. Is this the place? |
Yep, that's the place. Thanks stut
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My metric for "great restaurant in the middle of nowhere" is Cafe Beaujolais in Mendocino California. Of course any great restaurant cannot be in the middle of nowhere (and make money), so being in a tourist destination that is food conscious helps. Better described at http://www.cafebeaujolais.com/
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Double Musky ( "mountain cajun cuisine") in Girdwood, Alaska.
Turtle Club ( no finer prime rib have I ever tasted) Steese Hiway northeast of Fairbanks, Alaska. |
Brick oven pizza in Kauai in Lawai. The best pizza I have ever had. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
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RST, Mn, finally has a good restaurant. Go for the Walleye Pike Cakes with home-made tartar sauce. A great dish that I'll never find in my home town. The restaurant is Chester's, two blocks from the Mayo Clinic. A terrific restaurant
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