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cathoderaydude
@cathoderaydude

i feel like there's usually a subtext, in the "this restaurant is in a building that definitely used to be a pizza hut" observation, that the restaurant is probably mids, or at least one could easily overlook it as a genuine option while chuckling at the Distinctive Structure. for what it's worth however: there's an italian place around here in a building that i literally used to order pizza hut from before they closed. while the internal vibes of the place are comically off (the low ceilings of 90s-pizza-hut architecture do not fit with what one expects from a dimly-lit-except-for-candles-on-the-tables italian place) the food is fucking magnificent


DecayWTF
@DecayWTF

The stranger a building is that a restaurant is in, the better the food, that's the law. Annapurna is in a fucking basement and is cramped and weird and the decoration can't hide the fact that it's a decaying basement in a commercial building in Seattle but it's absolutely incredible


cathoderaydude
@cathoderaydude

this is a fucking fact. eating at annapurna feels like you might be participating in a mild crime, like some kind of unlicensed establishment. i went there with two other people once and i think i was stuffed under a shelf and getting elbowed and almost knocking over the table the whole time, but every bite was pure ambrosia


ghoulnoise
@ghoulnoise

the last time I had fried catfish was in the summer of 2018 when I got lost; with a dead phone, on my way to a swamp, in south arkansas

i pulled up to a gas station hoping someone could let me use an outlet to charge my phone long enough to figure out where we were

we were hungry and a little stressed out (getting lost on your way to a swamp will do that to a person) and while i initially spent a moment skeptical of gas-station-catfish, having spent years of my early life living around the general area, i thought "why the fuck not"

and my god, it was the best fried catfish i'd had in a long time

everyone there looked like they'd been sitting in there for decades without moving, this place was frozen sometime in 1998, covered in taxidermy deer trophies and wood paneling



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in reply to @cathoderaydude's post:

hmmmmm I will check it out when I'm nearby! Seattle Italian doesn't get much past "mids" until it's super expensive so may as well (I'm not a connoisseur either, but sometimes you can eat food and be like "this is enjoyable but I can tell it's just 'pretty good'")

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My favorite local Indian place is in what used to be a Latin place, they didn't even change the (honestly kinda strange) decor, but before that it was a Church's Chicken, it still has part of the drive-through.

The building is sketchy and wrong on multiple levels, but I go there whenever I get the chance.

If you get your BBQ from anywhere but an incredibly weathered and run down building it won't be great. You can get "decent" barbeque from "nice" places, but they will never escape mid. Transcendent BBQ comes from buildings that look like they're one good storm away from collapse but have survived 3 Category 4 or higher hurricanes.

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