@tour2ma said:

Of course, the key to making Haggis seem good is that you have had to imbibe a significant amount of their whiskey.

@londonbrown said:

... but the English can make a great soup out of just about anything... maybe it's all that practice they get boiling beef...

What's weird is how good the food is in the highlands. I took to Haggis like it was Mother's milk... an analogy better suited for their whiskey, but whatever....

@londonbrown said:

West End Boys slumming it with East End Girls?

Edit: Sorry, I guess it is the other way around. West End Girls slumming with East End Boys:

As for London it may be a great city in tourist parts but it's a real shithole in a lot of parts, ghettos have sprung up all over south, east and north London. West London is where the money is and might as well be on a different planet to East!

@mudfly said:

"Mind the Gap!"... The Tube rules... longest escalators in the world.

On one of my last trips on my former company an industrious scrap thieves had made off with the full complement of one stop's escalator's steps overnight.

It was then I learned that the manual steps are long, too.

@tour2ma said:

hahaha....no truer words.....and yet, I almost died many many times....

@mudfly said:

Just thank God, for the "Look Right! ===>" reminders at the curb of every crosswalk...

Food? Thus the seeking of "foreign" establishments... even MickeyD's in a pinch...

@texasag1969 said:

Different strokes.... .....while I do agree with the wonderful food/art/cafe part...I could never live in Paris. Was there twice and never really felt comfortable...(just out of place)........and I learned, whatever you do, NEVER order the pizza......

The tube became my lifeblood....but my memories of the metro are only of angry beggars and confusion,,,,ha!

@the-gipper said:

Just take the Chunnel and make your way to Paris. Now that is a city I could live in. Great food and sidewalk cafes, plenty of great art and the metro can take you anywhere.

@mudfly said:

Bath? Hometown of Jeffrey Dahmer?

Here...you might be able to buy his house that he grew up in. It was only the site of his very first murder:

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/4480-W-Bath-Rd-Akron-OH-44333/35327735_zpid/

As for English food....stick with the fish and chips and you will be fine.

@tour2ma said:

My brother lived in Bath for several years, which opened the opportunity(and interest) to visit annually.....which was something I previously had little interest in.....and NOW, possibly my favorite long distance destination....

And, being someone who typically hates urban living and large cities....London has to be one of the greatest places Ive ever visited......and a large city I would love to live in....

BUT......the one thing that sticks with me about all my UK travels.....was the food........

As a general rule......blech

@texasag1969 said:

It ain't the CFS, pardner... it's all that good, country gravy...

Fortunately the mandatory side of greenbeans* counteract the gravy.

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* boiled with bacon

@londonbrown said:

Six trips over a 1-1/2 year period doing course work in a Management Development course my then employer, Zeneca later AstraZeneca, developed with Warwick. We were the first class to include Swedes from Astra Pharmaceuticals. Yes, they were blond, except for one guy, and even a couple of the women could drink the Brits under the table.

Also took a private trip with my then significant other to UK. I know I took her to Geales, and we found the falafel house and picnicked in the Park. We toured the low, mid and highlands. The latter with a fast, Scottish friend I made in the course, who toured us through his highlands including a stop in Applecross where my significant other became my fiancee.

Ate some fantastic prawns in Applecross BTW... at the Applecross Inn. A sweet Pub with a full restaurant and maybe a dozen rooms upstairs... very quiet... very quaint. Wonderfully inaccessible, too, with a winding, one-lane road across a mountain immediately to the south. Followed a road north one afternoon until it disappeared...

The falafel place near Hyde Park was probably on Edgware Road, its a kind of Lebanese district of London.

@londonbrown said:

Because we have food in the States worth remembering?

I've had great meals in Britain... but they were all "foreign foods".

London included:

• a great Italian place (name may come) that was very hard to get into.
• Geales... a wonderful, french-leaning seafood place in Notting Hill.
• Rostiserie Jules... chicken to die for and you fetched your drinks from the Pub next door.

One of the best surprises was a little falafel takeaway near Hyde park... made a picnic out of it with the wife.

Somewhere around Coventry... no idea where as we were already lit from happy hour at the in-house Pub in our U. Warwick lodgings... had one of my best "Curry House" experiences ever. Wait staff was in full India regalia... no utensils just Nan with which to scoop the best Lamb Tika I've ever tasted. No idea the name... too... "happy"...

Also not remembering the name of the Italian place... dammit...

@tour2ma said:

Savannah perhaps more than Charleston. Both nice, charming.

@londonbrown said:

I remember a few memorable meals. The BEST steak I ever had was at a place called The Texas Club in Ruidoso New Mex. I remember that.

Just last week I had some great Kansas City BBQ at Joe's BBQ.

I once ate at the Tavern on the Green in Central Park. (don't remember the meal so much...just the location)

I also remember the worst meal I ever had, and that happened 43 years ago. I don't recall the restaurant's name,...it was in Bar Harbor, Maine, but I had a huge plate of steamed clams....and then spent two days in the hospital afterwards attached to all kinds of IVs.

Impressive !

Best I've had is at the Tip Top Cafe in San Anton...

Runner up: Seabrook Classic Cafe in Seabrook, TX... of course...

Apparently you have to be a Cafe to serve really great CFS...

@tour2ma said:

Chicken fried steak at Monument Cafe too. Good and fattening!

@texasag1969 said:

No... not that time. My bud came into Austin for the evening. Will see if he knows the above next trip...

@tour2ma said:

So were you in Georgetown on that recent trip? Gumbo's on the square, Wildfire just off the square and Dos Salsas just a few blocks over on University. All excellent eateries.