Snails, which have to be eaten with a stupid bloody contraption, taste like burnt mushrooms and you always have the thought in the back of your mind "oh, yuck, I'm eating snails".
Nandos, the food of moderately-priced kings. If you go often enough you can get a free whole chicken, like I did here.
Spaghetti carbonara is a foodstuff sent from the gods. Praise be to them for it.
Cafe Cossachok is a Russian restaurant in Glasgow. Before I went I assumed Russian food would be potatoes, boiled cabbage and pickled radish. The pickled radish is there, but instead of Soviet-era bread-line-fare you get some of the best food I've ever had.
Most "Mexican" food slopped out in this country is terrible. Purely meat rolled in tortillas and covered in cheese. Bibi's Cantina is an exception to this, in that it serves food they would actually eat in Mexico. Especially this, which is the mole.
Just across the road from Bibi's Cantina is Velvet Elvis, a cramped, noisy restaurant serving delicious classic foods, like the steak frites. No messing around. Massive steak. Big pile of frites. Garlic and parsley butter. Get on with it.
Not all food is good food. Consider the case of the chicken parmo. It is essentially a chicken fillet covered in breadcrumbs, deepfried then topped with Bechamel sauce and cheese. It is completely foul and any sane person who invented it would chop off their hands to prevent it ever happening again. Curiously it was created in Teesside, which I guess is just another reason to dislike the North East.
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