International restaurants in USA
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Galileo
This funky Paseo Arts District gathering spot has a menu spanning sea bass baked with lemon and cinnamon to meatloaf sandwiches to some tasty pizzas and it attracts just as diverse a crowd. There's art on the walls and the bar itself is a thing of beauty. Music or poetry most nights.
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French Connection
This place features good service, big sandwiches, quiches, crepes, salads and a killer French onion soup. Outdoor tables and a friendly bar (with an eight-hour happy hour from 11:00 to 19:00) rounds out the appeal.
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Arabian Nights
Combine dinner with a show and you usually end up with some lesser version of both; however, a lot of people find the combination fun enough that they don't mind. (Hint: you probably already have a pretty good idea if you're a dinner show type of person or not.) Good choices include the equestrian delight Arabian Nights.
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Rain Forest Cafe
At the entrance to Animal Kingdom, Rain Forest Cafe is almost another park ride. Waterfalls, volcanoes, gorillas - all it needs is a tram. Although you can dine fine, there are plenty of options under US$15, even at dinner.
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Spettro
Spettro has a quirky decor and friendly attitude that keeps fans coming back for its homespun, culturally mixed cuisine. Pizzas, stir fries and chili Colorado give an idea of the unusual mix offered. Very family friendly.
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Sci-Fi Dine-In Theater
At Disney-MGM Studios, nostalgia rules at the Sci-Fi Dine-In Theater where you dine in Cadillacs while watching B-movies (and traffic is bumper to bumper).
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Vincent on Camelback
You may never have heard of chef Vincent Guerithault, but in Phoenix he’s a household name. His secret? Ingenious French spins on Southwestern cuisine. Try such flavor-packed creations as corn ravioli with truffle oil or thyme-infused rack of lamb, and definitely leave room for a signature soufflé (try the one with Grand Marnier). For more casual gourmets, Vincent recently opened the Market Bistro behind the original restaurant. It’s especially buzzy on Saturday mornings from fall to spring when a tiny but immensely popular gourmet and farmers market takes over the parking lot.
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Ten Tables
True to its name, this gem has only 10 tables (you’ll need to reserve one of them). Brick walls are hung with black-and-white photos, and the galley kitchen is framed by pots and pans, a motif that recurs around the restaurant. The emphasis is on simplicity – appropriate for a restaurant that specializes in traditional cooking techniques. The menu is short but changes frequently to highlight local, organic produce, handmade pastas, fresh seafood and homemade sausages. Ten Tables 2 is in Cambridge.
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Michy’s
Blue-and-white pop-decor. Organic, locally sourced ingredients. A stylish, fantastical bar where Alice could drink before painting Wonderland red. Welcome to Michelle ‘Michy’ Bernstein’s culinary lovechild; one of the brightest stars in Miami’s culinary constellation. The emphasis is on good food and fun. The ‘half plates’ concept lets you halve an order and mix up delicious gastronomic fare such as foie gras on corn cakes, chicken pot pie with wild mushrooms, white almond gazpacho, and blue-cheese croquettes.
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Chef’s Table
As home to one of the country’s finest cooking schools, the New England Culinary Institute, Montpelier is an excellent place to stop for a meal. NECI runs three restaurants in town. Since this upstairs, upscale restaurant is run by second-year NECI students, the food is generally somewhat more accomplished than at the Main St Bar & Grill. Specials change nightly but you’ll usually find some variant of veal chops, lamb dishes and rosemary-seared swordfish.
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Red House
Formerly known as the Cox-Hicks House, this quaint clapboard house dates to 1802. Reminiscent of an old-fashioned inn, it retains its historic charm with its wide-plank wood floors, cozy (sometimes crowded) layout and functioning fireplace. In summer, the draw is the patio overlooking a quiet corner of Harvard Sq. The menu is varied, but always includes a good selection of seafood and pasta. Almost all mains come in half portions – a boon for your budget.
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Upstairs on the Square
Pink-and-gold hues, zebra- and leopard-skin rugs, and lots of glamor and glitz: such is the décor that defines this restaurant, the successor to once-renowned Upstairs at the Pudding. The creative menu and carefully chosen wine list have earned high praise. The downstairs Monday Club Bar is open for lunch, offering a more casual atmosphere, a slightly cheaper menu and a wall of windows overlooking Winthrop Park. It is also a Certified Green Restaurant.
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O's Bistro
As a dining experience, the jury is out on this upscale bistro, with an unlikely location in the Safeway shopping center. Some ooh and ah over its eclectic menu, which jumps from Thai fried chicken and rice-noodle salad to kalamata linguine, from fish tacos to Peking duck. Others say the urban-chic interior gets too crowded and so noisy that it becomes difficult to hold a conversation. Vegetarians will delight in the 'food without faces' menu.
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Chicken Creek Café, Liquor Store & Saloon
In retrospect, naming Chicken 'Chicken' was a savvy move: Nowadays, folks flock here for 'Go peckers!' coffee mugs and 'I got laid in Chicken' ballcaps. Profiting the most seems to be the Chicken Creek Café, Liquor Store & Saloon , on a spur road 300 yards north of the bridge. Their gift shop is extensive, the saloon has hats from every corner of the world, and the café, unsurprisingly, features lots of chicken on the menu.
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Centre Street Café
This artistic, eclectic restaurant embodies the essence of Jamaica Plain. Smart but idiosyncratic staff serve dishes that range from ‘Shrimp Nirvana’ to ‘Danno’s Szechwan Shaboom.’ It’s not particularly fancy fare, but ingredients are organic and locally grown, and the outcome is – as the menu promises – ‘outrageously good!’ A highlight is Sunday brunch, when patient would-be patrons wait in lines that stretch down the block.
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Morton’s Gourmet Market
Purveyors of upscale picnic food (although they also have outdoor tables), this place has excellent sandwiches, pastries, salads and hot-food items. About 15 blocks south of downtown in the Southside Village area, Morton’s is one of a few upscale places here and is frequented by neighborhood gourmands. Osprey Ave runs parallel to the Tamiami Trail, so this place is really on the way to Siesta Key from downtown.
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Fuego
Remember the old adage 'location, location, location?' Here it's all about service, service, service. Special events are exclusive - scotch and cigar tastings anyone? - but the classy Sunday brunches also pamper palates with Dungeoness crab strudel and asparagus lobster omelets. Lighter dishes like bouillabaisse and ginger soup are offered at the bar (aka the Staab House). Prepare to be spoiled - in a good way.
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Restaurant Kaikodo
You hit the trifecta with Kaikodo - where the food, service and decor are all winners. For artistic, romantic ambience, nothing in Hilo can match it. Indeed, the whole scene - the Venetian chandeliers and intimate tatami room, the chef's gourmet flourishes - seems air-lifted from San Francisco. Indeed, a few locals grumble it's not 'Hilo,' but if you love food (and your traveling companion), make reservations.
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Elements
The setting in a former mill complements the novel menu, which uses local ingredients whenever possible. Try the polenta lasagna with eggplant over roasted vegetables, or trout cakes with tomato jam, wasabi and crème fraîche. Try to share so that you sample several dishes. Dried cranberries go into the cornbread pudding for dessert – a unique treat. Almost everything is made on the premises.
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Nine One Five
There is a war being waged for Duval’s identity. On the one side: an army of alcoholic aggression and tribal band tattoos. On the other: this immaculate, modern and elegant eating experience, with its creative, New American-dips-into-Asia menu. Korean ribs over pad thai show Eastern promise, but scallops sizzling in black-truffle butter are deliriously French. The excellent interior artwork is a nice touch.
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Blue Room
Staff at the Blue Room takes pride in the restaurant's reliance on organic farms and 'mom-and-pop purveyors' as the source of produce and meats. They use them to create a menu that is constantly changing according to what's in season and fresh, but is always innovative and delicious. One of Cambridge's top-rated restaurants, the Blue Room still manages to maintain a casual, comfortable atmosphere.
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Mañana Garage
A favorite with the theater crowd, this sizzling place sports a splashy Caribbean decor and delicious Latin-influenced dishes. The blackened-fish tostada and guava-glazed barbecue ribs are Hawaiian-accented house specials. Vegetarians can spice it up with the roasted veggie enchiladas with mole dulce. There's live salsa and Hawaiian music a few nights a week - call for the schedule.
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Butterfield Room
The fine dining restaurant at La Casa del Zorro is very fine indeed. A changing menu provides fresh takes on standards, plus plenty of local ingredients (the kit fox salad combines lettuce, citrus, walnuts and dates), and there's an enviable if pricey wine list. Desserts are off the wall. Dress code is collared shirt, dress pants and shoes for men, 'appropriate attire' for women.
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Salt H20 Café
Dinner here is… different. The menu, like the decor (walls smothered in fishing nets, paintings, posters, snapshots, sea creature cutouts…), discombobulates. Parts of the seven-course offering are superb (cedar-plank salmon); others are lily-gilding confusions (sweet coconut covered oysters). Edible orchids (not gilded) are part of the meal, as are rich desserts.
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Public
Built to look like a public library or school, with waiters who take your order on a clipboard, Public falls just on the right side of quirky--and that goes for the food, as well. The odd mix of Asian, Australian and New Zealand cooking is heavy on wild game ('roo and ostrich are on the menu), but well-presented and matched with tasty sides like fennel soup and crab cakes.
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