We all have the places we love to eat. Sometimes, circumstances dictate that it's a place at which we loved to eat -- because of health problems, or because it went out of business, or because you moved away. Roger Ebert, for instance, wrote some time ago about how he loved Steak 'n' Shake. I think it's fair to say all of us could write something similar about our particular favorites.
There have been some incredible meals I've had. There's a bakery and cafe in Girdwood, Alaska that makes the most unbelievably good breakfast I've ever had, complete with a cinnamon roll about the size of your head. We've discovered wonderful little Italian restaurants here and there, little family-owned places that make us yearn to travel back to those cities just to eat there again.
Then there's Char-Hut.
I didn't discover Char-Hut until long after I'd moved out of South Florida. I used to drive by them all the time. Hubby would talk about how good it was. But I didn't do a lot of eating out by myself, and when we did, we'd go someplace a little less fast-foody. One day a few years back, though, we were down visiting family, and hubby had the idea to have lunch there.
Wow.
For the uninitiated, Char-Hut is a little chain of burger restaurants in South Florida. As the name implies, they cook the burgers over flame, and then they build the burger your way, sort of the way a sub shop does. That's good enough, but the fries and onion rings make things even better. (Oh, those onions. Bliss.) If you order the veggie burger, they'll put that on the grill and it gets flame-broiled. It's wonderful.
Since that first visit a few years back, it's become a required stop when we go back down there. The last time, we went to Char-Hut twice during our stay. Hubby pretty much has standing orders that we visit there at least once while we're down there. The last time, we were even trying to figure out just what we'd have to do to finance a satellite location near us. Starting a business is such a colossal headache for so many reasons, but, man, it would almost be worth it to not have to travel night and day just to enjoy that kind of bliss.
That's how good it is.
There have been some incredible meals I've had. There's a bakery and cafe in Girdwood, Alaska that makes the most unbelievably good breakfast I've ever had, complete with a cinnamon roll about the size of your head. We've discovered wonderful little Italian restaurants here and there, little family-owned places that make us yearn to travel back to those cities just to eat there again.
Then there's Char-Hut.
I didn't discover Char-Hut until long after I'd moved out of South Florida. I used to drive by them all the time. Hubby would talk about how good it was. But I didn't do a lot of eating out by myself, and when we did, we'd go someplace a little less fast-foody. One day a few years back, though, we were down visiting family, and hubby had the idea to have lunch there.
Wow.
For the uninitiated, Char-Hut is a little chain of burger restaurants in South Florida. As the name implies, they cook the burgers over flame, and then they build the burger your way, sort of the way a sub shop does. That's good enough, but the fries and onion rings make things even better. (Oh, those onions. Bliss.) If you order the veggie burger, they'll put that on the grill and it gets flame-broiled. It's wonderful.
Since that first visit a few years back, it's become a required stop when we go back down there. The last time, we went to Char-Hut twice during our stay. Hubby pretty much has standing orders that we visit there at least once while we're down there. The last time, we were even trying to figure out just what we'd have to do to finance a satellite location near us. Starting a business is such a colossal headache for so many reasons, but, man, it would almost be worth it to not have to travel night and day just to enjoy that kind of bliss.
That's how good it is.
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