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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 8563349" data-attributes="member: 19675">Some of the noteworthy ones:Best Burger: the Guinness-marinated hamburgers & cheeseburgers at Slatery Rand’s in Irving, TX back in the late1990s.  They also had great steak & mushroom pie and a spring greens with strawberry vinaigrette.  They shuttered after a St. Patrick’s Day shindig when the owner skipped town after not paying rent for a couple months.Best Steak Sandwich: Early 1990s, McClesky’s in Austin, Tx.  They marinated their 3/4” thick rib-eyes in red wine, grilled them up with onions and put them on a nicely toasted bun with mayo and other toppings.  The owner sold out to a well-heeled idiot who changed the recipe- they closed within a year of the sale.Best Pho: a place in Irving, Tx in the late 1980s, across from Irving Mall and next to a Hooters.  The owner spoke no English, but his pho was the most fragrant and flavorful I’ve ever had.  His place closed in less than a year, probably because of the dining environment.  His American nephew chose the decor and piped in music- mottled pink wallpaper and extended-play dance remixes.  Not the best option for the Bible Belt in those days.Best Creamy Mushroom Soup: 2005, in Moscow, Russia.  I was having a meal in an upscale place in a Galleria-style mall just off of Red Square before going to St. Petersburg for a few days.  I ordered the wild mushroom & garlic soup and…something else that didn’t matter.  The soup was fragrant but nondescript…until I took a spoonful.  The texture was more like a Kool-Whip, and it behaved like it.  The spoonful of soup evaporated in my mouth, leaving behind only the mushroom & garlic flavors.</blockquote>

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