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https://thebrokenanchor.com/which-big-e ... best-food/

This is stupid, Chicago is recognized as one of the best food cities in the country. It has two styles of pizza not just deep dish, a delicious hot dog style, a special style of ribs, invented the flaming saganaki at Greek restaurants, was the candy capitol of the states, have invented the American Italian beef sandwich and American polish sausage and more breweries than any other city. It's NYC or Chicago 1 & 2 everybody else after that.

And if you're saying deep dish sucks then you've only been to some giordanos or Lou malnatti's sell out franchise not a true local spot.

https://www.timeout.com/chicago/news/ch ... vey-031219

https://travel.usnews.com/rankings/best ... n-the-usa/

https://www.insider.com/best-cities-in- ... es-2019-10

https://www.jetsetter.com/magazine/amer ... ties-2019/

https://www.farandwide.com/s/best-foodi ... 276e6c4b18

Milwaukee's pretty accurate though Points east pub has the best wings I've had in the world.

Rant over.

Holy Shit is this brutally wrong....many opposing coaches’ favorite road game of the year is coming to Providence to go eat on Federal Hill afterwards.

LOL, NOW it is getting serious!!!! After this, lets talk about religion or politics... probably less arguments.

I will say, obviously, as a Nova fan and former resident of the area that goes back once a year for a game, I love Cheese steaks-- I am a Jim's fan. Went to grad school (St. Johns) and worked in NYC for years --food there is the best overall. Prefer NY / CT pizza to Chicago (but that is just me). Now live in the midwest and Chicago has fantastic food--italian beef is off the charts. Providence --yup, Federal Hill is ridiculous. Been to Xavier once (last year) I enjoyed skyline--good stuff! Been to Indy several times, including Hinkle once---never had the Pork tenderloin and did not know it was a thing--I will next time.-- Need to sample more Milwaukee and Omaha. Man, just realized that none of the items mentioned were good for you... oh well!

Salt water taffy?? WTF LOL?? Am I the only one who's never remotely associated that with Seton Hall? I'm pretty sure you can't get it in South Orange and would have a tough time finding it in Newark. I understand wanting to expand beyond just South Orange since it's so small, but even then - I'm not sure salt water taffy makes the top 10 of foods New Jersey's famous for. In an effort not to throw fuel on the pizza debate, I'd go with something more unique and nominate the pork-roll, egg and cheese breakfast sandwich. Get it on a kaiser roll or a bagel (also best in the country), either way it'll do wonders for helping you cure you're hangover from drinking away memories of that beat-down at the hands of the Pirates the night before.

The literal answer to the question is New York, if ties aren't allowed.

NYC and Chicago are obvious, assuming ties are acceptable.

However, I then read the piece and found that it appeared as though the focus was on game day food. When I went to school in Cincinnati, the city had 3 Mobile 5-Star rated restaurants and a number of 4 and 3-star restaurants. That is a pretty wild collection for a town with an MSA population of under 3mm. Anyway, when I read Skyline Chili as the 'best food' entry for Cincinnati, I figured this piece was going down a different road.

One of my grad school marketing professors at Xavier was a sommelier who owned his own wine shop in a nice Cincy suburb. He gave me part time work there. I was standing in the shop one day when a customer asked him "what is the best bottle of wine" to buy for a big occasion. Dr. Van Kirk was no snob. He simply responded " the best bottle of wine is the wine that you like and enjoy."

Same with food. Though I cannot imagine NOT LIKING Italian food, and I have zero percent Italian blood in me.

p.s. If Salt Water Taffy is going to be brought into it within the BE footprint, allow me to suggest Stone Harbor, NJ, not Seton Hall's backyard. And there are many fabulous diners in NJ that serve an array of good eats.

A Big East food list and Creighton gets saddled with a mediocre regional fast food chain and not an OMAHA STEAK?

bluejayfanatic wrote:A Big East food list and Creighton gets saddled with a mediocre regional fast food chain and not an OMAHA STEAK?

Dude, Omaha Steaks are complete garbage. Terrible company.

The best eating in Omaha while I lived there was Stella's. And the taco joints in South Omaha

Not exactly in the category, but when in Cincy go to Jeff Ruby's for dinner. Just the best.

hortle wrote:

bluejayfanatic wrote:A Big East food list and Creighton gets saddled with a mediocre regional fast food chain and not an OMAHA STEAK?

Dude, Omaha Steaks are complete garbage. Terrible company.

I think fanatic is referring to steaks at one of Omaha steakhouses, not frozen meat in a box.