Number 81 on the Travel Channel's "101 Tastiest Places to Chowdown" is Nick Tahou Hots. Located in Rochester NY, (a convenient 15 minutes from my company's Rochester manufacturing location) Nick Tahou Hots was established in 1918 and is the home to a Rochester staple - The Garbage Plate. Garbage plate, you say?? How could that be possibly appetizing? Well, the name is certainly not as appetizing as the components of the garbage plate.
Starting from the bottom and working our way up, a customer can order and mix of sides including home fries, macaroni salad, baked beans or french fries. The customer will next choose their protein portion consisting of red hots (hot dogs) white hots (an upstate NY variation of the hot dog), cheeseburger, hamburger, Italian sausage, chicken tenders, fried fish (haddock), fried ham, egg, veggie burger or grilled cheese. Then it is all topped off with mustard, chopped raw onions, and Nick Tahou's signature red sauce, which is a kind of beanless chili.
I selected the home fries, macaroni salad and cheese burger for my garbage plate. I topped it all off with a root beer.
Overall, the garbage plate was pretty tasty. I especially love the red sauce and chopped onions on top of the burger patties. I also like the creamy contrast that the potato salad provides.
The one component that I was not happy with was the home fries. If you serve me stale home fries, at least give me a plastic fork sturdy enough to puncture them. It only adds insult to injury to hive me a cheap plastic fork and then serve me stale potatoes hard enough to force me to stab the home fries with my knife instead of my fork. Overall, I'd try the garbage plate again, but I'd rather try the french fries or come during a busier period when the sides are fresher.How far would I drive to get it? 20 minutes. It was good, but it could have been better.
(calamari) you certainly make it sound more delicious than it looks. how much is a garbage plate?
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ReplyDeleteCalamari is...CALAMARI here too?!!
This garbage plate cetainly must taste better than it looks. My dear would say this is my type of thing because he thinks I like to put a hodge podge of shit in my plate. I am curious how the white hots tastes. (Potsticker)
And you do plan to post the same places that Calamari slogs? Like MILK! It would be interesting to read your perspective. (Potsticker)
ReplyDeleteHahaha, Calamari, that's why it's called a garbage plate. It was better tasting that it looks for sure.
ReplyDeleteI'm curious how the white hots taste as well, Potsticker. Now I got something I gotta try next time.
Yeah, I'll probably post the same place Calamari posts, but I'll try not to trump her posts. My perspective is usually the same as hers.