Is there a dish you cook better than a restaurant?

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

Is there a dish you’ve stopped ordering out because yours is just better?

I know we are getting to the point with one (vegan) restaurant where we are thinking what we cook and prepare is better than them... so are visiting them less and less, but I don't think I I can yet name a dish that they create where we think our version is better

I would hazard a guess Puggles might suggest pizza...

 

[badjak]

Is there a dish you’ve stopped ordering out because yours is just better?

I know we are getting to the point with one (vegan) restaurant where we are thinking what we cook and prepare is better than them... so are visiting them less and less, but I don't think I I can yet name a dish that they create where we think our version is better

I would hazard a guess Puggles might suggest pizza...

Mine is pizza
Plus a lot of Thai & Indian dishes as they tend to get toned down to local tastes.
There is only the odd restaurant in those categories that I like
It seems like a curse around here if they serve food I like. Generally those restaurants close within 3 to 6 months because of lack of clientele.
Luckily there are some exceptions....
My newest like is a restaurant called Mozambik, lets see if they are still around by August

 

[Barriehie]

Just a bunch of chain restaurants around here so nothing is special that they make. It's all the same corporately dictated plate from a #10 can. So, everything I make is better than that. They're a convenience, not an eating experience.

 

[vernplum]

Some things, yes, but I also consider that over time what I eat has been refined to suit my tastes so it's tricky to say if someone else would think it better than a restaurant's version.

So yes, there are occasional instances where I think 'I could have made a better version of that' (bearing in mind the point above).

I think I can make some pretty good British Indian dishes and I think some of my results are definitely better than some of the offerings from Indian takeaways around where my folks live in South London (god the standard has dropped soooo much), but then they can also cook hundreds of other things that I can't. Then there are some Indian stalls around where I live in Singapore where I haven't a clue where they get that magic taste and don't know where to start to recreate it. Similarly, when I went to Rome there were a couple of places where I was thinking 'is this it? I can do better' but there were other places where I was like 'wow - how did they do that?!' so it varies a lot depending where you go. I'm fairly humble - I know I haven't got what it takes to be a restaurant cook.

If there's one thing I will almost never order outside these days (if I'm paying with my own money that is) is a steak. I can do a bloody good steak for a quarter of the price of a restaurant and eat it while wearing a wife-beater vest standing next to the sink. That's pretty priceless.

 

[Amateur1]

I also prefer my pizza to a restaurant usually. I think the sumac and smoked paprika etc that I put in the dough gives it a great flavour.
I've not seen anything like my chocolate quinoa anywhere else. It's not universally popular except in my flat.

 

[rascal]

My family and friends love my tandoori cutlets and bhajees.
Also my chicken croquettes. My wife fell in love with these 40 years ago at a restaurant that has since closed. I made about 20 times to get it right.

Russ