[Kalen Braley]

I figure every Yin need its Yang,

Name destinations or places you went to where the golf was excellent, but you otherwise had to choke the food down.  Sure most clubhouses have generally edible grub, but you can't eat there the whole day can you....err maybe you can.

But you get the point!!!

I'll start off.  Circling Raven in Worley, Idaho.  Other than the grub in the clubhouse which is decent, not a respectable place to eat for miles.  Avoid the nearby casino like the plague.... its a geriatric, stale cigaratte smoke infested, day-care for down and out Spokanites jamming qtrs in the slots.

[Tom Huckaby]

I won't insult my friends in the UK by giving the oh so obvious answer here.

And you know, I found lots of food to like over there anyway.

 

[Kalen Braley]

I won't insult my friends in the UK by giving the oh so obvious answer here.

And you know, I found lots of food to like over there anyway.

 

Tom,

I was thinking that when I wrote this thing up.  But in a Muccian way, I knew I couldn't say it cause I've never been there....albiet I've heard plenty of horror stories on what passes for edible in them parts.

[Richard Choi]

Hey, at least London has perfectly wonderful Indian food....

[Garland Bayley]

Old Works, unless of course you can head up the road and find fine dining a Rock Creek Cattle Company.

[JWinick]

The Monterey food was ok - but, compared to the golf, it didn't compare.   

[Mark Pearce]

If you've got the cash there are very few cities in the world with better food than London.  It's wonderful at the top end just grim at anything approaching a sensible budget unless you're eating Indian, Thai or Chinese.  Edinburgh has some decent restaurants, so I nominate Glasgow and Liverpool in this category.  Manchester would also get a shout but I'm not convinced of the golf.....

[Tom Huckaby]

The Monterey food was ok - but, compared to the golf, it didn't compare.   

Hmmmm.... there is a LOT of great dining to be had in the Monterey area.

But yes, the golf is indeed so great that it might make this list.

I just wonder though... many put SF on the other list... is the golf there really that bad?  What about SFGC, Olympic, Lake Merced?

Methinks neither CA city merits inclusion on a list like this.  We have great food and great golf in basically any city, at least in the Northern part of the state.  But if you are gonna put a city on the other list from CA, it has to be Napa.  The food outclasses the golf there by a HUGE margin.

TH

[Bob_Huntley]

The Monterey food was ok - but, compared to the golf, it didn't compare.   

JW,

Where on earth did you eat?

Bob

[Sean Leary]

Hutchinson, KS

There was one good restaurant in town, but it switched ownership and it isn't the same.

[JWinick]

Bob:

I enjoyed the food in Monterey.  Good restaurants, especially the seafood.  But, the golf is so great that the food pales in comparison.  Certainly, few would rank Monterey as highly for food as golf.

Sorry, I didn't mean to offend.

The Monterey food was ok - but, compared to the golf, it didn't compare.   

JW,

Where on earth did you eat?

Bob

[Kalen Braley]

Tom H,

Why no love for Chardonnay?  I thought it was a pretty darn good course, granted its not in the big boys league.

As for the bay area...agreed, if one can't find great food there, then your tastes are massively picky.  They got the whole spectrum there including all the exotics, Indian, Thai, etc.

[Kalen Braley]

Bob:

I enjoyed the food in Monterey.  Good restaurants, especially the seafood. 

Jwinick...

The operative word here is "choking" the food down...none of that going on in the Monterey area.  Plenty of great eats to be had.  Sure its all very pricey, but that just goes along with the gig. 

[Tom Huckaby]

"Certainly, few would rank Monterey as highly for food as golf."


Hmmmm... I don't know... there are some VERY highly-ranked restaurants in the greater Monterey area, as Bob can attest...

In any case, yes the golf is fantastic.  But so is the food.   I guess the presence of MPCC, CPC, PB and others does put Monterey right near or at the top of the golf world... so you MIGHT have a point... but do be careful not to short-shrift the dining opportunities, which aren't all that far from the top of the world.

I also really don't get the inclusion of SF in the other thread....

TH

[Tom Huckaby]

Tom H,

Why no love for Chardonnay?  I thought it was a pretty darn good course, granted its not in the big boys league.

As for the bay area...agreed, if one can't find great food there, then your tastes are massively picky.  They got the whole spectrum there including all the exotics, Indian, Thai, etc.

Chardonnay is fine, very enjoyable.  So is Silverado, Napa Muni.

But one just does not find better culinary delights than Napa/Sonoma.  It's the desparity which would make me include it in the other thread.

TH

[JWinick]

How about Columbus?  Muirfied, Scioto, the Golf Club...but, fairly pedestrian cuisine.

[Kalen Braley]

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I also really don't get the inclusion of SF in the other thread....

TH

Tom,

I think the thread deviated a little bit.....some were surprised that people would put Dallas in the same breathe as SF when it comes to culinary delights.  So I think people were just jumping in to say SF food is way better than what one find in Dallas...not necessarily that its a candidate city as posed by the thread question.

At least thats how I interpeted it.

[Anthony Fowler]

Hutchinson, KS? You can only eat so much Applebee's and Chili's.  I was tempted to ask the pro shop people but they were all young females and I didn't want to seem like I was looking for a date for the evening. 

[Sean_A]

Hands down the worst place I have been for food after playing a brilliant course is Ballybunion. 

Dornoch used to be bloody awful as well.  The new restaurant there (forgot the name) has gone a long way to fixing that. 

Prestwick (Ayr to be more precise) is a shocker and Cambletown is right there with it. 

Perranporth is fairly dire.  The town is full of what seemed to be heroin addicts - not intererested. 

Cruden Bay is rubbish. 

Ciao

[John Mayhugh]

The food at Prairie Dunes is pretty good, especially on pasta night.

I don't really think this topic works that well. It is significantly easier to find great food than golf.

[Bill_McBride]

There is one of the best Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail courses in Greenville, AL, Cambrian Ridge.  Really good stuff if you admire that genre.  Cambrian Ridge along with Grand National is at the top of the bunch in my opinion.

We went there 12 years ago as 3 couples and stayed in a Jameson Inn on I-65.  There was only one restaurant, mediocre food, and we wound up fighting off another table for the only bottle of wine in the restaurant.

THE ONLY BOTTLE OF WINE IN THE RESTAURANT. 

[Kalen Braley]

Ahhh nothing says breakfast like a nice low calorie, low chloesterol irish start to the morning...

Yummy....    (I love how the yogurt is diet....too funny!!)

[Daryl David]

Dornoch used to be bloody awful as well.  The new restaurant there (forgot the name) has gone a long way to fixing that. 



Ciao

The new restaurant in Dornoch is called "2 Quail".  It is fabulous and not to be missed.  Please support it because if it goes, we are screwed.

[TX Golf]

I mentioned SF just for the great food... also saying that there was some of the greatest architecture as well. SFGC, Cal Club, Olympic, Lake Merced, Harding. I think the other thread turned into more of a which city has the best food discussion.

[Eric_Terhorst]

The one time I went to the Broadmoor, Colorado Springs, CO, I loved the golf and hated the food,
but that was a while ago.  Food was not very good and it was very expensive.

Anyone who's been there recently have an update?

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