favorite bar foods

[kpollard_2000]

We're working on a menu for our bar. What are some of your all time favorites. It's a midpriced, midwestern bar. The local favorites are buffalo wings, nachos etc. Have you tried anything different lately that stands out.

I will say, in my experience a myriad of quesadillas sell well... odd as that is....
and the latest trend for fast food is "wraps"... but frankly, I don't go to bars.

[shroomgirl]

Sweet potato chips with blue cheese dip
Fried raviolis are HUGE here and actually pretty good...(beef filling breaded and deep fried served with marinara)
Calamari with lime aioli
This is really going over the edge with Fat Fried battered quiche
edames (just steamed)
Bourbon glazed chicken bites
cheese straws
I always adored a great cheese and meat/fruit
plate with a glass of wine.
tiropete and spanokopita
always spinach dip
oozy melted brie with fruit

[Mezzaluna]

What? No pickled pigs' feet and pickled eggs and pickled sausages?? (THAT'S how long it's been since I hung out in a bar....). Wings and various forms of fried onions are big around here... pretty traditional territory.

nothing beats a well prepared batch of chicken wings... hot to the max!

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[kpollard_2000]

One of my favorites are fried pita chips w/ parmesan and a ranch-jalepeno dip. Another favorite is shrooms....fried mushrooms w/ a cream cheese-ranch filling.....so where did your name come from shroomgirl.

[David Jones]

The best freebie I've had is Tony Mantuano's rosemary potato chips at Tuttaposto and Mantuano's.

[shroomgirl]

Wild Things not domesticated....noramally wild shrooms are not stuffed and fried. Though I do know a guy that finds HUGE (in size and haul) morels that he insists on battering and frying every Winter Picnic....really messes them up.....real culinary crime.
There is a bar that also serves beet chips...supposed to be good with beer.

[cookM]

Wow, I am really plain. I like a good salsa and chip. Hmmm, springrolls. I like hot and spicy shrimp. Sausages.

[BevReview Steve]

I agree, salsa and chips are the way to go... nice spicy salsa!

[Nicko]

At the brewery I was at we used to do a mixed bowl of veg chips (boniato root, malanga, beet, and sweet potato) served with a roasted red pepper stout dip. Huge seller.

[Live_to_cook]

If you're dealing with Midwest palates you want meat, and if you're doing bar food, skewers are the way to go. Use the "right names" for the skewers or not, it won't matter to people as long as they like it and order another.

Beef and/or pork chunks in olive oil, red wine, garlic, rosemary, oregano, salt & pepper etc. (souvlaki)

Chicken in the above minus the red wine, add a little lemon juice (chicken souvlaki)

Chicken (thigh is best) in coconut milk, ginger, garlic, lime juice, curry powder, cilantro, etc. (sate)

Serve 'em with the right dipping sauce --(tzaziki, garlic-cucumber-yogurt-dill with the souvlaki; peanut sauce, ground-roast-peanut-coconut-milk-etc. for the sate) --

or, just something generically nice (a little fresh cut salsa with or without fresh papaya)

good honest bar food cause you can just whip out the skewers when you need 'em. nibblers who don't want a steak or a chicken basket will go for a skewer i bet. do this right and they'll beg you for more.

*sigh* i have a skewer fixation, it's true. it's because worked with a church group to raise money this summer, sold $30,000 of souvlaki in a week with a volunteer crew. people just go nuts for a proper skewer.

[This message has been edited by Live_to_cook (edited September 13, 2000).]

[cookM]

Originally posted by Live_to_cook:
*sigh* i have a skewer fixation, it's true. it's because worked with a church group to raise money this summer, sold $30,000 of souvlaki in a week with a volunteer crew. people just go nuts for a proper skewer.

Yeah, I have this friend who always makes skewers for every single potluck dinner party. Doesn't matter what the theme is, those d**n skewers are always there!

skewers... sound yummy. the best part is that they seem like a party food... or i guess a bar food.

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Por Favor mentaganse allejado de las puertas!

[shroomgirl]

break off the sharp tips or the drunks will poke their eyes out....