I love Brazilian Churrasco to death, one of my favorite meals, and even with all the amazing meat, the grilled/roasted pineapple might be the best thing there.
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Each to their own, of course … but, at the same time 
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Never tried it - sounds like it could be nice, but ‘in general’ I’m highly suspect on cooked fruit unless it comes in the form of apple pie!
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Nope 
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I 
NYC Pizza. We lived in NYC from 2013-2016 and I still crave the pizza at Roberta’s in Brooklyn. We managed to do a dough course there one night and use the recipe all the time now that we are back in AU.
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Yeah. Me too. I was raised on West coast US style, which isn’t bad but is just not the same. The first time I had NY style I was blown away. That’s what pizza should be.
I actually consider Chicago style to be a different dish than pizza. It’s different enough (when done right) that it kind of deserves a category of its own. So good.
Some of my favorite chains in California have kind of adopted New York style and mixed it with West Coast style. I really love Pizza My Heart as one example - basically NY style crust and cheese with West Coast levels of other toppings.
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Amen to that! Worst possible topping to put on a pizza.
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See what you’ve done by having that pineapple in your hotel room? A pizza sub topic has bloomed in the Show your practice space thread 
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Now, THAT looks pretty good to me, @RuknRole . . . 
I’ve never actually eaten pizza with pineapple on it (yet) . . . 
Cheers
Joe
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Not really a sub topic as such, is it? I mean for most amateur bassists, and I daresay a few pros as well, a pizza is probably as integral to jam practice as most of their equipment.
A bassist can certainly have a great practice with the less important instruments without a lead singer, but without a pie and wobbly pops afterwards? Something’s missing.
Pizza and bass go together like pizza and helping a buddy move.
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@howard that pizza looks fab. But I’m reminded of a line from the American writer Bill Bryson in ‘Notes from a small Island’ (It’s a travelogue around Britain where he reminisces about his first time moving there, meeting his future English wife and all the eccentricities of the place’
He has a series of golden rules. One of them is - Never eat in a restaurant with pictures of the food on the menu.
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Actually I think that Pizza-la pizza looks totally awful 
I love all of those things (well, except Mentai Seafood) - but want none of them on pizza 
Here’s my favorite NY-style place here (Pizza Slice Daikanyama):
Now that looks good.
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My mother’s interpretation of this is “you don’t eat Italian food at a Chinese restaurant” (she’s Italian). Meaning - you eat at a place that is good at what they do and you eat what they are good at.
I was just in Indiana this week, my college and I (both who love food) chuckle at all the seafood restaurants in the middle of America. Nope nope nope. You eat corn and beef in Indiana, and, apparently, breaded/fried pork tenderloin sandwiches - they were atop of every menu.
I was actually in Alaska once (forget which town) that had a combo Pizza/Chinese food restaurant - i did not eat there.
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Oh it gets way, way worse than that 
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Oh yes, now that brings back memories. I found the food in Japan amazing, just not the items from the West so much. They were all mostly adapted then. It looks like there’s more parallel choices now. There used to be one Italian restaurant in Rappongi I would go to when I needed a break from sakana or soba and wanted an authentic tomato sauce. I’ll try to find it. The best treat were the yakitori grills under the tracks in Ginza.
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Did you post about your Sweetwater visit someplace? I was within hours of there, but we were on a different mission.
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I love Yokocho like that. Great ones in Ginza (the one you’re thinking of is famous), Shinjuku, Shibuya and Ebisu. So cool, just little alleys full of food stands and shops.
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I wonder how he’d feel about scale models of the food in the window then.
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That’s one of my rules also. Another one: I won’t eat in a restaurant with dirty windows.
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