 5@5 is a daily, food-related list from chefs, writers, political pundits, musicians, actors, and all manner of opinionated people from around the globe. Sharing is caring? Not when it's crazy delicious. When it comes to certain foods, we all have our selfish moments. Whether it's a rustic slice of carrot cake or the slightly more refined sea urchin toast, if someone tries to extend a fork in the general direction of your plate, they might well lose a finger - and a friend - in the process. John McDonald, the restaurateur behind New York City's Lure Fishbar, MercBar and Burger & Barrel, knows the feeling. Now, back away slowly and no one gets forked. Five Dishes I Won't Share with Anyone: John McDonald It's pretty much a two biter, so there is zero chance at someone getting one of the two." 2. L'Entrecôte and fries at Le Relais de l'Entrecôte (Paris, France) About half the time, I have to order a second full serving of the meat and always a chilled red to go along on a summer day." 3. Marinara pizza at Pizzeria Bianco (Phoenix, Arizona) It's so light that its the perfect appetizer for one. Sometimes I get a side of prosciutto and throw it on top. There is always a wait for a table and it's in downtown Phoenix, but worth the trip and the wait." 4. Roast pork sandwich at Faicco's Pork Store (New York, New York) These guys make sandwiches with both love and precision — never sloppy, never one side uneven with ingredients. It's a pretty big sandwich and it takes a good 20-minute session to finish it. And if no pork is on that day, go with their rare roast beef, a close second." 5. Mutton chop at Keen's Chophouse (New York, New York) For anyone that loves lamb and wants a new thing to put on rotation, this guy is the one. Special note: be sure to check out the collection of clay pipes, by the thousands, that hang on the ceiling of the main room and the notables that have signed them." How do you feel about sharing plates? Is there a food you won't share? Share (heh) your comments below. Is there someone you'd like to see in the hot seat? Let us know in the comments below and if we agree, we'll do our best to chase 'em down. |
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You can spit on the flag. You can talk ugly about my Momma. But if you even think about pointing your fork at my Puebla Platter from El Fenix, I will rip your arm off at the shoulder and beat you to death with the wet end of it.
The best part of really good food is sharing it with someone you love!
I order food with the expectation of taking half of it home with me – the portions are so large that I can eat the leftovers for lunch or dinner the next day. Some food tends to taste better the next day too. Sharing just isn't an option for me and I hate being put on the spot when someone asks for a bite. There just isn't a gracious way to decline that kind of request.
I'm also an incredibly picky eater – not picky like a kid who won't eat their vegetables but more like, there are few foods that I find appealing. So it's uncomfortable for me when I have no interest in what my dining companion is eating yet they want to try half my plate. I honestly have nothing against food sharing but it just isn't for me.
BC, I am the same way. There are few options on a menu that actually appeal to me. I certainly don't want to give half of that up and receive a portion of something I'd never order in return. This has happened several times when I've been out to eat in groups...no discussion prior to ordering, but when the food comes everyone suddenly thinks swapping portions is a great idea. No. It's not actually.
If I am presented with a really good Oma's-style (for you Saratoga Springs, NY, natives) eggplant parmesan sub, nobody else is getting any . . .
If something's really great, sharing it only increases the enjoyment. After all, you can always buy more than one! There's no food in this world that's worth as much as the experience of sharing something great with friends.
I wont share my dad's homemade spaghetti or his steaks, nor will i share my mom's pot roast or homemade fudge. These foods are a sacred treat that I only get to enjoy 2x a year if I'm lucky.
Angelo's Bar-b-que beef sandwich in Fort Worth, TX with an icy mug of cold draft beer. Everybody else just better get their own. And to tell the truth – I don't think anybody else in that place shares.
A piggy po-boy from Antone's Original in Houston! I don't get to have one often and it is just TOO GOOD to share!
I like food vendor on side of street in Bangkok. They good and spicy to. Have crab rangon and noodle sup. Hmmmmmm
There's a Greek restaurant on A1A in Ft. Lauderdale called "Greek Island". Whenever I am flying down to Lauderdale my mouth starts to salivate thinking of their Greek salad, Lamb chops, Saganaki and the greek yogurt with walnuts and honey....OMG! I wish I could go right now. The best I have ever had! AMEN!
Holy lamb chops, that does sound fantastic!
I won't share my opinion. :)
LOL! Why not? Every other turd on this planet does.
Every third turd
Chicken with white bbq sauce and mac&cheese at Dixie Bones in Woodbridge, VA. Yummy food with a low price.
Sue – You are NOT kidding!!! I am willing to sit in traffic for that sauce (on pulled pork though) and that mac and cheese!!! But now everyone knows... oh noooooooo!
Are you aware that VDOT might kick Dixie Bones out of their current location? My advice – get your fill of Dixie Bones now ...
Bacon...won't share bacon!
That's why you cook double the amount you need.
For example, I'm making BLTs for dinner tonight – just hubby and myself, but I'll make 2 lbs of bacon. Nice sandwich, and extra for 'sampling'. :)
Then that's not really "sharing"...that's cooking enough for the two of you.
Seems to me Mare is suggesting to cook double the amount so Pierce can share. Just sayin'...
I was so happy to see Le Relais d'Entrecote listed. I'm used to these lists focusing on the unattainable, $500 dinner experiences, but my mom and I wandered into this place when we went to Paris for my spring break in Paris about 10 years ago. Super-reasonable and low-key dining experience. We loved that we didn't have to make a decision and the steak and pommes frites have become the standard by which we gauge all steak and frites! I even forced my vegetarian sister to go there with me 3 years later :)
Wow, the selfishness of you people is pathetic.
Weinerschnitzel chili dogs in Yo face!! Hahahahahahaha! Yes,I will share a 10 pak.
Thanks for the offer and being generous but I just threw up in my mouth a little thinking of those nasty chili dogs. My bile tastes better than that crap.
What's selfish about it? With a screen name like yours, I would think you'd wanna keep your food where you keep your gold. Oh that's right – my bad. You don't actually have the gold yet.
What's selfish about "I won't share this with anyone."? Really? I'd gladly share any food of mine with my family and friends. Your mama sure failed you.
And no, I don't got da gold. Da leprechaun up in da tree got da gold. I want dat gold! Da leprechaun being selfish too!
"Da leprechaun up in da tree got da gold. I want dat gold! Da leprechaun being selfish too!" LMAO!
Selfish snob.
No, he jest wants all dat goooold!
Lobster tail w/drawn butter. Not a chance anyones getting a bite.
I'd be hard pressed to share that, too. But it would depend on who I'm having my meal with.
Tagalongs, a good burger and fires, and there is some beer I will not share. This guys list is way over my head come down to my level and I would like to see what middle class foods he would not share.
I buy ma a food I eatta ma food.
u gonna share that ear wax?
i will not share food with anyone. i do not want their nasty saliva dripping from fork /spoon/ to my plate of food . that is worse then double dipping !
Do you stick your tongue in someones mouth when you kiss?
How my fiance and I normally do it is we start with setting aside a small part on our plates for the other to try. Then again, we *are* engaged, so I think swapping a little saliva is a given. ;)
For friends sharing appetizers or from larger dishes, if there's not extra utensils to make a serving utensil possible, we ask for more forks/spoons until we have enough.
The sharing of different foods is, to me, my family, and our friends, a wonderful way of allowing everyone to experience a little bit of a wide variety of foods. We've done it since before we had kids and the kids started once they were on solid foods. Our kids will eat darn near anything now. We feel it brings a more complete, wonderful sharing experience to our friendships as well. The one rule? Don't eat off someone else's plate. Ask for anything you want, hold out your side plate, and it will be happily placed on *your* plate for you. If something is *particularly* good, we can (almost) always get a second order! ..though, there was that one time with some amazing e-dako....
To the non-sharers: If you sit down and the rule is no-sharing, I can understand keeping the food to yourself. But if you and a person agree to try some of each other's meal, I expect to not get speared in the process.
It does seem like it's mostly a couple-thing to share but sometimes you will see a table of friends that deliberately order dishes to pass around (and that's usually when it's a larger group, that way you can order a few big dishes instead of a bunch of small ones and ultimately save $).
Agreed. People I've just met have helped themselves to my plate. That's beyond rude to me. By the same token, I've gone out with friends where we've agree to share appetizers.
It's all about communication.
When Hubby & I go out and we order different things, if one of us shows interest in the other's food, we'll offer up a taste. Otherwise we keep our forks to ourselves.
I agree- just helping yourself to a taste without asking is beyond rude. So is asking and not waiting for an affirmative reply.
probably can't afford to go to any of the places named, who cares?
Well, are there places you can afford to go to where you love a dish so much that you won't share it?
My husband and I always share. To me, if he doesn't get to taste it then its as good as not eating it... if its one of two bite appetizer, or sips off the wine I ordered. Dining is an experience and it can only get better if you share.
On the rare occasions that I can find a perfect ripened mango, I will not share one bite. For me, mangoes are the ultimate fruit.
Pretty much the only thing I hate to share is my emergency stash of Nutella!
I agree my husband and I have seperate Nutella jars with our names clearly labeled...and not the small jars
I absolutely will not share baked macaroni & cheese with anyone but u can't get it at any restaurant & around our house dressing is a year round dish but you can't get it at any restaurant either. Some of the best foods are cooked at home with love and family all around
Wow. The author looks like a regular guy, but he's actually an insufferable snob. McDonald, find something worthwhile to write about.
Jezuz Krist people, lighten up.
It was worthwhile. You read it AND you commented on it.
If you reach for my plate, prepare to get forked. You want some? Should have ordered it.
Amen. This goes for S.O.'s, friends, family and God. Take anything off my plate and you will win a fork in the back of your hand.
There is no certain food I would or wouldn't share. If you ask for a taste, I'll cut off a chunk so you can try it.
Kaddo Borani at any Helmand location - Baltimore or SF. Baked baby pumpkin with yogurt and ground beef sauce. We always order as many portions as their are diners. No one expects to share.
Screw you. If you want what I'm having, you should have ordered it. And no, I don't want any of that swill you ordered.
Any time I get a sushi plate, it's mine ALL MINE!!!! 'm also unwilling to share a really good French Onion Soup.
Baltimore's Best Crabcake is at G&M's, an inexpensive but excellent restaurant – not too far from BWI Airport for those passing through. In a town where a restaurant's reputation is made or broken on the quality of is crabcakes and Crab Imperial, G&M's won many local awards. And in Baltimore you're talking about the cake being mostly lump crab meat with a little filler. The perfectly mildly-spiced crabcakes are near softball sized (fried or broiled) and the double-crabcake platter is not much more expensive than single – many take one home in a doggy bag. When the waitress brings the platters (most pick fries and coleslaw as their sides) the eyes and smiles light up the whole table.
Amen to that! I've taken the extra crabcake home many times. For the folks around Baltimore, By the Docks in Middle River and Timbuktu Restaurant in Hanover are owned by the same people with pretty much the same fare.
Those crab cakes are amazing. Anyone who goes there and doesn't order their own shouldn't ask to share.
"JOEY DOESN'T SHARE FOOD!" (remember that episode of Friends?)
If no one had posted this, I was going to. I actually say this line when my husband tries to steal some of what I won't share.
future interviews – Steve Hanson of B.R. Guest; Gail Simmons of Food & Wine/Top Chef Just Desserts
A bowl of Rai Rai Ken's Japanese curry, I drive all the way from south Jersey to New York for that yummy goodness and no one (not even my husband) gets a bite of it! lol
In old town Alexandria VA there's a great Greek place called Taverna Kretekou. Generally my wife and I share everything, but there we boht order our won plate of saganaki. pan fried cheese served en flambe at your table. Simple and AMAZING stuff. Great on bread with olive oil, or fresh tomato, or a little squirt of lemon.
Well, I can understand if you each get the same thing, you can keep your order to yourself. :)
And for good saganaki or halloumi, I can believe it!
At many restaurants we just order a variety of appetizers and share. It's like tapas anywhere!
They have Entrecote restaurants - run by varying branches of the original family, but the food and concept is the same - in London and New York, too.
Can you say nauseatingly f***ing, pretentious?
What, you expected him to say fries at Micky D's, endless soup salad and bread sticks at Olive Garden?
Yeah, I'd like the seafood combo at Red Lobster... Just get your White Castle sack and leave us alone.
Taste buds not working?
I totally agree Conrad Shull, I was thinking something along the lines of a particular flavor ice cream, Mom's stuffed bell peppers, the hole in the wall that makes this thing that ****ing awesome...
Not crap from France or from places that require special characters to type the names correctly...
I totally agree with #2 Le Relais d'Entrecote in Paris – a second serving of meat is required! Too bad they stop at two servings of Entrecote.
My husband and I always go in with sharing in mind also, and sometimes his is soooo much better I keep reaching in for more, but he doesn't mind and often will switch entrees with me! Sadly, I can't think of any one thing that I absolutely would not share.
JB – this is your husband...and I absolutely hate it when you eat off my plate. The only reason I sometimes switch plates with you is so that I can acutally eat something and not have you eat my food and your food too!
Skrew you Shirley!
LOL!!!
Why the hell would you want to say something nasty to someone you don't even know? Do you even have anything positive or constructively critical to say about the post?
You need to pick on someone your own size. I'm sure there are microbes deep in the ocean that could use a good beating. Run along now.
Wow, you people really need to lighten up....it wasn't nasty...i didn't say "you fat slob stop eating my food", that would have been mean. It was meant as a joke. You know, ha, ha, ho, ho? Touchy touch are we?
AND btw, who is Shirley??
I would be happy to share my plate with you! So glad that you like Fancy Feast.
Take the hint. Not funny. It was angry, bitter and vindictive. And not funny.
Someday, when you grow up, you'll learn what is funny and what is not.
Don't dogs eat turds? Odie, please be nice and share with "Shirley"
Shirley-U-Jest is a frequent poster here. You sounded just like her. Sorry if I did not get the joke but based on this " so that I can acutally eat something and not have you eat my food and your food too!" it sounded like you were trying to insinuate that she is a fat stooge of a slob. Blog on!
@Matt – This is probably my third time posting on CNN and I did not know about Shirley, so I didn't get it. "I" thought it was funny, aparently other posters did not.
@Conan – angry, bitter and vindictive? Seriously? Wow, you need some help.
Well, don't go away. If I misunderstood you, my apologies.
Your failed attempt at humor has you in the dog house dear. I told you not to post on the internets!
Help?!! I need help from no one but Doom! You have no say about Conan's help!
I got your dinner swinging right here asshole. Need a napkin with that?
My fiance and I share food all the time. Usually when we order a meal together it's with the mind of "I'd like to try a bite of yours (too)."
And always, no matter what I want to do after tasting my food, I follow through and share.
Wife and I are the same. We're big believers in "we can always order more!"
What at terrible article. Won't share! You can always get more. I think this is a lousy way to say the food is great!. Just shows the greed and selfishness on people!
Sheryl, the food I will not share is the food I eat when I do not know where or when my next meal will come from. Not selfishness, wisdom.
Jorge, since you didn't write the article I'm not sure what she said applies to you but anyways, if the author is eating at the places mentioned above I'm guessing he may worry about where his next meal comes from but never when because he can afford to eat whenever the heck he feels like it.
There is a Thai lady who has a food cart in downtown Denver, who makes UNBELIEVABLY great crab cheese wontons. Even better than Bride's and that is saying something. I would NEVER share them.
I was there for the Great American Beer Fest last September. This woman makes phenomenal food, period. When she says "spicy" she means it. Yum!
Agreed! Her food is UHH-MA-ZING!