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What's your favourite restaurant (or type of restaurant) to go to?

I don't usually eat out because I just can't afford it...but my favourite type of restaurant here is the hibachi. Some of my co-workers and I used to go to it for lunch, and it was always delicious...you get a salad with ginger dressing, a hearty beef broth soup dish, and then your main course. I would always choose rice + vegetables + chicken + beef, and then poured what they called "yum yum sauce" on the side that  you could dip it in. More recently, I've seen you can purchase the sauce (by that exact name) at Walmart, so it must be very popular! It's been a few years since I've been there since the pandemic, working from home, and being the only person at home that likes that kind of food, but it's still my favourite.

(This topic was today's Icebreaker on the NationStates RMB, courtesy of yours truly)

I feel like most of the places I could list are chains and similar types of food (general American restaurant) but I am confusing myself with that description so I will try to avoid going further into that. I have found Black Bear Diner to be a great restaurant though, others include the Max's in Redwood City (unfortunately that closed a few years ago), and the Elli's in Salinas.
Max's would provide both sourdough and raisin bread (the latter quite nice) before the meal ordering and a nice variety of sauces for meals. They also just had nice food on their menus including burgers, flatbread pizza (basically pizza on those longish flatbreads), salads, and other things. Black Bear Diner has most of its menu available throughout the day (even breakfast), their normal portions are quite large so they have smaller portion sections (known as Little Less). The menu is smaller during the pandemic unfortunately but still has some of the nice meals such as the Cheeseburger Salad (a lot of generic burger ingredients mixed with a lot of lettuce into a salad with dressings available of course), they also tend to have a lot of pies available for order (though I wouldn't go for those). Also Black Bear Diner does not seem to charge prices as high as many similar restaurants for their large meals. Elli's is an immigrant themed restaurant with a variety of cuisines including a number of pizzas, salads, burgers, even some lemonade options.
Other highlights that are not necessarily from favorite restaurants include Olive Garden's breadsticks and salad, the pizookies of BJ's Brewhouse, and pretty much any Frozen yogurt.

There's a local sushi restaurant owned and run by the parents of an Olympian here. They have good stuff - I like their udon and sashimi.

I like Sichuanese (dry spicy hot pot, cumin lamb, etc.), Shanghainese (reminds me of home, but pan-fried soup dumplings are great), Taiwanese (great popcorn chicken, shaved ice, boba), Xi'an (spicy hand-pulled noodles!), and Hunan food. Korean BBQ is always tasty. Pho is good but only some restaurants do it well.

My partner has been eating poke recently so I have too.

In NYC my favorite place is the local halal cart. You need to find a good one but once you do it's great cheap delicious food in an expensive city. Also nice to splurge on a New York everything bagel with lox every now and then.

This seems to be getting more common elsewhere, but in Quebec we have whole restaurant chains (and singleton diners or restaurants) that specialize in poutine. They all have their few dozen different takes on it.

My favourites are poutine italienne (replace gravy with meat spaghetti sauce), or the standard fare with extra sausage or smoked meat on top. Depending on the place I like to swap the gravy for BBQ sauce.

Of course, as much as I like poutine, were I to eat it every day, I'd probably be already dead, so I unfortunately must limit my consumption. Lately I've been making it a special treat when I'm travelling around the province for work. Lots of our clients are dairy producers, and the fromagers nearly always feature a casse-croûte on the premises to supplement their income. When present, poutine is always on the menu, the cheese is always ultra-fresh (probably curdled in the early hours of the morning that same day) and it's nearly always really good.

I have not followed a single thing in this topic, lol, but I saw Seroim's name and just wanted to come say hi. How have you been, my dude? 

Hey man. I've been well, just kind of following what's left of the North American dream. I finished my career change and I've been running around all over the place like a madman. The COVID period has been insane.

What about you? How's life been treating you?

Hey man. I've been well, just kind of following what's left of the North American dream. I finished my career change and I've been running around all over the place like a madman. The COVID period has been insane.

What about you? How's life been treating you?

Ironically also finished my law degree, and while I was doing a job just to tide me over until I found a job in the field, I discovered that job was actually something I was a lot more passionate about. Been teaching English online, as well as training others to do so, ever since.

And I keep feeling kinda shit about it, but my industry is booming with COVID. 

The isolation has been terrible for my mental health, and I'm struggling with a few Long-COVID symptoms after getting the virus myself last year in March, as well as a second run-in with the Omicron variant, worst one being that I am not nearly as quick-thinking as I once was, but I feel like it's getting better, slowly but surely.

I'm glad you were able to fully transition into your new career path.