Chili at a restaurant

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So I have tried 2 recipes recently based on some stuff I have read here. Tried Tom Perini's recipe (someone posted it a while back) as well as JellyDonut's Brisket Chili recipe with some leftover brisket I had...

Since then I ate chili at Texas Chili Parlor for lunch not long ago and had 2 types of chili in New Mexico... and both times, I was thinking I made better chili.

I almost feel like I cannot enjoy chili unless it is as good as I can make it. Anyone else feel the same way?
 
Texas Chili parlor is quite meh, in my opinion. I don't recall having it in a restaurant where I would have actually called it VERY GOOD or better than mine.
 
In Grapevine, TX: Tolbert's. The same recipe and family that owned the original Tolbert's in Dallas. It's good.

I remember when I was young and their was only one Chili's restaurant in Dallas, the first one. They had great chili back then, but not the same now. I used to go to TCP in Austin back in the 90's, I liked it then, and the drink specials. Bowl of red and a bloody mary.
 
agree. pretty hard to find it out better than i can make it at home

texas chili parlor's chili is kind of lame. when i go there its always someone else's choice, and i usually get something else, like enchiladas

ruby's has incredible chili

houston's has pretty good chili. only on saturdays though
 
Don't eat clili at chili's
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Back in the late 70's a buddy and I used to walk to the TCP all of the time from Jester. We loved it. (I think I still have a menu I swiped from back then. It has the waiver on the back if you wanted the XXX Hot.)

Restaurant chili is tough. Everyone has their own version they like and they don't like the other variations.

That's why there aren't more "chili joints". You'd hate what I thought was a good one, and vice versa.

Still though, I'm utterly shocked that San Antonio hasn't approved a "Chili Queens" chili cart for the square in front of the Alamo.

I guarantee it would be good.
 
restaurant chili usually sucks because it takes time to make really great chili, time a restaurant generally does not have. the texas chili parlor used to have great chili back in the 80's and early 90's. i stopped there before a game this past year and i was severely disappointed.
 
If you are in Houston, try the venison chili at the Armadillo Palace. Jim Goode is not someone who is going to serve up a bowl of failure. It is delicious.
 
I agree that I like my dad's chili more than any other stuff I've ever tasted. But I think basically, people make their own chili to taste. So it should taste better to you than any other chili.
And speaking of CHILI COOKOFFS...

The LA Texas Exes are having a chili cookoff in April. I've heard that it will be April 26th. I'm thinking that this is something that ALL alumni chapters should have on an annual basis.
 
i had a bowl a billy's on burnet today

served with cheese on top and chopped onions and tomatoes on the side. i ordered japs and some fritos on the side also

damn good
 
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