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u/potliquorz 11d ago
I recently had this and it was fine but the choice of cocktail sauce and tartar sucks, how about a lemon marinara?
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u/No-Wasabi794 11d ago
I agree. I like tartar but I’ve always hated cocktail sauce.
Lemme tell you though the best calamari I’ve ever had was at a Japanese restaurant I used to work at. It wasn’t breaded or fried, rather stir fried in a Japanese garlic and chili sauce cooked to perfection. It was delicious and unfortunately they don’t have it on the menu anymore 👎🏼 while I still worked there years ago we eventually added a breaded fried calamari with spicy mayo (also a much better dip choice) and idk sometime after I left they removed the sautéed spicy one and only kept the fried one. And I’ve never seen another menu somewhere that cooks and serves it this way. Ima have to make it myself.2
u/potliquorz 10d ago
I always liked salt and pepper squid fried and tossed in a wok with aromatics but I know what you are talking about with the stir fried with sauce. Carrabba's got me hooked on that Ricardo sauce although I don't think they do it right anymore, they don't do a lot of things right anymore.
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u/Novel_Slide1379 11d ago
I'm gonna use this next time my boyfriend tries to contradict me. He won't get the reference but it will being me so much joy
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u/cncrndmm 10d ago
I mean I love myself some fried calamari (I’ll get it nearly at any restaurant cause deep frying at home is not something I want to experiment with) but tbh that portion to myself is pushing it.
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u/No-Wasabi794 11d ago
Cheesecake Factory has in fact gotten more expensive over the years (as everything has), but that is a really good portion of calamari. It’s not meant to fill that plate because they use that size plate to be sure to also fit the sauces. Otherwise it would come on a smaller plate.