Oh, you know this great little out of the way place, do you? Only five tables? No sign? Only locals go there? Well that's just great, but sometimes, when we're traveling, we prefer somewhere that's in all the guidebooks. Some places are famous for a reason. That's why we've come up with 15 eminent eateries that serve the mightiest, meatiest, downright manliest food on planet. And if we've overlooked a legendary bastion of good guy grub, please serve it up in the comments section.Famous Food Joints
Anchor Bar -- Buffalo Unsurprisingly (to everyone except Jessica Simpson, at least) the best place to score that classic dude feast Buffalo wings is in, um, Buffalo. Ground zero for the ultimate bar bite lies at the Anchor Bar, by all accounts the originator of the sticky-fingered delight in 1964.
Don Heupel, AP
Tentake -- Tokyo So you think sushi isn't exactly the most manly of foodstuffs? Well, when was the last time your barbecued ribs carried a risk of rapid death (BSE outbreaks aside)? Prepared correctly, Fugu is a beloved Japanese delicacy utilizing the non-poisonous bits of a deadly blowfish. Prepared incorrectly, you'll be dead quicker than you can say "Sir, this sashimi seems suspicious". Tentake, in Tokyo, has tanks of the stuff swimming around -- and promises to try its best not to kill you.
Varun, Picasa
The Salt Lick -- Driftwood, Texas Not surprisingly, the menu of this Driftwood, Texas institution doesn't feature a giant block of salt. But, as one of the nation's premium exponents of the barbecue-ing art, this rural meat lovers' paradise has been known to provoke a similar cattle-round-a-slab-of-sodium-chloride-mentality among its customers.
http://www.saltlickbbq.com/
Richard Drew, AP
Pat's King of Steaks -- Philadelphia Brotherly love doesn't extend as far as the cheesesteak industry in Philadelphia, with various joints hotly claiming to be the true home of that most artery clogging of street meats. Neon-lit Geno's courted controversy a couple of years back with its "no foreign languages" customer policy so, since we prefer our shredded beef and cheese whiz apolitical, we go for their across-the-street rival Pat's.
Dan Loh, AP
Spicy Hut -- Manchester Curry long ago replaced fish and chips as the go-to late night eat for Britain's lager-ed up lads. Many of the country's big South Asian population centers (Birmingham, Leicester, London's Brick Lane) have legitimate claims to being the UK spicy food capital, but for sheer spectacle head to a joint like Spicy Hut on Manchester's notorious "curry mile": a bacchanalian strip of neon lights, pungent aromas and boozey hordes of students and locals challenging each other to consume the most tongue-searing jalfrezi on the menu.
spicyhut.co.uk
Roscoe's House of Chicken N Waffles -- Los Angeles Being a true guy gastronome means smashing culinary conventions. Who says breakfast and dinner food shouldn't be served at the same time, on the same plate? Certainly not Snoop Dogg, who can regularly be seen scoffing mounds of fried bird and syrupy waffles at this L.A. chain, at least if his reality show is to be believed.
Bernadette Tuazon, AP
Royal Dragon -- Bangkok This 5,000-seat Bangkok mega-eatery recently lost its "largest restaurant in the world" title to the even more ridiculously vast Damascus Gate in Syria, but don't let that put you off a visit. The 8-acre joint features wait staff on roller skates, other servers propelling themselves over diners on a zip-line, Thai boxing and dancing displays and a thousand item Thai, Chinese, Japanese and Western-style seafood menu. Who needs those extra 1,014 seats, anyway?
Sakchai Lalit, AP
The Original Pizzeria Uno -- Chicago While we generally avoid chain pizza restaurants like the plague, we make an exception for the original Pizzeria Uno in Chicago. File away all its other locations alongside Domino's, Pizza Hut and the rest but as the birthplace of deep-dish pizza -- and the genius idea that the only way to possibly improve on the classic cheese and tomato pie was to make it so thick and gooey you need a knife, fork and possibly a spoon to eat it -- you really owe the first and best Uno a pilgrimage.
wikipedia.org
Buns and Guns -- Beirut We dudes occasionally use food consumption as a means of proving our masculinity -- "I am man. Watch me eat the largest/spiciest/unhealthiest thing on the menu" -- but its rare to find a restaurant where simply stepping through the front door is a measure of one's cojones. Once you've negotiated the sandbag-protected entrance to Buns and Guns -- a fast food join in bomb-ravaged Beirut themed, with mordant humor, around guerilla warfare -- you can order items like a "rocket-propelled grenade" (chicken sandwich), an "AK-47" (beef baguette) or a few pieces of "terrorist bread" from your camouflage-clad server. Still feeling macho about eating that whole pizza, big guy?
Hussein Malla, AP
Peter Luger -- Brooklyn Not all "guy food" requires a less sophisticated palette. Brooklyn institution Peter Luger is consistently rated one of the best restaurants in New York City. Conveniently, it also has about the simplest menu of any place we've listed. Steak for one, steak for two, steak for three or steak for four (you can also order lamb or fish but really, why would you want to do that?)
peterluger.com
