What's the farthest you would drive for food?
 

How many minutes maximum would you drive to get a particular food that you really like and are craving, for example if you are craving In N Out burgers, or sandwiches from a particular place, or steak from a particular place, how many minutes max would you drive for it?

10 min? 15 min? 30 min? Also, mention if it's round trip time or one-way
for example, 15 min to the restaurant and 15 minutes back.

What is the most minutes you would drive?

Or you can answer in how many miles total you would drive (back and forth).

an hour for a good place

Wow... that's far.

Sometimes I am craving certain dishes bad but the restaurants I like are around 15-20 min away (total drive time would be around 30min or more depending on traffic) from me and I already think that's far! Many times I just get too lazy and forget about it.

Depends on how far away from food I was.

I've flown back to SF just to eat :)

right, nice said bud!! :thumbsup lol
that's what am i thinking..

Jman drives from Montreal to my house in Oakville 5 hours or so and the first thing he wants to do every time is go to Pita Nutsy

i drove to the ocean once for a cheeseburger... 3 hour drive

If it's outside a thirty-minute radius from my apartment, the purpose of my trip's the destination (or the trip itself), and food matters are secondary.

I flew with my girlfriend to Chicago to eat basically. She still has some friends there, but family is all in AZ. I've never eaten so much food in my whole life.

An hour due to traffic.. But its worth it.. I love seafood..

Well I have to say that there is nothing that I crave that my grocery store doesnt carry.. so I have to say 1 mile round trip, 5 minutes max, heh. Nutty, but true. I just dont eat out whatsoever.

I have driven there and back just to eat. (approx 400 miles each way)

I have driven from Los Angeles to Russian River (north of San Fran) for a beer, though. :)

furthest i go is 5 miles to get sushi because thats the closest place, unless im meeting someone for dinner and they dont live close i might drive like 10 miles.

I have flown to places just for the food. Driving 1-3 hours one way for an amazing restaurant and atmosphere is worth every penny. Then again, often following a great dinner is time out on the town.

Once me and some friends went to a beach that is one hour away just to eat oysters.

The Pink Elephant?

No... I've never made it to the Pink Elephant. Sounds like my kinda bar, though. :)

I was talking about Russian River Brewing Company. Vinnie makes a few great Belgian-style beers up there: Pliny the Elder, Temptation, Supplication... definitely worth a stop if you find yourself local... just don't plan on having more than a couple if you're on your bike - they're stronger than the average brew.

I would go an hour easy.

It is in Monte Rio . . . used to spend a lot of time up there and Guerneville

I drove 77 miles once for a a couple steerburgers.

4 hours each way - did it for a resto in East GA one night :)

Hell, it's 1.5 hours just to get to a restaurant in ATL, so I regularly drive that far for food - at least once a week.

Good point. Have driven a couple hours each way for a decent steak when visiting Indiana.

For my birthday dinner I drove to The Boathouse in Horseshoe Bay, which was a good 50 minute drive one way with no traffic problems. The food was amazing though. The whole evening was totally worth it!

http://www.boathouserestaurants.ca/2...seshoe_bay.htm

if the food is really good I'd drive for 2hrs max...

One time in Iowa I drove 2 and 1/2 hours for a good restaurant.

Living in Santa Barbara I would drive 2 hours to LA for the nearest Del Taco. Until I found out there was one 30 minutes away in Ventura. :banana

My first job out of high school I was a cook at a 'greasy spoon' cafe in MN on the weekends. I had a couple that drove 45 miles every Saturday morning for my pancakes. I always figured they were bullshitting me and they had some other reason for driving into town on Saturdays. Then a few months after I quit that job I stopped by there one weekend and the waitress told me that couple stopped coming in the weekend after I stopped working there (as did many of the other 'regulars'). About a month after that they went out of business.

Yeah, I only ever eat out if I am out of town somewhere. There is nothing that I can't make better than some restaurant with the right ingredients. That being said, I will go 10-15 miles to various grocery stores to get certain things (bean sauce for General Tso, veal for veal parmigiana, etc.). Oh, and sometimes I have friends mail me stuff that I just can't get here. For instance, my friend in Memphis sends me a bunch of Corky's BBQ sauce when I'm in need. :winkwink:

Its depends how far it is.....lol

we drove hear http://www.thetrellis.com/ from nashville once, just to have "Death By Chocolate" from the original creators

http://extraordinaryplaces.blogspot....chocolate.html

I drove 200km more than once, for the best seafood on the island! :pimp

An hour probably, if it were a perfect place to have dinner at.

There is no cap to my willingness to drive for good food. It all depends on what I want and how badly I want it. I can recall times we drove for 2+ hours to get a simple sandwich. So if there was something we were really craving we could create an entire weekend of it. Drive up 4 hours, get a hotel, take in some sights and feed our fat-person's craving.

lol there are definitely some bomb places to eat there...

so when you flew there just for the food, where did you go?

hahahaha hilarious.. I love del.

there's way better food up there in santa barbara and isla vista though - ever go to freebirds?

Depends how good the food is, i would definitely travel an hour for some amazing food.

wouldnt go farther than 10 mins

I drove about 300KM to get KRISPEY KREME donuts haha! I got them for the entire office... a few years back when they were not in Canada.

I lived behind Freebirds for 2 years. And I hate to be THAT guy, but it used to be WAAAAAYYYY better. Or maybe I just got old.

And yes, while SB has NO shortage of excellent cuisine of every style and price range, and enough restaurants to eat lunch somehwere different for 2 years straight, sometimes you just crave a burrito AND crinkle cut fries.

When I moved to LA, there were a few places in SB that I'd drive to just for food as well.

it depends on how hungry i'am

11 hours for a three star restaurant in france. But i understand you americans drive an hour for a burger ???????

an hour for a nice place, few years back i drove 2 hours to go to a white castle haha

A hour max if I got a craving

ill make a way to get there fast..................
do what ever it takes.................

there's supposedly a white castle in one of the neighboring states here in CO. i've thought about doing a harold and kumar one of these days. i hear it's about a 2 hour drive.