30 Homemade Foods That Will Always Win Against Their Restaurant Versions, As Pointed Out Online (2024)

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I really like going out to eat, and honestly the most disappointing thing is vegetables. I hate spending $30+ on an expensive entre for the vegetables to be steamed, unseasoned, and overall sad. That's not to say I haven't had good vegetables out, but I notice when meat is the centerpiece of a dish the vegetables have very little care. I like my veggies.

freehotcakes , Engin Akyurt Report

I think mashed potatoes taste better at home.

Defan3 , Anna Stampfli Report

Homemade mac and cheese, roux style.

yggdrasilthu , Hayden Walker Report

Lasagna. unless the place makes a big tray daily there is a very high chance you're going to get lasagna that was frozen. the other thing that goes wrong with lasagna is when they try to cook it on the spot. you end up with this gross meat soup in one of those pizza place to go tins.

BilBorrax , Ioan Bilac Report

Chocolate chip cookies. Like standard, no frills, ~~milk~~ semi-sweet chocolate chip cookies.

I recall going to Mrs. Fields at the mall and the cookies were good (if not great) but still not as good as a home baked one.

Paradigm_Reset , SJ 📸 Report

Soup. Made from scratch soup. Or grilled cheese. It’s a tie.

wordsinverse , Anna Pyshniuk Report

scambled eggs. nothing like eating them just out of the pan and done precisely to your preferred texture.

zem , Annushka Ahuja Report

Chili

Atsir , American Heritage Chocolate Report

BLTS

jirenlagen , eliztesch Report

Steak always taste better at home because you can do it just as good if not better than 99% of restaurants for a much lower price.

SCP239 , Lukas Report

Man idk but that simple breakfast, eggs sausage/bacon home fries biscuits ultimate home meal that never slaps quite the same In a restaurant 😂

HeartsIce , Julian Jagtenberg Report

Tamales. I’ve had very good tamales at restaurants but there’s just something about homemade that you can’t compare.

anon , Phil! Gold Report

I'm a good cook, but I can't think of anything that I make that I couldn't find better at *some* restaurant.

However, I have been perfecting my beef bourguignon to taste like the one served at Joséphine Chez Dumonet in Paris. Theirs is the best I've ever had. So it's still better than mine, but mine is better than anything I eat at local restaurants.

mintbrownie , stu_spivack Report

Christmas dinner

TheFunkyChief , Nicole Michalou Report

Baked potatoes. They never have good, crisp skins at restaurants. Most taste either microwaved or cooked well, well in advanced with soggy, sad skins.

Marinara sauce. I make it my grandmother's way, so could be biased.

Coffee.

anon , Pixabay Report

Biscuits and Gravy. Those are so much better homemade

Scari_Fairi , Larry Hoffman Report

I live in a chinese food desert so lo mien noodles are always better when I make them at home.

All I want is a little takeout box full of delicious, mildly greasy noodles. Is that too much to ask?

pantaleonivo , Thank You (24 Millions ) views Report

Omelettes. Restaurant omelettes are nearly always overcooked and leathery.

anon , Arvin Nav Report

**Salad**. So many salads are sad, old lettuce with a tomato and maybe a sliver of onion. Salads are easy to make at home and I can add everything: Sweet potato, grains, beans, avocado, fresh fruits and vegetables, roasted eggplant, sundried tomatoes, lentils, kale, spinach, tofu, tempeh, etc...

**Tortillas**. Both corn and flour tortillas are fast, easy, and cheap to make at home and 9 times out of 10 mine are better than the restaurant tortillas.

**Anything spicy**... I can make my food spicier than most restaurants.

**Oatmeal** again, super cheap and easy to make at home. I've never seen a restaurant with oatmeal as extravagant as my oatmeal: nuts, nut butter, berries, peaches, cinnamon, chai seeds, nut milk, steel cut oats, flaxseed, and cloves.

scholargypsy , Dana Tentis Report

Bacon. Making your own Bacon, even the most basic of recipes, ruins all commercially available Bacon.

TheDadThatGrills , Polina Tankilevitch Report

Spaghetti

DDNorth20 , Lisa Fotios Report

My shepherds pie is always SO MUCH better than any restaurants. Most of my Mac and Cheese's have been better as well.

91cosmo , jules Report

Chocolate frosting. Have yet to find one in a restaurant that I really like. They all taste little better than canned or have powdered sugar added. Nothing beats Grandma's recipe. 😋

Mabbernathy , Darko Trajković Report

Grilled corn on the cob. It's always rubbery at every single restaurant I've ever eaten it at.

ArokLazarus , Kayode Balogun Report

Burgers, on the grill outside.

Admirable_Success732 , Valeria Boltneva Report

In Danish cusine, there is a thing called: Mormors frikadeller, it's 100% impossible to replicate.. you need a big chunk of "hygge"

Kwispy6969 , u/Jbd0505 Report

Meatloaf

petizzysback , jeffreyw Report

A simple roast chicken. It's hard to make a roast chicken cooked to order in a restaurant unless you spatchco*ck it.

-UncleFarty- , Tim Douglas Report

pizza at home is pretty damn good, huh. I can make the dough nice and thick, and put full cherry tomatoes on it, with lots of fresh basil. I also like eggs & toast at home better.

Itom1IlI1IlI1IlI , Narda Yescas Report

Stuffed vegetables (Grape vine leaves, cabbage, eggplant, etc.) and stuffed pigeon. No restaurant can make them like parents or grandparents.

robotobio , Rebecca T. Caro Report

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