They may get close to Italy’s ideal but they don’t get close to New Haven’s best. I’ve been to da Michele and and the 200 plus year old Brandi in Naples; I’ve had pizza throughout Italy. And you are...

). I am often afraid to tell my favorite for fear that Zagat’s picks them up and makes them famous possibly causing them to Americanize and homogenize. That’s very selfish of me as perhaps the owner’s are trying...

recommend Anderson Valley Brewing as well. If you are driving it is a beautiful drive there.

of some debate about the appropriateness of the name), five spice, chili paste, sesame oil, red chili flakes, not to mention vegetables – bok choy, baby bok choy, &c. The beauty of most Asian cooking is its simplicity. Very...

, picked up a piece, dipped it in the soy, and placed it in her mouth and spit it out when she tried to chew because 'the rice wasn’t hot' (nevermind the fact that she didn’t notice that when she picked it up) Or...

with a glass of sparkling wine. I can tell it is not the one I ordered, in other words, it came from a $4 bottle of American “champagne” rather than a $9 bottle of Spanish sparkling wine. They can’t tell the...

Thanks for pointing out Jason’s inconsistency and adding the QmP levels. As you state, the different labels can be dry, off-dry or sweet. In Germany, the dry styles are more common than here. I’ve run into more than...

even exist. The same reason that people go to subway, and actually think that what they are ordering is really meat. The same reason that most Americanized chinese food is just globs of cornstarch, and people actually think it is...

this IS a “manhattan style restaurant”, but assuming for argument it was....if a decent pupusa place opened in your manhattan nabe, would you complain? I mean, you “ought to be proud and happy” with...

the guy who answered the phone) we had right by American University in Washington, DC’s Tenleytown back in the late 80’s. The place was closed down TWICE for health violations and yet everyone still ordered from the...

audience in the background. Bravo needs to see how American Idol “uses” the audience to build excitment and drama... Maybe even a couple episodes of The Price is Right would have helped the producers and directors to...

— $80 for the four lunches and $80 for a beautiful bottle of wine that raised our meal to a higher level.

, and I was told “small dried fish”. Oh well, I tried. I just don’t quite get the American-style potato salad banchan. I can’t even go there. All meals are served with the individual stainless covered...

Depending on what your point of view is on reasonably priced, Cornelia Street is the place to be. There’s Home(American Food), Le Gigot(French) and Po(Italian). All exceptionally good non-pretentious places to eat....

stooped to the depths of immaturity that we saw last season. Besides, I am not as horrified by rare chicken as Americans have been trained to be. Assuming that they were using some good chicken there, not factory-farmed Purdue...