- Mandarin Deli in Northridge. Pan fried dumplings, cucumber salad and a beer sound just perfect right now. scallion pancakes, hand made noodles with beef or chicken - Mandarin Dish, 5219 Laurel Cyn. - Bamboo Village 12910 Magnolia...

competition and Perry’s was darn good. (It has an expansive non-steak menu for a steakhouse, kind of like Keefer’s.) Then, I had a meal at Jeroboam, a “brasserie” (with no beer selection to speak of)which...

not turn out well). Once I made up my mind to become a better cook, I found a number of things helped me: 1) Watching peoples' techniques when they cook, whether at an open kitchen in a restaurant, a friend making dinner, a...

So why are they shaped the same as the large fish “servers”? From what I understand(the large ones) they have the large pointed/flat blade with openings to allow liquid to escape when filleting a whole fish at the...

that doesn’t “get” it. Many people find food/wine/beer snobbery pretty obnoxious, inclung some of us snobs. Ask yourself whether it is your privilege to decide for others what they order. Ask whether it’s...

in every restaurant in the world every day that the restaurant is open. At bottom, I think people go out on Valentine’s day because they hope to have a nice meal and a nice time.

to have a cold from October to May, but I’m open to suggestion. Keep 'em coming!

and eaten within a day or two of purchase. So many unknowing people buy fabulous tomatoes from honest good dealers like Gelson’s and then pop them in the refrigerator. It’s like how americans serve beer:WAY too cold....

beautiful when the can was opened. The tails were cut off and the skin was a little nicked. The salty, dryish fish were what the can of French sardines wanted to be. Nice medium weight oil that added a nice texture & mouth feel...

. My friends have good taste in beer or wine and always bring something nice in return.

of soft whipped butter melting on top. My dad always got the mushroom burger and I got a root beer float. Yes, that was my dinner. Love you mom & dad! On a side note, they remodeled about 2 years ago to make more booths and it...

; introduced a bit of portion control; cut down on the beer (that was the hardest part!) and generally stopped eating junk. The weight came off, and I have no reason to think it won’t stay off. To address the OP’s...

'm going to an open house with my parents to check out the associates degree program at the CIA at St. Helena, which is on Thursday, June 28th from around 9am-1pm-ish. I have been to SF Bay area and Napa once before for a week,...

to another board to open the discussion up but I’m not certain which one. It can’t be not about food because it is because of food and not ambience that El Bulli has its three stars. There and, in my opinion, at Le...

eating. I can’t wait until my plate is removed and the crumbs brushed away, so I can move my beer or tail center stage to enjoy while the wife is still eating. The sight of an emptied plate — or worse, a plate with...