further follow up to my other post – it’s almost like going to someone’s house for dinner and then if you don’t like what they serve, asking if they can make you something else. You are being served a free...

and an eggnogs (ACG). I am developing an appreciation for cheap wine or Ellis has upgraded its wine cellar. We then proceeded to La Scala http://www.usmenuguide.com/lascala.html, an intimate, white tablecloth Italian restaurant...

of their hotel is the area between the White House and the Capitol (they deserve the food court hell that they get); 2) yuppie wasp residents who buy into the image of D.C. as a scary city and are afraid to wander outside of...

especially distasteful warm, dripping with that ooze of sugar-slime; they get better as they cool off. Bob Chinn’s Crab House treats people as if they are sub-human, and doesn’t cook nearly well enough to make up for it.

. But if you doubt his ability to still turn out something incredible, watch the Cleveland show and check out the cassoulet he makes in Ruhlman’s house. If you doubt his reverence for the food and techniques he finds in his...

picked up lunch at Genova Delicatessen, down the street from where I was staying in Napa. Nice Italian deli. Their handmade pastas looked great. Dinner was at Martini House in St. Helena. I decided on the mushroom tasting menu and...

priced fare.” The Sun-Times online blurb holds: “Comfortable and pleasant multiroom French inn in the country. Very good French cuisine that covers the classics but delves into what might be considered regional French...

of a date-romantic type place. The food was excellent. We had the musselss and the pomme frites app and I had a wild salmon entree that was just about the best I’ve ever had. (Next to the Sierra Mar @ the Post Ranch Inn in...

street vendors selling everything from deep fried hot dogs, to syrupy camotes, pan dulce vendors that still make house callschorizo that actually has texture and doesn’t meltmoles and pipians where the sauce is the star not...

a lecture last spring given by Michelin-starred chef Raymond Blanc, who regaled the audience with such passion about his drive to serve only home-grown or locally (within 100 miles) raised products at his renowned inn and...

complex as Dumpling Inn (a great Northern Chinese restaraunt). We’ve only gotten kim chee there, so can’t comment on the produce or other selections. I think there may be another Korean place near the BMW of San Diego...

the “Japanese curry.” Mark’s Duck House in Virginia has quite good “Hong Kong style” food. Indique in Cleveland Park was surprisingly good nouveau Indian food. For Ethiopian food, Zed’s in...

at the French Laundry or the Inn at Little Washington in my opinion. Of course, if you and your group eat at restaurants of that caliber often it may not be so important for you to go there. In June of '06 Johnny Apple of the New...

. You need to look for Holiday Inn Express and Papa Murphy’s pizza across the street. Near the entrance ramp from El Camino into the complex is a sign by the curb that points where BSC is. This is a rather small space, with...

Sweetbreads are one of my all-time favorite foods. Are you lucky enough to get them fresh, or do you have to settle for frozen, as I do? I first had them at The Inn at Little Washington with a sauce of “three...