and chefs' toques, to the neatly stacked newspapers by the cash register; and the thick lean bacon to the fresh bananas and heavy cream and strong freshly brewed Farmer Bros. coffee, it’s pretty darn good.

am I to argue. Another suggestion is the cheese burger at Alameda Brew Pub on Fremont, about a block up from Stanich’s. It’s a nice sized half pound burger so you can order it a little pink if you want. They have...

place: Diana’s Feta Cheese with Honey Beverage: 1st place: Melanie Hurley’s Lemonade 2nd place: Jesse’s Home Brew Best Entrée 1st place: Pim’s Khao Soi (Northern Thai chicken curry noodle) 2nd place:...

, stingy shreds of the sweet leaf. The open kitchen. . . you have to be into that. I need to take a Brooklyn pizza tour. I have only been to Spumoni Gardens, Grimaldi’s and a brew pub in Red Hook that had pretty good pizza.

I want a home-brew kit so I can start making my own beer!

Yum, Azeitao. Several years ago, I stayed at a villa in Azeitao with some friends. Every morning at breakfast, the cook put out fresh crusty bread & a wheel of the hometown cheese (!), along with freshly squeezed OJ, strong...

together some flour a pinch of sugar, some yeast and enough water to make it a little thicker than the consistency of heavy cream in a graduated glass measure. DON’T put in salt. Note the level of the brew. Let it sit 15 or...

but it used to me significantly better. It was distilled by Stitzel-Weller for many years until they went out of business in the early 1990s. I can’t remember which distillery makes their bourbon these days. Berghoff beer is...

are traditional regional foods from the time before refrigeration. There is kusaya which is fish that is dried after being fermented in a special salt water concoction that make have been brewing for over 100 years. Kusaya is...

the flavors correct when it comes to Chinese cooking. Beer and Bread are dead on...most home kitchens really are not equiped to make truly great bread and beer ugh..why..there is no home brew that can top the 30000 different...

the 10 minutes to Resi’s Bierstube, but if I’m in the mood for walking, Mirabell offers some good brew in a comfortable space. I also forgot (how could I!) to mention Continental Cafe, a Romanian restaurant on Elston...

in the pantry. I wanted to shower before the party, so I just plunked the platter down in the pantry without looking at the cake. We had a lovely party for my niece, and after dinner, while the coffee was brewing, I went into the...

to get some good brew in the Herkimer NY area. I am pretty sure I had this beer once and liked it, but I don’t remember the name!

If you come up to the Santa Ynez Valley for some tasting, bring your friends to the Firestone Brewing Company’s tasting room in Buellton. They can accompany you wine tasting, and you can accompany them beer tasting!

of very dark sauce. The chicken was nothing special but the mole was quite good. This was another complex oily brew but was unusual because it was nearly impossible for me to pick out individual flavors. I’m sure there was...