, and budget food. You could look at Powell or 82nd the same way, probably, though their good food is pretty spread out. I’d say that Fourth Plain in Vancouver is better than N Portland for food, if you like Mexican and...

(fried) and hot and sour soup. if you’re looking for very good dim sum that won’t completely break the budget is dynasty on bloor, east of avenue road (Lei Wah Heen (sp?)at the metropolitan is the best in the city but...

/fresh street stall somewhere in S.E. Asia! As great as all of those experiences can be, we Chowhounds crave variety. The context, our mood, and even budget govern our enjoyment of various restaurants. In defense of Delfina: minus...

to the reservations lists, which typically consisted of about one-third visitors to New York. Tourists? They differ in their budgets, gastronomic savvy, and perhaps taste than those who fill the Hard Rock, but otherwise,...

in Scotland, I did cook all I could, and did O.K., given the paucity of good ingredients available within my budget constraints. However, despite my best efforts, and those of several of my Scottish friends, we never succeeded in...

address book after that, but set them straight and they ended up having a wonderful time, without cooking a single meal (or breaking their budget).

something to say about the wine buyers and the wine budget. . . and the place. I hope Melanie posts on this one, but I think it’s great you speak your mind on this topic in hopes that the standards will change. They do,...

I’m glad you had a good time there. Alas, it will be a while before I eat there again, seeing that I’m on a budget.

Thanks for the great reviews! I’m a NYCer doing the San Diego to SF drive for the first time, and am super-excited. I’m open to any other recommends – particularly budget and quintissential CA.

Hi All: I haven’t posted on this board in months. Mostly because both my husband and I were “employment challenged” for a while and our eating out budget was slashed dramatically. I have enjoyed lurking about,...

about people trying to live on a budget, people who don’t live in cities with farmer’s markets and specialty grocery stores? These folks, and I consider myself one of them, are given fewer and fewer real food...

that they believe will appeal to (or at least not scare off) American palates. So, you get Hmong people cooking Thai-Vietnamese-Chinese food. I would imagine that the most recent immigrants don’t have much in their eating...

been a phone call (local) or a yell-down-the-hall away when I needed advice. But long-distance calls every time I had a question weren’t in the budget. “Joy” was much more than a cookbook for me in those...

combination." I don’t think he was knocking the food as much as the venues in which it’s being served. Here’s a guy who gets paid lots of money and has a huge budget to eat out at EXPENSIVE places ($25 and under...

Yeah, actually back in college when I used to spend all my food budget on beer, I used to stack up on the ramen noodles and boxes of mac and cheese. The local 7-11s around here stock a certain brand of ramen noodles, one in...