paradigm. Find a butcher who dry ages steaks or try dry aging your own. Grind your own beef (with lots of fat) for the best hamburger. Build a wood burning pizza oven and make a better pizza than your favorite pizzeria (with the...

, and then some. Some of the packaging sizes are too big for smaller families. With the above said, I do like going to Costco, and always end up spending around $100 on each visit. I do not buy their beef, or pork products, I...

are home cooking, some things are best left to the patisserie & the butcher. Maybe I’ll get there eventually!

to engulf a Pink’s dog. “Minimalist dogs at Pinks”??? Come on with that, they are anything but minimalist and thats what’s dissapointing and revolting. FYI – If it wasn’t for Chicago’s or...

't buy a lot of meat or poultry, but have started getting it from my butcher when I do, so that I can get the exact quantity that I need and quality that I trust. I buy nearly none from supermarkets where the quality is more...

pizza, soup and salads in the Yonge and Summerhill area which is fun to walk around in. Close by is a strip of 5 gourmet food shops (butcher, cheese and oils, bakery, fruit market Harvest Wagon). They have a wonderful stuff and...

my socks off (rendevous, butcher shop, aquataine, gaslight, hamersley’s), but am usually happy with places that I don’t expect to be mind blowing (angela’s, neptune, toro). That being said I know that...

as the turkey in the bag. Because it’s a Kosher turkey and has been salted during the butchering process, it’s already, in a sense, partially brined. By cooking it in a bag, it’s self-basting and doesn’t dry out. The breast is...

of German Paulaner beer. The sausage and meats are from a German butcher in San Leandro (he only sells to restaurants unfortunately). There are also some nice baked goods and pies from a local baker, Zoe’s cookies and other...

or singing gondolier. Not a large place (seats about 40 @ max) and a trip to the bathroom requires negotiating a narrow aisle between tables, which were covered with a brown or dark rose butcher paper over linen cloth. The...

have ever eaten. The service was unobtrusive and friendly, the atmosphere was calm, and the food....my heavens the FOOD. I had the Monkfish liver, squid, eel with cucumber, and the mixed sushi. (I do not want to butcher the...

This happened to me at Butcher shop in Boston. We wanted to come in for an after dinner glass of wine and then leave. there were at least 7 other patrons inside, that is why we went in ...or tried to. We didnt even get our two...

sort of restaurants you asked for——excellent, tried-and-true, but not cutting-edge), you’ll leave with the wrong impression of the Boston dining scene. Try these instead: Toro O Ya UpStairs on the Square (the...

's reasonable to think there will be support for grocery vendors (though it appears to me that the Mexican butchers on the east side are doing well).

bought this afternoon from a small butcher in Philly’s Italian market where I also get my veal (he’s about 80 and still slices the veal cutlets individually for each customer). It was one of the best I’ve had...