I grew up eating a lot of beans — aduki beans, kidney beans, black beans, lentils, split peas, cranberry beans. We ate them in many ways — cooked with rice, baked beans, chili con carne, dessert. However, I...

. Each one was generously stuffed with cubes of chicken breast and then bathed in a tomato based sauce that had been lightened with cream and garnished with yet more cream. The plate was finished with a nice ring of arroz blanco...

(many years ago, before the new location and expanded menu), but back then, I loved the carne mechada arepa and the chupe. Haven’t been to Caracas Arepa Bar. Both seem to get good reviews. I’ll echo Lucia’s Ali...

soup is INCREDIBLE – a big bowl with fresh vegetables, cilantro etc. You really must try chicken fried steak if you want to do the full Texas thing. I would suggest Hoover’s Home Cooking on Manor Road. Trudies does...

. We grabbed a booth and ordered for the table and shared the following: 1. Datiles Con Bacon – dates, bacon, cream cheese baked in puff pastry. 2. Patatas Rellenas Con Pure De Colifor Y Bacon – pureed cauliflower &...

and Roasters Franconello’s Fat Johnnie’s Lindy’s Chili Gertie’s Ice Cream La Fontanella Bacchanalia Bruna’s Juana’s Louisianna’s Fried Chicken Damenzo’s Moon’s Sandwich Shop...

cooking that I’ve had in Mexico is a very distant relative to Taco Bell or most Mexican restaurants. A restaurant with carne guisado might come closer to “home” cooking than one that just serves tacos, etc. Most...

The Apple Pan a lot and would toss back a Hickory and a Steakburger X-tra Rare with a Well Done Fries and an Iced Coffee with real cream and a Banana or Cherry Cream Pie. I will say that the supreme burger of my life was at a...

in chipotle chilli sauce on fried corn tortilla Chicken "Sopes" Mushrooms  with shrimp in garlic sauté Fried flour tortillas stuffed with  requesón in avocado sauce Dried beef, northern style Salmon Carpaccio  Beef ...

“Impossible Cheeseburger Pie” from the 80s. Remember those 80s impossible pies that were basically crappy casseroles with biscuit mix on top? WTF were we thinking? Also when I was about 15 I’d make “Fiesta...

for chili cheese fries. Of course, Little Tony’s in Placentia for terrific pizza. Oh, and Rutabegorz at 211 N. Pomona in Fullerton for salads (of course I’d forget a healthy place!). Only went to Anita’s New...

Many years ago Nashville, Tennessee had one “Mexican” restaurant. It was called “La Fiesta of Mexican Food,” and it served fried tortillas topped with canned chili and shredded American cheese, or rolled...

of the best burgers i’ve ever had came from the north myrtle beach location); chi chis, many years ago, served a very good chili con carne. on the other hand, applebee’s was across the board horrible. have all chains...

moved light-years beyond “Ashland, Pilsen, Logan Square” and could surely already fill up a couple of books. You just have to read VI’s passionate post on "carne en su jugo", ReneG on 47th/Ashland, Mugs on...

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