acceptable to everyone else. Not unlike a wedding reception, it’s the whole package that counts — food, drink, location, service, decorations, not to mention parking and bathrooms. What does the happy couple want?...

- A wonderful little place with great carnitas and guisados and special soups, but really awful rice (topped with colby cheese?!?) and mediocre beans. As an aside, I especially love this place because the cooks are often singing...

Corned beef hash is always a good use for leftovers. Chop the beef with boiled redskin or russett potatoes. Fry in pan till crispy on both sides, top with poached egg. Good for any meal, morning noon or night. You can also...

was a pretty cool place. I definitely recommend both the temple and the spinach dosa. We took a day trip to Alagarcoil Temple, which is outside of Madurai, and since we knew there wasn’t much food there, we took a zip-lock...

it is the norm, or how the waitstaff has been trained. A great dining experience is about many things. Unfortuantely, in the US, especially, it is more about turning the tables. Now, we normally do multiple courses, ending with a...

Yeah castles can be good. Doubles with cheese and extra pickle for me. I hate the neighborhoods they run most of them in though. For belly bombers my local choice is White Manna in Hackensack. Hardly fast food because you have to...

When chowpups were growing up I made meatloaf with ground beef/pork, chopped onion and a package of Lawrys Sloppy Joe mix, topped with a can of tomato sauce with onions. Kind of gave that version up because of all the...

venture to Santa Ana for Mexican that hasn’t been homogenized and pre-packaged. Sorry about the culture shock. Who knew Philly was so bountiful? But wait til January when they’re experiencing a thing called Winter,...

I just went wedding gift shopping today and bought the couple a set of crab/lobster crackers, some seafood forks/pics and nice seafood cookbook. I’m going to package it all up nicely. Hope they enjoy it.

briefly notes the foods I like best in each store. Most of these stores have Polish and Eastern European groceries, breads, meats, cheeses and dairy products. Links to detailed posts are at the end. BERKELEY BOWL, BERKELEY –...

Your critique is a little vague: what did you have and why didn’t you like it? That said, I love the crabcake, the bouillabaisse, mussels, gorgonzola cheese appetizer, squash ravioli (very asian influenced, almost like...

Oriental in New York was mediocre. No high-end non-Japanese restaurant in L.A. is resonating in memory at the moment for good tea. You can get decent tea at the Tea Garden on Beverly in West Hollywood, but then you have to contend...

at Skylight), it is truly sublime. While I find the Eastern style superior to almost any other style, I have to say that the Lexington should be crowned the Pork BBQ Capital. No other city has so many great Q locations in such a...

because the market, for a variety of reasons, will bear it. Even if its customers understand they’re paying relatively high prices for wines by the glass (an idea not evidenced by some postings here), they don’t care:...

: 1. Phone number (in the event we have a problem filling your order). 2. The Cat. No. (Catalog Number) or the Bar Code number from the packaging or the description (i.e. a yellow sponge with a green scrubber, with or without a...