Noah, If you don’t know what you want, do you know what you want to spend? You could look for on Craigslist or similar site for personal chef under service and pay them for thier time to help figure out a menu, and if you...

Oh yes, Cheflambo. There’s the old 'buy something and we’ll validate' but the denizens of said parking lot would run over their grandmother for a parking spot. Too stressful for me, thanks. This area is getting better...

If I were the host I would have told both he and his mother to please leave immediately. Asking a host to break the law and leave themselves open for a huge liability lawsuit for serving a minor alcohol is not gauche it’s...

Only did this twice in my life... first time was with a group of 8, about an hour after ordering when we realized all the tables who had been seated before us still hadn’t received apps — a rumour was floating around...

Heading out to dinner tonight with new friends (we met at a recent food and wine event called Notorious P.I.G at a resto called Digestif – one pig, five chefs!) for homemade pasta at a chow-favorite Italian spot called...

pesticides, they are still contracting skin cancer at abnormal rates and their workers comp lawsuits are still settled at rock bottom amounts by lawyers who go out for bottles of Petrus afterwards.

Our daughter has a Peanut allergy, and for the last almost 2 years we have not taken her out to eat, granted she is only 4 yrs old, but we just cant get ourselves to put the trust into restaurants yet. Can any of the chefs that...

for which thare is almost no other practical use. But try that in the US? Union picket lines. ACLU lawsuits. Child slavery allegations. But it works pretty well in Mexico.

As a roommie to a high-end butcher and cheese-show owner and semi-retired chef (I’ll pause for a moment to let you recover from your jealously). . . FDA is very strict on the import of certain cheeses and meats as well as...

Chains or established local restaurants are unlikely to lie on their menus, since they don’t want lawsuits or hassles from the attorney general. USDA Prime beef costs more. Few places use it and, if they do, they’ll...

on a round plate, that kind of thing). I wrote an article about the restaurant, and the manager (the only fully sighted person); the chef (partially sighted); and one of the wait-staff (blind) about their experience working...