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My Charlotte Recommendations
, ranging from new york style to chicago style deep dish. so i consider myself a connoisseur. apparently this isn’t the only location, but i think it’s the only one in charlotte. if you want awsome pizza and wings...
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How much does your chowhounding cost?!
mentioned what my husband and I spent on dinner when we make our pilgrimages to NY or Chicago, but what they forget is that we are such snobs we rarely eat out the rest of the time. Those $50 chain restaurant meals that other...
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Restaurant Service in San Diego
it anyways... For a small operation, considering the high rents, the high labor cost ( minimum wage here is $8... in NY , Chicago and so on, servers make $2.50 so over staffing is not an issue ), having intensive training is just...
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Where's the best pizza in SF?
copies, sf-ny in-between hybrid ala giorgio’s, cali “gourmet” medium crust ala pauline’s, “gourmet” super-thin crust ala 211, and other numerically less significant ones (chicago, neapolitan)....
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When did fake crab meat become so ubiquitous? And why isn't anyone else complaining?
A pound of lump crabmeat in Chicago today 3-22-07 was $34. Maybe that’s why everybody is using the fake. Brand on can was Phillips (a Maryland icon) but can also said “Product of Indonesia”.
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what to bring on a 12 hour flight
cheese, carrot sticks, cucumber & apple slices, beef jerky, pretzels all are fun. Twizzlers are a gross treat I allow myself only in airports and on planes. I flew a 14-hour flight from Chicago to Seoul on Korean Air Lines and...
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Paper, plastic or BYOB?
Here are some numbers from an article in today’s Daily Herald (suburban Chicago newspaper) by Marni Pyke, who cites the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, SCARCE, Northern Illinois University, and Environment Illinois. •...
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Anything Chow-worthy Around...American Canyon? (A Report (Long))
in Fairfield and Napa with the exact same name; I’m unsure if they’re related or not. I personally have never had a New York style pizza slice; for me, pizza was just pizza to me until I went to Chicago to visit...
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What do CHers consider GOOD service
precisely, some posters are taking the pricipal “the customer is always right” to literally. How I see it the restaurant needs me more than I need them, especially in Chicago where there are literlly 100’s of...
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Have you researched your local "boutique" wine store?
's (Chicago), as well as “boutique” type wine stores like Winestyles (national) or Cork & Olive (Florida). This question is about the latter. The business model of the boutique “chain” concept seems to turn...
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Pro food critics who know nothing about a cuisine - helpful or harmful?
, this might be the way people unfamiliar with the food might react to tasting it. That’s not to say this deli is without merit. They have sausages and cold cuts from Chicago. However, the prepared food isn’t the...
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NY Hound Not Kidding Around
I already have the chowhound SF guide (NY too). At the risk of starting a riot, “California pizza” is even more of an oxymoron than "Chicago pizza". Ed Levine, the food critic here just wrote the bible on pizza (yes...
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Now Open- Bollini's - The Best Pizza in L.A.
of pasta...it is generally one of several courses in a meal. when it comes to the sauce...well, some argue there shouldn’t even be a “sauce” on pizza....i enjoy most styles of pizza though personally, i find the...
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Going "green" in the kitchen
I recently went to the Notebaert Nature Museum in Lincoln Park of Chicago, and they had this great exhibit about going “green” in the kitchen. For those of you who don’t know, to go green means to use products...
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Authentic-What Does It Mean To You?
to figure out. The difference between Chicago deep dish crust, or how in some parts of the world they add corn – compared to “authentic” pizza in Italy is obvious. However, with plenty of other foods or cuisines...
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