in a city where you expect even the best restaurant to f*** up often. I find it to always be inappropriate – the diner’s responsibility in this type of transaction is to show up on time, behave and dress properly and...

magazine ‘Restaurant of the Year’ award [my addition: Gold award]; judges proclained 'The level of sophistication and the sheer technical accomplishment of David Hawksworth’s cooking outshines every other...

I am the third generation to host a Thanksgiving dinner that my Grandmother, a professional cook, started well over 50 years ago for my Mom’s extended family on a farm on the Boardman River in Traverse City, Michigan. My...

A-Dog, I feel for you—-kinda. Man, you guys on the East Coast freak with 6" of snow last time our school district had an off “snow/weather/etc.” day was when it was 20 BELOW, read again, yes in Farhenheit. And...

This may be coming too late, but I would have suggested Lucky Cheng’s, where the wait-staff is all made up of men in drag. I mean, that might be a bit mind-blowing for a kid from the 'burbs, but I’d think a city-kid would...

! This was the first (but not last) time we noticed that the beef has so much more flavor than ours does – we decided due most likely to a more varied diet and no factory farming. The third had a delicious veal scallopini...

that package, I almost fell over from the smell! I brought it back to them, no way would I feed it to my dogs! I won’t buy anything from the meat dept in H.E.B. anymore, except the chickens, they carry Sanderson Farms...

well we could tell when others in the room were being served the dish. [Baga, an Italian red.] Lavender-Scented Elysian Fields Farm Lamb: Slices of rare lamb in a sauce I seem to have failed to take notes on (some kind of cream,...

Radishically long. I have this Lavender Salt from Eatwell Farms that’s been mentioned before on the board. Don’t get me wrong, it is wonderful stuff ,,, French sea salt with dried lavender. However, lavender is...

or even better than low-end prime. Paulina Meat Market, for example, often has choice steaks with far more marbling than you find in prime beef at other places in the city. Of course it’s Paulina, so you pay for it.

(and pane pugliese is the great Italian bread form of Chicago!!city</b>. One just wishes that they used a wood/coal oven"/> Also on Belmont (just e of Harlem) is Casa Nostra. Generally not as good as Mazzeo

Nathans in Atlantic City would cook their dogs on a griddle. I’m not sure what they used for grease. Thus I tend to go that route, sometimes making a pair of spiral cuts around the dog end-to-end, with cross-cuts on each end...

potstickers ($2.50 or so for 25 chicken, pork, shrimp, or veggie potstickers), and other miscellaneous stuff. I find their balsamic vinegar to be the best deal in the city, also. It’s obviously not...

night; boy was I ever. Happy, but dazed. It was great to meet so many chowhounds and sample so many wonderful varied foods. For the record, I brought a number of cheeses. One was a green peppercorn aged-goat from Coach Farms that...

I will not try to make cured meat (like Country ham, city ham, etc.) I will also avoid roast pig or duck you get in Chinatown No pastries with phyllo like baklava – too much work to handle the layers of phyllo dough...