festival food: okonomiyaki, takoyaki, yakisoba, grilled fish on a stick, grilled corn on a stick, etc., as well as a tent with picnic tables where you can get a soft drink, sake or beer to wash down your meal.

on a Heineken instead. My wife rang the beer up, and he started whining about the prices here again. I put the order up, and she sat the sandwich in front of him. He immediately opened it and complained that he was going to have...

You are absolutely right... it would not be fair to characterize it as Americanized as it taints a nationality, a culture.. and entire civilization. I guess I was just using a word that has already come to represent the "Disney

>>it’s common to have a store employee bag your items and carry them to your car for you. I’ve seen it in the South as well. What nice civility. If I am not busy with the card machine and signing the receipt, and am in a...

a celebration by the civil war weary & weakened Anglos as of the Tex-Mexicans.

of Singapore’s various draconian laws, but the ban on durian in public transportation I understand and would, sympathy for all matters civil libertarian notwithstanding, support.

servers will leave an empty beer or tail glass for the customer to stare at :) it is a psychological nudge. . . looking at the empty alcohol glass often will lead to an order for a refill, while if the empty glass is cleared, the...

but the burgers are good and the people are extremely friendly and the beer is cold. After work on a Friday, its an excellent place to suck down a few. Just get out before the karaoke starts. And while we are on the subject of...

sense, civility, self-respect, honesty, social custom, good parental upbringing, decency, and fear of being tossed out of the place, among other things. I don’t believe that considering a paranoid and hypothetical...

" as they are named) and oreo lemon pie. They also serve beer and rootbeer. The Sam team does an Italian concept – olives on the table (pit winds up in front of Padma, bad for them), meatball app (their best thing), pasta...

by root beer (for the most adventureous of the guests).

I once worked at a restaurant that was a new concept and we were the “opening team”. They had us write our names on beer coasters and toss them on the table when we greeted the guests. It was one of the corniest...

to handle, though I wish I could). Champagne dreams on a beer budget for us all. Kevin, since I go with a friend, Shige just makes up whatever he thinks will go with the wines. Never had foie gras there(except there is some...

't disagree? Write a well-thought-out, literate, whine-free agreement. You are in a city where nearly any produce you want is grown within 200 miles of where you sit. You are in the only city in the country where more wine is...

in Brooklyn, pizza in Connecticut, the hippest of the hip. I’ve met dwarves with glass bone disease intrepidly trekking beer meccas in Belgium. One of the most savvy and experienced hounds in Queens is blind (he’s...