good local small independent competition. This being said, pizza is not a strong point in what is otherwise a very good food scene.

good tacos, Italian beef, cheese steaks, hot dogs or Cubans, there probably needs to be high demand and healthy competition since the foods in question are cheap and marginally profitable. BTW, I lived here for ten years before I...

definitely an “eat to live”... we’ve learned we overlap on good wine and cheese! so we do that from time to time. and he puts up with me and how food and party planning and as he puts it “a bad meal an...

south of Devon) and it is surprising to discover that we have not really done much work here. Likewise Bosnian/Serbian/Croatian could be fleshed out even better. (You did not include my two Montenegrin posts and my Dalmatian...

by a commercial brewery in the ‘Abby’ style. Jesse says it has only been available in the US for about a year. really tasty. Some people didn’t like the Kwak (in the third flight), though hubby said it had that...

A comment re minimum wage is more arrogant than anything and does little to bring a successful conclusion to the episode. Why devalue what everyone in that position? I would contact the store, give them the facts. Its s hugely...

. They have a very nice wine list, with most being available by the glass. I’ve been a number of times and like this place quite a lot. I will write more about it soon.

is a sentimental favorite. 'nuff said rome is, well, rome. hard to get a really bad meal there. avoid the dreaded touristas and you’ll do ok. wine bars are your friend.

, that none of it comes close to a prime, corn-finished US or Canadian steak in terms of flavor and texture. That is, unless the flavor you want is liver/chlorophyll and the texture you seek is stringy. Also, no commercial animal...

his vision of “Thai” dining (degustation menus, elaborate presentations and carvings, wine pairings etc) that would eventually receive national recognition and the James Beard award. Today, “Thai” in...

not get an easy ticket out of the way while some other persons steaks are grilling? I’m not saying the waitress might not have messed up, again I wasn’t there. I’m just telling you how it works, having been in...

I’ll third the Consumer Reports recommendation. We have used them in selecting our dishwasher, our fridge, our washer, our dryer, and our wine cooler. We have been beyond pleased with everything we bought and have had...

when they are in my home and we order out (rare that I don’t cook, but it happens) and I order several different dishes- indian, chinese, etc. It seems like everyone is into drinking wine and eating cheese, so I just manage...

-fashioned wines. The taco de lengua en salsa verde is arguably even greater: this is meat cookery as accomplished as you will find anywhere in the city. Every bite presents a different dimension of the meat and presents the kind...

raisin bagel. But perhaps the best things made with near-raisins are the Italian things made with the sweet little grapes that remain after the wine is made. They are used to make vin santo, and also delightful torte, which I...