Sounds like a fun list to eat through. Complete agreement on the Colorado Kitchen recs. I can’t get past her scrambled eggs, home fries, chicken apple sausage and those donuts to even think about trying something else. She...

What is it about Italian cooking terms that provokes such discussions about the true meaning? paulj

A lot of Colorado cuisine or Rocky Mt cuisine has been developed in that last 10 or 15 years by trained chefs cooking for customers w/ increasingly sophisticated palates. The guardian of classic fare of the plains and the Rockies...

i took visiting relatives to mccorm and kulletos just weeks ago and had a terrific time—-our food was fresh, cooked simply, and priced moderately. our waiter was pleasant and engaging, and didn’t charge us corkage for...

I remember when it was Kim’s Burritos back in the early-mid 90s. It’s been a lot of places since then. My favorite incarnation was Dream Cuisine where the proprietor cooked Indian, Italian, Chinese,Thai foods, and...

, you can use the extra ice for drinks. I also set up a roaster in my utility room and use it to keep hot items warm until serving. I’ll cook the lasagna 2 ahead, take out and stack the pans in the roaster, turn it on to...

, though you can have a surprisingly good meal that very much defies the low Zagat scores if you order right and understand its strengths. Order things that would have been on a Florida menu in 1940, expect them to be cooked like...

Well if you try Ruen Pair I’d like to hear about it. I’m always wondering about this phenomenon of “good chef night” /”bad chef night” – like at Tu Lan’s where if you go on the night the...

myth perbacco zuni chaya and i second tu lan the vietnamise place on 6th got to sit at the bar those cooks are amazing trythe fried rice to die for : )

I like the chowder at Cook's seafood in Menlo Park on El Camino. It’s not a full restaurant – half of the place is a fishmongers, and the ‘restaurant’ half is just a collection of picnic-style tables and a...

of chicken and jumbo shrimp. All accompanied with a selection of herbs, seasonings and special sauces. You do the cooking - right at your table. I also considered escargots (how retro!), but finally I decided to try the duck...

for a hangar steak salad with roasted mushrooms and peppers. (around $11) While the salad was a very fresh and well balanced mix of greens, the mushrooms were MIA and the steak was cooked to very well done. Dissapointing but...

(all three ordered) so we sent them back. The next batch was even worse! The waitress agreed, said there was a new cook, and didn’t charge us for the burgers. Needless to say we won’t go back for that meal again....

I love street food in New York, but if you’ve ever been to night markets in Asia, especially Taiwan, street food in New York is nothing. That’s an entire industry an part of the culture there. And it’s always...

, the ganache in the figs is better than the chocolate that covers them, but hey, they are still plenty yummy. I hardly ever go to the cooked foods aisle now that LOW doesn’t have a place at the market, so I have no idea...