to step out of the restaurant and across the drive to a sitting room in the adjoining hotel to peruse books in the library and sample more wines with the hostess who also apparently cooks with her husband. Since our driver was...

French Fries: Dick’s, Spokane, WA (McDonald’s original fries from '50’s & '60’s. Yes!) Honorable mention: Arthur Bryant’s, Kansas City, MO (cooked in pure lard) Thrasher’s, Ocean City

for the pizza to be cooked. Doesn’t it make more sense to be able to combine the waiting times? Why not allow customers to place an order for the pie and then wait for a table? If there isn’t a table available when...

: friendly, kind, helpful. The food was a disappointment. I had #16 Red Curry Chicken & #12 Moke Pa (Steamed Fish) along w/ tea. The curry was not red, as I asked, but rather yellow. It was adequate but hardly memorable. I have...

of those not interested in the bourbon. We ended up with ribs, chocolate, smoked salmon, bacon-wrapped scallops, tail weenies, baked beans, stuffed cabage, cheeses and breads, salad, and fruit tarts. The way we conducted the blind...

enjoyed being stuck with an entire plate of that. The burrata with bacon and escarole had a wonderful smoky flavor, and the cheese was creamy and rich, but I was surprised that the cheese itself was cold atop the other warm...

* Ichimi-an Honten* Little Fat Sheep* Mei Long Village* Park’s BBQ* Quality Seafood* Ruen Pair* Santouka Ramen* Torimatsu* The Hungry Cat* Yu Chun101 Noodle ExpressAlbene’sBacon-wrapped Hot Dog GuyDaikokuyaDan Sung

Toro, toro, toro! One place I go offers extra-fatty salmon as well, and that’s wonderful too. Whereas fatty tuna is butter from the sea, fatty salmon is bacon from the sea.

All my relatives are outstanding cooks (four generations of restaurant/food careers’ll do that to you), so I’d just dive in. But I’m not sure I completely understand the question, so perhaps you might rephrase...

being really tough, and covered with a combo of rough cut cooked onions and cheap mustard. There is no way you can eat this thing like a sandwich – you have to disassemble it and eat it in pieces. If you accept that premise,...

distributed widely for the kosher market. The product was called, proudly, “I Can't Believe It's Not Crab”. Seems a shame it spread so widely beyond this understandable niche. (This also applies to fake bacon and...

to replace the Kahn’s / Hahn’s in Thomaston? (I can never remember which it was) Boy do I miss their country style smoked liverwurst, German style bacon, smoked duck breast, big ole fat smoked oysters and mussels,...

pronounced than the subtly sweet veal’s meat would have been. It was served wrapped in bacon, which I guess added a textural component to the buttery-smooth tenderloin. As well, alongside it was a segment of boudin noir (which I...

cooking technique for dim sum. Offerings will usually include shu mai, little pork dumplings in the shape of miniature shopping bags, open on top; dumplings in a translucent rice wrapper, crimped shut into a crescent shape,...

and found closed at least 4 times. It looked like it would never open again. We really liked this place and had a lovely meal (another 100 euros, because we each ordered a whole grilled fish) - it really is home cooking and the...