. For dessert we tried the profiteroles and some brewed tea. The profiteroles were filled with (espresso?) ice cream and were good, though I am not a huge profiterole fan. The tea list is quite impressive, with full descriptions...

cheese omelet, and I ordered a Nova/bagel/cream cheese. After 10 minutes, the waiter returned, red-faced, and said: “I want to apologize for this, but the chef refuses to make a mushroom and Swiss cheese omelet.”...

care not to insist too much. Have to say, however, that AF does seem far more comfortable on-camera than she did on TNFNS. And— big plus— she only uses two pre-made ingredients, the ice cream and chocolate sauce for...

. Bro wanted hamburgers and canned corn at home; I wanted to go out to Cafe de Paris or El Amigo. When I first met J., his ideal meal was something deep fried or creamed or served with mayonnaise. The food he’d grown up with...

Khoi and Le Thanh Ton from around 11 o’clock selling bowls of tofu with sweet ginger syrup and coconut cream. 3.000 VND. Hu Tieu – Another specialty of the south (mekong region). This is a pork broth soup that’s...

love the high end small plates they serve for dinner, particularly the deconstructed rack of lamb tartar. And the pork chop – my god, it is incredible! The chef really know what he’s doing. Soop i or miss. Some are a...

a little dry-off in a cloth towel. Great fries. As for shakes at Burgerville: yes, they are excellent; even better is the soft ice cream with whatever fresh fruit topping they’ve got going that month.

Hung was priceless. He butchered those chickens in warp speed and they were so neat! Hung really stepped up and shined in this Resto War. His tuna tartare looked so good. Very elegant. I’m happy for Sara, she did step up and...

are the best in this city. Personally, I prefer these much better than the marinated ones. They also do an amazing yuuk hae (Korean style beef tartar), hae mul pajun (seafood pancake), short rib soup, and stone skillet bibimbap...

Maybe my eyes (or my tastebuds) are going bad, but won’t anyone else recommend The Mill (113th-ish and Broadway)? It used to be a greasy spoon diner that served egg creams and slowly evolved into a Korean restaurant that...

Best fried shrimp and scallops (not to mention superb tartar sauce) in my book for over 30 years of my patronage — Keyport Fishery, at the bottom of Front Street in Keyport, across from (yuk) Ye Cottage Inn and the...

in the morning let alone make a restaurant look great! It’s also interesting that none of the chefs ever understand that there needs to be continuity to the menu. Tuna Tartar, Rissoto and Lamb Shank really don’t blend...

includes folks who managed Sushi Samba and also Doraku on Lincoln Road. The current menu is short and pretty simple – garden variety sushi, several “special” maki rolls, the usual teriyakis. Some semi-unusual...

ice cream, and get ready for the food coma. Specify that you want the burger rare and it’ll be incredible. It’ll make you never want a beef burger again. Their beef burgers are good too, but again it’s like any...

to start with Turtle soup, but they were serving up the bottom of the pot, which was unbearably salty, so I got the gumbo, which was delicious (to my Yankee palatte). My mom had the oyster cream soup, which she loved. Caesar...