chowhoundy themes and make some suggestions. They wouldnt have to be definitive or for all time but they might answer some of the recurring questions, i.e. theater district, midtown lunch, boys or girls night out, dinner with...

his food critique was pretty blah. it seemed like the actor sitting next to padma was pretty articulate about the food, though. forgive my ignorance: who the heck is she, and was there any reason for her presence at the dinner,...

over for dinner all week. I wish I could have shared it with people to take home.

. Owner-chef Peter Fang’s stripped-down, cleaned-up take on classic Shanghai cuisine was some of the Bay Area’s best cooking ever, so my spouse and I immediately decided to make it a weekly dinner date. No such luck:...

prepared—yellow chives, yu choy, pea shoots. Another round of smelts was obtained, and these were superior. On the other hand, the heavily Trio influenced dish of slightly frozen ham hock appealed to only one nameless...

place? What’s the best Shanghai dinner place? What’s the best Yunnanese place? What’s the best Hunan place? Etc. etc... Same with Indian – one has one’s choice of very high quality Southern,...

nights when I’d be sitting alone at the dinner table while everyone else was off watching TV. I do remember my sister sneaking back a few times to help me out. :-) Hamburger anywhere else was fine. Many years later, I was in...

some bread fresh out of the oven (pre-baked loaf from the grocery store, 400 degrees for about 5 minutes, for bonus points spritz with water and dust with a little flour before it goes into the oven). Voila! A nice dinner on a...

Dear PRSMDave: What you said. I want to come to your dinner parties, hon.

, live....well, pretty much anywhere else (except the upper west side). Or get on the subway and explore. There are chowhounds in, like, Montana, who have to drive an hour even for a mediocre dinner. One fifteen minute subway...

Yeah, Besh won that won. Convincingly. His food looked spectacular. As I posted elsewhere, I was at August just before Katrina and it was a remarkable meal. And he cooked it. We went back to the kitchen after dinner for a few...

/5 of mixture to make 12 pretty big cookies and reserved rest in freezer for future. Cooked for around 13 mins. And they are great! I only had one this afternoon and am not up for dinner yet—maybe around 10PM! Next week...

, but I still react with dismay when a family with infants is seated next to me in an upscale restaurant. Yes, very often the kids are fine. But all too often everyone in the restaurant is in for a "family dinner", whether or not...

Thanks Michael, for more good reading, and also for the previous “manual” on the International board. I’ve learned so much the past few days and truly appreciate it. I hope to be at Sharon Gardens some time next...

. But just recently at my birthday dinner in San Francisco our waiter saw that I’d just been given a copy of the Top Chef cookbook and remarked that he’d worked briefly at Fleur de Lys and that his time there had...