it doesn’t sound at all like EMM asked for separate checks. they received one check and asked for two balances to be put on two credit cards. very common with groups of diners; i just did this last night at dinner with...

can’t police every package, discovering rotten food under those circumstances still makes for a lousy customer experience. And if I had enough experiences like that there, I wouldn’t want to shop there anymore,...

I dream of owning a small Greek Island and hiring a captain to go fishing for dinner and bringing home octopus, lobster, sardines, shrimp, smelts, etc and grilling them for my wife and eating them while drinking a bottle of...

You really should avoid places that you expect to be terrible. I mean, really! A Chowhound needs the skills of directing guests to a good dinner. Nobody to blam but yourself.

, you usually get what I call a deep fried fritter which is not nearly the same. I do miss those chicken (or country) fried steak dinners!

"Food Network executives said the network has successfully broadened its programming in recent years, with shows like the extreme cake-building reality series “Ace of Cakes” and “Dinner: Impossible,” featuring a chef, Robert...

Though, the terms swede and rutabaga are also used in distinction to turnip. My Thanksgiving dinner would be incomplete without my mother’s recipe for mashed rutabagas and potatoes, which we also incongruously called...

i thought you mentioned no signboard at the esplanade mall. pretty decent place when you absolutely have to have a sit-down lunch/dinner. tung lok group’s, “my humble house” nearby is intersting, too. but...

, Rachel, Giada, and the chefs with actual cooking chops stuck in “game-show challenge” type shows like ICA, Dinner Impossible, and Throwdown. I think the time is right for another food network that actually goes back...

... such as a local monopoly [price of soda and popcorn in a movie theater], in other cases the price can be from branding/ marketing/product differentiaation ... which is the route noka tried to go, i.e. claimin there were no "close...

will not eat it. Well done liver The cheap chocolate covered peanuts you buy at the movies. The ones that leave a waxy taste in your mouth. Snack wells Overcooked pasta Zero bars All canned veggies except beans

are arbitrary between 85-95. I think of wines in simple terms: 1. Drink alone wines: the after work glass before dinner 2. Food Wines: the wines you pick for a specific cuisine 3. Special Occassion Wines: the wines that you look...

. But with space being at such a premium in NYC, particularly in a relatively central Manhattan location it would be very very hard (meaning expensive) to have a carpeted (sound muffler) well lit large area with lots of chairs...

on the burgers are twice as thick as the patty. Heard some hype about Crustaceans a while ago and had dinner there three times since. Seems to be more of an atmosphere/trendy place because nothing i’ve tried seemed good,...

seating on a street where (unlike with many downtown cafes) that doesn’t mean you’ll be sucking bus exhaust all through dinner. (Note: nothing against Cyrano’s, the previous recommendation in this spot, just...