to sample lots of flavours. The cook spent time at El Buli in Spain, and there are some flavorsome foamy touches to prove it. Thank you for recommending La Vineria de Gualterio Bolivar. We had the most amazing lunch there today...

looking forward to showing me where he spent 4 years of his life...and i’m looking forward to showing him some great eating establishments he missed out on since he mostly ate in the dorms. :) i really like dive-y type...

", and was very generous about sharing it. I was a child with a seriously deprived palate (everyone in the family were painfully bad cooks, and were proud of this), so perhaps I was romanticizing the whole thing. But I think it...

At the Jersey Shore we have the Windmill. Great cooked to order hamburgers, hot dogs, etc. They have the best hot dogs!

Yep, going to be a matter of personal taste in term of balancing local flavour over deliciousness. It was mainly to suggest alternatives if there was a desire to diversify cuisines. For non-banquet stuff, New Shanghai’s...

by the larger companies, luckily Pabst is making it out okay. So far I’ve knocked back: Wiedemann, Cook's Goldblume, Ballantine, Schaefer, Black Label (?), Blatz, and a couple of others whose names I can’t remember....

What I normally get (not much, considering I don’t generally buy things that won’t keep in my dorm room): - six pack of Pompelmo (amazing Italian grapefruit soda) - nonfat cat cookies, comes in plastic tubs...comes in...

I second the Ferry Building and all its glory. Also: 1. keep your reservations at Chez Panisse. 2. Koi Palace in Daly City for dim sum or amazingly fresh cantonese seafood 3. Canteen for a great meal cooked by top chef Dennis Leary...

line in a jello mold (brother’s idea) and serving spaghetti-Os as the first course of “nice” dinner for a semi-snotty GF. The fishing line just made my Mom mad. The GF knew I was a decent cook and was looking...

SOunds as though this is another “adjustment to New Orleans” story. Tulane students from New York—and, to be fair, elsewhere—-sometimes take awhile to “get it.” Half the floor in my freshman...