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Everything you ever wanted to know about pawpaws and weren’t knowledgeable enough to ask.

. By the way, is it possible to get a table only for dessert or will they make you stand in the bar area? I have no iterests in eating another meal there (pizza is just awful) but would love to get gelatto more often.

Lather yourself up and smell like a plate of Christmas cookies with bath products galore.

We’re 3 students on a tight-ish budget looking for must-eats in Manhattan. We’re staying at a hotel in the Midtown district and would prefer to stay around that area...or at least close to the subway. However, we...

I have started compiling a list of places I really want to eat in 2009, and was looking for some extra recommendations. I’ve lived in Chicago for quite a while, and that’s the reason why some places are not on my...

— if I ate, I would cramp, but if I didn’t eat, I would bonk (become glucose deficient, body stops working, sit nauseous next the road for 15 minutes and then limp to the finish). For me, the gel packs have been the...

When it comes to how much food you get, nothing can beat the "all you can eat" opportunities. Recommendations for those were recently discussed at http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/600430

to some family dinner on friday and the wedding is on sat). i hope im wrong but im assuming vegas is like disney world for adults. i am hoping to find some cool bars that arent filled with guys with gel and girls with too much...

Fabulous report. Your non chowish week was better than my chowish year. Sounds like not only you made the best of a bad situation, but zoned in on some good eats. Wow, imagine if you were with people who were Chowhounds at heart....

A week or so ago, I posted looking for ideas of where to go for dim sum and how early one can start eatting. Thanks for the thoughts and suggestions. After all the angst, our friends were unable to go and we decided to just skip...

I will only eat Kit Kat and Reeses Pbutter things during Halloween (maybe easter too). Hate that waxy, funky taste most Hershey’s and that Walmart brand-what is it Palmer? Kaaaaaa- gotta scrape your tongue to get rid of the...