not to eat even if the meal were comped. Removing the restaurants with NY connections from consideration (I’m doing that as well) pretty left me with a night of tapas at Wine Cellar, and a steak dinner at Delmonico. Although...

I’ve been along on the first two Dim Sum battles. Kudos to the Chowhounds! This has been a great opportunity to learn about Dim Sum and a great experience eating with and talking to an enthusiastic group of foodies. While I...

grower, fowl herder... My new friends left to return to their honost toil. I ventured to Lyon, not to sample the “great” chefs but the “real” cooks" at the incomparable buchons. Where the...

While you’re out in Fruitvale, try the Ojo del Agua truck for grilled cebollitas. If you get up to Santa Rosa, most of the trucks on Sebastopol Rd. serve these with taco orders. I’m just eating up this taco talk, never...

nice review, i feel the same way about hama-ko i just wanted to say that sushi o sushi is my favorite in the south bay, better than sawa sushi steve, from sawa sushi, used to call my dad and invite us to eat at his restaurant as my...

else to go. I can’t imagine anyone I’m eating with being incensed at me because the restaurant burned down or something. If they called to confirm, I knew it was the restaurant because they asked for Mr. Fellinipini, or...

's always hot from the kitchen. And unlike other places, they are very generous with the sweet soy sauce they put on top which you cannot eat chang fun without. (3) Ha gao/Shia jiao (shrimp dumplings), although I always request...

Similar to this is an episode of Food TV’s show "Good Eats" in which Alton Brown explains the whys and wherefores of getting the desired texture of chocolate chip cookies. I can’t remember the specifics but I remember...

we eat the most. I rarely seek out shui jiao in restaurants since I’ve been spoiled by my grandmother’s version. Luckily she has passed on the recipe to my mother, and now to my wife – so I can enjoy it anytime....

a baking sun (a la sicily). when you eat your first ripe san marzano you’ll know what i mean

. There was conversation to be had, and food to be eaten. Both of us had really been looking forward to eating there, and as the hour arrived, I was prepared to be disappointed. It had been hyped up in my head enough that I was...

. Now, I have no basis for comparison here but I am loathe to use a word as coarse as "eat" to describe what transpired between me and the sandwich. The sandwich doesn’t deserve such language. I think what happened was more...

Yes, completely agree. I have only been to the buffet line once – likely the first year we went – we usually eat at all the grilled stands outside and then do the take out just inside the door to the gymnasium. I...

Here’s a link to a web site that offers two other choices, (good old google to the rescue once again). I also think that their advice to have one drink, eat free nuts see the view and leave is sound. Link:...

second the katz dog- get one and then eat it while in line for pastrami. And at crif have it bacon-wrapped – one of my favorite gilded lilies, next to roast pork formed into a puck-shaped cake and browned in duck fat(at...