you can’t go wrong. The standout (and most expensive) is Lee Wah Heen (at the Metropolitan Hotel) – sophisticated Dim Sum ($50 + at lunch for two). If you want a family run, stick to Spadina – my favourite is...

> so your antennae are good Of course, it runs in the family! ahah. Hey Dave, when you get back from Chicago can you please post your findings? I’ll be going out there in a few months. Also, I was browsing a bookshelf at a...

it Gong-fu style... but I digress.) Tetsubin are not cheap, but you can always tell yourself that it will be a "family heirloom passed down for generations", blah, blah, blah. But really: they are great. A good source is, again,...

Courtside is kind of divey but almost family friendly it seems. A jovial karaoke atmosphere isn’t so divey IMHO. (The one and only time I did karaoke, stone cold sober, Detroit Rock City.)

First, Houston definitely has a greatest ratio of independent/family owned restaurants to chain restaurants than any other city in Texas. If you are looking for good ethnic food in Texas, there isn’t the quality and...

standard "curry house" If you do want to try “proper” Indian food in the UK, avoid Brick Lane, head for Tooting and Southall where family run places cok for the local communities. There you will find Byriani’s...

friends/family they fall into the convenience trap.

-like character that you’ll find in Opus One comes in part from the good dose of Cab Franc in the blend. One of my friend’s family old vineyard provides much of the OO CF, he’s just started to vinify some of the...

. Starbuck’s Go to the family-run Bonjour instead (they roast their beans and bake their pastries in-house). Pizza Capri An outlet of the local mini-chain. Pretty good “eclectic” pizzas. Valois “See Your...

I have a confession to make: I don’t like pizza. Everytime the family wants to order pizza, i look at menus for a meatball sub. here’s the deal, I’m not a big cheese guy, I’ve never really cared for a lot of...

substitute". It is in fact a salt, just not sodium chloride. They all have a familier “salty” taste to them. Sometimes using a table salt with more than 1 compound helps to curb a salt craving brought on by a mineral...

, a director with Magyar TV and former owner of a vineyard in the Lake Balaton area, became my trusty guide to the food and wine of Hungary. He had been taken under the wing of a kind family in a scenario rivaling “Down and...

I love,love,love See’s Buttercrunch to the degree where if I have it in my home I will eat until every buttery bit is gone. We had a babysitter who hailed from Tehachapee (teeny town outside of Bakersfield), and every time...

that long just to start becoming drinkable. And after 32 years I do not think any will be enjoyable. But Madame Leroy probably does not worry much about making a profit, she worries about continuing a family tradition. The next...

But of course, Cousin Caitlin! One doesn’t tell untruths about family. (g)