Thanks much for the history and suggestions. I’m going back tonight if I can get out of the office before 8:00. What I was most impressed with was the absolute precision of his knife technique. While Shibutani’s fish...

with natives aren’t necessarily good. Truckers and police cars in restaurant parking lots do NOT indicate good food. The more stuff (burgers, cold sandwiches, etc) served by a pizzeria, the worse the pizza. Don’t order...

it for the place in the kitchen where the food is stored (a cabinet is a milkshake with ice cream – called a frappe in MA, and coffee everything is a specialty of RI). The Italian food is better in Providence than it is in...

. around Walnut). Another terrific breakfast dive across from City Market is The Diner (3rd & Grand). It’s in an old gas station. Real earthy! Good food and lots of it. You’ll feel like you walked into a 1950s time...

Yikes! I hope dinner is better—was thinking of taking my husband for his B-day this month. Perhaps Russkar knows a “secret code” to get the best food/service!

stated jfood is there for the company, for the food, for a great evening. Most times the servers are the age of little jfood and jfood treats them with the same respect that he wants from little jfood’s customers. If they...

'm actually eating a meal? What happened to couples getting tables? I’ve not noticed this in other cities or remember it from past history. These were fairly nice places, (Chez Henri for one) and while I have offered to...

prepared still participate). By the end of the evening, the book was full. Prior to the event, we had video-taped people telling stories about the honoree which we played just before sitting down to eat. I think doing these type...

LoL. This reminds me of that “I Love Lucy” show where Lucy had her entire unit of four move to the window, then felt a draft and switched seats with Ricky...only, of course, she chose to move, and it was prior to the...

Here’s the link to it...it makes a huge cake and I always use three 9" pans, not about to order 10" ones... http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/101275

>this sounds like management taking advantage of their customers instead< With Zuni’s history, I’d guess it’s more of a case of the “great ingredient” thing taken to a bad extreme, someone’s...

"But I like my pad thai peanuty, when it’s done right. Otherwise, it’s just skinny chow fun. " kidding or not, that’s an interesting point! Nothing wrong with some ground peanuts in pad thai...my problem is when...

doctor/winemakers, I’ve read up on the history of his wives and winery or having tasted several of his early experiments/mistakes. He may be gray but he’s still devilish. The last time I saw him at the winery, he said...

I thought the Canadian deal was history, but I could be wrong.

Okay it’s confirmed.....Lazar needs an intervention. In what may be a first in Chowhound history we happened to be at I’ll Gelatierre at the same time today. As I was telling the owners about all the buzz they are...