Lunaria 10351 Santa Monica Blvd., Los Angeles Phone: 310-282-8870 The service I received was impeccable (almost “psychic”). The menu: excellent Provencale [Southern Regional French with Northern Italian influence]...

... tasteless sauce ... THIS is supposed to be sausage? The whole component on this coast just doesn’t measure up. In the Nizza pie, there is not enough topping. The sauce is nice but there are dabs of sauce amid the thin...

The chicken is yummy! I also buy my Valbreso french feta cheese there (cheaper than anywhere). In the frozen section there is a turkey stuffed red pepper that I like. I prefer the Montolivo light olive oil myself. Don’t get...

Your comment reminds me of how i developed into the Chowhound i am today. I was one of those obnoxiously picky eaters as a kid (grilled cheese sandwiches and not much else for awhile there), and even into my teen years vegetables...

out there dissing Dale, he’s the one person from that team I’d want at my side when preparing a meal for a group. Granted, I’d tell him not to over-toast the crostini, but other than that, he is exactly the...

are eating and just can’t envision how he would ever eat that bad stuff at home since we don’t have it around. He’s eaten ethiopian, vietnamese, japanese, chinese, sudanese, salvadoran, mexican, cuban, thai,...

time to taste 22 wines and sample most of the menu. The tasting menu by chef included Jeffrey Amber & Salina Rubio, XYZ Patisserie assortment of Chocolates and Petit Fours. My favorite was the Danish butter mint sandwich cookie....

. George cheese, one that is similar to a cheddar but a bit nuttier. Ig Vella makes an aged dry jack cheese. The Sonoma Cheese Factory makes all kinds of jack cheeses as well as teleme now. There’s the Marin French cheese...

to be “whole grain.” my blood sugar gets all out of wack if I don’t have a good loaf bread from a bakery ( or the ciabatta from wholefoods, not bad if you toast it.)

textured, and several of the main courses- kugelis, which is sort of a cross between a potato pancake and French toast; meat dumplings; and the smoked butt, were pretty terrific. It was also nice that at Julia’s, although...

'll have to have a special “Chowhounds Named Rochelle” meeting. Speaking of the 'hood, have you been to Metro Cafe on Divisdero recently? It used to be a sandwich shop, now its a French bistro. Two friends, Michael...

I’d be interested in knowing your frame of reference. I am from Louisiana and think that south Louisiana is a great place to eat, so, yes, DC doesn’t live up to my standards. Even a simple Italian restaurant or seafood...

with the twenty dollar lunches where restaurants normally serving tourists in the middle economic bracket offer a sandwich and dessert at that price, expect Cafe Boulud to serve more than a token of their repertoire at the same...

on the seafood. With a side of rice. Others went for the Saltado de Mariscos ... shrimp, octopus, squid, mussels, clam, onion, tomatoes, onions with french fries ... also w/ rice on the side Ok ... full again! But the gods told me...

QUOTE>UNQUOTE Pat, when you come to NYC, I’ll trade you one pastrami sandwich for one of your Maine “obscenely delicious wild strawberries.” The only ‘wild strawberries’ I’ve been able to partake...