Sort of a self-indulgent rant/post, but I’m getting tired of deferring to plain eating friends when it comes to restaurant selection. When I suggest a restaurant I like, I’m met with a grimace and “I don't like...

As a former Garden City boy who recently moved to B.C., I will agree that Baraka is fantastic (and Lebanese). I was just back in town about a month ago and it’s become a must stop for me. I love their falafel, fresh pita,...

What do you mean by fresh carrots? From someone’s garden? Individual with the green tops on? Dunno who’d have those kind of carrots in Queens. I do all my fruit and veggie shopping at the 24hr Greek markets on 30th...

You might try the new Tea Garden (?) on Mission at 1st street. It’s a new Taiwan deli, and it doesn’t seem like any 'hounders have scoped it out and posted. I would have gone down there already were it not for the...

Turner (American husband, front of the house) & Antonietta Bonfitto (Neapolitan wife, maestra della cucina). Before I move into my rant, a bit of a personal preamble: I must confess, for a Midwestern middle class dumpy white boy,...

V.I.- Like many on this list, I love Italian food, but loathe anything on the Olive Garden-Vesuvio continuum. At first glance, it seems that Chicago is a great spot for la cucina italiana, but I’ve found few spots that...

I doubt it’s changed much since the last time I was there a few months ago. I hate the place. Kind of tired of ranting about it, though. Cheap (very low cost to the restaurant, like brocolli and carrots), boring...

? Sorry for the rant. ... and sometimes I do want sushi, so I’m not bashing!

that there is only ONE RIGHT WAY to make dishes so canonical that entire cities argue over which tiny stall cooks the ideal version. Banana Garden, Singapore and Malaysian Restaurant, the overpriced Straits Café and Banana Island...

of the rest were incredibly mediocre to bad restaurants. I almost posted a rant about the insert, but figured it wasn’t worth my time or everyone else’s.

of experience eating all around the city for years. We know what to expect at a given price point and this wasn’t it. [Rant coming] I’ve made this point before and there’s always someone who pops out of the...

of has a view is the front room (also the bar area), but even that isn’t a commanding view of the harbor. THe middle room is cramped and you should request not being put there. The back room is more spacious and intimate...

It’s just crazy what our misguided “guides” call “downtown” in DC... So many publications just call the entire District “downtown” with no regard to our countless neighborhoods and the...

If this digresses to just a rant on fast food. But as long as the thread continues to mention local burger alternatives, and plays up that aspect, no harm, no foul.

Yes, I have been to Artisanal twice,though not recently since those less-than-positive experiences did not make me a fan. To be honest, I’d been considering trying it again until I read Andrea Strong’s rant about her...