The new restaurant (formerly a series of Irish pubs) on the corner of Skillman and 46th Street seems to be almost finished. I walked by there about a week ago and spoke to a person working on the front door. He told me that he...

. The new tenant is Shu Feng Yuan, a branch of the Sichuan style Shufeng Garden in Rowland Heights. As I recall, the Rowland Heights location has a table of cold dishes (pig ears etc.) up front, but there is no such arrangement...

I just had wonderful Portuguese BBQ chicken in Union, which is south of Newark, near exit 145 on the Garden State Parkway. Burnet BBQ has been recommended on this board. See link to thread below. There are 2 locations in Union. My...

I’m going to see Terrance Simien perform at the Lowell Summer Music Series on Friday night and I’d like to invite the band out to dinner before the show. Given the 7:30 start time, I assume the band will need to be...

" and doing a decent job of it though they could hardly be otherwise less alike. a recent series of posts about chinese food reminds one that nearly any ‘chinese’ restaurant runs the same chance of providing a good...

I have a series of long planters and I have peppers, several tomato plants, a lemon tree and a tomatillo plant. Everything is doing extremely well, especially the tomatillo. Its really tall, it looks really healthy and it flowers...

Going through my cookbooks this weekend in search of fruitcake recipes, I had the pleasure of re-reading the "Better Homes and Gardens American Heritage Cookbook," published in 1975. It was a real pleasure toe both read the...

Since my young wife, and I, were married in New Orleans in 1971, I do not know about a “rehersal dinner.” Heck, I’m so old that even my friends' grandchildren usually do not invite me to their rehersal dinners!...

Prima Taste, Banana Leaf for Malaysian/Singaporean Kedah House, Seri Malaysia for Halal I’ve been hearing good things about Jonker Street in Yaletown for Malaysian. kwailan4 – do you have any recs?

-free salads. If you happen to go up to Rockville, go to Vegetable Garden. Everything vegetarian and totally delish!

It’s on Hartwell Avenue, right off Germantown where the Garden Gate cafe used to be (and Garden Gate Antiques still is). The owner, Pam, is very nice and knowledgeable about teas. They are also having a monthly wine tasting...

I’m not sure if Ripe is the first here or not....BUT Jason Owens, now with Simpatica, was doing Axis Supper Clubs long before Simpatica came to be. Dinners, via email, in his lovely garden. I know there were similar dinners...

of organization, but the meal started with a series of 4 small plates to begin, interspersed with two special mini tails passed around in “shot trees.” There were no menus for this initial series of apps, so I assume...

to purchase his book “In The Weeds”- he doesn’t garden does he? Peter M

Going to the Raleigh/Durham area this weekend to look at colleges, and would like to go to a few really good restaurants...not the TGIF or Olive Garden variety! We are from the NYC area, so we really enjoy a wide variety of food....