's good in salads. It’s good on a great steak. It’s amazing just broken off in chunks and eaten before the guests arrive with that lovely meritage you were planning to start the evening off with them...

its better than Scetch and en par with Ici. Anyway, thanks for the report and sorry to hear about Aziza it is our favorite place to bring out of town guests and agree with the folks who suggested ordering different dishes- but its...

cleansing treat a wonderful fruit sorber. The strawberry cloud with just off the farm taste was a gold plated standard. Cannot say enough about this restaurant. I will go back! YUM. This is truly how a restaurant that knows how...

time, without a good, written system for determining fairly who should be seated when. The new system seems to feature staggered reservations at a larger variety of times (e.g. your 9:45 time), which should help the arrival of...

feeling like you’re a guest in a friend’s home. just thinking about it makes me hungry. best, -ljm

on the incorrect side, which was not my fault because the attorney next to me had used “mine,” not to mention how wildly inappropriate it is to correct a guest's table manners. And service was incredibly slow, thanks...

This is especially true if you (as the guest) didn’t pick the restaurant, as is often the case for women on dates.

of the Vikings, I discovered how, when fishing, they stored their salmon and then cooked them over a wood fire sealed in clay collected from the riverbank. This recipe for wild salmon cooked in clay revives this ancient...

is a guest. And I cannot praise the Polo dish enough – fab.

for guests - for argument’s sake, let’s say roasted cod with sauteed ramps and morels – and when it’s time to serve it, you tell them what’s in the dish. one of them looks at you and asks,...

with my friends cooking (still?) on packed dirt floor kitchens—stuffed bitter gourd, claypot fish, and so much more—and these after pho and banh mi on the early road trip from Saigon. In China, please let me eat again as a guest...

Salt, butter and heavy cream. I’m not trying to poison my guests (or my husband) who have higher cholesterol or high blood pressure, but I will salt my food generously as I’m cooking, and real butter and real cream...

with non-Chinese diners, on two occasions the guests weren’t wowed and one time they liked them so much we got a second order. The deciding factor seemed to be whether or not they liked the sweetened condensed milk (e.g.,...

to chat with you Abby! I brought the jerky from the malaysian jerky place on Elizabeth between Grand and Hester and Japanese “okashi” (candy and chip type things) from the okashi-land on Hester between Mott and...

for the “décor” and cast of characters alone! Impeccably fried, greaseless oysters. Lagniappe Guest House — wonderful breakfasts (guests only) - banana pancakes, perfectly cooked bacon and the best scrambled eggs...