they still try hard there but the kitchen doesn’t cook with the same level of intensity that it used to. Zafferano is good but not worth all the raves it gets. I mean there must be 25 places just like it in NYC. I...

thanks for the great report, Patrick. But listen; the only way someone can truly disagree with my opinion is by eating the same meal with me and drawing different conclusions. Chefs change, kitchens decline.....restaurants are a...

I guess I was expecting a table not in the middle of a noisy, busy walkway to the kitchen (we kept getting jostled), my query about the sommelier not to be ignored (I have worked as a waitress and if someone was celebrating I...

Man, so little time and so much food! Eat my way around 3 cuisines in China, Mexico and France, oh, what the hell, the Mediterranean and all of Asia as well. Champagne and Beluga every day! (Funny, I’ve only eaten Beluga as...

to avoid damaging the environment – after all, they’ll be leaving it to their kids. I’ll be buying Wal-Mart organic lettuce when hell freezes over. There may not be any pesticide residue on it, but what about...

My mother makes the best gravy in the world! She says she swears that her secret is a squeeze of lemon juice near the end. I made and brought a 20 lb turkey to a Thanksgiving potluck (venue had no kitchen), and when it came time...

inventing hotdog stands. A Bostonian could take a train to Cape Ann to discover fried clams, or to Cape Cod to discover clam chowder. Etc. Chowhounds travelled, and skulked around other family’s kitchens, and tasted stuff....

, and water) up another whole level from the way it’s made anywhere else in Portugal. I’ll ask my friend (who lives in Seixal) about O Pescador. Knowing him, he’ll immediately rattle off 5 other restaurants just...

might not like firefly so much...its nothing great or high end but I like it for tapas and sangria and its hopping way into the evening. . You could definitely go old school at the peppermill but hell thats like going to the...

support hell at the moment :-) God love laser printers and the people who buy them!

fundamental point about the pizza wasn’t that it’s bad pizza, it’s just not as good as the fanatics talk it up to be. Claims that it’s WAAAAAAY better than John’s, Grimaldi’s, Una,...

chopsticks will eventually end up at the very back of a kitchen cabinet along with the fondue sets, table top omelette stoves, and French clay quiche pans... Such is the way of food religions. '-)

breakfast options now look more like Tempo, Jim’s Grill and Cozy Corner, with one yuppie place stuck in there for the hell of it. Or we may just be lazy and do an Ann Sather’s cinnamon roll. Silver Seafood sounds...

I have no known food allergies and am not a crybaby but personally I hate lamb and the more I tell people that I dislike it, the more hell bent they are on serving it to me ‘their way’ with garlic, sauces, rare, well...

" game is, I’ve found, pretty crappy. The prompt is too airy. And, in the end, how the hell do you compare a $200 high parisien bistro with El goddamn Taurino? This is much more focused. This is our version of the Desert...