may check them at the coat check. While families are welcome any time, holidays are the best time to visit the restaurant. After 5 PM on holidays, children under 12 eat free, and if that isn’t incentive enough, Tavern on...

, since we often have more than 12 people for holidays, but I have a set of dishes that were my grandmothers and those complement the Wedgwood when placed alternately at the table. I always loved this Bernardaud Naxos pattern for...

to bring. If I end up bringing something, it mimics the plastic-covered, store-bought things that others bring. This is why we now have 2 holiday dinners every year – one at the in-laws with mr. rockandroller’s...

. I need serious cooking shows to show me good ideas for my family meals and for holidays and for entertaining. Iron Chef is boring and useless. Nobody’s cooking at home like that.

We went around the holidays, and it was sublime. The only downside was that we had groups of investment bankers on both sides of us who appeared to be celebrating their year-end bonuses. They were obnoxiously loud and we had to...

Berolina Bakery 3421 Ocean View Blvd. Glendale, CA 91208 Corner of Ocean View and Verdugo — right next door, as it happens, to Schreiner’s, which is also on my list. Their limpa bread is wonderful — and around the...

Thanks for the reminder about the market, TJ. We’ll plan on stopping by going both ways and report back on the holiday/weekend situation.

that our diets as children were very low-sugar due to the way my mom shopped and cooked. We never had a dessert in the house, not even fruit, unless it was a holiday. We went out for ice cream at the DQ as a family a few times a...

We just returned from Montreal. Over the holidays we had many wonderful baguettes . All differnet sizes. The best were tiny ones that had to be eaten right away , along with some raw milk cheese. I would really like to know what...

and on major holidays. I may have even engaged in this behavior myself as a teenager... It’s definitely NOT illegal to BYO to restaurants with liquor licenses in NYC. Some places won’t allow it, but many will...

the freezer with it after a trip through Columbus over the holidays: http://www.jenisicecreams.com/ (Although I’m getting dangerously low on the toasted brioche special...)

and picked up three teenage girls who were hitchhiking/”hacer dedo”-ing. They were from Buenos Aires and talked to us in Spanish/English on the way up on the gravel road to the lakes. They said that during school holidays they...

and eat the “Q” there. I’ll keep in mind some of the others for lunches, we’ll problably have better luck then than we would for dinner reservations this holiday week.

then I got my first piece of Llodge cast iron, a handsome carving set, and for a few years extra pieces of my stepmom’s holiday glassware (what great early Christmas gifts those were!) You never know till you look.

when I needed something for latenight baking or had an ice cream craving. What I find most jarring when I go to Safeway nowadays is how holiday candy and knick knacks are boldly displayed. I’m so glad my regular market has...