recipes: 3 tablespoons olive oil 4 onions, 3 peeled and thinly sliced, 1 peeled and grated 3 cloves garlic, peeled and crushed 1/2 cup yellow split peas 10-12 cups water 1 1/4 teaspoons salt 1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper 1...

Most of their breads are downright awful as well as all of their frozen vegetables – mushy and ice blown. Same for the majority of their Mexican frozen stuff – ugly blahs of unmentionable flavor. Mme Zoe won’t go...

fish was interesting, he filleted the fish in front of us. We got fresh wasabi on request. For dessert, we had a really nice banana tempura served with red beans and green tea ice cream. Overall, we were very happy with our...

) Thai food in a small, stylish restaurant. Linger until about 11 and then stroll down to the river to watch the fireworks. There will be lots and lots of people out (keep a watch on yr wallet). An excellent spot is at the water...

dearth of good seafood joints despite the fact that we are surrounded by water. Ortanique is one of my top choices for its “nuevo” Caribbean influenced dishes. In addition, Ortanique has the advantage of being off the...

Haven’t been there myself, but from the mix you know it’s not your father’s Berkeley. Or mine. Or the Alice Waters of the Free Speech Movement Days'. If you see Country Joe McDonald there with a gelato in his...

My husband and I ate at Tonali tonight. The atmosphere, as others have mentioned, wasn’t great – the cash register and ice machine should be moved elsewhere, but that was the only negative the entire evening. Service...

... that is fun food for kids & teenagers. Chains like Danchos sell fresh fruit licuados, ice creams, frozen yogurt, tortas made from cold cuts etc., as well as their speciality.... Nachos. Nachos in Mexico are largely faithful...

more?" one night, i explained that our freezer had broken, and i’m sorry but we are not serving ice cream tonight. i had THREE different tables ask, “why is the freezer broken?” gee, if i knew that, i’d...

but honestly the waiter grabbed my water glass out of my hand to refill it. That’s a bit intrusive. Basically we might head back there again if we’re visited friends in the area but I don’t think we’d...

our downtown right now and I can tell you there is no ice cream worth eating (short of gro sto Haagen Dazs), there are no good pastry shops. The closest artisinal bread baker is 35 mins away. I might as well be satisfied eating...

for how many shells? Apples are a high water content item, as in they cook down. Dropping a pie shell, is just that. You dropped X. I bet you have dropped lots of Xs but are just hyper aware of this one. Same with slicing the...

or samples of Parky french-fries. Again, perhaps another time. - Yet, we made it to Johnny’s Italian Beef stand almost exactly on time at 7 pm. It hardly bothered anyone that we had just eaten big cups of Italian ice cream....

liked, and started to serve us small dishes of amazing stuff. NO reservations. (Bourdain, sliding across the ice...)

at the fried clam place could invent onion rings (on a steamship in California actually, or so the legend goes). And the guy at the drive-in will find a way to bastardize his hamburger meat, and cover it with sauces to confuse the...