Entertaining international visitors at the Museum - 79th and CPW. Are there any good, moderate priced restaurants nearby? Thanks much.

brewed tea. Second visit was for breakfast at the bar. A side of poached eggs were done nicely without any taste of vinegar and to order. Also had the french toast with pecan syrup (very sweet but good) and real maple which they...

I got to thinking about this because we’re leaving for three weeks in Rio soon and we always have a blast hanging out with locals and eating street food. If you have the means and the opportunity, do you like to travel...

Anyone been to the “Chocolate Thang” at the Natural History Museum? Some times they have some good exhibits there, and it ends soon...May 11th.

You are not far (a longish walk) from the International District, where there are many reasonable places. Mapqust 12th & Jackson from the museum to see how long. Tamarind Tree has a long table, I know, as I took about 17 there...

beef shoulder center

Is your Bordeaux bogus? Your Cabernet a counterfeit? Apparently 5 percent of the world’s most expensive wines are fakes. Put that in your glass and swirl it.

Sometimes, traveling or living abroad, you see the locals eating something really cool, or eating the same old thing in an exciting way. In Oaxaca, spigot learned to put a little chile pepper and lime on fresh fruit–it...

The bloggers at The Food Museum ruffled a few feathers yesterday with a snarky post about obesity rates in the U.S. that puts the responsibility for overweight squarely onto eaters’ shoulders.

A Russian reporter finds out the hard way that it can be extremely difficult to “buy local,” even when local is defined as “Russian.”

Promising peeks at the Academy of Sciences’ Moss Room and Academy Cafe.

How to sleep and eat when poor: the CouchSurfing Project and Pelmeni XL.

There’s one in times square, by the McDonald’s, Wax Museum, that’s on the 1, 9, 2, 3 train. I think it’s about $1 an hour? something like that.

Hello, all — I am in search of recommendations for the Quad Cities for a trip there at the end of June. Not necessarily super-fancy but also no dives — on the last trip, I wound up at the restaurant in The Figge (art...

Do you have a preference in type (traditional or international), price range or ambiance?