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Offensively bad NYT article
to the notion that men appreciate a woman who enjoys food; however, a general appreciation for the sensual aspects of cuisine is bound to be more attractive than the contrived “look at me! I eat steak, so I'm sooooo...
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BEST seafood with a view .... NOT FANCY PLS.
even bothered to sample the cuisine at FishWarf. But the view is almost worth the scorn. Link: http://eatingchinese.org
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Do waiters really want me to order coffee/dessert?
've got a soda machine (a la Burger King) back in the cold line or the waiter prep area you also have the machine rent. Of course it’s marked up. I can get fresh shrimp for $3 a pound and a bottle of tail sauce for $1 at 99...
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Food Confessions, Desperate Times Bring Desperate Meals
I’ve been scraping for change for gas money broke all week. So broke that I’ve eaten XO sauce sandwhiches all week. Yes, chinese XO sauce on wheat, and oh two days I had some scallions on them. Not bad. God bless...
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Otto--NEVER again
, and indeed, the only way to get real Italian is – surprise! - to go to Italy. For what it is though – a throwback to casual, salumi-heavy enoteca cuisine - I have to say they do pretty well. It certainly makes me...
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Fresno's Favorite Five
cuisine. There should be plenty potential for an amazing amount of varying flavors to be found here. Cant' wait.
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Top Chef Backlash [Spoilers in Post]
Ilan’s chocolate chicken liver turd on a plate sure was haute cuisine. That dish alone should have barred him from ever setting foot in a kitchen.
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Recipes for a first-timer
for using leftovers and varying basic formulas. Also, I would recommend you stock up on pantry items for a few cuisines that you will cook from the most often. It’s easier to throw something together if you know you aways...
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What's on the other side of the Park? (Ditmas, Lefferts, Windsor...)
, in the next post, we had a terrific family meal there shortly after it opened (no haute cuisine, but very good food in a very pleasant sit-down environment) and decided it would be our default...
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Best Wonton Noodle?
of driving 4 – 5 hours up I-75 and staying in Windsor Ontario for a weekend at Motel 6 just to eat Cantonese Food for 3 meals a day), Toronto, LA, Monterey Park, Vancouver, Kowloon, Central (HK), etc etc etc. I remember...
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Top Chef-restaurant concept episode (spoilers inside)
was distracting. How many times are we going to see them shopping at the restaurant supply store? Why not simply take over an existing restaurant (with staff) for a night... say an ethnic one... and let’s see if they can...
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Best SF chowhound neighborhood?
I rarely recommend Mexican food in this town unless I know where the OP is from – if Boston, then yes, SF Mexican is an improvement, if from the LA, the Southwest, Texas, then don’t bother. In my experience, 99% of...
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Alinea -- know b4 u go or caveat emptor
've got more than a healthy appetite. But if you don’t like it, you don’t like it. Tru and Alinea are entirely different cuisines and do not necessarily suit the same tastes. I also received much better service than it...
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Top Chef-Wedding-Spoiler
the wrong car in LA.
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Nectarine dessert at Zuni is just that
Oh, please! Don’t you know we mere mortals aren’t discerning enough to pick the perfect piece of fruit? Obviously, we need to pay $8 for fruit that has been chosen by experts and blessed by a goddess of California...
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