Pack Your Knives and Go

Cooking vacations that steer clear of the tourist traps.

Perfect Summer Reds

Not summer whites or summer rosés.

A West Sonoma Road Trip

Tasting rooms and dining rooms in our favorite slice of Northern California wine country.

The CHOW 13

Our first annual awards, presenting a baker’s dozen of provocateurs, trendsetters, and rabble-rousers.

Destination: Twin Cities Crawl

Well fed and hung over at the 2008 Republican National Convention.

Has anyone tried La Rural yet? Looks like it is a new Argentinean bistro/steakhouse in the former space of Pampa (Amsterdam and W97). Reviews on menupages look really good and I am planning to give this a try really soon. They do...

97th and Amsterdam The three of us went to Dinner here last night.. Having been big fans of Pampa, we were really happy that the restaurant would be in the similar style.. We were not disappointed.. In fact, the place is still...

The main event is meat.

My roommates and I were looking for a good steak dinner in our neighborhood (West 96th Street), and upon searching around we found La Rural, on 98th/Amsterdam. It was fantastic. The atmosphere was wonderful – somewhat dimly...

Is it worth the trip? Oh, nevermind I did a search.

2 Discussions (212) 749-2929 - 768 Amsterdam Ave, New York, NY 10025

to Valls for "La Gran Festa de la Calçotada" - basically the grilled-green-onion fair – but it looks like we’ll be several weeks late. Regardless, that’s the type of thing I’m looking for, be it seaside or...

I wish I knew how to post a link from the past. If Clayton is rural, then La Jerenza is recommended by Steve Durham. I would love to go there next time I’m up that way. If you do a search, you’ll find his post.

I ate at Plancius in June, and I’d go there again if only I was back in Amsterdam. Link: http://www.chowhound.com/topics/show/260188#1375259

Help! My cousin and her husband are coming from the heart of rural America to visit! She wants lobster (“because it’s the coast”), and/or steak...and he is “happy as long as he has a drink in his hand.”.... Can anyone recommend a...