that. There’s a fantastic Mexican place called Hacienda Taqueria, very cheap, very tasty, not at all fancy (linoleum floor, plastic tables). I have seen parties of 10 or 12 there, with a bunch of the regular tables for 4 put...

devised at Fatty Crab by Pelaccio, a non-native. It’s a packaging issue. Very often outsiders don’t know how to package and deliver authenticity to finicky New Yorkers that are looking for exoticism and spice but...

vast I couldn’t try them all. This is not a faux-Mexican place with gooey cheese and high-octane margaritas; in fact, they don’t serve margaritas (don’t think they even serve beer). It’s a hole in the wall...

Omelette Parlour on Main St has good food, but sometimes slow service—good breakfast tacos, good banana nut-topped Belgian waffles. Ocean Park Cafe on Ocean Park near 31st? Total old school place, homey, cheap, big portions,...

Seafood (on the waterfront). The no-budget option for very fresh deep-fried or broiled seafood is Morse Fish, a counter-service, linoleum-and-Formica, styrofoam-plates-and-plastic-forks fish market and restaurant in the South End....

among the most gracious and generous people i have encountered who do so. they treat you like guests in their clean linoleum floored florescent lit home.. it seems that if you order one thing, they bring you a taste of everything...

service and very worthy ribs and chopped pork (if unremarkable sides), but if high-end ambience is for some reason important to your consumption of barbecue its 50-plus-year-old wood veneer and linoleum won’t do much for...

Luigi’s d’Italia is “romantic”, he’s the kind of guy who’ll take you to the No-tel Mo-tel afterwards. It’s a reliably OK, red-tablecloth, family owned italian joint. But unless red...

Also in Framingham, on Rt.9 near the Edgell Rd turn off, is an Indian place, called, I think, jutw “Welcome”, or that may be a gneric sign...;) The BF says it’s good, I haven’t tried it yet...He says it...

If you’re in the west village, here’s a 2nd for Washington Sq. Diner. Has a warmer, “homier” feeling than your typical austere "linoleum" diner.

Try City Pie between Columbus and Amsterdam. Unassuming linoleum-furnished pizzeria with very good pizza by the slice! Great flavor, I prefer it over the nearby Vinnies on Amsterdam which is “Rated Best Pizza on UWS by...

Well, Chicago hound just returns from long NYC weekend...dined at the following 3 places among others...here’s my report: 1) La Tavernetta...just great place. Nice nexus of reasonably classy and linoleum. Very serious owner...

F&M’s tea is fine, but the room felt like an old Woolworth’s to me. Little tin milk jugs and ladies in pink waitress outfits, linoleum. It may have changed since I was there a few years ago, but I would rec a hotel...

“deli wannabes” along the way, but nothing that smacked of the linoleum floor and scattered cheap tables and chairs, glass cases the length of the place, common every day Jewish soul food deli’s of my young...

I had a 12" sauté pan with a wooden handle that I knocked off its hook — it plummeted 5 feet to the linoleum floor and the metal stub to which the handle was attached snapped off at the rim. When I called Le Creuset, I was...