greasiest and therefore the loveliest" And finally a crazy one: The Association of Psychotic Restaurant and Pub Owners’ medal. To be awarded to the lucky establishment exhibiting all 103 signs and symptoms of utter...

Cooking, Black versus White. The term Soul food came into popular use at a time in the 1960s when Black nationalism was on the rise. It was in essence, a wresting of culinary control from Whites by Blacks, a renaming of the foods...

The new owners are associated with Mulinos in White Plains.

Try Crossroads market – also in Hayward. AT A CROSSROADS . . . A new Eastern-European grocery, Crossroads World Market, opened at the very tip of South Palo Alto, at 720 San Antonio Road. Owner Hani Haddad completely...

Anita Lo consulted with the founder on the menu. She may also be an investor but I think it would be incorrect to call her the owner. Rickshaw is the brainchild of a Stern (NYU’s school of business) MBA candidate. He won an...

's bad food, tell the owner to change the chef; if it’s good but not “authentic,” there’s no problem, and Osner the Younger is out of line. If you do enough research, you discover nothing is...

though I am a total dessert fiend, the kid with the lamb chop were the best thing. LOCATION AND DECOR: The new Cerny kohout is on a quiet street near the National Theatre, in the New Town. Easy access from center but not in the...

's it was on Fordham Rd just south of Valentine Ave., opposite the Valentine movie theatre. Big Burger was on the north side of Fordham Road almost next door to the RKO Fordham. Even now, my mom and sister still think it’s...

note, a friend has suggested that this Pho Pasteur is not associated with the chain (Allston Village, Newbury St, Harvard Sq, that terrible fusion-y place in the Theatre District), which I don’t believe, as the menus of the...

Hi chowhounds A couple of weekends ago I met a book agent who will be in town (S.D.) for the IACP conference in mid-April (International Association of Culinary Professionals), which will be held at the Marriott at the Marina. She...

-like. Christophers, a new place at the top of Solano, is on my radar, but I haven’t made it in yet. They have no association with Christophers Nothing Fancy on San Pablo.

I understand but at list the manager or the owner or a waiter is french , but at cafe Henri nobody is french and the owner makes them answer the phone by “cafe henri bonjour”. At the beggining I was smiling but now I...

dinners rather fine dining so have not, for example, been to either Jack’s Grill nor Hardware Grill for a number of years. Culina was a good addition but on the week-ends their Saturday lunch for example is primarily egg...

I have a couple of suggestions in and near Brackley Beach. The Lobster Claw in Brackley Beach has good reasonably priced local seafood. Their Lobster is great bang for buck. Dalvay By the Sea is the hotel at the other end of the...

Popcorn in the theatres became popular during America’s Great Depression. People could escape their plight for a dime movie and popcorn. (Food was not exactly plentiful back then and popcorn made for cheap filler.) Like Hot...