Ouch !! Unknowns sounds harsh but indeed most BYOwnersare not really well known outside the philly area. In all fairness i think they just strive to be local restaurants that do a good job without pandering to national acclaim....

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My suggestion is to just keep trying to feed them different vegetables and cook them in various ways. My soon to be 30 yr old brother never ate veggies until last month when he discovered edamame.

and boxspring, on his toothbrush, even pouring sardine juice into a jar of change. He was still finding things when he moved out two months later, and I’m sure the apartment still smells.

barbecue a few goat in the back yard. Itwas said that Ladybird used to order out for their stuff.Speedy’s is long gone, as is the whole neighborhoodand all the shabby Wilson-era homes it comprised. One day after ordering...

Just a tip: The NYC subway has changed a bunch of times in the last few months, both because of the World Trade Center thing and construction. Make sure you have an updated map, maybe the one on the MTA’s web site is best....

WOW! I never realized that there’d be other people in this world making cong you bing with tortillas much less a recipe in a bonafide cookbook! I’ll have to check into Tom Douglas more since I’ll be moving to...

://www.chowhound.com/midwest/boards/chicago/messages/3523.html. In a pinch, Ribs n Bibs will satisfy your barbecue cravings. I am a proponent of their rib tips over the other items on the menu, little blackend hunks of beef with...

. (But it’s best to eat things withinn 12 months.) Be sure to put a label in the 2nd bag identifying the item and the freeze date. This removes the mystery from frozen food. I use defroast cycle of a microwave to thaw things...

This place just opened a month ago on 1420 Irving (near 16th I think). To put it very simply, IT’S THE BEST HONG KONG STYLE CHINESE I’VE HAD IN SF. (OK – I was just there 30mins ago and am still quite excited.)...

Inn in the D.F. once a month involving perhaps 100 separate serving pieces for a table of five. - A dripping torta Cubano at a ramshackle stand with teeming flies buzzing and a pack of dogs watching me eat it (our office was in a...

or two to try that’s in the general area of our destination – this allows us less guilt about increasing our carbon footprint. As a rule, that’s how we set up our eating outings. But once in a while, maybe once...

been dissuaded from just waiting (sometimes a couple days, sometimes a couple months) for pizza until I head home and walk over to Lombardi’s, or train out to DiFara. And I’d rather eat one of my shoes than attempt a...

Beth, I can’t believe you caught your hair on fire! That has to be the pinnacle of kitchen disasters. Here’s mine: I tried to barbecue a whole hog. We had around 20 people come over to eat. The thing is, it LOOKED...

My list is finally getting shorter, thanks to your wonderful comments. I always remembered SF as being one of those places that always had some of the most memorable meals I’ve ever had. I only wish I had a month to go to...