their meals and are drinking and chatting, I have offered to buy them a round if they would be willing to move to the bar/lounge area. Even this move is strictly a last resort, and if they didn’t want to take me up on my...

years of living in Champaign – the neighborhood can be a little scary but go during the day and it’s fine. Fried fish sandwiches, fried shrimp (I think everything is fried here). They really like to use pepper – peppery homemade...

. Thank goodness, since my own son eats about five foods. I don’t think the clean plate club is a good idea at all. I used to stuff food into my sock so that I could leave the table.

mart, but with prefilled cannoli. More exciting was the carnitas at the little Mexican quickie mart up the street. I’ll let someone else offer a full report on that experience, which included Gary’s disquisition on...

a small hall (at the Lion’s club) and I provided all the food. I started smoking a few days ahead and did 12 racks and a couple of whole briskets. I wrapped the ribs in plastic and put then in a cooler on ice. Bought a bag...

I’m not sure who out there has seen the new Nabisco Sociables cracker ad, but it makes me INSANE. A couple of housewives are getting ready for their monthly book club meeting. As they are talking about the food, one of them...

Every year for my birthday I was allowed to pick whatever I wanted, which (starting when I was about 4) was always artichokes and lobster. My dad would buy the artichokes at an Italian market near his office in NYC and my mom...

Here in Cleveland (and Northern Ohio in general) it’s Lake Erie walleye or yellow perch for sure. Every corner bar/little neighborhood joint has it at least on Fridays, usually fried, and the “fancy” places do...

for dinner, not the local elks club for a buffet. - cancellations should be for an emergency, not because you received a better offer. there are certain people jfood knows that accept an invite as a natural hedge in case they do...

Hey, why shouldn’t there be Cuban in a Filipino-Russian Orthodox neighborhood? Yeah, it was the weirdness of there being TWO of them almost across from each other that first struck me. I suppose the second is in some way an...

I look forward to taking my seafood /thin pizza loving friend to Bollini’s. I plan to buy only one large pizza and save room for a large shave-ice for dessert across the street at Shakas. In fact, since parking is somewhat...

I don’t get it. Why would the host not be embarassed about his guests seeing the prices in the menu (unless he entertains at a private club that still has guest menus without prices), but then be embarassed about the price...

cheese, yogurt. Lunch: Sandwiches, salads, soups, burgers, fries, onion rings. Sandwiches usually not fancy ... as the menus say ... choice of bread, lettuce, tomato, meat, mustard, mayo. Or a mayo-based filling like tuna or...

spending USD300 at Mélisse... unless you bought some VERY expensive wine... in my experience it tends to be about USD100 a head if you buy wine. You won’t spend ANYWHERE near that much at Guelaguetza, of course. I have to...

'd offer you samples of the cheeses and different varieties of salami and such, and you’d leave with 5 times as much as you intended to buy. They had a great aged peppato cheese and some outrageous garlic salami. Yeah,...