are better than their cakes ... which as far as the cookies are concerned are great to take home and enjoy another day. The cream cakes I really like though are New Orleans Bourbon Cake and Rigo Jancsi. You can look it up on the...

We found a room at Club Quarters, via Hotwire, about a year ago, for about $80+tax/night. This place is a corporate hotel, but you can find rooms there on places like Hotwire (beware Hotwire does not id hotel name, but anywhere...

comes calling they are likely to get a well meaning but inaccurate recipie because those guys are not used to measuring or timing anything like a home cook. They do it by intuition and years of experience.

with yogurt dip. Homemade applesauce. I think all the food was pretty healthy — it wasn’t premade processed food, and was heavy on the fruit and veggies. They could have followed Steven’s advice and made...

service debacle was saved by my Boy Scout training, I have never forgotten the motto, “Be prepared”, and fortunately I had stocked the wet-bar with a nice assortment of munchies, that tided us over very well. The next morning,...

An Australian crustacean, rather like our spiny lobster. I ate them 20 years ago when I lived in OZ. I thought they looked like a cross between a lobster and a crab, but clawless. Leave it to the Aussies to call them bugs. The...

be served out of turn and inconvience other tables? I was not at 555 the night you dined, but I have been in that crunch/backup many times myself over the years and let me assure you that the kitchen did they’re best to...

I’m good to help you/her on this, as I spent years as a five-spectacular-dishes-but-don’t-ask-me-to-cut-up-a-chicken type chef, though I’ve recently been going hog wild into cooking. So I understand. First off,...

their server for the cheat-sheet because as has been pointed out, who can remember? So now every morning Andy types up a new menu – changing the day and the date, removing what they are not offering adding the new stuff....

that just said “Sushi”. I’ve always wanted to try it then, and I’m glad I finally get to go to their new location (former Todai). Five of us took a corner of the sushi bar and left our fates in the sushi...

One of my all time favorite movies. And a true hunger enducer. The biggest problem is you want what you saw in the movie and that’s unlikely in Chicago. Please trust me on this, I lived in Japan for several months a few...

I’m in London 2-3 times a year and every time I stop Paxton and Whitfield (the oldest cheese shop in London est 1797) at 93 Jermyn Street and pick up a ceramic bottle of Stilton Cheese. Nothing like it. Here’s a link...

… Finally, the Olema Farmhouse Inn has a big sign that they are under new ownership, so while we never made it there, would be interested in any updates on it (previous reports on CH haven’t been that positive, but hey,...

. I’d love to find a new roaster to try a bit further north. Looking forward to the other 'hounds replies!!

After spending three very happy chow-years in Boston, I just moved to Berkeley to start graduate school. Need to find reliable food places in my new neighborhood (southside of campus, and can walk/take bus/BART to any point)...