the guidebooks and dictionaries to try and figure out the menu. Seems it had local specialties from several regions of the country, north to south. We were somewhat successful with the translations, the pork with onions turned...

to the masses, regardless of zip code. It’s not just the tourists who are keeping those Pizza Hut Express places in business on every block. “Chowhounds” need to recognize (and perhaps celebrate) their minority...

The Portuguese restaurant in question is Cafe Espresso on Adam’s Ave. Thanks for that one, it is a TERRIFIC restaurant! I will also edit my previous post to include Berlengas Island in North Philly as well a Tierra...

, is less arty, more hippie, but still affordable and fine, with most of the dinner entrees costing less than $10. You also can’t go wrong with most of the wood-oven pizza around here. The first string, Ricetta’s,...

's Beauty Parlor Pound Cake, Miss Fayda Mae’s Fruit tail Gravy Cobbler, Ovella’s Beefed up Pork and Beans, Freddie Lou’s Geeched Cabbage, Covered Dog Pizza, Midnight Crunchy Crumb Tuna Casserole, Coolin Off Ice...

of room for non-snobbish food lovers in the territory north of instant potato flakes and south of heirloom potatoes that come in pretty colors.

for consistently producing a quality product in all price levels. I hear the talk about vintage quality (Oh look out, it was an 88 not a 91 point vinatge) and terroir (the acidity of the soil is beeter 2.7 miles north) and so on....

No rule if it is the last piece of pizza!

The “spicy” fries at Rome Pizza on Tremont St. in the South End remind me of Rally’s fries I think. I still have a soft spot for Captain D’s, which is very similar to Long John Silver’s. it’s...

— Carrot Cake Maverick’s, Roseville — Roast Beef Buca — Linguine w/ White Clam Cap’s Grill, MPLS — Pork Chop Grandview Grill, St. Paul — Tex Mex Breakfast Cossetta, St. Paul — Pizza by...

in large measure of Italian ancestry and have close ties to many of my relatives in Italy in the north of the Provincia di Caserta, where in the surrounding coastal plains one of the last hand-made mozzarella di bufala concerns...

Yamakake — I think I tried that in a little place in the East Village a block north of St. Mark’s. My friend told me it was made from grated yam, but it seemed to have no solids in it at all. It was gooey,...

't have a large and diverse pool of immigrants. new york does, (as do many other north american cities). i am surprised that this is such an emotional issue. are there good, even great restuarants in london? of course. are most...

— pizza & pasta, in a nice interior (not fancy). But on our last two nights, we ate dinner at our [now] favorite spot which did cater to tourists (via an english language menu), but with local food prepared well! This place...

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