this place. Also, when you stop at the market for Jeni’s, save room for lunch. There are lots of great food vendors to choose from (including a Vietnamese vendor who usually has good bahn mi, although this last trip they...

where this exquisite meal was held. And forgive my poor memory & search skills, but I can’t find the post where this Chinese NYE dinner was first announced (or was it through word-of-mouth/email only?).

lamb carcass http://www.rutherglenlamb.com.au 20kgs of lovely meat for the wood-fired oven this NYE!!! (pray it’s not a fire-ban day on NYE, will ya??)

. A friend of mine is a total pain to go out with to a restaurant. He tells us all and servers, that he is a vegetarian and doesn’t eat dairy, but he will order fish and chicken and then, on NYE, he ate the veggie lasagne...

I was watching a marathon run of “Unwrapped” on FoodTV yesterday as I recovered from my marathon cooking for a NYE dinner party, and one of the shows was about pizza. Apparently, some place in Kansas City (or was it...

I was thoroughly underwhelmed by Grotto: a lovely room with some seriously uninspired food (some of which was just plain inedible), topped off with the strangest dessert I have ever had, a “chocolate pudding” that was...

and excuses, in this thread about why SD has this problem. If waitstaff want to make a decent living, there should be no room for poor service. They also should know their menu and be able to explain and make recommendations. If...

extras than greens, but it was also surprisingly good. Riverside Cafe — I had to stop here for coffee and free Wi-Fi after reading about it on other threads. Good coffee, friendly atmosphere, but there’s something...

Drives me up a wall when our youth has no manners, but as you said they are a product of their upbringing. Here’s what I’ve done on occassion. When the two guys bolt to the line i tell them i need them in another room...

So I finally gave Il Grano a go last, with my wife and another couple visiting L.A.. We got off to a very bad start. My wife and I arrived first for our 7 pm, to a surprisingly empty room with only 2-3 other tables occupied. We...