Christmas Eve: Tourtiere and my youngest St. Poodle, Loulou ate the top crust off before I got it baked. my fault for leaving it out on the porch where she could get to it. It was baked topless and served with french fries cut...

to the 80% of New Yorkers who don’t live in Manhattan (and didn’t get a 7-figure bonus this Christmas).

party .... I just want to leave it in the pan and frost the top only. I also need more servings than the single tube pan cake will produce. Can I do this if I double the recipe? Do all cake recipes double successfully or are some...

You have to ask or find out via the Web, resto guides or third parties. Note that BYO restaurants are a separate category of licensed eateries; if a restaurant has a wine list, you can’t bring your own bottle (i.e....

to the Republican Party. I just think that there are better reasons to judge a restaurant harshly than for what is its undoubtedly predatory pricing of a product whose basic reason for existence is to be predatorily priced. In...

of something they do right but nothing comes to mind. So, we got out of there and I suggested a pair of nearby Italian restaurants. Paisano Peter didn’t want Italian but I said let’s do a walk-by and see if we get a...

name for Sichuan), located on the 3rd Ring Road, just south of Jianguo Lu, on the second floor of an office bldg. The place is usually packed, often with large, loud parties. The food is pretty good, though their signature dish,...

settings. A pleasant host noted our name, looked at our reservation and took us through a couple of small hallways to a room in the back with three tables, two of which were for larger parties and an oversized two-top for J. and...

And if you ever get a chance to go to his restaurant in Portland, DO IT!!! Best salmon I ever ate, cordial and knowledgable staff, thoughtful wine list, and a blueberry/peach/walnut crisp that actually tasted like blueberries,...

value and quality. In addition to Chowhound’s San Francisco board, this list will now be permanently archived at www.emeraldlake.com/sushilist.html. If you’re going to link to the list, please use that URL to insure...

I would stiff him. You inferred outloud your understanding that the wine was free. If he was under any doubt, he should have gotten clarification from management before serving it to you. No one should get a surprise on the bill....

/Gary and the Mayor telling the waitress to ignore everything the other had said and starting the order over from scratch a couple of times— which interestingly resulted in the ONE thing Mrs. Mayor wanted not getting...

, but that day they were closed for a private party. I asked the guy about the best crabcakes and he said: Gertrude’s are great, but the crabcakes at Faidley’s in the market in the market are fabulous. So we walked...

ideas. A piece of free advice — often the so called “bargain” books are nothing of the sort. They were not good to begin with, which is probably why they did not sell, and they don’t get better just because...

to get my Italian sister-in-law (unsuccessfully) to buy the giant cannoli for my nephew’s first holy communion party. I will definitely stop at Palermo for the ricotta cheesecake, though. Thanks.