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Not my list of Rome recommendations (very long)
streets. Also on Via del Moro, walking toward Santa Maria in Trastevere is Valzani pastry shop: a variety of home made chocolates, including orange peels; cookies; crostate (jam pies); wonderful Sacher tort with or without whipped...
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La Scarola
; maybe not equal to the best but consistently swell... And I agree that their pizza is excellent (reminiscent of ‘Sicilian’ pizza from some of the mom-and-pop pizzerias in Jersey. Thanks for the tip about...
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NY Hound considering move West, need help and convincing
quality, I mean that the ingredients are top-notch, sourced from excellent local farms, ranches, and food artisans, and the kitchen’s execution is stellar. By mid-priced, I mean that dinner for two often runs to $50-$100...
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Egg Beaters: The Essence of Evil
There has to be a can of tuna fish in the house, if not bite the bullet and call Dominos for a pie with that teflon tasting crust and the plastic peperoni they put on top . I hear that they are featuring philly cheese steak pizza...
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Anomaly Alerts--a call for submissions
BBQ joints in the Crenshaw district and West LA have him beat in the quality of the `cue. But where else can you sit on wooden picnic tables in the fenced-in yard of a slighty shady Santa Ana house, gnaw on bones and eat some...
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Earliest food memory?
chicket pot pies..at 4 yrs. old.
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Duluth, MN/Superior, WI and en route to Duluth from Twin Cities?
Shank. Desserts were also great especially the pies and the Polenta Pound cake. the atmosphere is informal and the service excellent. The next night we went to Nokomios. Also very good but we enjoyed Scenic better, The Nokomis...
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Peter Luger, are they still good? or overrated?
. The complimentary onion rolls are delicious. They have decent enough beer on tap. Their little soda bottles are “cute.” Desserts are very good from strudel to key lime pie. Personally, I didn’t care for their...
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Diners, Drive-ins, Dives, and Disgusting
I thought I had seen it all until tonight’s episode featuring a disgusting school bus serving various forms of hot dogs. As if the setting wasn’t bad enough, Fieri is shoveling disgusting amounts of food into his pie...
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Subdividing This Board Into More Local Ones
form for geographic location (city county etc) but that is probably pie in the sky.
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Need Xmas/holiday home-made gift suggestions
in decorative bottles that you can find at Cost Plus or something... I’m sure if you did a search on the internet on how to make flavor vinagar you’ll find lots of tips.
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queens ny chowhounder passing through chicago; seeking ethnic splendor
display cases filled with "dozens of trays of breads, brownies, danish pastries and pies"; another of ham, sausage and “several dozen” cheeses; and finally “a dozen different types of beers” [Mr. Brooke...
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When Restaurants Run Out Of Things...
to this is when the server acts flippant about the situation. If a server is genuinely apologetic (as I always was, because I hate the inconvenience of it all), I can understand and do not take it out on them – especially...
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Enough of the praise ... what's the 5 WORST of LA?
We told the waiter we just couldn’t eat it. He seemed to understand, as though it had happened before. He didn’t charge us, and we left a nice tip...
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Chowhound's Top ?100? Cheap Eats
Have we settled on an upper-price range yet? I was assuming $15-$20 a person not including wine, tip and tax. I agree that most meals at Bistro du Coin and Johnny’s (and Jaleo) top that limit, but there are still delicious...
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