! After lunch and our dessert run to Sketch, I jumped in the car to drive 110 miles, so looks like I’m the last table captain to check in. Chongqing Table A had 11 people, let’s hear what you thought of the food. In...

——————— 219 Cliff Street Newport, OR 541-265-3334 http://www.nyebeach.com/ Seeking a sweet closure to our day, we chose to eat dessert at the café in our hotel. We pulled up some seats at one...

, shiitakes, etc) and pulse them in a food processor until you have slightly chunky mushroom puree. Dice some shallots and garlic and start sauteeing, add the mushroom when the onions are soft, salt, pepper and a little thyme....

I’ve always held that, in my opinion, when it is at its absolute best, there is nothing more pure or more delicious or more texturally exquisite than fresh salmon sashimi. Right behind that is an uni handroll with uzura.

really like things light. Only fruit for dessert. Maybe a single square of dark chocolate once a week or so, but generally, I don’t have much taste for sugar any more. No, not fat either. You know, once you break your...

's non-alcoholic and delicious is pure, fresh-squeezed orange juice over CRUSHED (not cubes of) ice. This makes sort of an old-fashioned orangeade. If the juice is uncharacteristically sour a little sugar could be added. Most of...

the taste of coffee and truly enjoy a good cup of it. Starbucks is lousy in this regard. Their cofee flavoured desserts are somewhat tasty

back to the drawing board. Here’s an experiment: 1) Purchase from Red’s Savoy an order of tomato sauce. 2) Fry a crushed clove of garlic in olive oil. Add a can of Muir Glen tomatoes, lightly pureed or chopped. Cook...

It’s funny, I’ve heard that before about Asian people as well. My wife is from Taiwan and I have been there several times, and eaten ice cream and Taiwanese desserts (with condensed milk) with many of my wife’s...

lazy to me, but the dessert plates we had were among the best we’ve eaten). But the service was borderline obnoxious, and there was definitely a social line of demarcation: in an almost empty restaurant we were seated RIGHT...

Zim, Of course I went to Village Creamery. What other possible dessert could there be after Goat Eye Tacos, than corn ice cream? It was nice to run into you and your family at Village Creamery, and even though you may have forgot...

I cannot live without spinach, bean sprouts, kale, peppers, onions, garlic, ginger, salads of any kind (fruitless).... I think it has to do with people who crave sugar vs. people who crave salt. I am not much of a dessert eater...

at good prices and they are passing it on. From what I can tell they are about doubling what they pay for the cheese ( a pure educationed guess on my part) which in a perishable business like cheese is a very close margin. They...

legs are intensely, purely salty, the ginger is fresh and intense, there is a good spice. One thing to add: most of the Asian cuisines are texture-obsessed in a way that Western cuisines aren’t. There are whole sets of...

to lunch ( who worked next door) said that the cook did really good tenderloins and he was right. I’d avoided them out of pure food snobbery on my part—I’ve learned my lesson! Originally from PA Dutch...