Turning the Tables

Can a restaurant kick you out when you’ve finished eating and it’s busy?

Your Dog, the Gourmet

If your dog has such a great sense of smell, why is he eating your old socks?

In Tacos Veritas

A beloved Austin, Texas, restaurant fights developers to keep its downtown location.

10 Tips for a Healthy Diet

Help along your New Year’s resolution.

The Finest Grind

CHOW scouts the three best pepper mills.

Building a Killer Wedding Bar

How to spend intelligently and offer great drinks.

Gas Versus Charcoal

Choose what’s under your grate before you choose what goes on top.

Summer 2009 Gift Guide

All your warm-weather gifting needs met.

Today the barrista told me a soon to be instituted policy of 50 cent refills at the same store. Sometimes I pick up a cup at the Starbucks near my house and get a refill near my office.

Not sure about the McCormick’s, but I refilled my TJ salt mill recently—I had to tap it on the counter a few times to dislodge the salt dust in the threads, but I was able to get the top off pretty easily. I...

sodas got free refills and the flavored ones did not. This was a first for me. I’ve been to places where both get free refills (or neither), and also where just the difference in price was charged for the refill (meaning,...

Does anyone know where the cheapest place to refill your BBQ tank in the Snowdon/CDN/NDG area? I used to go to a gas station on St. Jacques just a block or two west of Girouard (I think it was a Sergaz or one of the other small...

Is there a way to do this w/o paying Soda-Club’s $20/tank fee? Or are you locked into their system? Thanks for any info.

A friend recently bought an iced coffee at a Starbucks on the Westside, crossed the park, and got a refill at an Eastside Starbucks for 50 cents (well, 54 cents incl. tax). It was offered to her by the barista, we had no clue...

OK. So we’re getting into the big time grilling season. And it would be great to know where people get their propane gas tanks REFILLED (i.e., not exchanged) in the LA area. Please let’s head posts with the part of...