Well, if you’re going to take a short trip, I cannot recommend Annecy enough. It is in the Savoie region (Reasonably close to Grenoble) and is probably the most beautiful place I’ve ever been. The town is medieval and...

the sweet, smoked, meaty flavor of sausage like some syrup. Mmmm...

gets to Topo within the next month, it’s the first appetizer listed on the menu, and includes smoked duck and black beans. Everyone loved their food. Topo seems to take its mission to emphasize regional cuisine seriously,...

chocolate? Well then you might well like Keemun Mao Feng. This tea is usually produced as a green, but over the past few years they (the smart Chinese) started processing it for black tea as well. It is smoooooth, rich and sweet...

, baby. Amazing Oaxacan in a scruffy strip mall on Santa Monica Blvd. in WLA. Cute inside, very friendly, family owned and run, with attractive murals. The restaurant started when the owner, a Oaxacan, married a guy from another...

Just attended a workshop where the presenter said, here in California you’d ask people, “how can I help you?” In NYC where I am from, we ask, "What do you want?" Yep different cities or regions, different rules.

juicy, hot and sweet in Philly. All that said, your best bet is probably Philly’s Best, which seems to cater to the diaspora of diehard Iggles fans.

years lately) crap also and is also heresy. If you grew up on it, you were raised on a lie. Chicago pizza is thin crust, sweet red sauce, sausage, maybe mushrooms, little bit or a lot of mozarella. Some dare to add onions or green...

. No disrespect to the high priced and highly acclaimed Italian restaurants in LA or New York, but for about $40, you can have a meal there (a nice bottle of regional wine included) that would just blow your mind. It’s hard...

amerithai cuisine - sweet, vaguely Thai but more like Disneyland pan-asian. We usually order in English the first time or two at a new-to-us Thai place to test it out and see what they serve to the general public. When we order...

people like Elise take the time to take the reins and plan an activity. What I’ve seen on the other regional boards is suggestion after suggestion get shot-down and nothing happens. I’d hate to see that here. If...

with a cheap powder dyed purple, i couldn’t taste a drop of wine, and so sweet i could hardly drink it. The food is soo heavy as to be ridiculous— granted, the ordering may have been a prob, but this place is utterly...

.86. 3) A crab-stuffed flounder filet for $2.99. 4) Four avocados for $2.99. 5) An intriguing tray of frozen seafood Newburgh with filo crust for $5.99. 6) A pound of special extra-sweet frozen pineapple for $1.49. 7) A bag of...

, these were a sugary nut-meal center covered in toasted whole pine nuts. Come to think of it, the Catalans seem to excel in the use of nuts, to both sweet and savory ends. Generally, I was amazed by the pastry shop/population...

house. Our waitress was friendly & after describing the region in Italy which the menu was crafted from, she helped me navigate through the menu being the vegetarian that I am. The menu doesn’t list one veggie entree but...