than willing to try Susur. I’ve seen him running back and forth between the two restaurants, and talking to diners, so those are also good signs for me to give him a chance.

not a local problem. I can only find it at one health food store here in Greenville, SC. They say it is flown in directly from Greece apprx every two weeks. They run out toward the end , especially the 0 and 2% variety. Thanks to...

burritos, mini-tacos and tamales. Quite good. Confusing ordering system. Pay first at the register, then take your receipt to the ordering station (or do it the other way ‘round). The carnitas burritos are huge and excellent. The...

Sorry, I’m confused. Are you suggesting the New World wine wins are not deserved because they couldn’t hold up in the long run? Because of some Pepsi challenge manipulations?

are!) go pit-pat. So there you go ;), now you know! I stumbled on it while trying to see if I could grab some lunch at TBS (one of the two non-mobile/source locations of the business that runs Coolerbythelake’s lunch truck)...

It is correct that there have been two prior Chowdowns at China Village. Some have asked me how I come up with the running tally that I mark some of the reports with. I thought this would be a good time to clarify what...

today there are other solutions to offset it), but it is still rather culturally found. To take that further, I would suggest that as America was discovered and frontiered, there were many times the settlers were running on empty...

and parking is an abomination unless something’s happened since last summer. A run over the bridge to Cap’n Simeon’s in Kittery Point is a nice option. It’s comfortable, overlooks the harbor, has kid food...

and Kyle MacLachlan wound up being right in front of me.) When I run into her again in 2009, I’ll be sure to post about it. Actually, one of the things I like about Chicago is that you eat in nice restaurants and DON’T...

this sense of urgency, you may ask? Harry Oppenheimer used to be surely the crustiest and among the very best two or three butchers in NYC (his store, run by Robert Spence still is); and Harry had really terriffic steaks, just a...

these are sandwiches made of round, flat bread that has been split and stuffed with chopped up meat of your choice...they have lamb, beef and pork, all really good. The beef had cumin seeds in it, really good. Very oily though....

Peter, I’m running around today but just want to let you know that I’ll try to print up your post and bring up the many different points in it with the owner. It may be that they are simply unaccustomed and overwhelmed...

specialties, things that you cannot find in your run-of-the-mill NYC Shanghai restaurants. I thought that their “calling card” (the first line of the menu) of “b'i tan tou fu” (thousand year-old eggs...

though to occasionally running the A/C while cooking, on days that I otherwise wouldn’t need it.

I just had to second the recommendation for Zier’s. It’s family owned and run, and Dave and Denise are knowledgeable and wonderful people. I’ve been buying their meat for years and it is consistently superb....