over Asian for more than 15 years (that was the first time I saw them in places like Thailand, Indonesian and Hong Kong – and I would say they weren’t a new thing then either. I remember eating a soup from a road side...

Gas is better than electric. Maybe some people prefer it, but it’s a myth that it is absolutely better. You do get faster heat times for cold water, but seriously, you can’t simmer for poop, the flames go up the side...

. There were over 50 empty tables but were told we would have to sit at the bar. I ordered beef short ribs and, for $18.00, received one short rib centered on a 20" plate. (No potatoes, vegetables or sides, just that one precious...

between the diner and the resto ... e.g. that tipping is not really optional, but it’s not reasonable to force a patron into +3sd service and obligate him to pay for it. the flip side of "diner’s should tip on the...

SF Area: dinner if you don’t get lucky at TFL You might want to consider Keller’s newest venture, Ad Hoc. The concept is a $45 prix fix of comfort food like fried chicken and beef strogenoff, with superb ingredients...

trying to find GREEN stuff just as a side dish in many of them. And good luck trying to find healthy veg food places which also serve meat, so you can get some protein and satiation along with your steamed collards. There are two...

a couple of bottles of what looked like regular wine, nothing special. Why is it OK to bring regular wine to a resto? Should one be able to bring their favorite sides, or maybe one of the people are on the Zone diet and want to...

to drag itself across a white plate leaving a streak of innards, and expired on one side in a puddle. zoi can’t make pasta salad— gotta be worse than not being able to make a souffle or picatta. nikki only seems to be...

, something rich on Saturdays, and something whimscal on Sundays. The weekend that I went was monkfish on Friday, pork tenderloin on Saturday, and beef shortribs on Sunday.

at night, if you don’t know the neighborhood, i’d probably recommend getting there by cab. if you can get to the lower east side of manhattan—say the F train to Delancey Street—it’s a quick, cheap...

that like them, a butterflied lamb for the traditionalists and a vegie dish, along with the above. In winter, we might do a lasagne with a twist, a moussaka, some asian fusion thing, a beef roast or pork belly caserole.Maybe even...

This shows the steam table before it was fully set up. On the right side is the egg, tofu and pork butt dish that we tried at the Berkeley temple chowdown. There the Thai woman tried to discourage me from sampling it, saying that...

I do. I love them. The best B+W cookies, in my opinion, are at the Greek Diner type of place on 10th Avenue across the side street from St.Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital. (Stavros?? may be the name of the place)

doubt she would do this on her show (no anchovy sponsors — that would be New Scandinavian) but credit where credit is due, I thought the Vietnamese were the only folks who combined anchovies and seared beef. Not sure why I...

understand Chili Colorado (it’s a meat chili, traditionally, with green chili and tomato flavoring it, and it seems like it benefits from a drawn out marinade and braising process, from what I’ve read) is often enough...