C If you do not want to buy Disani that’s OK, jfood does not buy it either, since he has his own well and loves it. And Coke and Pepsi spend some serious dollars buying machines to desalinate the water, it is not a brita...

Pollo Campero is fried chicken. Peruvian chicken is rotisserie chicken. You can get a whole meal (chicken, fries, drink) for about 3 dollars. We need more places like that in Chicago. None come to mind that are truly Peruvian....

of processed cheese (essential for a Rotierre’s-type cheese burger)! Foster Farm’s whole smoked turkey breast. Cross & Blackwell’s Branston Pickle. Hidden Valley Ranch Dressing mix. Go ahead and laugh...it is...

dish, they will accommodate you, rare these days. They may charge you fifty cents, they may not. Either way, for a giant bowl of soup fit for a meal, you’ll be around five dollars, a steal by Bay Area standards. They also...

Martinelli makes incredible Gravenstein apple pies. The Seghesios are great cooks too – legendary dinners prepared by Mom go for top dollar at auction and her daughter-in-law from Louisiana turns out a mean gumbo. Eggs,...

When my uncle was a teenager, he frequented a local grill. His standard order was a very rare hamburger “just warm it up.” One time the restaurant decided to play a joke on him, so they served him a raw burger. He...

that possibility. It happens at places like Donovan’s for burgers as well, for instance, where about 1 out of 6 visits might not yield a mediocre burger, but if you’ve had enough experiences with it, you just develop...

blew into town one year on the day before Mother’s Day and we decided on a whim to go to brunch the next morning. We ended up going to five or six different places in the Plaza/Westport/Midtown area and they wouldn’t...

-day eating expedition. I have stopped at Naple’s Pizza (43rd) to look at the slices. They looked awful. I’ve enjoyed eating at the other two Kevin’s Hamburger Heavens but only stopped to look at the new one...

food that I remember to this day even though they’ve all been gone for years. However, if you’re traveling on Highway 5 in my native state, or any other big highway, it’s going to be slim pickings. You’re...

. Even if all six waiters were sextuplets who had telepathic powers amongst themselves, I wouldn’t have seen any good reason to have all these people waiting on one freaking table for two! I was tired of playing Waiter Roulette,...

in a conversation about $10 hamburgers? It’s reasonable to compare to Nations Giant Burger, but not Campton Place. When talking about “good pizza”, how do you compare something in the Little Star/Tomasso’s...

in the process), but I lost the 50 lbs I’d put on, and a bit more. A typical dinner for me will be steak, pork chops, or chicken with a huge side salad; breakfast will be microwaved eggs, bacon, and one piece of whole grain...

, especially the beef. Patsy’s pizza does not come close to the Domino’s I used to order in college in Baltimore. This is only the UWS of Manhattan that I did not realize was terrible. Boy, I have a lot to learn....

Wow. I think you handled yourself fine. In the future, I probably would limit my meals with her to burgers and fries. Reminds me of the time I was telling an acquaintance of mine I was having Vietnamese food. He started making...