speaking, finding a small place run by a family that just moved up from Mazatlan and serves incredibly prepared fish dishes with fresh home-made tortillas, is a more meaningful Chowhound post. Are you a Chowhound if you post about...

was eccentric. but if she were of another race, would you be so charitable? she might be the object of ridicule or scorn. and the thing is, i can’t think of a polite way of helping her to understand our cultural...

an explanation that makes sense. I have worked for tips on and off my whole life and have seen back ups far worse than the one mentioned here, while I see the problem with large tables and small kitchens, I do not see the...

they wish to consume. Some of us have lifestyles very tolerant of alcohol, I know I do. I keep liquor in the house, my small cellar is heavy on red Bordeaux and white Burgundies, but I seldom have any beer in the house....

. This is ground zero for Q and Bryant’s is the Holy Grail, the object of any pilgramage for anyone serious about Q. Simply, if you don’t go, it is your loss! It’s not that there’s nothing in San Francisco...

's a pretty small universe, folks, at least in TV audience measurement terms. Just look at the commercials on Food TV. It’s quite a reality check — there’s quite a disconnect between the hosts showing off their...

long with a little planning. If people did something as small as chopping up vegetables for a soup the night before they want to make it, or even gathering all the ingredients into one place in their fridge, it would shave a lot...

for these objectives are questionable. Still I think it’ll do well, especially in more suburban areas. The advertising, graphic design, marketing, and product development people have definitely done their homework.

://www.chowhound.com/california/boards/losangeles/messages/78904.html ———— INDONESIAN FOOD COURT! Hong Kong Supermarket [Inland of LA] 987 S Glendora Ave West Covina 91790 626-814-9788 Locater:...

serving a glimpse of nirvana, a taste of the world to come. But this was more a taste of the netherwold. It was really a shame. And one would think the food could at least be more than lukewarm. My dinner companions had a crab...

I completely agree - there is a small Vietnamese restaurant I frequented that had an excellent and spicy chicken dish, I moved out of the area and took a friend back there for this dish a year later and it wasn’t the same....

for a restaurant to have a chance at survival. The failure rate for most is over 50% in the first year. It is very difficult to actually make money with their overhead, small margins and staff. So when someone touts the idea of...

and clean up after you is 30% of every dollar. C. Liq Liability Insurance that protects everyone is an average of $500-$1000 + per month. D. Build Out, the cost to provide anywhere from casual funky to custom made booths set back...

I used to be a short order cook at a small “sports bar” in a strip mall that did the black-pants-white-shirt-bow-tie thing with the bartenders and it always felt a little fake. Like they were trying too hard to be...

I’ve realized that I have a finite number of lunches remaining before spending the rest of my life lunching in a small town middle school cafeteria (and the goddess of all cinnamon rolls has long since retired). I sometimes...