on things like birthdays but we couldn’t afford a lot of things, so we’d split a "big" meal (app, entree, dessert, no wine)... we dealt with it because we wanted a “special” meal in a nice place, not a...

of thick and thin. The botton was charred from a griddle in the way I expect New Haven pizza to be. On Friday, one of the chowhounditas and I split the filete con papas at Quebrada. I am not a big fan of the potatoes at Quebrada....

Do you really want to continue doing business with a client who is a thief? Of course this question is irrelevant if you are an attorney. Link: http://www.indefatigable-indolence.org/Chow_Top_1.html

with dinner (and very nice wines, from a variety of places). The gastronomic aspects of this cruise line are a big seller for us, plus they will make special dishes upon request (24 hour lead time) and their room service is...

exclusively drink tap water at home. And if I have a chance I refill my water bottles with tap water. Eventually they go in the recycling (my city has a recycling program that’s thorough, if Byzantine in its complexity: Big...

This restaurant was mentioned a while ago, but this is the first chow report we’ve had. Thanks for telling us about it and for your other tips today, Joel! I hope we’ll hear more from you. The post highlighted below...

I’ll respond on both topics. First, I have not yet tried Ferrari, although I have long wanted to because I was a big fan of Sr. Conti’s La Locanda and Risotteria Nord (and Marco!, but much less so). It’s hard to...

I went to a party recently and the hostess served a big pitcher of cold water with cucumber slices. It had the faintest cucumber taste and was really refreshing. I don’t know how long the cucumbers had been in the water,...

If you go to the chow topic “Bittman Responds” you can link to his follow-up on the bread which includes, under “Related Articles,” I think, a link to Lahey’s original recipe.

." Big tip for Bill.

, it was the server’s responsibility to inform the table of the split fee and given the attitude described, probably not a big tip to start. Now to the interesting part: I think there is a difference in splitting an order and...

tang song sah is a favorite and has a really fun vibe. the only drawback is there is cigarette smoke but if shes from korea it shouldnt be a big shock. definitely not western soondae. no atmosphere hole in the wall, although you...

good at chowing down with nothing but a knife and my hands. That’s when I lost my aversion to messy food—I discovered that eating with my hands, and no one caring how much of it I got on me, was actually sorta fun. But...

Big fan of the inn at little washington, preety much agreed with per se analysis- p.s. they did refold my wife s napkin

've gotten the impression that NY is almost as food obsessed as the Bay Area, but perhaps in a slightly different way. BTW, I think any sentence that suggests that “Americans” behave a certain way is bound to be...