and call your friends to arrange a VIP tour for me?" I guess the advantage of a PM system is that it does keep these asinine requests from freeloaders off the public board.

– and it isn’t even in Venice, but in Murano. So after touring the glass blowing, the glass museum, and the sublime Sts Maria and Donato (the exterior apse a hymn to the humble brick, the interior apse the otherworldly mosaic...

ridiculously slammed that it’s just not fitting my mood of having a peaceful meal at the bar where I can focus on their nigiri/sashimi. My intention is to take a full tour of their sushi and I probably wouldn’t be...

, even though we also have regional or subcultural variations. If an Alexis de Tocqueville were to tour our cullinary landscape today, he might hold up a mirror to ourselves that would enable us to recognize things about our food...

anyone know what evr happened to Amuse Cuisine that was supposed to open at Queen and Waverly? It was moving along doing wine tours last year and now it seems to have been abandoned.

the elusive new tacqueria or an unsung roti or a bahn mi that hasn’t yet been discovered. Not discuss for the umpteenth time what to order at Babbo or where ‘6 young and sexy gals can have a Sex-in-the-City’...

an insult to seafood restaurant chefs. And it looks like the crowning victory tour of Stefan continues. Hey, Ripert made like he didn’t know Hosea was a seafood chef, but Hosea told him that he does seafood in the QF. WTF?

liked the modern living spaces available there but found the restaurant scene terribly limited. The Paragon (a frequent stop of mine in the 90s) has moved there, but only a few other places were open when I toured the...

the Queen to locations around the world, and often traveled in the private entourage of the Prince and Princess of Wales. Upon completion of his 10-year tour of duty, his travels led him to perform consultant work in Bali,...

). The product wasn’t shmura, but it definitely had a reliable hashgacha. Many of the employees were easily identifiable as non-Jewish. The mashgiach was omnipresent. But he was of a certain age and obviously couldn’t...

got at Chao was, indeed, “thai spicy”, then maybe “thai spicy” is just not for me, irrespective of the authenticity debate. Until I do an extended tour of Thailand, however, I can only speculate, and defer...

://www.nps.gov/archive/gwca/expanded/peanut.htm he is an inspiration, and revolutionized agriculture in the south, the U.S., the world: http://www.nps.gov/archive/gwca/expanded/gwc_tour_01.htm

) Looking to take a MAX food tour of Portland (Chowhound) Must eats in Portland? (Craigslist) One Night in Portland—Only the Best (Chowhound) Oregon Recommendations Needed (eGullet) Portland Dining Suggestions? Running out of...

service, the occasional phone number and offers of city tours (when I dined away on holiday)....

native New Yorker led me around his food haunts – and in fact, continues to become greater with each local person I get a new tour from! When I use Chowhound for a place I’ve never been to before, I can spend hours in...