if they can’t figure out what the heck they’re doing, seriously! like watching a train steam merrily toward the collapsed canyon bridge. . . :(

The big tip and talking to the server is a good idea. To bounce off this, I’d attempt to "train" one restaurant of the particulars (same table, same service/server, same big tip) and only go to this place with the relative,...

they want to put up with the whole process or not. I’m a beer geek and I know there’s a lot of innacurracies with what S.Y. says about some beer related things – and even though the bartenders are supposedly...

on grid power that can be less reliable than it is in a developed area. On large isolated pieces of property energy consultants / architects trained in these matters determine siting and make the judgement whether solar and/or...

Nahh. This was the tale (again). I worked with farmers on soil erosion control in the uplands of Northern Mindanao. Part depended on farmer-to-farmer training and visits between farmers from Cebu and in Mindanao. Many of those in...

- for me, blue cheese and beer. But I still don’t like rum, and I don’t think I should waste my money and tastebuds training myself to like it. There are so many thing I do like that I don’t eat/drink often...

of kids who love the sweet flavours of certain Thai and Chinese dishes – and their liberal use of the deepfrier! It’s a good stepping stone, and who knows, you might have a future green curry obsessive in training. I...

Rainbow on Nicollet. Terrible service. Not much finesse on the plate either. Had a big bowl, pork, octo, concoction that ate like a train wreck. Server refused to acknowledge that we’d asked for a booster seat for our well...

Noodle carts and yakitori stands on the streets of Japan. Also, the smell of the chestnut roasting cart when you step off the train platform at midnight on a cold winters night is a wonderful sensation. Hot cans of Georgia canned...

Thanks for all the detailed reports! I’ll be heading to Champaign-Urbana later this spring for some training, and you’ve all just made my dinner research much easier!

If arriving is Sam Adams, I guess I will never be there. Count me as someone that is still on the platform and waiting for the real beer train to arrive. T

of the staff aren’t properly trained in how to guesstimate the weight of a piece of meat or fish that they’re about to cut off. Last week I ordered a half pound piece of smoked turkey breast, only to have the guy cut...

Sorry, gottah step up to the plate here.. Yhe ultimate version of “Poor, Poor Pitiful Me” is by Warren Zevon, the author.. "Well I lay my head, on the ray’road track, waitin' for yhe double E... But the train...

right in the middle of the staff meal" "it’s slow so they’re training new staff." we were there at 3 on V-day— and, well, the food wasn’t SPICY. at all. good, authentic spices, no heat. when we first went...

oh ada...taster - if it’s really a wedding, why not get the beautifully presented dishes that you don’t get just walking in? If the cooks are really trained and not just folks who decided to start a restaurant in a new...