, or a nice polenta or potato dish, or mmmm. . . brussels sprouts with pecans, sage and brown butter (Blue Plate in SF) or roasted brussels sprouts with parm and white truffle oil (Firefly, SF). Easy to make a dinner out of stuff...

had to pause and put down the (cloth) bags so they wouldn’t cut my hands... so I can’t imagine spending $90 unless I were buying apples for one of my enormous skillet pies... or truffles, or a pound and a half of...

items like real vanilla, truffle oil, exotic jams, chestnut butter, etc. When we got married, we registered for kitchen stuff at Williams-Sonoma and I think that our friends and families ended up paying very high prices for some...

A good suggestion. I concur with the other posters that if the concern was about not “breaking the host's bank”, it is relatively easy to steer away from really high end items – the foie gras, lobster, filet...

Screw all of you! I grew up on Hyde & Francisco st. so I get final say (phooey!). What I say is scripture and I do it simple. I rip mussel saturated planks from the hull of the Balclutha and char them on a white truffle/elephant...

little plates, cheese, crackers, truffles, clementines, beautiful little cookies and I can’t remember what else. I loved it. fayefood.com

's: Portland’s most luxurious menu. Very good service, creative and perfectly executed dishes. Taste at least one dish with truffles, caviar, or foie gras. Order a savory flan. Expensive. Desserts do not live up to savory...

- $3.50" Sweet Occasions - (4639 N. Damen, Chicago) - Has gotten some recent attention on the board. In 02, I said, "black raspberry truffle was their most popular choice...This IS their best. Smooth cream, toothsome chocolate...

Greek yogurt with honey ('cos German Kaefer yogurt’s not available in the states) veggies with NO MEAT in SIGHT. (I miss that...) roasted veggies a truffle or two

, not stunningly original, and with very few to no truly memorable dishes. I can remember where I had the best foie gras in my life, the best deer, the best beef, the best truffle dish, the best dessert and so on, because each...

, even by Chicago Thai standards: tom yum, shui mai, beef massaman curry, chicken ka prao, et al. No fusion, not that I wanted any, so no foie gras or truffles to explain the prices — only a smallish, and to be honest,...

Way, way better. Let them let you smell the various bins. I’ve never splurged for the hundred buck dried mushrooms hanging from the ceiling, though. Actually those prices sound outragious, it’s sort of like saffron or...

Mignon with truffled potato terrine and broccolini. At this point, we added the Turley Juvenile Zinfandel. This time, both dishes were perfectly prepared and cooked. Nothing like our previous visit. Each dish was given a lovely...

next door afterward and get some foccacia from Linguiria bakery. You can watch the older Chinese people do their exerises in the park on the morning. Then you can walk down the block for a great box of XOX truffles (get the...

) Barbecued octopus with yukon golds and spicy tangerine citronette (p. 66) Asparagus Milanese with Parmigiano and a Duck Egg (p. 69) Crostini Toscani (without the fennel pickles and kale) (p. 79) Warm Lamb’s Tongue in a Black...