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Stovetop Macaroni and Cheese

Salisbury Steak with Mushroom Gravy

The TV dinner classic made from scratch, with savory beef and a red wine–mushroom sauce.

Herbed Peas and Carrots

This classic side dish is so easy, there’s no reason not to make it yourself. And done right, it’s got loads more flavor than the prepackaged version from the store.

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-ing 10 seconds before you see it on the other screens.) Davis Street Fish Market has lots of screens at the bar, as does Pete Miller’s in their pool room and Merle’s and has a few. Bar Louie have smaller TVs in every...

For years it’s been an open secret that many restaurants (especially in certain resort areas) serve restaurant-quality TV dinners, i.e. frozen food that’s microwaved or otherwise heated by the “kitchen...

by deadicated production kitchens. While I worked in catering, we had a sealed box of high quality, totally sealed Kosher meals in what looked a lot like TV dinner packages- we only used them for individual guests by request, not...

We shopped at large chain stores (Safeway and Albertson’s) for most regular and organic groceries and turned to Whole Foods to get harder-to-find organic items like meat and certain condiments. Organic food is invariably...

Novotel in Sheffield, England is offering guests the option of watching television at their table in the hotel dining room, to save them the supposed embarrassment of eating alone. Two stories:...

My parents are coming up to LA from San Diego for the first time. They want to go out to a nice dinner on Wednesday, but it is game 1 of the World Series and we are all from Philadelphia. I already have a reservation at The...

I once had a party at Oikawa, which has a separate private room with TV and karaoke set. We had buffee style dinner and the room was a nice size for the party of 30. Price wise, I think it is expensive. You can call and ask them....

'll be its own subject at some point? Just like they could have done 8 pizza places on last week’s show instead of Italian in general. That’s weird. I still like seeing what each of them says but neither wins hands...

What is it with TVs in restaurants? I understand that a sports bar would want to have the game on, but it seems like many of the inexpensive places I go to eat in anymore will have a TV going as if people come to a Chinese or...

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