On the other hand, what does: "The thai food was uniformly mediocre. The dinner was not held at one of the city’s “truly authentic” thai venues so that we would not have to DWI afterwards." mean? DWI = Driving...

Of Course NY Pizza can’t be Duplicated here. First we don’t have the Water. NY City has the Finest water in the country. And 2nd No one here has the Coal fired Pizza Ovens.....

Olympia – it’s the water!! (what the hell is tumwater??)

meat vs pastrami....IM JUST SAYING) We opened the foil packets about 2 hours and 5 glasses of wine into the flight. I’ll tell ya, the aroma was intoxicating, everyone in the cabin was salivating (the closer ones started...

. Sure, you may not like the macrobrew flavor, but some folks do. I’m sure, or at least I assume, that it is simply a common (and tiring) exaggeration, but if some people cannot tell the difference between Bud and water,...

a restaurant. Many of these restaurants had long leases (Snooky’s, Tonio’s Carriage House etc) date from pre-gentrification Park Slope, from a time when chic restaurants really werent finding an audience. These are...

people drink tap water vs. bottled? What use is it to chide bottled water drinkers that they are duped fools? They’ve decided tap water is not as good so they are drinking water that is marketed as better for them. Is it? I...

of shoulder. You may not want all of the mushroom soak water. Boosting the amount of anchovies, onions, and marjoram is, to your taste, a good thing. Eggplant Parmesan – THE BEST. But triple or quadruple the amount of...

. At first, I found myself missing the smokey flavor of browned sausage (the sausage is added with the water); however, the smokey bacon jumped in there to give me that note. Eventually, I found myself digging through the beans...

-4774 And Hinano’s (dive bar variety) on Washington Blvd. in Venice Beach just steps from the water and Venice Pier.

Water, a Sprite with blue coconut syrup added), and their breakfast offerings are some of the best in the fast food realm. Worth trying for breakfast is the Breakfast Club toaster, which they offer as a limited-time item but can...

on the outside while staying light and fluffy inside (one reason why frozen fries or potatoes that are first bathed in ice water make better fries). They’re okay if you like potato, but they’re not the ne plus ultra...

secret compartments, where they could hide, then pop out of nowhere to fill a water glass, or remove a soiled spoon, because the only time that I saw them was when they silently arrived at the table at the exact moment they were...

will have a bottle of wine with one dish and find the wine ordinary. A week later, the same wine with another dish will be outstanding. It’s no wonder that some folks opt for beer or water or iced tea—after all, you...

that, but at each place, there was a gracious welcome by the server along the lines of “Welcome, I hear you're celebrating, can I offer you an aperitif while you read the menu?” (Babbo gave us the choice of still or...