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What do you serve with drinks before Thanksgiving Dinner?
of us, and we mostly sleep in and then eat turkey. We don’t have appetizers. When we lived in Portland, we used to go pick up Mike’s mom and we’d all go out to eat, to the steak & chop house or out to the...
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Questions re New Yorker's first chow-conscious trip to SF
I always eat well at Yank Sing. The taro dumplings are the best I’ve had anywhere, provided you get them hot out of the fryer, which they’re often not (so ask). Turnip cake and chicken-mushroom gao are two other items...
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Anyone else on Planet who doesn't like Fruit??
as the first joint of your thumb, bursting with flavor and juice and —no seeds! We’d get a whole colander at a time. Of course, now the area is stupid, big foot houses.. so it goes.
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Danger ! Danger! Il Grano: nice food, $100 overcharge
a lot to many people, including hounds. Back to Il Grano, we’d all very much appreciate your explanation why a restaurant sporting so many kudos including a 24-rating for chow from Zagat would appear to be in trouble. The...
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Favorite Beer in America?
I want to open an east coast import shop just so i can get my fix of Magic Hat #9, Dunkin Donuts and Drake’s Cakes. Instead, i just visit my folks once a year and drink as much as i can. :)
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lousy hawaiian
, tempura from potugesse to japanese as well as most chinese steamed savory cakes and egg tarts, chicken and curry bow’s from the portugese. i understand that opening soon in the seattle area is a hawaian originated drive...
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Coming to LA, please advise
Gamble House is not a restaurant, but a historic home which I believe is booked for weddings.
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Little tricks that help make cooking faster, easier?
Jeez, we’d all starve to death if a clean kitchen and empty dishwasher were prerequisites to cooking!
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Chowathon 2002 Aftermath
practically imagined that we’d go in, bet a race and say, been there/done that, let’s book. No, we fit right in amongst the demimonde. The remodeled Maywood Park impressed with its snazzy Vegas sport’s book look...
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Krispy Kreme, McRib and Trio
). Just seared on the outside and accompanied by the same veg. We split a dessert. Our comment if we had a place like this in Toronto wed be back EVERY week. Very good overall really just an upscale...
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Restaurant Service in San Diego
to admit it’s got a very casual, laid-back attitude. Not extremely horrible, or we’d never go back! Just.....like the concept of caring 100% about the customer and their needs are an afterthought to whatever else they...
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Contrarian views on "popular" restaurants?
. The last straw was a chocolate cake I bought. A 6 inch cake was $26, and the people I served it to, didn’t even want to fini.
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Two Bellies full of Fried Bellies
side and just a tad rubbery. The flavor didn’t come through as well. Not bad, exactly, just not the taste treat we’d all set our mouths for. Steamers here were just OK also. 5. Farnham’s in Essex. Sadly, this...
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Riding The Rails: Dining & Other Adventurs On Amtrak (Long)
I’m a fool – I have a romantic vision of train travel. Several years ago my husband and I decided to travel to New Orleans via Amtrak. We’d been to New Orleans several times in the past by air, we thought rail...
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food allergies.....ask or tell?
Been there, done that. Had two dear friends in El Paso I used to go to lunch or dinner with. Both would very carefully (and righteously) order things like a veggie burger, or a salad with sugar free dressing. Then the waiter...
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