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Winner of SF Food Wars' 2009 Mac Battle Royale with Cheese.

This version is adored by all my guests and has even been served as a wedding cake.

phew! i think i can try to answer this one, being a native texan (yee-haw!). in our school cafeterias we’d get texas toast — a thick but airy piece of toast with lots of butter. sometimes with garlic powder sprinkled...

hey i like the home fries at the one in cambridge better than the ones in portsmouth – i don’t really want them to change! they are spicy and go really well with cayenne cheddar toast and a guy scramble. went for lunch...

My vegetarian daughter and I are leaving on a road trip from San Francisco to St. Louis and back. We’d love to try the toasted ravioli in St. Louis but have been told they always have a meat filling. Is that true? If not,...

I need a recommendation for French Toast made with croissants (as opposed to white bread, sourdough, challah, etc.) Non-hotel restaurants. 213, 310, 626 (basically LA or SGV) Thanks.

. We’d never been to Toast, even for brunch which is their popular and busy time. I’d avoided them for brunch because it’s always so busy but I wondered why I’d never thought to try them for dinner. So...

I was going to ask for toaster oven recs too because my Black & Decker seems to be dying. It was probably in the $35 range when I bought it and is only barely adequate for making toast.

. Also, Yossi’s Grill has been advertising a pretty cheap lunch special. Fusion Toast Bar may have to do a little better pricewise, especially if they want to get the high schoolers to eat lunch there.

I just picked up the two and half foot long Challah Bread from Zaro’s. It is so delicious, the aroma just fills the kitchen. I am looking for a great recipe for French Toast that I can make in quantity. For eight people...

My pops just forwarded me an article about the Friendly Toast (of Portsmouth, NH fame) opening a new location at One Kendall here in Cambridge. As someone who will often rally her fellow waitstaff on a Monday morning to make the...

I’ve been to a few events, including weddings, at the Belo. The food is good, but not memorable. You’re better off with the higher-priced entrees, like steak, rather than chicken (the chicken was dry and tough; the...