is a hound too and(hangs head) we did plan a trip around food. We went to WDW for the food and wine festival and ate at most of the premier restaraunts there on the meal plan. Planned whole days around it I should be ashamed but...

i was able to get away with a reasonable bill and be quite satisfied. wine is a whole other subject and i could see that helping your costly bill.

onions w/balsamic glaze Carrot & rutabaga puree Mashed potatoes Cranberry sauce w/ juniper, bay, shallots & sherry vinegar A long walk, then: Apple crumb pie Pecan pie Pumpkin pie Maple tart (the only thing in the WHOLE menu that my 13...

was standing next to her giving us dirty looks the whole time. finally she said that she could reduce it from $90/head ($270 total for food) to $200 for food, to cover the split fee cost. we said that was still not ok. we never...

of chastisement, “Needs salt.” Loads of times, I’m sure. Salt is what makes soup interesting. Without it, you’ve got nothing. So what’s the big deal with soup! It’s just salt, which is a whole lot...

Chef, Thanks for that info. Yes, apparently there’s a whole eel/baby eel industry in the US that I never knew about. Apparently, it’s an entirely diff species from the European ones that make their way back across the...

I hope you succeed. This whole thread is just so weird to me because I have had hundreds of meals in Chinatown and NEVER have I seen glop such as you describe. Perhaps you are ordering the wrong things. I’d never order a...

I thought Midland in Yonkers was absolutley terrible. tried it on several separate occasions and was just totally boring. Sub par for the area. (Westchester/NYC style) Angelinos in Tuckahoe is good for whole pies but the slices...

came to plan a celebratory lunch with my father and sister, I asked Spago to make a tasting menu lunch and re-create that dessert. The whole point of the lunch was the dessert. So we go today, and get seated near enough to the...

's —which has gone downhill and is still ok, but not great, Lorie’s Diner which was surprisingly good, but very noisy, and Sear’s Fine Food which is a tourist trap and not worth the time. We liked staying...

I am delighted to learn that I can buy pizza dough from Bertucci’s, and also to hear from Galley Girl that it is worth asking at other pizzarias! What great info! I usually make my own dough, but I’d make pizza a...

tamales on the planet. I wouldn’t stand before her and say, "But gramma, those’re not authentic!" (She’d’ve given a dismissive wave to the whole idea of “authentic,” as she was an inventive,...

) in Yiddish(a similar stuffed pasta) Also so many Chinese chefs worked in the Catskill (Borscht Belt) hotels, that there was definitely a cross pollination. As an aside, Brothers deli in Burlingame was sold to new Chinese owners...

ordering the house salad and inexpensive pasta, tough. Coffee without dessert, get over it. Attitude translates into less tip. If the waiter pulls that “Tap Crap” leave less of a tip and make sure you tell the manager...

made 5% of total sales that night but chances are, she makes more than 15% on other nights (more like 18-20% is my guess) and she only gets taxed on 15%, so in the end, it all averages out. Ask her how much she made for the whole...