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Your favorite simple, yet AWESOME, dish at an LA eatery?
and has bits of brown sugar in it. *Tomato bisque at Granville Cafe, Burbank: Tomato-y and creamy, it’s really the right thing to do on a cold day. *Scallop sushi at Z's in Alhambra
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Never been to NYC...would love recs (inc. places w/no reservations needed, favorite casual dining that locals frequent, cheap eats, a few places to splurge)
, The Rainbow Room, and The Russian Tea Room For splurges, my picks would be: Eleven Madison Park, on the corner of Madison Av. & 24th St. Chef Daniel Humm’s French-inspired cuisine is sensational, the wine list is excellent,...
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Will be traveling to Bloomington, In, Champaign, Il, & Iowa City.
The perfume store was Motts Drug Store. In its place now is a fairly good little noodle shop. Z'Marik’s. Close to Motley Cow is Devotay, one of my favorites, and downtown are 126, Atlas, and a swanky sushi place called...
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Maine adventures
. Haute cuisine? No. But not uniformly ‘horrific’ either. GLB wouldn’t be my first choice if I weren’t drinking beer. That said, the food is ample, inexpensive, and a perfectly acceptable accompaniment to...
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Batali, Paltrow & Bittman in Spain...
How the HECK did you find that, KT? I looked in the A-Z TV show listings and did a search several times on the show’s title and it never came up! THANK YOU!
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which products have you stopped buying because of price increases or volume decreases?
Another thing that bothers me. You get ticked off with Brand X and swear you’ll never buy it again and switch to Brand Z only the discover that half the alphabet is owned by General Foods.!!!! Or whoever
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Where's the best pizza in SF?
are pretty much over except for occasional splurges ... what I’m trying to say is I much prefer the lighter produce-oriented California cuisine ... but having spent almost the first three decades living on the East Coast...
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Can a chain ever be good?
) as possible. I remember Z'Tejas Grill before they got really huge (Phoenix had their fourth location, it was their first outside Texas IIRC)- one of their signature dishes, Voo Doo Tuna, was a very assertively flavored dish that...
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Top Chef Episode #2
particular styles of cuisine. they are free to explore a wide culinary world with regards to ingredients, spices, and technique, and customers seek them out because of their unique preparations. your argument against the use of...
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Free Issue of NY ChowNews
: http://www.amazon.com/gp/yp/B000359Z9O The rich, comforting foods of Emilia-Romagna are the specialty at Teodora, opened in 1997 by Giancarlo Quadalti (who has since launched Bianca and Celeste). Lasagna, tagliatelle alla...
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Recipes for a first-timer
for using leftovers and varying basic formulas. Also, I would recommend you stock up on pantry items for a few cuisines that you will cook from the most often. It’s easier to throw something together if you know you aways...
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Restaurants Report: Le Bernardin, Blue Hill, Bouley, Gramercy Tavern, Yasuda, Balthazar, Clinton Baking, Daniel, Aquavit, Eleven Madison Park...
. Baking Co. especially in terms of food? Aquavit’s been on my to-go list for ages but my boyfriend isn’t a huge fan of the cuisine-type. I’m a huge fan of GT and like EMP a lot., and also like Clinton Street...
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KILLER, **KILLER** JACKSON HEIGHTS INDIAN--READ!!!!
reports back; this place is so incredibly hard to predict. Also, it’s home cooking, not high cuisine. But I can guarantee: if you were with me today, you’d have been dancing in the aisles, too. ciao
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Anybody Almost Always Overdo & Drive Self Insane Cooking For Dinner Party?
bowl) party. With the power of the Internets it is really easy to cross reference ingredients and figure out how much of X needs to go into Y and Z. Make your menu with compatible ingredients and you’ve halved your work...
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How many fellow Chowhounders are or have been in the biz?
Just wondering how many of y’all have worked in the food and bev industry. Are (were) you are server, cook, wine rep., bartender, etc...? I have done it all. tail waitress, busgirl, cook, bartender, server, barista, the list...
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