• It's really very easy to try traditional Irish food in Boston. [MP: Boston] • This Chicago burger has four pieces of bread buttressing it. [MP: Chicago] • Only Philly would host an event called "Scrapplefest!". [MP: Philadelphia] • Wine...
Q: Hey, MP: Boston, should you eat the eggs of a chicken right alongside its mother? A: No. That's gross. Q: MP: Chicago, who orders the caviar staircase at TRU? A: Pretty much no one. Q: Yo, MP: Philadelphia, do...
• Don't diss Beantown burgers. [MP: Boston] • A cupcake full of alcohol is always a good idea. [MP: Chicago] • If you have $17.50 to spare, you should probably spend it on grilled offal. [MP: Philadelphia] • If you...
Niman's products show up in restaurants and home kitchens. Trader Joe's carries these bacon-wrapped pork chops. After Bill Niman revealed that he's boycotting his former company, gourmet meat outfit Niman Ranch, in the San Francisco Chronicle this weekend, MP:...
• Try out for the Food Network's Amazing Race knockoff! [MP: Boston] • Represent Arab food at Taste of Chicago! [MP: Chicago] • Leave us an aggressively shilly review! [MP: Philadelphia] • Start a web series about your local food...
• A prescription for the single and drunk. [MP: Boston] • A heartfelt letter of appreciation for one departing food writer. [MP: Chicago] • An anti-anti-Valentine's Day polemic. [MP: Philadelphia] • A guide to Valentine's Day for hippies. [MP: San...
The long list for the James Beard Foundation Awards, the Oscars of the food world, has been released. Though the official list of five nominees per category won't be announced until March 23, twenty semi-finalists have been announced in each...
Los Angeles and New York are nuts for frozen yogurt, and the rest of the nation isn't far behind. Pinkberry and Red Mango are the largest chains but they have a lot of...well, let's be gracious and call them "imitators."...
The news that the New York Observer has decided to stop running restaurant reviews has MP: Chicago concerned: We can't help but be agog at a newspaper flat-out canning their restaurant criticism. Financial crunch or no, we're convinced it's a...
President Obama personally handed out oatmeal-raisin cookies to a bipartisan group of members of Congress at a Super Bowl party last weekend, reports the New York Times. Although the party chatter focused more on the game at hand than the...
Now that everyone from your mom to your boss is on Facebook, social networking has become ubiquitous and perhaps it was only a matter of time before restaurateurs started harnessing the technology to manage their business operations. New site Servinity,...
It's apparently Starbucks day here at MP: Boston. Our dear sister in Chicago brings word that old Buckies is planning to offer "several breakfast pairings" at "attractive" prices: in other words, a value menu. Although one could argue that this...
Our bro in San Francisco brings word that restaurant reservation site OpenTable has filed for an initial public offering. If it succeeds, the company will be the first to go public since August. We here at MenuPages wish OpenTable the...
• It's a Pats-free Super Bowl this year, but that doesn't mean that Boston isn't ready for game day. Drink some beer, eat some wings, and relax. [MP: Boston] • Sandra Lee parodies are never not funny. [MP: Chicago] •...
At the risk of becoming the Pepsi beat, this marks the second time in as many weeks that we have been floored by their advertising/viral marketing strategy. Last time it was on account of the parallel they drew between...
The Tuscan town of Lucca is getting some flack for a ruling earlier this week banning food establishments of other ethnicities from within the city's medieval walls. That means no fast food, no pizza, no kebab stalls and no...
After reading about the seven Japanese diners who went to the hospital after consuming ineptly prepared fugu (blowfish sushi) we immediately wanted to try it for ourselves. After all, even if you get a bad piece, you still have...
Alice Waters has been taking flack from all sides over the past week, and so far she has been rather quiet about it. You probably heard about Anthony Bourdain's jab at the sultana of sustainability last week, where he...
• The best part about Valentine's Day? Obviously, it's the candy. [MP: Boston] • You're never ever too old for a "your mom" joke. [MP: Chicago] • Philly restaurateur Stephen Starr gives out burns like an arsonist. [MP: Philadelphia] •...
