• "Aquitaine Hunger Force": some might say the best post title ever. [MP: Boston] • Happy anniversary, Barack and Michelle! [MP: Chicago] • Philly.com's dining RSS feed is hijacked with hilarious results. [MP: Philadelphia] • Be honest: how many of...
Don't you hate it when your hand cramps up from flinging imaginary check marks in the air when you're trying to get out of a restaurant to make your show? Ever died of dehydration because you couldn't get a refill...
Tonight is an important, and potentially history-making night, guys. Sarah Palin and Joe Biden are meeting for their debate, and it sure seems like everyone is planning on watching it. One particular segment of society seems especially pumped for...
Chow's Helena Echlin fields a question this week from a diner who wants to know if it is ever okay to commit the ultimate dining out sin of completely stiffing your server. Short answer: God, no!In any case, when...
Chipotle is going green. The new free-standing Chipotle in Gurnee, Illinois will have a wind turbine on-site that's expected to generate 10 percent of the restaurant's electrical power. And that's not all — here's what else is in the...
So, Robert Parker wants us to boycott restaurants that over-charge for wine. The publisher of Wine Spectator Advocate reportedly writes in an upcoming article that restaurants jacking up the price of wine is, "nothing more or less than a...
Let no one tell you that you can't live forever: immortality has been discovered -- well, for a burger, anyway. Death eludes the indomitable McDonald's hamburger. Consider the following evidence, via Serious Eats and courtesy of Karen Hanrahan's website, bestwellnessconsultant.com:...
A story on the Barf Blog today raises a question so disturbing that much of our restaurant-o-phile readership will probably shudder at the very thought. But the evidence is there: Some restaurant and institutional kitchen food poisoning may be...
• Bostonians are dumbstruck with grief after a grease fires one of the area's best burger joints. [MP: Boston] • Graham Elliot Bowles is misinformed about a lot. [MP: Chicago] • Business Week is approximately fifteen years behind the times...
For cop-out Friday, check out this classic Sesame Street video with Grover doing his best impression of yours truly as a waiter. No, not really. But seriously? If we're ever called upon to take up the mantle of the service...
We wrote about the delightfully eccentric Kenny Shopsin, of New York's Shopsin's, but a couple days ago and that same night, he appeared on Late Night with Conan O'Brien. For those readers who have never been to Shopsin's, and...
So, um, remember that Swiss Chef we reported on, who was playing with the idea of using human milk in his restaurant dishes? Yeah, well guess who lurrrrved that story? PETA, of course. The animal rights group People for...
I've known quite a few picky eaters. A roommate once dated a guy for a year who would only eat in chain restaurants. (My reaction: "And you went on more than one date with him?") A friend is terrified...
Wow, talk about a clash of the food-politics titans. Check out this debate between sustainable food guru Michael Pollan and Monsanto CEO Hugh Grant, held at a Google-sponsored forum. They're talking about pretty important issues, and in a way, each...
After yesterday's public head-scratching on the San Francisco blog over OpenTable's handling of large parties (in this case at Medjool), we got a response to our question of why reservations for, say, 12 people, sometimes can't be accepted through...
There are two general rules in our kitchen: one, if I cook -- you clean. Two, when in doubt -- add cheese. Is there a single dish in existence that won't benefit by the addition of cheese? We're clearly...
For politically oriented drink marketing, everything comes down to a name. Serious Eats reports today on a little-known Chilean wine sold in San Francisco that has taken a severe dip in popularity since the complete GOP ticket was announced....
Forget Sparks. They're going to outlaw that junk anyway. The next big thing is this totally serious product we saw written up in the Onion: According to makers of the nervous-energy drink Pace!, the new beverage provides consumers with the...
• Last meal choices: an analysis. [MP: Chicago] • Make pizza, not war! [MP: Philadelphia] • Rubbing elbows with highly caffeinated mobsters. [MP: Boston] • Fight food poisoning with other, less poisonous food. [MP: San Francisco] • And some of...
Oftentimes, the use of a fanciful or unusual ingredient makes our pulse race in excitement and fills our mind with all of the possible ways to incorporate this new element into foods. Not so with the article in the...