• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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."...
Like so many things in life, the Pinkberry-style froyo obsession can likely be traced directly back to The Hills. Pinkberry may have been popular in Los Angeles before Lauren Conrad and her posse traipsed through the city, but as...
Welcome to Review of the Week, where we highlight some of the more unusual reviews left by MenuPages users across the country. This gem arrived Monday afternoon as a two-part series titled "Wonder Bread and Chocolate Pudding," in which the...
For those planning to attend — or just curious about — the South Beach Food and Wine festival in Florida, our sister publication, MenuPages: South Florida, has the pre-fest skinny. Seems tickets to many events are half price right now,...
Helen of MP:Chicago reports on the New York Observer doing away with their restaurant reviews, and wonders about the future of restaurant criticism in these lean financial times. She doesn't want to believe in this grim possible turn of...
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...
With Valentine's Day looming, Adam of MP:San Francisco writes about the recently released Zagat dating guides for New York and Los Angeles. Here's the thing: the Zagat handbooks not only chronicle where to date and woo Mr. or Ms....
• Put in your drink order without knowing what you're going to get! [MP: Boston] • Custom-blend your ice cream using liquid nitrogen! [MP: Chicago] • Spit in the eye of the economy and open two more restaurants! [MP: Philadelphia]...
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...
A quick cupcake chronology: a novelty in the early 2000s, predictable in the mid 2000s, played out by 2007-2008. The backlash is as old news as cupcakes are, but the question is, why hasn't it made a dent in cupcake...
Our sister blog in Philadelphia is all over the unstoppable rise of cupcakes, that crazy confectionary juggernaut that flattens every attempt at backlash it encounters. It's not just Americans who love them — cupcakes are apparently molto di moda in...
"The backlash is as old news as cupcakes are, but the question is, why hasn't it made a dent in cupcake popularity?" This is the question asked and answered over at our sibling publication in Philadelphia today. Have a look...
Over at sister blog MP:South Florida, Carolina writes about Servinity, a startup hoping to harness the wonders of text messaging and the internet to facilitate restaurant and bar staffing. Per the Atlanta Business Journal, The software-as-a service company leverages...
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,...
Our sister blog over in South Florida has the scoop on Servinity, a new social networking-based client that restaurant owners and managers can use to corrall their waitstaff — "the software-as-a service company leverages the Internet, e-mail, cell phone, SMS...