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At David Burke Townhouse, the average bottle of red wine has crept back up over $100. At Delmonico’s, diners ordered nearly twice as many white truffles compared to last year’s season. And at Aldea, the new lobster gazpacho appetizer is…
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They are huge in the US, but few British diners have heard of Chipotle Mexican Grill (CMG) or Ruby Tuesday (RT). But all this is about to change as the restaurant chains join Taco Bell in a three-pronged US attack…
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Is the era of “supersize” being replaced by the age of mini meals? Whether it’s Dairy Queen’s mini Blizzard, mini meals at McDonald’s or mini tenderloin sandwiches at The Capital Grille, restaurateurs are thinking small and shrinking new menu items.…
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While most U.S. restaurants fight for every dollar, a new crop of indulgent burger chains have bucked the trend by recasting the American food standard with higher-quality ingredients and quirky toppings like fried eggs or pineapple. The upstart burger joints…
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Nicola Marzovilla runs a business, so when a client at his Gramercy Park restaurant, I Trulli, asks for a children’s menu, he does not say what he really thinks. What he says is, “I’m sure we can find something on…
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Walter S. Scheib III was Hilary Clinton’s answer to Jacqueline Kennedy. Though J.F.K’s glamorous widow had long since left the White House, she had set the standard for fine dining in the nation’s home – and it was European. Mrs.…
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Imbuing a restaurant with a sense of age, real or imagined, is nothing new in a city that routinely bulldozes its history. For years, Keith McNally has been drawing crowds to his fantasy hangouts like the Russian Constructivist speakeasy Pravda…
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Two couples strolled down a white stone sidewalk in Logan Square, each gripping a bottle of wine by the neck. They were smartly dressed, professional types, and though the couples didn’t know each other, they recognized quickly that they were…
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If you make an online reservation at a restaurant these days, chances are you’re using OpenTable.com Inc. The company—with 13,000 participating restaurants—is the market leader by a wide margin. On Thursday, Urbanspoon, a well-funded competitor, is expected to unveil plans…
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Anthony Bourdain, the chef-turned-author-turned-televised-world traveler is coming back to town. On Saturday night at the Hippodrome Theater, he and Eric Ripert, executive chef and owner of Le Bernadin, a three-star New York restaurant, will headline “What to Eat Baltimore,” an…
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Matthew Corrin did not have beginner’s luck. On the first day he opened a restaurant called Lettuce, the kitchen ran out of lettuce. A few days later, while preparing food for the day, Corrin’s chef sliced off the tip of…
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The time is 7.30pm on a Wednesday, and the place is Shepherd’s Bush, west London. All along the Uxbridge Road, small, overlit counters-in-a-cupboard offer you takeaway evening meals. If you’re on the lookout for gristle on a stick, or deep-fried…
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Conrad Gallagher is not immediately at ease being interviewed. And with good reason, perhaps, given that the former wunderkind turned enfant terrible of Irish food is as well known here for his financial failures as for his culinary genius. There…
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In the mood for dinner and a show? Why not combine the two at a restaurant that pampers guests with a theatrical approach to topflight service? Truly inspired tableside service is more than just a turn of the pepper mill…
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Walk into a restaurant these days and you might be able to check the calorie count of your enchilada, the salt content of your fries, the “heart healthy” status of your asiago peppercorn steak and — in at least one…
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Ask restaurant-goers what irritates them most about dining out, and you might expect howls about slow service, improperly cooked food and mixed-up orders. But those big-picture issues weren’t the most common complaints of the 100-plus diners who responded when I…
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These are the last days of Sona, the elegant restaurant on La Cienega Boulevard that has been a fixture of Los Angeles’ fine-dining scene for nearly eight years. On Saturday, after the final mignardises go out to the last diners,…
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For a sense of how San Francisco’s restaurant business is being altered by the recession, consider flavors like “sweaty gasoline” and “armpit.” That is how two wines are described on the menu at Heart, a new Mission District wine bar…
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Never before has innovation been as essential to running a successful quick-serve restaurant concept. During what has turned out to be the most daunting recession in our nation’s history, innovation has been the driving force for the concepts that are…
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A ubiquitous Olive Garden TV commercial shows a picturesque cooking school in Italy as a voice croons words like “artisanal” and “fonduta” and smiling chefs in starched whites coats taste tomato sauce straight from a simmering pot and kiss their…
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Let’s talk about steak for a moment. Was the last one you ate good? How about the one before that? Be honest. The first bite, in all probability, was juicy and tender. Not bad. A brief hit of beefiness, enough…
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Liza Cruze would love to put a plaster ceiling in Salt of the Earth, the Garfield restaurant that she, her husband Doug and chef Kevin Sousa hope to open next month. “Visually, that’s exactly what I would want in there,…
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