On March 23 the St. Vincents Meals on Wheels LA chapter of the nationwide Meals on Wheels program will launch Cart For a Cause , a really rad food truck run by an impressive list of LA’s top chefs. Basically, the truck will travel around LA every Tuesday through the Fall and serve three different $10 meals with all proceeds benefiting St
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Eater PSA: LA’s Top Chefs Pool Together In Cart For A Cause Food Truck
Sportello Restaurant and Drink Cocktail Bar Fort Point Boston 348 Congress St Fort Point Boston 617 737 1234 I met up with my cousin Alan after work this week in Boston and we checked out the Sportello Restaurant and the Drink Cocktail bar in the supposedly trendy Fort Point neighborhood of South Boston. Upstairs at Sportello, a zig zagging countertop (no tables) and an open kitchen makes for a unique casual dining experience that’s probably not much different from hanging out at your gourmet chef friend’s kitchen and eating at the counter. From the vantage of the countertop you can see (and smell) your dish being prepared right before your eyes.
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Sportello Restaurant and Drink Cocktail Bar Fort Point Boston
For New York City restaurants, the mention of the name Felix Ortiz, (pictured right) is like rubbing salt into a wound. His bill A10129 would ban salt from kitchens and the recipes chefs use to create some of the best food in the world, in the world’s best city for food.
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Ortiz Promotes Salt Ban for New York City Restaurants
When all is said and done, and everything shakes out, chefs, waiters, owners, and managers will remember the intricacies and eccentricities of their customers because they are the foundation of profit, success, and growth. Not because a software company has developed a program to make someone mayor.
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Ten Tips on Developing Restaurant Regulars
TRENT @ Foster Burger (503) 775-2077 5339 SE Foster Road, Portland, Oregon, 97206 Why he’s dreamy: Someone once gave me an excellent piece of dining-out advice, and I’m passing it on to you here, free of charge…When you go to a restaurant that has a particular food item in its name, you should order that food. Then you know that if it isn’t any good, you never have to go back, because if they put it in their name but can’t make it tasty…Well, it doesn’t bode well for the foodstuffs they’re not literally staking their name on
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Eat Out UK is pleased to announce partnership with three more London Restaurants. London is renown for it’s cosmopolitan lifestyle and this is certainly reflected in the wide range of cuisines available in London’s Restaurants. Browse a selection of the Capitals best venues at :- http://www.eat-out-uk.com/London_Restaurants/ Or visit one of Eat Out UK’s three new partners in the capital who share the range and diversity of the vibrant City
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The Bocuse d'Or USA Foundation has announced that chef James Kent will represent the United States at the prestigious Bocuse d'Or International Culinary Competition, to be held in Lyon, France on January 25-26, 2011. His commis (assistant) in the competition will be Tom Allan
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Bocuse D’Or selects Team USA 2011
TYLER @ Olympic Provisions (503) 954-3663 107 SE Washington Street, Portland, Oregon, 97214 Why he’s dreamy: The addictive flavor combination of the salad with brussel sprouts, sunchokes, and Castelvetrano olives in anchovy vinaigrette keeps me coming back, but it’s the delightful array of house-cured meat products flirting shamelessly with me from their perch in the display case that truly gets my heart pounding. Charcuterie + cute cooks = carnivore crush.
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Tyler @ Olympic Provisions
Yet another foodie show soon to hit the wire. A producer from RelativityREAL writes, “If you make at least one signature dish that your family and friends go crazy for, then we are searching for someone EXACTLY LIKE YOU . No professional chefs or fussy, fancy dishes..We’re looking for family favorites and comfort foods…So pick the dish you’re most proud of and put it to the test in a cooking competition that gives amateur chefs the chance to win a BIG CASH PRIZE .” Interested parties should email cookingshow@rrstaff.com before February 8
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Casting Call: Yet another foodie show soon to…
A year after he pulled out of his hotel restaurant The Libertine and two months after announcing a partnership with the Plaza Hotel to build a food court, new details emerge about celeb chef Todd English’s latest hotel project. As he mentioned last month, English is teaming up with the new InterContinenal Hotel in Times Square to create a French brasserie.
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Overbooked: More on Todd English’s Latest, but not Last, Hotel Project
Yesterday, The Wall Street Journal ran a fairly standard piece on how star chefs have been making the leap to the cocktail circuit lately and in the process, revolutionizing the mixed drink. However, the most intriguing parts of the article are the details of Grant Achatz’s new project: a bar . Boom
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Game Changers: Grant Achatz Opening A Molecular Bar in Chicago
Over 260 of the City’s best restaurants are serving up $24.07 lunch and $35 dinner January 25–February 7.* Save even more and get a $15 statement credit when you dine out three or more times at any participating restaurants during NYC Restaurant Week™ Winter 2010, and pay with your registered American Express Card. Plus, discover the new NYC Restaurant Week Truck and enjoy lunch on the go with exclusive gourmet soups from Restaurant Week chefs. Make your Restaurant Week reservations, register any American Express Card, find out where the NYC Restaurant Week Truck is parked (and which soups are available), plus enter to win great prizes with the Coca-Cola Loves NYC Sweepstakes and the JetBlue More to Love NYC Sweepstakes—all at nycgo.com/restaurantweek .
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Whether you are a seasoned chef or someone who has never put together an edible meal, consider expanding your knowledge of cooking by adding vegetarian recipes. Chefs of great restaurants and moms of hungry families will enjoy having …
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Click the image above to view the full photogallery. The Week in Eater : Cafe Bruxelles Shuttered by Fire , Four Mega-Watt Chefs Sign on for NBC Food Truck , Conant at the Coop, Opening Deb. 5, to be Called Faustina , Rhong Tiam Closes up Original LaGuardia Place Location , Eastern Alley, Not B Clinton, Opening on 6 Clinton , The Rise and the Eventual Fall of the Jersey Shore Cast , and Dinosaur Bar-B-Que Seeking to Expand in Brooklyn and Queens .
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Week in Eater: Chefs in Food Trucks, Conant’s Faustina, Jersey Shore Charts
Papilles means tastebuds in English, and if you like you meals meaty and copious, you won’t be disappointed here… photos: JasonW Les Papilles isn’t a new restaurant, but we only discovered it recently. Not far from our hotels and the Jardin du Luxembourg, it’s a sort of hybrid place, open for lunch and dinner, but also selling terrines and good wine
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Restaurant Les Papilles – something yummy for your tastebuds
Bloggers around town have praised Josef Centeno ‘s newly opened downtown bistro, Lazy Ox Canteen , and today The Goldster joins the chorus with his two cents: “Other chefs could probably spin four or five restaurants from the controlled chaos of Lazy Ox — a new-wave cantina, a modern bistro, a Japanese-influenced pub, a tapas bar — and occasionally it seems as if Centeno should edit his menu a bit more tightly …In a meal with seven or eight shared tastes, there will probably be one you won’t like. Still, Centeno’s vigorous, imaginative and not-quite-polished cooking is the sort of thing you want to dive into : Flavors from a dozen food cultures ramming into and across and through each other…Lazy Ox is fun with a big group of people — the ewww factor can be a bit overwhelming : Charred octopus with lima beans or steamed whelks will never be as popular as cheeseburgers.” [ LAW ]
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Week in Reviews: Lazy Ox Canteen: "Vigorous, Imaginative, Not-Quite-Polished"
Alice Waters, at Potenza this morning, helped organize Sunday Night Suppers to raise money for DC Central Kitchen and Martha’s Table. metrocurean photo I have to admit, I got a wee bit giddy when I got to shake hands and chat with Alice Waters this morning at Potenza . For a food writer (not to mention the daughter of organic food-loving hippie parents), it was a treat to meet the local food pioneer
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Sunday Night Suppers Raise Awareness, Funds For Local Groups
Bel Pasto is an Italian restaurant in Kepong that is run by real Italian chefs. The restaurant in Kepong is actually Bel Pasto’s second branch, with the first established at Aman Puri not too far away. Initially, I thought Bel Pasto had something to do with pasta because of the word similarity but it actually
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Bel Pasto Pizza Italian Restaurant @ Kepong
I had hoped, in the spirit of other far more prolific gastronomes , to do a roundup of all my dining highlights of 2009 in the form of a categorised list, instead of choosing just one “Restaurant of the Year”. It was partly because I didn’t want to bore people with yet another gushing exaltation to Rules, but I was also curious as to whether even I could reliably recall meals and dishes from the first few months of 2009 – even El Bulli seems like a lifetime ago, never mind my first trip to the wonderful Harwood Arms in February
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Cheese and Biscuits Restaurant of the Year 2009 – Rules
Hiring a personal chef is not restricted to the cream of the crop, the elite, the moneyed, and celebrities. As many personal chefs can validate, even us common folk down in the trenches can avail of such services because of the convenience, the necessitiy, and the prestige with having a professional chef cook for you for a change. And Valentine’s is fast approaching
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Ask me this before Valentine’s