Last Friday, the Washington Post reported in its gossip column the Top Chef Season 7 would be filmed in DC. For those who need a stronger confirmation, here’s an excerpt from NYT restaurant critic Sam Sifton’s review of Colicchio & Sons today: “Mr
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Top Cheffage: More Details Revealed on Top Chef Seven, Washington D.C.
Nine more companies across the country have joined a growing class action lawsuit against Yelp , including a Bakery in Chicago, a restaurant in Washington D.C., and a spa in Los Angeles. All of the plaintiffs claim that they were contacted by Yelp for ad sales in exchange for erasing unfavorable reviews from their pages. [Eater National]
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Yelp Wanted: Nine more companies across the country…
Dean Street Townhouse interior (photo from the restaurant via Zagat.com) Saturday night. Where to go? Soho. Looking for someplace stylish and fun but that also serves good food. A tall order. Cue the Dean Street Townhouse , which the pros ( like the anonymous folks at TimeOut ) have universally praised, and which the bloggers have given mixed reviews . One thing everyone can agree on: the place deserves its high marks for decor and buzz. The be-hatted man at the door at DTH reminded me of the bowler-hatted guy greeting diners at Galvin La Chapelle , and I do tend to like what the Galvin brothers get up to. When I stepped through the doorway into the restaurant, I immediately felt like having a good time. A good Saturday night pick.
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Dean Street Townhouse, Soho
McDonald’s gave me occasion this afternoon to look up the definition of “bistro.” “A bistro, sometimes spelled bistrot, is, in its original Parisian incarnation, a small restaurant serving moderately priced simple meals in a modest setting,” sayeth Wikipedia. “Bistros are defined mostly by the foods they serve. Slow-cooked foods like braised meats are typical.” Sounds a lot like the Golden Arches, right?
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Sacrebleu! It’s McBistro
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
By the time I get back home, they are just cool enough to eat. Octoballs served by an old man at Yutenji station is an occasional treat that has nothing to do with James Bond, but as my fridge remains pudding-heavy, a small tray of doughy orbs is just what I needed this eve. It took me a while before I ventured, then suddenly thought that he might up and disappear, leaving me ever wondering.
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109. Octoballs, Yutenji [9.9.10]
I have waited so long to write about Lupo that I have forgotten the reason for my procrastination. Something to do with ‘when I felt like it’, I suspect. Writing because the words are there, hot water in a tank, is so much easier than putting on the immersion half-an-hour beforehand because you feel you ought to.
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107. Osteria Lupo, Yutenji [5.3.10]
Fifteen years ago the Standard published a shock report on the people left behind by London’s economic boom. This week we revisit this hidden world of privation
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The dispossessed: Babies buried four to a grave – not Dickens but …
Eat Out UK a leading UK based internet Restaurant Guide allows it’s customer base to locate their perfect venues by style of cuisine. When eating out in London diners can choose via a popular London Home Page or they can locate London Restaurants by Cuisine
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Eat Out UK Internet Restaurant Guide what Cuisine?
When Diane of the Whole Gang suggested that this month we have an Oscar theme for our Gluten-free Progressive Dinner, I was both excited and perplexed. I’ve never held an Oscar themed dinner party. What could I make
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Gluten-free Progressive OSCAR Dinner Party: Avatar inspired Millet Eggplant Croquettes and Chips
The airline crash that killed 50 people near Buffalo a year ago was caused by startled and confused pilots who so badly mishandled a cockpit warning that they lost control and gyrated to the ground, federal investigators concluded Tuesday.
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NTSB pushes for sweeping changes, reviews of regional airlines (USA Today)
DUBLIN—-Research and Markets has announced the addition of the “OECD Reviews of Risk Management Policies: Japan 2009: Large-Scale Floods and Earthquakes” report to their offering.
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Research and Markets: OECD Reviews of Risk Management Policies: Japan: Large-Scale Floods and Earthquakes (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
Following lukewarm reviews, prominent restaurateur David Machado decided to let his chef go and head back to the kitchen himself. Meanwhile, popular Belly Timber chef David Siegel moves on.
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Shake-ups at Nel Centro and Belly Timber keep Portland restaurants on a roller coaster (The Oregonian)
The Village Voice’s Robert Sietsema pens an in depth piece for the Columbia Journalism Review about the history of restaurant reviewing in New York . An excellent cultural piece, it charts the waters from Craig Claiborne’s seminal reviews for the Times in the 60′s to the food bloggers and the free for all of today.
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To Catch a Critic: Sietsema on the History of Restaurant Reviewing and Ethics
Chicago-based Appolicious Inc., a social networking Web site that reviews mobile phone applications, has acquired a similar company with the aim of expanding its readership to users of Google’s Android platform.
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Appolicious buys competitor in mobile app reviews (Chicago Tribune)
dr numbers asked a question under the earlier entry on Restaurant Week that I thought was well worth addressing in a separate post. I’ll give you my thoughts off the top of my head, but I hope you’ll weigh in as well: Just for the record, I wanna know what is an “acceptable” price reduction for restaurant week.
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Do you think Restaurant Week is still a bargain?
Participating in New York’s bi-annual Restaurant Week is always a crapshoot. Some restaurants perform a total botch job, shuttling diners through three courses of chicken and salmon as quickly as humanly possible while others put in a real effort, offering their best service and menus to tempt new clientele to return
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Good News/Bad News: The Winners and Losers of Restaurant Week 2010
CD reviews: Lil Wayne’s ‘Rebirth’ and Midlake’s ‘The Courage of Others’ Lil Wayne, ‘Rebirth’
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CD reviews: Lil Wayne’s ‘Rebirth’ and Midlake’s ‘The Courage of Others’ (Baltimore Sun)
One morning I woke up at 4 and didn’t have anything better to do, so I got down one of my Julia Child cookbooks and made boeuf bourguignon . We had it for dinner that night and it was fabulous, so we had the leftovers the next night and it was even more fabulous
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Monday Morning Quarterbacking: Linwoods
With such a plenty of Internet (search) tools we can use today it is no more a problem to find what people say about anything. However the easier it becomes to search through tons of data, the smarter marketers get at faking it. Therefore it is really useful to know some tricks and tools to find reviews online to be… Check out the SEO Tools guide at Search Engine Journal
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5 Ways to Find Affiliate Program Reviews (Search Engine Journal)