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Diners order via touch-screens at Philippe Chow Express . photo: Courtesy of Philippe Chow Express Following the example of the ATM machine and the self-serve gas pump, restaurateurs around the world have increasingly been incorporating automated components Read More...
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Crawfish Photo: Isaac Wedin Even in a land of Curious Culinary Trends, the new wave of Asian-Cajun restaurants that's swept across SoCal is an eyebrow-raiser. Its California incarnation seems to have begun in the Vietnamese community of Westminster Read More...
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Home base for Tales of the Cocktail was the revolving Carousel Bar at the Hotel Monteleone . photo: Karen Hudes Forget amateur night – the biggest rager in the country last weekend was at Tales of the Cocktail , the annual New Orleans festival that Read More...
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The BLT Burger For years now, Las Vegas has been a city built around the joys of Big Beef, with a sprawling steakhouse in every casino: Prime in the Bellagio , SW Steak in the Wynn , Delmonico Steak in the Venetian , Charlie Palmer Steak in the Four Seasons Read More...
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Baseball cuisine just ain’t what it used to be – it’s much better. While the old favorites are still there, a newer breed of noshes has risen up around the baseball diamond. At LA's Dodger Stadium , the lyrics in "Take Me Out Read More...
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Like most Dodger fans, I go to the games to cheer on the Boys in Blue, to check out the celebrity quotient ("Look! It's Hef and the girls!") and to eat a Dodger Dog. Indeed, like most Dodger fans, it's the Dodger Dog that comes first Read More...
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Sweet Caroline: now a drink photo: courtesy of the Four Seasons With baseball season underway, restaurants around Boston are lining up their own rosters of Red Sox–themed specials. Todd English’s Bonfire in Park Square loads the bases with Read More...
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Have you been to a celebrity-owned restaurant? Are they worth the hype? Share your thoughts on the Zagat Discussion boards! With the writers' strike finally over and the Academy Awards just around the corner on February 24th, most of Hollywood is Read More...
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Uneasy Street: Gansevoort and Washington photo: Emily Capo The new year is off with a thud in New York's Meatpacking District, with a slew of closings both real and rumored. The downturn began with last year's shuttering of Markt, probably the Read More...
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Recently I took my nine-year-old daughter to Las Vegas for a daddy-and-daughter getaway. We tasted the chocolates at the new Payard Patisserie . We watched the water and light show in the fountain in front of the Bellagio . We had a truffle-oil pizza Read More...
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Crumbs in Beverly Hills What we desperately need here in LA is New York pizza, a fine taste of which recently appeared at Joe's Pizza in Santa Monica, reminding those of us who know the difference that New York pizza really is in a class of its own. But Read More...
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By Karen Hudes, ZAGAT.com staff editor A Voce's boozed-up baba photo: Karen Hudes There's nothing like having a dessert and a drink to cap off the night, and if you can roll them into one sumptuous treat, all the better. We took a hop around New York Read More...
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The FleurBurger 5000 Those shocked by conspicuous consumption dropped their jaws yesterday when the Guinness Book of World Records announced the world's most expensive dessert, the $25,000 frozen "hot" chocolate at Serendipity 3 made of cocoa, milk and Read More...
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The garden-variety urinals at the revamped Royalton photo: Ryan Charles In 1988, the brand-new men’s room in the Royalton Hotel – replete with a notorious waterfall-***-urinal designed by Philippe Starck – arguably introduced the cool loo to NYC's annals Read More...
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Pecan brown sugar and bacon ice cream from the cookbook Seduced by Bacon Is pork the candy of meats? These days it certainly seems so. Not only is the sheer variety of pig-based dishes astounding, but the swine have even begun to move out from main courses Read More...
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