Dining

    Link Hot Stuff External website

    Jan 5, 2009

    Got a taste for all things spicy? A shop in Monroe may be just the place for you.

  • Link Italian Dining in New Haven External website

    Jan 3, 2009

    Stephanie Lyness of the New York Times found her dining experience to be comfortable but lacking in attention to detail at a New Haven Italian restaurant.

  • Link Sunset Dining External website

    Jan 2, 2009

    From beef bourguignon in a fresh bread bowl to tilapia provençal, enjoy a scrumptious meal at sunset for less than $20

  • Gallery What You Did New Year's Eve

    Jan 1, 2009

    We gave you ideas of fun activities and many of you hit them up. Now send us your New Year's Eve pics.

  • Link New Year's Eve at Firebox External website

    Dec 31, 2008

    Ring in 2009 with good food, great company and chilled champagne at Firebox Restaurant. Indulge in three courses from Firebox's dinner menu for only $40 or choose to try chef Collin's New Year's Eve specials. After...

  • Link Zinc New Year's Prix Fixe External website

    Dec 31, 2008

    Zinc's five-course prix fixe menu to celebrate the new year includes scallops, duck, gnocchi and more.

  • Link New Year's Menu at Aspen External website

    Dec 31, 2008

    Experience a sophisticated, locally-grown New Year's eve in the 87-seat main dining room of Aspen Restaurant and Bar.

  • Article What You're Doing New Year's Eve

    Jan 1, 2009

    Sure, the snow was an invited guest, but we'll help you make the most of it. We've got your plans so you won't have to worry about what you're doing New Year's Eve.

  • Link Wanted - New Year's Eve Diners External website

    Dec 30, 2008

    New Year's Eve is Wednesday and there are still open tables at restaurants that have been planning elaborate holiday feasts.

  • Article Taps Stop at Yale Drinking Club

    Dec 30, 2008

    The economy has stopped the taps at Mory's, a legendary Yale eating and drinking club that traces its roots to the Civil War. Even with a powerful membership that includes two presidents named Bush, times...

  • Link Ooh-Fah - Engineering Great Sauce External website

    Dec 29, 2008

    If one were to follow the Clark Kent-Superman logic, then Mark Cavallaro is an engineer for Sikorsky Aircraft by day, and when he slips into a telephone booth to change into his alter ego, Cavallaro comes...

  • Link Dinner with Jacques Pepin External website

    Dec 19, 2008

    Join the Max Restaurant Group for a special reception and four-course winter dinner with special guest Jacques Pepin

  • Link Half-price bottles of Italian wine External website

    Dec 21, 2008

    Head down to Sauce each Sun. and Mon. to enjoy the restaurant's half-price Italian wine menu.

  • Link Sunday supper at Sauce External website

    Dec 21, 2008

    Enjoy a four-course Italian meal for only $29.95 per person each Sunday at Sauce.

  • Link Burger King Takes a Cue from Borat External website

    Dec 19, 2008

    In its latest advertising ploy, Burger King is scouring the planet for humans who have never eaten a burger. It appears that BK execs have determined that Whopper virgins are the key to settling the age...

  • Link America's Greatest Pubs External website

    Dec 19, 2008

    The September/October issue of Imbibe featured an article on the 100 best places to drink beer in the nation. Since then, one helpful reader has entered all of the picks into Google Maps. He also noted...

  • Link Does Your Beer Contain Urine? External website

    Dec 19, 2008

    Legendsofbeer.com has rounded up a variety of beer-related myths and presented them in one handy, easy-to-use blog post. Dark beers aren’t necessarily stronger in alcohol, beer usually shouldn’t...

  • Link No Birthday Cake for Li'l Adolf Hitler External website

    Dec 19, 2008

    Can you imagine your fury if you ordered your kid a birthday cake and the bakery refused to write your three-year-old’s name on it? Readers might be thinking, “The bastards!” right about...

  • Link CHOW Op-Ed: Foodies Dismayed by Obama External website

    Dec 18, 2008

    Naomi Starkman is a food policy and media consultant who recently served as the communications and policy director for Slow Food Nation. Here she discusses the growing controversy surrounding Obama’s...

  • Link The Curious Career of Rocco DiSpirito External website

    Dec 18, 2008

    The New York Times presents a ripping good read in this week’s Dining section, in an article that tells the story of the roots, rise, fall, and potential rebirth of TV chef Rocco DiSpirito. Profiles...

  • Article Dine Out on Chrismas Eve? Yes, You Can

    Dec 30, 2008

    If you don’t celebrate Christmas Eve or just don’t feel like cooking dinner, you’re not out of luck. You can eat well tonight.

  • Link Are Bread Lines Back? External website

    Dec 18, 2008

    The line for this year’s annual grocery giveaway at San Francisco’s Glide Memorial United Methodist Church wrapped around the block twice over reports the San Francisco Chronicle. Apparently...

  • Link Dinner the Flay Way External website

    Dec 18, 2008

    Head to Mohegan Sun and one thing you will not gamble on is your stomach. Bobby Flay will treated it well. He will open Bobby's Burger Palace in Casino of the Earth and Bar Americain in Casino of the Sky.

  • Link Potluck Parties: Festive or Fatal? External website

    Dec 17, 2008

    Potlucks are old-fashioned, thrifty, low-key, newly hip, convivial, and deadly. Or so suggests a scaremongering story published in the Los Angeles Times. For some, it says, potlucks are “a minefield...

  • Link Meat Scented Man Spray External website

    Dec 17, 2008

    This is the kind of story that’s almost entirely immune to intelligent analysis: Burger King has come out with a new body spray that makes you smell like a Whopper. It costs $4, plus an extortionate...

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