MetaFilter posts tagged with food and restaurant

Secret Supper. Shhh!

jontyjago — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:17:00 -0800

The owners of Casa Saltshaker in Buenos Aires have compiled a list of venues in what they refer to as the Underground Dining Scene. The Puerta Cerrada (Closed Door) restaurant is becoming more and more popular with travellers and locals alike. Offering a restaurant-like experience in a private home, and also known as Secret Supper Clubs, Salon Dinners or In-Home Restaurants, the idea has been around for years, but new ones are popping up all over the world as travellers seek more and more "local" experiences. Fancy setting one up in your house? Here's how to do it.

Will Self reviews fast food

hydatius — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 06:54:13 -0800

"Real Meals": Will Self's (relatively) new fortnightly restaurant column reviewing high street food outlets for The New Statesman. Thus far: McDonald's, KFC, Indian Restaurant, Starbucks, Subway.

Gills, Fins and Psychedelic Thai

aletheia — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 10:52:51 -0800

There have been precious few times that a restaurant review had me laughing out loud, even on page 2.

Anger can make a man verbose

MrMerlot — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 04:15:13 -0800

Giles Coren is restaurant critic at the Times (of London). Last week he wrote a very angry letter to the subeditors complaining that they were "tinkering with his copy". The subs were guilty of deleting a single indefinite article. Coren wrote: "I can't think of a nicer place to sit this spring over a glass of rosé and watch the boys and girls in the street outside smiling gaily to each other, and wondering where to go for a nosh." It appeared as: "I can't think of a nicer place to sit this spring over a glass of rosé and watch the boys and girls in the street outside smiling gaily to each other, and wondering where to go for nosh." Apart from working as a restaurant critic, Coren (previously here and here) is also a satirist. I've done some checking and apparently he is not making this up.

Zen on the 2nd floor of a Richmond BC mall (reservations required).

myopicman — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 19:27:02 -0800

According to the recently published book The Fortune Cookie Chronicles, the best Chinese restaurant outside China is Zen Fine Chinese Cuisine, tucked away on the second floor of a mall along a section of Richmond, BC (a Vancouver suburb) that's known by the Chinese community as Eat Street. Will this affect business? Hopefully for the better, since the restaurant is approaching bankruptcy as it halves the prices of the tasting menus to bring in more customers. The Fortune Cookie Chronicles blog covers a lot of news and reviews regarding other Chinese restaurants, like the return of one in Baghdad and the Turkish substitute for fortune cookies.

Say it with small cheeseburgers.

allkindsoftime — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 03:22:48 -0800

DOH. Its Valentine's Day and you forgot to make a reservation, and now everyone's all booked up. Except White Castle. Tablecloths, candles, and even waiters, from what I understand. Accepting reservations for one day only, 5-9pm tonight.

Bangcook

klangklangston — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 20:52:20 -0800

Tastier tofu courtesy of Shiok Food, a fantastic Thai cooking blog run by chef and restauranteur madman.

what part of the cow do you use in the burgers cos i heard it was the teeth.

East Manitoba Regional Junior Kabaddi Champion '94 — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 08:31:54 -0800

McDonald's UK goes Web 2.0 with a site answering user's questions. Apparently, all of them.

Now for some actual Bruce Schneier facts

grobstein — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 15:52:31 -0800

You know Bruce Schneier the polymath security genius. Now meet Bruce Schneier the kind-hearted reviewer of local Minnesota restaurants. (He doesn't like to give bad reviews -- sounds like "security through obscurity" to me!)
[previously, also]

A good place for a blind date

mr_crash_davis — Fri, 17 Mar 2006 09:28:04 -0800

At Dans Le Noir ? you can "experience the unique interaction between clientele and guides as your food and wine are served in total darkness". Is it really a pitch-black dining room? "Yes it is ! The room where the dinner takes place is completely dark! We aren't used to completely dark environment since you hardly find this level of darkness in daily life as, we are used to small rays of light from the streetlights or moonlight but in the Dans le Noir ? restaurant there is no light at all!" Worried about going to the loo? Don't be, because "the toilets are fully lit".

New York Haute Cuisine

watsondog — Sun, 11 Sep 2005 09:23:03 -0800

The Epicurean online. Charles Ranhofer's 1893 book The Epicurean is available online from the Michigan State University Library and the Museum as part of their Feeding America digital project. Ranhofer was the head chef at Delmonico's Restaurant from 1862 to 1894; he popularized the Escoffier version of French cooking to America, modifying it to take advantage of American foods such as turkey, squash, corn, and Pacific salmon. Besides thousands of recipes, The Epicurean discusses table settings, menus, various methods of presentation, and kitchen management. The book may be downloaded as a PDF in two parts.

World's Best Restaurant

peacay — Tue, 19 Apr 2005 19:07:10 -0800

World's best restaurant serves up molecular gastronomy.
(parallel thread)

What Price Stars?

Vidiot — Wed, 26 Feb 2003 05:38:28 -0800

We know that the French take their food seriously, and restaurant ratings are a BIG deal over there. But here's a sad illustration of that: famed chef Bernard Loiseau was found dead yesterday of an apparent suicide, and speculation centers around his downgraded rating from the influential GaultMillau guide. Shades of Vatel?

Menu History

languagehat — Wed, 20 Nov 2002 18:02:14 -0800

In the long stretch of culinary history, the creation of the menu was a notable development. In the U.S., New York is the restaurant capital, and the New York Public Library has an enormous collection of menus, many of which they are currently displaying in a third-floor gallery. If you're in NYC (or will be visiting this winter) and are interested in such things, don't miss it; it's showing until March 1.