March 11, 2009
Nachos at Moto
Moto Restaurant's 21-year-old Pastry Chef Ben Roche demonstrates the unique dining experience at Moto with his version of Carrot Cake, Nachos and Wine and Food Pairing
Fat Duck laid low by wave of illness
Under the Orange Roof. About the Howard Johnson's Restaurants & Ice Cream Parlors
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Happy Valentine's Day, sweetie. I've Cooked You a Recession-Friendly Valentine's Dinner
Also there: Claustrophobic female seeks male (age not an issue) with empty 50,000-square-foot warehouse with high ceilings, and other Personals From the American Psychiatric Association's Dating Website
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November 08, 2008
43 dishes
Ho Chi Minh and Colonel Sanders - the same person?
Inamo Restaurant in London’s west end, designed by Blacksheep Interior Architects
A meal of 43 dishes cooked by Ferran Adrià
Monkeys work in Japanese restaurant
Noodlr is a noodle soup idea generator. By Michele Humes and Joshua Sierles
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Un-related: A blog showing photos of strangers flipping off the camera
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October 04, 2008
The only Chinese restaurant in Baghdad
A Chinese restaurant just opened in Baghdad
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Restaurant checks should do the math for you
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August 22, 2008
Electronic Sandwich
Brandon “Waffle Whiffer” loves advertising characters from restaurants and products, especially cereal, product packaging, commercials, toys and other collectibles from the 1960s to today. These are his flickr sets. His blog
What's Wrong With This Picture? Answer: There was no McDonalds at the 1904 Worlds Fair
More Wacky Bento Ideas on flickr
Food of the Filipinos
The Soul of France, a Metafilter thread about dining on l'ortolan
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March 17, 2008
L'Esguard
Chez Pim writes: “The usual caveats apply and all that, but, in my opinion, I might have finally eaten at what was quite possibly the worst restaurant in the world”… at L'Esguard in Barcelona.
A much more positive review at eGullet
Other sets of Spanish restaurants by the same photographer
Chez Pim’s sets on flickr, including this of a female farmer in Lesotho
The chef table inside the kitchen of Philippe Rochat, Switzerland best restaurant - 360° panoramic view! (From the Four Hour Lunch post at FX)
96 St. Marks Place – The Led Zeppelin Donut
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March 01, 2008
Anthony Bourdain @ Google
Anthony Bourdain Is Interviewed By Google Executive Chef Nate Keller At Google's Mountain View, CA Headquarters. November 20, 2007
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February 14, 2008
Snake charmers & chained Barbary apes
The huge Djemaa el Fna square in central Marrakesh turns into the largest open air restaurant in the world as soon as the sun sets. An mouth-watering photo reportage from FX Cuisine.
From wikipedia: The square was featured in the Hitchcock movie The Man Who Knew Too Much. It was in the Dar Essalam Restaurant, where James Stewart and Doris Day get chatting to the couple who will kidnap their son
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February 09, 2008
Cones! The hat! Zeppelin Launch!
The Kibbé and Queso? Please help name a Lebanese-Mexican restaurant
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Alex Talbot and Aki Kamozawa cooked a New Years Eve meal for Steve Plotnicki at his home. The menu:
*Diamond Creek Oyster, mastic, passion fruit bubbles
*White Chocolate Ice Cream wild arctic char roe, blis elixir, coconut
*Crabmeat marbles butternut squash, sheet, cylinder, yogurt
*Mussel Soup crispy cuttlefish, hazelnuts, chartreuse
*Lacquered carrots garam masala, date-yuzu, Benton’s ham
*Mozzarella Tagliatelle mushroom Bolognese
*Kona Kampachi beets, pecorino foglio noche, eel sauce
*Sea scallop, persimmon relish, vanilla bean, pistachio brittle
*Nantucket Bay Scallops persimmon relish, vanilla bean, pistachio brittle
*Maple Vinegar Glazed Sweetbreads pear dijonaise, pixkled peanuts
*Lamb white miso gnocchi, stewed rhubarb
*Cheese
*Chocolate Torchon olive pop rocks, Buddha’s hand
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Prime Cut Meat Market Restaurant Proudly Presents!
Bizarre Eat Shops Built to Lure Trade (Modern Mechanix Magazine, April, 1934)
7 Outrageously Bizarre "Political Ideology and War" Themed Restaurants That You Should Go Before They are Controversially Closed (most have been featured here before)
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January 13, 2008
The Iran-Contra Resaturant
There's nothing like drinking overpriced liquor in the remnants of the Iran-Contra Cargo Plane, now a restaurant and bar. (From Neatorama)
We are a small group of people who do a lot of other things in New York, like decorate subways and throw parties in the streets. At Grub we're just offering dinner. Whether you are active in other collectives, your neighborhood, your backyard garden, or just new to town, we invite you to our table. Grub: A cheap, simple dinner for strangers and co-conspirators
The Wiener Circle is a popular restaurant in Chicago, Illinois. It is located at 2622 N. Clark St... (YT)
A man smokes through a "Smoking Point" in a restaurant wall in Goslar, Germany
Indian restaurant built over a cemetery
Mesa, another new ”secret” restaurant in Costa Mesa
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November 17, 2007
$10,000 a table
NY city's most expensive Thanksgiving Day meal, which includes caviar and truffles, is served at a private chef's table in the kitchen alcove of Café Gray, a pricey restaurant in the Time Warner building. The cost of the table, which seats 12, is $10,000. That averages out to $833 a person. If you want to save a few bucks, the restaurant's regular dining room, which seats 130, goes for just $500 a person (both children and adults). (From Unknown Highway)
With traditional Ukrainian dishes at Divo, Jay Rayner tried the food of his forefathers. He was just grateful they'd emigrated. Review of an Ukrainian restaurant in London
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October 29, 2007
An urban art oasis in Riverside
Guess the Restaurant (Chicago area only. I like this one)
History of 'greasy spoons' in the UK
Bill O'Reilly’s Restaurant Reviews
Restaurants with singing waiters. Among a long list of the most unusual restaurants in the world
The Banana Restaurant, condom themed restaurant In Taiwan
Everyone wants to open a bar. Financially it is one of the worst investments you could ever make, but the cool factor is off the charts. If you really want to make money in the saloon industry I suggest the "money on the wall" theme
Union Oyster House, the oldest restaurant in continuous service in the U.S. (Since 1826. From Sippican)
By the way, my favorite local restaurant, Mariscos El Tío's, which serves wonderful authentic Mexican food, had been discovered on the internet! In the last 6 months I invited many guests & friends to visit its unusual & artistic grounds, and among them was Seattle Realtor-blogger Marlow Harris and her family. Marlow posted recently a detailed photo story about the owner Martin Sanchez’s Folk Art shrine and within a few days her story spread around the intertubes, including mentions on 2Boings, Neatorama and many other blogs. I only hope that the lines at Tio’s Tacos won’t get too long now…
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September 22, 2007
Now Serving
A slideshow of New Yorker covers that celebrate food and dining, from the twenties to today. (From Nag on the Lake)
Now Serving: Menu pages of 6257 NYC restaurants
Possible the first restaurant review to appear in the NY Times
Rice To Riches Racketeering Ring
Plane crashes into restaurant; one dead
The Crooked Pub must be one of the most unusual pubs in the world
Breaking news: Robot Theatre's "Don't Tase Me, Bro”
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August 30, 2007
Dinner in the Metro
Dinner in a Russian Metro in memory of a recently deceased Russian cult writer Prigov. The train ran along the circle line and new passengers were invited to have a shot of vodka in his honor. After the full circle the table and disposable dishes were abandoned
St. Louis is full of dead bars. Some have been reborn as, well, bars. Others as some other type of commerce. Many are abandoned and no small number have simply vanished. Here are a few
World's First Automated Restaurant Opens In Germany
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July 28, 2007
“Table scalpers” for top restaurants
“I went to Subway for dinner tonight, and when I finished my transaction, I was handed this vague and uninformative receipt”
The Absent Minded Waiter, a Steve Martin short (With Buck Henry & Teri Garr. Watch until the end)
Breaking, sad news: Grant Achatz has cancer
Zimmy’s Restaurant, 531 East Howard Street, Hibbing, MN…
Hitler-Themed Bars & Restaurants found in Asia. (From Cynical-C). A letter from the original owner of Hitler Bar in Pusan, Korea
Re-post: How to make reservations at The French Laundry and other tips at the WSJ’s How to Get the Ungettable Table
You can get a free download of Steve Plotnicki’s 50 Most Recommended Restaurants in North America and Europe. Steve Plotnicki write the mouth-watering Opinionated About Dining blog
Taos Las vegas, the highest grossing independent restaurant in the US
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July 05, 2007
How do you say McKroc in Russian?
The Froo Froo Restaurant Menu Generator
The tell-tales for a bad restaurant vs. a good one at “Waiter Rant”
Carniceria store paintings - So bad it’s good
McDonalds Plant Near Moscow. (From New Shelton)
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