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Spanish Wine Dinner at Ibiza, New Haven

Enjoy great food and wonderful wines at Ibiza's wine dinner on May 3 at 6:30; $75 inclusive. Menu: Tapita Boquerones, Tosta de pan Con Jamón, Croquetas de Bacalao, Flan de Foie Gras Robalino Albarino 2009, Rías Baixas Lubina Mediterráneo Grilled Branzino, Judiones de la Granja beans, Green peas, Manila Clams, Porcini Mushrooms, salsa verde Palacio de Fefinanes Albarino 2008 Cochinillo Roasted suckling pig, potato confit, dry apricot puree, rosemary infused honey sauce Añares Reserva Rioja 2004 Cerro Anon Reserva Rioja 2004 Quesos San Simon, Manchego, Can de Cabra, Cabrales, Quince paste, Marcona almonds Paramo de Corcos Reserva Ribera del Duero 2004 Pico Cuadro Ribera del Duero 2007 Ibiza www.ibizanewhaven.com 39 [...]

By |2017-08-31T16:20:16-04:00April 26th, 2010|USA Restaurants, USA Travel, xyz misc|0 Comments
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Secret Ingredient Showdown

Home chefs across America are being challenged to show off their culinary talents in the new “Ted’s Secret Ingredient Showdown” contest, sponsored by Ted’s Montana Grill. Ted’s Secret Ingredient Showdown runs from April 5 to May 30, 2010. During this time, a new secret ingredient will be revealed by Ted’s Montana Grill every two weeks at www.tedsmontanagrill.com. Amateur chefs are challenged to use their culinary creativity to create an original appetizer, entrée or dessert, using the featured ingredient. Think your recipe has what it takes? Submit it, along with a photo of the dish, or a one-to five-minute video of you preparing the dish. Entries can be submitted via the [...]

By |2017-08-31T16:20:16-04:00April 20th, 2010|Done Deals, Other happenings, USA Restaurants, USA Travel, xyz misc|0 Comments
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Eastern Mediterranean Brunch at Pera

Pera Mediterranean Brasserie has joined the brunch bunch with the introduction of a weekend midday menu available from noon to 3 p.m. Sunday and Saturday. The menu offers a prix-fixe brunch  for $18 that includes a cocktail and coffee along with a la carte offerings incorporating the Mediterranean ingredients that define this midtown restaurant. Along with traditional brunch fair, the menu also includes lamb "French Dip" sandwich (a toasted baguette, thin-sliced roasted leg of lamb, feta cheese fondue); lamb au jus & (Turkish) beer battered onion rings; and manti & meatballs (mini meat dumplings, mini beef meatballs, garlic yoghurt, melted Marash butter). The restaurant's will also offer Pera signature items, [...]

By |2017-08-31T16:20:17-04:00April 10th, 2010|USA Restaurants, xyz misc|0 Comments
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Food & Wine Names Best New Chefs 2010

New York City, April 6, 2010 — At a celebration this week at The Four Seasons Restaurant, Food & Wine Editor in Chief Dana Cowin announced the magazine’s Food & Wine Best New Chefs (BNC) of 2010. The annual award, launched in 1988, recognizes up-and-coming chefs with an innovative style and a distinctive vision creating exceptionally delicious food. "This year we have one of the most exciting rosters of Best New Chefs ever,” Cowin says. “They represent every frontier of cooking in America today, from an avant-garde chef in a remote area of Virginia to the mastermind behind the Korean taco-truck boom in Los Angeles. The future of cooking in [...]

By |2017-10-22T15:01:47-04:00April 8th, 2010|Rambling, USA Restaurants, USA Travel|1 Comment
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Qdoba Mexican Grill Giving Grub for Giving Blood in April

Qdoba Mexican Grill, a fast-casual restaurant known for its fresh and handcrafted cuisine,  announced a “Give Blood. Get Great Grub”  partnership with the American Red Cross — evidence of Qdoba’s ongoing commitment  organizations that positively impact the communities they serve. As part of April’s “Give Blood. Get Great Grub” program, all donors at American Red Cross blood drives in Southern and Northern Massachusetts will receive a Qdoba coupon redeemable for one free Craft 2 menu item at any of Qdoba’s 17 Massachusetts locations. Craft 2 allows guests to mix and match smaller portions of Qdoba’s most popular menu items, including a Naked Burrito, Naked Taco Salad, taco, quesadilla, and tortilla [...]

By |2017-08-31T15:40:35-04:00April 1st, 2010|USA Restaurants, USA Travel, xyz misc|0 Comments
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Charleston’s Market Street Saloon Expands Bar Menu

Market Street Saloon, a restaurant and tavern in Charleston, SC known for live country music and family-style service, plans to unveil several new menu items and specials in the coming months. Locally owned and operated by Sam Mustafa, the head of Charleston Hospitality Group and Toast! restaurant, the menu signals a new direction for the Saloon. The offerings will emphasize  the heritage and cooking traditions of the South.  Market Street Saloon has partnered with restaurant consultants, barbecue pitmasters and competitive chefs across the Southeast to develop and expand their menu offerings. The Saloon will introduce a new, limited menu at its new downtown location (32-D N. Market Street) and at [...]

By |2017-08-31T16:20:19-04:00March 28th, 2010|Other happenings, USA Restaurants, xyz misc|0 Comments
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Larkburger — Expands To Denver

Larkburger will soon tempt Denverites’ taste buds with its burgers at a new location in the Denver Tech Center (DTC). This will be Larkburger’s third restaurant in Colorado. The new location opened last month in the Denver Tech Center (DTC) at 8000 East Belleview Avenue, Suite B45. According to Larkburger President Adam Baker, the DTC was selected due to the area’s sizeable business population and close proximity to residential neighborhoods. Larkburger’s short-menu includes its Cattlemen’s Select 100% Black Angus beef Larkburger, turkey burger, tuna burger and portabella mushroom burger, fresh salads with house-made dressings, Breyers chocolate and vanilla shakes, and the ever-popular truffle and parmesan hand-cut fries. Competitively priced, a [...]

By |2017-08-31T16:20:20-04:00March 15th, 2010|USA Restaurants, xyz misc|0 Comments
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Rizzuto’s in Westport, CT

Lucky me! I met Rizzuto's publicist for lunch recently at the restaurant located in the Saugatuck section of Westport, and ended up trying many of their delightful and delicious menu items featuring simple ingredients in classic presentations. We began with their vegetable antipasto that included Roman artichokes, Mediterranean olives, roasted sweet Tuscan peppers, marinaded mushrooms, chickpea puree and a Sicilian eggplant caponata ($6, each). The latter two are house-made and served with fresh oven-fired flatbread. Note to self: be sure to return for a light meal of just the delicious homemade antipasto and a glass of wine. We continued to eat our way through the menu. Next we had an [...]

By |2017-08-31T16:20:20-04:00March 12th, 2010|USA Restaurants, xyz misc|0 Comments
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Famed London Hotel Bestowed First Michelin Star

The Lanesborough's ‘Apsleys – a  Heinz Beck Restaurant achieves a Michelin Star.  The Lanesborough is one of London’s premier luxury hotel offering distinguished residential-style service in elegantly historic surroundings. Since beginning service in September 2009, the restaurant has become the epicenter of the London dining scene under the supervision of Chef Heinz Beck and Executive Chef Massimiliano Blasone. The restaurant now holds the record for the fastest London restaurant to be awarded a star, less than 5 months after opening in September 2009. The 2010 Michelin Guide for Great Britain and Ireland was released on January 20, 2010. “Since opening in 1991, The Lanesborough has been unwavering in its commitment [...]

By |2017-08-31T16:20:21-04:00March 9th, 2010|Bites from the Road, USA Restaurants, xyz misc|0 Comments
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Worst Pizza

I'm all about sharing a good resource when I find one. I never used to understand all the discussion over pizza. There were so many blogs dedicated to the best pizza places, where to find a good slice, etc. It was all foreign to me. I had the luxury of growing up in an area of the country (New Haven) that is considered to be a pizza mecca. All our pizza places were good, heck.. there wasn't a Pizza Hut or Dominoes that would even set foot in our town, it was a waste of everyone's time. New Haven has a plethora of honorable mentions on any 'top pizza' list, [...]

By |2017-08-31T16:20:21-04:00March 4th, 2010|Other happenings, USA Restaurants, xyz misc|0 Comments
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Mote Con Huesillos in Santiago, Chile

Lucky is an understatement. My plane left Santiago just a couple hours prior to Saturday morning's earthquake, learning about it only after landing at JFK while in the immigration line watching CNN on the overhead screens.  I can't get the stunned and horrified looks on the faces of fellow passengers out of my head. I had been in Chile as a guest of the Chilean Fresh Fruit Association to learn about their agricultural exports of fresh fruit, olive oil and wine. Last week, I visited Santiago, the  surrounding valleys and coast - areas affected by the quake. I'll be posting lots more about the cuisine and food products of Chile, [...]

By |2017-08-31T16:20:21-04:00February 28th, 2010|USA Restaurants, xyz misc|0 Comments
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Hattie’s in Dallas

Our evening out in Dallas began with a bang…when we decided to go to Hattie’s in Oak Cliff’s Bishop Arts District. Blew out a tire on 8th Street about a block from the restaurant, but did the sensible thing that anyone wanting good food would do: left the car to fix later and walked through the rain into the cozy world of Hattie’s. Hattie’s spare décor, black and white tiled floor, and tin roof instantly makes you feel like you are in New Orleans at Galatoires. I was craving the pecan-crusted catfish, which did not let me down. Started with a bowl of the lobster bisque ($8.95), with sweet pieces [...]

By |2017-08-31T14:10:31-04:00February 26th, 2010|USA Restaurants, xyz misc|2 Comments
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Kitchen Challenge: Baked Alaska

There are certain dishes that I've just never gone near. It's not that I won't eat them (I'll eat anything), it's that I'm not going to try and make it myself. Blowfish, for example.. if cut incorrectly, can kill you... so I'll leave dishes with that ingredient to the trained chefs. My home kitchen is a place for many experiments, but some creations just seem either to dangerous or like too much work! For me, desserts in general always seem a daunting task. There's so much mixing and measuring, kneading and rolling, crimping and icing. It can be such a tiring endeavor, that I often leave it to a restaurant's [...]

By |2017-08-31T16:20:22-04:00February 23rd, 2010|Endings, Recipes, USA Restaurants, xyz misc|2 Comments
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The Corner in Milford, for Sunday Brunch

My friend Diane and I like to catch up over Sunday brunch — generally trying new places but sometimes returning to ones we've liked.  We returned to The Corner (Milford, CT) — a cozy place filled with regulars (we know as we chatted with many of them while waiting for a table). When asked what's good, one of the regulars said, "Everything!"  This regular has been coming for years and had worked his way down the menu, trying each and every unusual offering on it. Their brunch items are a bit different than the regular omelets and pancakes usually found — although you can order those, too.  This time we [...]

By |2017-08-31T16:20:22-04:00February 21st, 2010|USA Restaurants, xyz misc|1 Comment
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Greek Islands Taverna, Ft. Lauderdale

In trying to find a decent spot to eat in the Fort Lauderdale area, I reached out across social media.  My friend Jim Bozzi responded on Facebook sharing info about the Greek Isles Taverna, "Delicious authentic Greek food...Does not take reservations like a Pepe's (in New Haven, CT). But everyone we ran in to reco'd it. Went last night. Deee-lish!" My sister and I decided to give it a try. The place was jammed with long — but fast moving — lines. We waited only 15 minutes to be seated and begin nibbling the complementary garlicky hummus. While in line, I had read an article on the wall from the [...]

By |2017-08-31T16:20:22-04:00February 18th, 2010|USA Restaurants, xyz misc|0 Comments
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Iphone Beer App

I always thought apps and beer went great together! I mean, give me mussels and beer, charcuterie and beer, cheese and beer, heck.. beer and pretzels! Oh how things change, even words change. The word app could not be mistaken for anything but an appetizer in years past, but now it's a whole new ballgame. An app now refers to an 'application', a program that runs on any one of the countless devices you likely have with you right now. Stella Artois has recently launched their own app for the iphone. Le Bar Guide helps beer connoisseurs locate a perfectly poured glass of Belgian beer (specifically, Stella). The app is [...]

By |2017-08-31T16:20:22-04:00February 17th, 2010|Other happenings, USA Restaurants, xyz misc|0 Comments
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New Chef at Solea, South Beach

In the brief time since 32-year-old Marc Vidal was named executive chef of Solea at the W South Beach hotel, his menu, offering the savory classic cuisine of Spain, has made it the place to dine for celebrities, foodies, tourists and trendsetters. He serves up artful plates of the finest authentic ingredients from a palette of fresh, soulful flavors that honor the vibrant cuisine of his homeland. Solea offers a food and wine experience from an innovative South Floridian viewpoint. The well-educated Vidal — who honed his skill under Ferran Adria in Spain, and Alain Passard and Alain Ducasse in Paris — showcases his talent with his delightful menu that [...]

By |2017-08-31T16:20:23-04:00February 5th, 2010|Foodie Interviews, Other happenings, USA Restaurants, xyz misc|1 Comment
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Luke (New Orleans) Prepares for the Mardi Gras Season

Get a Feast of Favorites from Lüke during the Mardi Gras Season Located right on St. Charles Avenue, Lüke is offering revelers access to their raised, private viewing stands from February 5 - February 16 ... and that’s not even the best part! A purchased ticket to prime viewing also includes a parade of dishes from Lüke’s chef, Steve McHugh, at an exclusive buffet offering Cochon du Lait, Jambalaya, Smothered Greens, Southern-style Field Peas, Seafood Gumbo, House-made Cornbread with Smith’s Creamery Butter, Crawfish Étouffée, Salade Lüke, a selection of Sausages with House-made Choucroute and Mustard, and assorted Desserts including King Cake. Entrance to the parade stands and the dinner buffet [...]

By |2017-08-31T16:20:24-04:00February 1st, 2010|USA Restaurants, USA Travel, xyz misc|0 Comments
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Colicchio & Sons Just Opened in NYC

As read in Zagat Buzz's notable opening in New York City: Colicchio & Sons at 85 10th Avenue, New York, NY (212-400-6699) in the former digs of Craftsteak. Tom Colicchio now offers a locavorish New American menu that’s a version of his Tom: Tuesday Dinner concept, focusing on improvisation, small-batch fare and farm-fresh ingredients.  The large main dining room still retains its wine-rack room divider and mural of Way West Chelsea, but feels cozier.  The casual bar area offers artisanal beers and nibbles from a wood-burning oven. I've added Colicchio & Sons to my ever-growing must-try list! Stay tuned! - bonnie Colicchio & Sons 85 10th Avenue 212-400-6699

By |2017-08-31T16:20:24-04:00January 28th, 2010|USA Restaurants, xyz misc|0 Comments
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Ganja Gourmet

We've sampled a lot of interesting products on Bite of the Best, but some new ingredients I never thought I'd see on the national food stage. While the debate about the uses and safety of marijuana will likely continue to rage on in the United States for the rest of foreseeable time, the situation does seem to be continually changing. Though the U.S. has long considered the plant illegal, nowadays, more and more states are flirting with the idea of decriminalizing 'medicinal marijuana'. The whole system is quite confusing to be frank; it seems a convoluted maze of local, state and federal laws and authorities, each contradicting the other. But, [...]

By |2017-08-31T16:20:24-04:00January 26th, 2010|Other happenings, USA Restaurants, xyz misc|3 Comments
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