OK, so there I was yesterday, having lunch with a guy I know who owns several wonderful restaurants. He opened a new place and invited me to lunch to see what I thought of the food and service and setting. …
Entries from July 2011
The Critic’s Critic
July 30th, 2011 · 2 Comments · Commentary
The Palm
July 26th, 2011 · No Comments · Commentary
Tomorrow’s NY Times has a lovely piece by Sam Sifton on The Palm. Originally from D.C., the restaurant now has a total of 27 locations, one of which is in Boston, Massachusetts, and that’s where I found myself last Friday …
Where Are All the Cooks?
July 24th, 2011 · No Comments · Commentary
Restaurant chefs complain that they can’t find decent cooks.
Chef David Chang tweeted, recently, “Cooks today not as skilled as past generations, labor laws too stringent, not a bad thing but certainly the demise of dining in general.”
Serious …
Cooked!
July 23rd, 2011 · 5 Comments · Commentary
We had 4 people over last night. I don’t like cooking much: Really! But I prefer it to eating out because of the value, my ability to control what I put into the food, the chance to buy better ingredients …