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Restaurants Dazzle at New Vegas City Center
From Grub Street Los Angeles: Amid girls in feather headdresses and Elvis tunes, a slew of new restaurants by some of the world’s better-known chefs made their debut last night at the opening of the Las Vegas City Center. The $8.5-billion proje...
Restaurants Dazzle at New Vegas City Center
From Grub Street Los Angeles: Amid girls in feather headdresses and Elvis tunes, a slew of new restaurants by some of the world’s better-known chefs made their debut last night at the opening of the Las Vegas City Center. The $8.5-billion proje...
Chicken Wing Finder Makes Debut
Restaurant reviews by food category have been around for ages, but one man is betting that sports fans, or anyone for that matter, aren't satisfied with the information about chicken wing establishments. Enter Mark Gilmor, the man behind Kluck...
Big Boy Staging SoCal Comeback
From Kat Odell of Eater Los Angeles: After a near 20-year absence from most of Southern California, Bob's Big Boy is making a comeback Britney Spears-style. The fast food chain " took root in 1936 as a 10-stool eatery in Glendale...[and] ev...
100 Things a Server Should Never Do
By BRUCE BUSCHEL of the New York Times: Herewith is a modest list of dos and don’ts for servers at the seafood restaurant I am building. Veteran waiters, moonlighting actresses, libertarians and baristas will no doubt protest some or most of wh...
100 Things a Server Should Never Do
By BRUCE BUSCHEL of the New York Times: Herewith is a modest list of dos and don’ts for servers at the seafood restaurant I am building. Veteran waiters, moonlighting actresses, libertarians and baristas will no doubt protest some or most of wh...
Emeril Lagasse\'s Burger Ambitions
From Paul Frumkin of Nation's Restaurant News: Emeril Lagasse has named his upcoming burger restaurant Burgers And More, or BAM, after his signature expression, and said he doesn't want the brand to be a premium burger "gimmick." T...
Emeril Lagasse\'s Burger Ambitions
From Paul Frumkin of Nation's Restaurant News: Emeril Lagasse has named his upcoming burger restaurant Burgers And More, or BAM, after his signature expression, and said he doesn't want the brand to be a premium burger "gimmick." T...
Key to Bistro Success? Garlic, Mexican Flair
From The Boston Globe: Meat loaf just doesn't get it done anymore. And Salisbury steak? No way. A new survey of the casual restaurant industry finds that consumers - and in particular, young men - need exotic flavors to lure them away from home ...
FDA to Ban Raw Gulf Oysters in the Summer
From Robb Walsh of the Houston Press: You won't be eating raw live Gulf oysters in the summer anymore if a promised FDA ban takes effect. At the Interstate Shellfish Sanitation Conference meeting in New Hampshire on Saturday, an FDA official anno...
Ben\'s Chil Bowl Founder Dies
By Matt Schudel, Washington Post: If the rest of the world sees Washington as a place of large monuments and gleaming public buildings, many of the people who actually live in the city build their lives around smaller, more humble institutions. For ...
Ben\'s Chil Bowl Founder Dies
By Matt Schudel, Washington Post: If the rest of the world sees Washington as a place of large monuments and gleaming public buildings, many of the people who actually live in the city build their lives around smaller, more humble institutions. For ...
The Twenty Biggest Chef Empires
From Grub Street New York: The business of being a chef has expanded enormously in the last 25 years. Once upon a time, it was considered a working-class trade. Now Gordon Ramsay has 27 restaurants and five TV shows. Alain Ducasse has authored eight...
The Secret Ingredient is Booze
From Nation's Restaurant News: Offering chef-driven flair with a cherry on top, spiked milkshakes are emerging as signature adult beverages at several upscale burger concepts around the country. Boasting names such as the Bourbon Malted, Gra...
New York’s Tavern on the Green Files for Bankruptcy
From By Andrea Tan, Christopher Scinta and Linda Sandler, Bloomberg: Tavern on the Green LP, operator of the 75-year-old restaurant in New York’s Central Park, sought bankruptcy protection after losing its lease on the city property to a highe...
More Consumers Plan to Up Restaurant Spending
From Sarah E. Lockyer of Nation's Restaurant News: Despite another jump in the national unemployment rate and conflicting economic indicators released last month, a new survey shows that consumers' plans to spend at restaurants are only impro...
Zagat Losing Ground to Online Rivals
From Paul Tharp of the New York Post: After failing to sell their guidebook empire for $200 million, Upper West Siders Tim and Nina Zagat are not only putting off their retirement plans, they're struggling to keep it afloat. Over the last three ...
Yelp Leaves Tips for Restaurateurs
From Kim Severson of The New York Times: "The people who try to herd the vast Yelp nation want to persuade restaurant owners to stop offering discounts for reviews. While most of you were heading to the beach [Sept. 4], the Yelpsters in charge o...
Cracker Barrel Turns 40
From Deborah Highland, The Tennessean: Tuesday morning breakfast at the Lebanon Cracker Barrel Old Country Store has become a tradition for Shirley Allison and her husband, Dewey. The Carthage couple is part of a group that for nearly 20 years has e...
Behold the Coke Dispenser of the Future
From Jonathan Bender of The Pitch in Kansas City: "Future robots don't have to be evil: Some of them might help us have a world with more soda choices at our finger tips. Coca-Cola is currently test-marketing the Freestyle ˜ a soda d...
New Orleans‚ Restaurant Scene Rises Again
Four years after Hurricane Katrina devastated this historic city, its chefs and restaurant owners have shaken off the sucker punch and are swinging back stronger than ever. In fact, the New Orleans Metropolitan Convention and Visitors Bureau said mo...
Upscale Restaurants Serve Frugality with Pinch of Luxury
By Kelly Carter, Special for USA TODAY: Before the recession hit, truffle shavings, foie gras sliders and Waygu beef seemed as common as chicken breasts on many restaurant menus. Chefs are still using these high-end ingredients, but many have mod...
