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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2009
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dining stories: 18 news summaries

(Newser) - You might suspect a sushi restaurant that doesn’t specify what sort of tuna you’re eating of trying to pawn off an inferior species. Not so. Researchers using novel DNA barcoding technology found that though nearly a third of tuna sold in 31 US restaurants was the prized—and... More »

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endangered species • FDA • restaurant • delicacy • seafood • dining • sushi • Food and Drug Administration • overfishing • bluefin tuna • truth in advertising • DNA barcoding

 100 No-Nos Insulting to Waiters 

Former waiter irked by Bruce Buschel's New York Times list

Nov 11, 09 9:37 AM CST
(Newser) - Along with the rest of the world—or at least, frequenters of the New York Times website—Lauren Bans read restaurateur Bruce Buschel’s recent “100 Things Restaurant Staffers Should Never Do.” And the former waiter is pretty annoyed. “No minimum wage job should ever require a... More »

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servers • restaurant • dining • etiquette • restaurateurs • employees • restaurant industry • waitress • waiter • Jay-ZTV • rules

CHECK, PLEASE

 Biggest Restaurant 
 No-Nos, Part 2 

Owner offers another 50 ways to please guests, keep job

Nov 5, 09 1:30 PM CST
(Newser) - Bruce Buschel isn't out of touch. "I realize that every deli needs a wisecracking waiter," he writes in the New York Times, "and burgers always taste better when delivered by a server with tattoos and tongue piercing(s)." But at his soon-to-open restaurant, these rules (coupled... More »

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servers • restaurant • dining • etiquette • employees • waiter • Jay-ZTV • rules

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 The Biggest Restaurant No-Nos 

Owner lays down the law with these rules for staff

Oct 29, 09 3:30 PM CDT
(Newser) - The seafood restaurant Bruce Buschel is building will have excellent service—or else. Some staff members, he acknowledges, "will no doubt protest some or most of what follows," but he's the boss, and he presents 50 rules in his New York Times blog. A tasting menu:
  • "
... More »

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servers • restaurant • seafood • dining • restaurant industry • waitress • waiter

'White Wine With Seafood' Rule Is No Fish Story

High-iron reds make a poor accompaniment, scientists confirm

Oct 23, 09 12:38 PM CDT
(Newser) - Researchers conducting intensely necessary studies have confirmed what connoisseurs have always told us: Red wine doesn’t go with fish. Tasters tried 38 red wines and 26 whites while noshing on scallops. They discovered that wines with higher iron content—meaning most reds—unpleasantly accentuated the seafood's “fishy” taste.... More »

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study • wine • seafood • dining • women's issues • wine pairings

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 Worst Food Trends 
 of the Decade 

From onion blossoms to overhyped chefs, these things need to go away

Oct 22, 09 2:40 PM CDT
(Newser) - Asked to name the decade's worst dining trends, chefs and other food experts couldn't shut up. There were too many (including "mache, water sommeliers, organ-meat entrees, unisex bathrooms, bacon tattoos on chefs, over-flaunted kitchen burns, chefs tables") for Christopher Borrelli to list them all, but he hits the... More »

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food • reality TV • Internet • fast food • restaurant criticism • restaurant • online review • KFC • dining • onions • Jay-ZTV • food trends • hamburger • women's issues • celebrity chef • Hardee's • Carl's Jr.

COMMENTARY

It's Time to Discover Goat,
the Other Red Meat

Already-popular 'bearded ruminant' catches on in US

Apr 1, 09 9:05 AM CDT
(Newser) - Goat is the most widely consumed meat in the world, but unless you live in an ethnic restaurant enclave, it's unlikely that you're a convert—yet. Henry Alford has recently been impressed by "chevon," the meat with less fat than chicken and more protein than beef. He describes... More »

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food • New York • cuisine • dining • goat meat

Recession Adds Drama
to Paying for Lunch

Power diners shy
away from picking up big tabs

Feb 11, 09 4:21 PM CST
(Newser) - Power lunches once ended with diners diving for the bill, corporate cards held high. These days, the checks tend to sit there uncomfortably, everyone hoping the other guy will pay, writes Laura Holson in the New York Times. The recession has turned picking the tab into a virtual earnings... More »

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dining • etiquette • lunch • financial crisis • recession depression

Restaurants See Economy's Effect on Bills

Newest craze is splitting the check, to servers' annoyance

Feb 6, 09 4:34 PM CST
(Newser) - Gone are the days when one friend would insist on picking up the dinner check—and with them, the practice of splitting bills evenly, reports the Chicago Tribune. More and more, newly budget-conscious diners are asking for itemized checks. "Why?" says one restaurant manager. "Because nobody is... More »

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dining • economy • check • financial crisis • restaurant industry

Sagging Economy Is Bitter Dish for Restaurateurs

With 12-15% slump forecast in fine dining for '09, some close down, others plug deals

Jan 23, 09 12:55 PM CST
(Newser) - Lean times are perhaps leanest in the restaurant business, and fine-dining establishments are bracing for a particularly tough year while improvising strategies to remain afloat, the Wall Street Journal reports. Sales, $7 billion last year, are expected to plummet 12-15%; the industry could shed 12,000-18,000 restaurants, a 2-3%... More »

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gourmet dining • restaurant • fast food industry • dining • Jean Georges • financial crisis

GLOSSIES

 20 Best New Places to Dine 

Esquire's picks from all over the US

Oct 23, 08 3:13 PM CDT
(Newser) - After surveying restaurants across the US, Esquire gave the country props for its chops, proclaiming "the emergence of American cooking as the most diverse and most innovative in the world." It highlighted 20 favorite new restaurants of the year:
  1. L20 (Chicago): Overlook its Midwest locale; this place
... More »

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best restaurants • gourmet dining • list • restaurant • eating • dining

FOOD & WINE

Subtle Cabernets
Recall Napa's Heyday

Old-school wineries show 'balance and restraint'

Aug 20, 08 6:33 PM CDT
(Newser) - Forget "jammy fruit bombs" that crush the palate—subtle cabernets are making a comeback in Napa Valley. "You don’t hear much about these sorts of wines today," writes Eric Asimov in the New York Times. While critics swoon over rich, oaky cabernets, a few wineries... More »

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wine • dining • Napa Valley • cabernet sauvignon • vineyard

 How to Spot Overpriced Wines 

Experts explain pricing and weigh in with ways to save

Aug 16, 08 10:26 AM CDT
(Newser) - Why does a bottle of wine cost $100 at one restaurant and three times that at the bistro down the block? The Wall Street Journal asked wine experts to decipher vino pricing and offer tips for finding the best deals. The results: Expensive wines often mean better value, as... More »

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Wall Street Journal • wine • restaurant • deal • price • dining

FOOD & WINE

 Greek Whites
 'Smack of Sunshine'

Unpretentious pleasures for aficianados who branch out

Aug 6, 08 1:29 PM CDT
(Newser) - In honor of the Olympics, Eric Asimov set out to rediscover Greece's white wines for the New York Times. He found whites just subtly different from the made-to-be-drunk young bottles of Italy and Spain, fermented from "unfamiliar, indigenous grapes grown nowhere else." The moschofilero varietal dominated the... More »

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New York Times • wine • Greece • critic • reviews • dining

Opinion

 The Perils of Opening
 an Indian Restaurant—in India 

Pan-Indian cuisine struggles to curry favor with regional tastes

Jun 12, 08 3:10 PM CDT
(Newser) - Modern Indian restaurants bent on messing with millennia-old recipes must "coax Indians into accepting the changes they make with beloved dishes," or continue to face the wrath of the "Authenticity Police," writes Shoba Narayan in Gourmet after an evening spent analyzing the paneer at Bangalore's upscale... More »

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food • India • gourmet dining • dining • spicy food • traditions • Indian cuisine • Suvir Saran

COMMENTARY

 Cooks Dish Up
 Recipes for Distress 

Culinary types find some foods too daunting to dish

Jun 5, 08 1:28 PM CDT
(Newser) - Obscure ingredients, tedious techniques, and absurdly complex prep—cooks say some recipes push them to the boiling point. Any step too impractical, time-consuming, or just plain unpalatable can make even the most accomplished cooks hang up their aprons, writes Kim Severson in the New York Times. Even food critics... More »

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cooking • recipes • dining • gourmet • top chefs

OPINION

 Salty Ramsay 
 Marinates in Hypocrisy 

Push for local, seasonal food in UK restaurants has critics roasting TV chef

May 18, 08 11:58 AM CDT
(Newser) - Borrowing some of Gordon Ramsay's favorite vulgarities, Rob Lyons lashes out at the famous chef's push for British restaurants to use seasonal, local foodstuffs. "There have been plenty of people lining up to point out the hypocrisy of Ramsay’s position," Lyons writes in spiked, pointing to observations... More »

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locally grown movement • local produce • dining • Gordon Ramsay • Hell's Kitchen

commentary

Dollar-Store Dining Possible in Big Apple

Creative cooks can find big value, bigger flavor at bargain grocers

Mar 27, 08 5:42 PM CDT
(Newser) - Grocery-shopping in New York City takes a hefty toll on one’s pocketbook, Henry Alford writes in the New York Times, but at 99-cent stores, more diamonds in the rough exist than one might expect. Alford embarked on a challenge: to craft a week's worth of meals made mainly from... More »

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food • budget lifestyle • New York City • eating • money management • save money • dining • groceries • grocery stores

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