If you’re in Australia today (Thursday) and you have access to Facebook, you could, if you were so inclined, join the 215 people who already said that they were going to an event called the ...
“Just coffee and a slice of toast, thank you. Oh, and perhaps a few grapes. I hate to disappoint the newspaper-reading public, but it'll be too early for the conventional hearty breakfast. The appointment is ...
Of course you can cook. All it takes is desire (which, in the world of food, wears the more appealing name “hunger”), practice and a hungry (which, in the world of socializing, is called “desirable”) ...
Nosh, 1645 Western Ave., Albany, 464-6674, noshdeli.com. Serving 10:30-9 Mon-Sat, 11-6 Sun. AE, D, MC, V.
Cuisine: NYC deli
Entrée price range: $4 (jumbo hot dog plate) to $14 (smoked salmon platter)
Ambiance: deli noir
A Jew, a Greek ...
Staff meal tells all you need to know about a restaurant. When the employees are fed with care and respect, when a family spirit is celebrated, a sense of well-being embraces everything about the place, ...
Food porn. Sounds kind of dirty, right? But if you're somebody who loves to cook, to serve food to others and, yes, to eat—because you can't be addicted to food porn if you don't do ...
Flores Family Restaurant, 1427 State St., Schenectady, 723-2281, floresfamilyrestaurant.com. Serving dinner 3-10 Mon-Fri, 11-10 Sat-Sun. D, MC, V.
Cuisine: Latin American
Entrée price range: $3 (chicken tamali) to $14 (steak and shrimp scampi)
Ambiance: muy casual
As Schenectady’s population ...
People generally are very firm on how they celebrate certain holidays, like, whether they open gifts on Christmas Eve or wait till Christmas morning, or whether they serve ham or lamb or both (guilty) on ...
The Art of the Restaurateur By Nicholas Lander
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The sound and fury of the Food Network can’t guarantee a good cookbook. What appeals to the goggle-eyed masses is ...
It’s a strip of solid buildings carved hollow by industry that blew away: Main Street in Gloversville is gray. It is populated by stores selling things that need new lives, like used clothes and jewelry, ...
Ranchero, 23 Main St., South Glens Falls, 636-5090, rancherosteakhouse.com. Serving dinner 4-9 Sun, Tue-Thu, 4-10 Fri-Sat. AE, D, MC, V.
Cuisine: Tex-Mex inspired
Entrée price range: 7 (burger) to $23 (ribeye steak)
Ambiance: Southwestern saloon
Just my luck. The ...
DA | BA, 225 Warren St., Hudson, 249-4631, dabahudson.com. Serving dinner 6-10 Mon-Sat. AE, D, MC, V.
Cuisine: Swedish-inspired fusion
Entrée price range: $5 (BLT) to $28 (arctic char Södermalm)
Ambiance: elegant casual
When it comes to restaurants, the ...
Back in the late 1990s, Don Lewis went to Lightning Tree Farm to buy organic feed for his chickens, and saw that Alton Earnhart was growing wheat. The farmer offered him a bag of flour, ...
More Perreca’s, 31 North Jay St., Schenectady, 377-9800, perrecasbakery.com. Serving 7 AM-8 PM daily.
Cuisine: Italian
Entrée price range: $10 (personal pizza) to $20 (Delmonico steak)
Ambiance: old-world casual
For a long time, it didn’t seem as if there ...
Santa Fe Restaurant, 52 Broadway, Tivoli, , santafetivoli.com. Serving dinner 5-9:30 Sun, Tue-Thu, 5-10:30 Fri-Sat. AE, D, MC, V.
Cuisine: Southwestern
Entrée price range: $14 (Enchiladas tipicos) to $21 (grilled ribeye)
Ambiance: colorful, easygoing
When I last wrote about ...
Here’s a Local Food Issue challenge (don’t worry, it will be fun): Go to your local Price Chopper (this may not work in all neighborhoods, so bear with me). Walk to the refrigerator aisle. Pass ...
Last Thursday night (Sept. 13) was a night to remember, though some parts may have gotten a little blurry. We hosted a little shindig on the Dutch Apple cruise lines and thanks to a little ...
In a perfect world, there would be no bacon. A perfect world, that is, for nutritionists and vegetarians. In a perfect world, there would be bacon galore. A perfect world for those who’ve succumbed to ...
Welcome back to class. As you know, the two volumes of Alcibiades ascribed to Plato are assumed to be spurious, and we’re not about to fight that opinion here except to note that the even ...
It was a scene you’d see near the end of an adventure epic, when the explorers finally break through to the treasure chamber and survey its long-neglected majesty. In this case, it was the kitchen ...
A bearded man in a straw hat, dark pants and suspenders drives his horses under the roof, but no one looks at him, or the boxes of produce on his wagon, yet. All eyes are ...
Marotta’s Bar-Risto, 611 Union St., Schenectady, 377-5100, marottasbar-risto.com. Serving 11:30-10 Mon-Thu, 11:30-11 Fri-Sat. AE, D, MC, V.
Cuisine: Italian with pizza
Entrée price range: $11 (pasta with meatballs) to $26 (filet mignon)
Ambiance: bistro
Schenectady has a new restaurant ...
