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Bakers’ Square

by Amy Halloran October 20, 2011

On a bright, warm September Sunday, people stroll and shop amid the ring of tents and vendors that constitute the farmers market in the park behind Hubbard Hall in Cambridge. Some of them wander over ...

Under the Tuscan Sunset

by B.A. Nilsson October 13, 2011

Ca’ Mea Ristorante, 333 Warren St., Hudson, 822-0005, camearestaurant.com. Serving lunch noon-3 Tue-Sun, dinner 5-10 Tue-Sat, 5-9 Sun. AE, MC, D, V Cuisine: Northern Italian Entrée price range: $17 (spinach-ricotta ravioli) to $25 (New York strip) Ambiance: charming, ...

For the Love of a Gadget

by B.A. Nilsson October 6, 2011

Earlier this year, the BBC aired a TV feature in which Stephen Fry looked at what he considers to be the hundred greatest gadgets ever invented. Not surprisingly, quite a few of them involved the ...

Retro Contemporary

by B.A. Nilsson September 28, 2011

The Standard, 1 Crossgates Mall Road, Albany, 452-7007, standardalbany.com. Serving 11-11 Sun-Thu, 11-Midnight Fri-Sat. AE, D, MC, V. Cuisine: mix of old and new Entrée price range: $9 (chop-house burger) to $34 (Standard bone-in beef filet) Ambiance: Prefab ...

Local Farm and Food Directory

by The Staff September 22, 2011

Bakeries Bella-Napoli Italian Bakery, 672 New Loudon Road, Latham, 793-0196; 721 River St., Troy, 274-8277. Assorted breads, cookies, pastries. Berkshire Mt. Bakery, Inc., 367 Park St., Housatonic, Mass., (413) 274-3412. Breads, pizza crusts, cookies, toast crackers. Bountiful Bread, ...

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Be Amazed

by B.A. Nilsson September 15, 2011

Sushi X Lounge, 710 New Loudon Road, Latham, 713-4102, sushixlounge.com. Serving lunch 11:30-4 Mon-Fri, dinner 11:30-10 Mon-Thu, 11:30-11 Fri-Sat, noon-10 Sun. AE, D, MC, V. Cuisine: Japanese Entrée price range: $20 (Mon-Thu), $22 (Fri-Sun) Ambiance: colorfully unique Picture your ...

The Chips Are Up

by B.A. Nilsson September 7, 2011

Lil’ Britain, 116 North St., Bennington, Vt., 802-442-2447, lilbritain.com. Serving 11:30-8 Tue-Sat. D, MC, V. Cuisine: classic pub fare Entreé price range: $4 (chip butty) to $11 (seafood combo & chips) Ambiance: bright and friendly London’s first fish-and-chips shop ...

Hamming It Up

by B.A. Nilsson August 31, 2011

Panzur Restaurant and Wine Bar, 69 Broadway, Tivoli, 845-757-1071, panzur.com. Serving dinner 5:30-9 Tue-Thu, 5:30-10 Fri-Sat. AE, D, MC, V. Cuisine: Spanish-inspired modern Entrée price range: $8 (tortilla Espanola) to $23 (New York strip) Ambiance: artistic bistro There’s evidence ...

A Rare Cut

by B.A. Nilsson August 25, 2011

The Raindancer Restaurant, 4582 State Highway 30, Amsterdam, 842-2606, raindancerrestaurant.com. Serving 11:30-close Mon-Sat, 12:30-close Sun. AE, D, MC, V. Cuisine: American steakhouse Entrée price range: $9 (Raindancer burger) to $40 (king crab legs) Ambiance: charmingly rustic In my neck ...

Fair Trade

by Amy Halloran August 17, 2011

Tequila infused with strawberries and raspberries. Spicy dill pickles. Jalapeño jelly. Peach-raspberry crisp. Granola. Pesto. Smores. Whoopie pies and a dozen eggs. What’s this, a shopping list? Nope. These are the things people brought to ...

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A Summer Tradition

by B.A. Nilsson August 10, 2011

If you live in, grew up near or frequently visit the Burden Lake area, you’re already nodding your head in anticipation of a good review of a place you revere. That’s what it is. That’s ...

Puppy Love

by B.A. Nilsson August 3, 2011

Summer in Saratoga: It’s a gamble. Will there be a parking space? Can you tolerate such a crush of hoi polloi? Will you find a seat at a restaurant? Once there, can you get service? ...

New Life

by B.A. Nilsson July 27, 2011

Chubby Sperry was a Saratoga fixture in the 1930s, a racehorse owner who also characterized the social scene as Prohibition drew to a close. While I’m in no position to affirm what his namesake restaurant ...

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The Omnivore’s Delight

by Amy Halloran July 20, 2011

"Can we put it here?” a woman asks a vendor at the Saratoga Farmers Market on a Saturday in July.The vendor is Jeff Bowers of Sweet Spring Farm in Argyle. He keeps 35 goats on ...

Food & Drink – Best of 2011

by The Staff July 14, 2011

Best Restaurant Café Capriccio 49 Grand St., Albany Newly added to the Café’s menu of northern Italian-inspired specialties is true Neapolitan pizza, a flatbread variety baked in an old-world oven. Otherwise, the menu features handmade ravioli, the chef’s ...

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Simply Delicious

by Laura Leon July 6, 2011

Tucked toward the back of a pedestrian alley (in what locals call “the mews”) next to the more grandiose Red Lion Inn is a small gem of a restaurant called Once Upon a Table. With ...

Oven Lovin’

by B.A. Nilsson June 29, 2011

The oven is an arresting sight. It’s Le Panyol Model 120, if you want to get technical about it, from a French company that dates back to the 1840s and specializes in refractory earthenware products ...

Spring Roll Dynasty

by B.A. Nilsson June 22, 2011

We were waiting for spring rolls. Not any spring rolls, but the legendary ones we all discovered at Kim’s Dragon, a wonderful Vietnamese restaurant on Route 20 heading into ...

Mediteroccan Logic

by B.A. Nilsson June 15, 2011

Fez is the nearly two-year-old brainchild of chef Niels Nielsen, whose Albany tie-in is a stint he served as chef at New World Bistro Bar when it opened. But he’s also been in the Saugerties-area ...

For the Whole Gang

by B.A. Nilsson June 8, 2011

Sometimes you turn a corner and lose most of your bearings. It could be a plaza in a foreign country where you don’t recognize the dialect spoken around you. Or ...

Summer Recipes

by The Staff June 2, 2011

Cilantro Pesto Amy Halloran 2 cups fresh cilantro, leaves and stems 1/2 cup sunflower seeds 1/4 cup sesame seeds 3-6 cloves garlic 2 Tbsp. olive oil 1 Tbsp. sesame oil 1 Tbsp. rice vinegar 1 tsp. salt Chop cilantro, seeds, and garlic in food processor. ...

Nature’s Candy

by Amy Halloran June 1, 2011

Summer to me is trapping the sunlike shape and flavor of peaches in jars. In the years I’ve missed the ritual of buying a case of peaches and turning them into jam, the season felt ...

Out of the Garden and into the Fire

by B.A. Nilsson June 1, 2011

Nothing brings out the flavor of a costly cut of meat like charcoal grilling, but I’m enough of a pinchfist to be distressed by the amount of coals and grill space I waste each time ...

Chicken Riot

by B.A. Nilsson May 25, 2011

"Pio pio” is what a Spanish chick says, as you know if you’ve joined the United Farm Workers Union in singing “De Colores.” It would translate as “cheep cheep,” which isn’t so evocative as a ...

Mr. Pio-Pio

Under the Cedar Tree

by B.A. Nilsson May 19, 2011

My family’s civilian (non-reviewing) dining strategy is to seek, as I indelicately put it, “some hole in the wall.” Which is understood to mean a place where the food is interesting and the people friendly. ...

Beirut Restaurant

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