L.A.'s Crush On Rush
Geography-based themes are proven winners in the restaurant business, with the idea being to name your operation after a place that has a better climate...
Menu Trends: Delicious Daybreak
Many customers say breakfast is their favorite meal of the day. That's understandable, when you consider ideas like the ones several chefs have shared...
2009 Trends: What's Hot for '09
Restaurants have taken a big hit in the last year, and the financial blues driving the falloff in restaurant spending aren't going to be cured anytime...
Fine Dining, But It's Flexible
Even though we know Lettuce Entertain You Enterprises owned Chicago's Nacional 27, it always seemed to be Randy Zweiban's place. He had been executive...
Betting on Buddha
Everything connected with David Overton's first two concepts, The Cheesecake Factory and Grand Lux Cafe, is big: their menus (200-plus items at Cheesecake;...
Tricked-Out Tables Take Off
Guests can do it all from their tables at Asian-fusion restaurant Inamo, which opened in London last month. Make that with their tables, each of which...
Welcome to the Club
This is no time to be shy with your guests. To ride out the current economic doldrums and beat out the competition, you need to enlist their loyalty,...
The Voice of Vodka
Do you have your own vodka brand? If not, you probably know someone who does. Even Jimi Hendrix has a vodka brand: Why should vodka ownership be restricted...
A Trip You'll Want to Take
It's every aspiring chef's dream to do a stage (i.e., an apprenticeship) in Europe's finest restaurant kitchens. Or, barring that, to attend the cream...
Soda-licious
House-made sodas are back For much of my lifetime, progress was marked by how fast or easy a task could become. Automated bank teller machines, drive-through...
A Hidden Segment Revealed
Memorable books result when a crackerjack writer/reporter meets a juicy topic. Which is what took place when Jennifer Lee wrote The Fortune Cookie Chronicles:...
My Last Supper: 50 Great Chefs and Their Final Meals
By Melanie Dunea; Bloomsbury, $39.95 Dunea is a terrific photographer, and she was able to persuade 50 high-profile chefs (Thomas Keller, Ferran Adria,...
Commander's Wild Side
By Ti Adelaide Martin and Tory McPhailWilliam Morrow, $29.95 Who better than the co-owner and executive chef of New Orleans' legendary Commander's Palace...
Dining in Hi-Def
We're not sure he needed one, but Dean Corbett came up with a dandy gimmick for his new Corbett's An American Place restaurant in Louisville. Thanks to...
Afterparty at an Upscale Chain? Why Not?
Can a chain restaurant seem like a cool hangout, even when it has 200-plus units that stretch from coast to coast? That's the goal polished casual seafood...
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