This week alone my food at two local eateries arrived, surprisingly, on heavy metal trays (see below). These are places that might otherwise have used good plateware given their style and relatively steep menu prices. Yet instead they employ an item that likely reminds people of the school cafeteria, prison or mess hall. Maybe trays instead of […]
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My Radio Day
I’ve been a WCPN listener for years. The National Public Radio affiliate provides Clevelanders with great programming, much of it focused on the city’s arts and culture. Last Tuesday I appeared on “The Sound of the Applause,” an arts program hosted by Dee Perry. The subject was the culinary arts and by clicking you can […]
Read MoreI’m a fan of Salvadoran food
A few years ago, after ordering them in a small Silver Spring, Md., restaurant, I became fond of pupusas, El Salvador’s national dish. Then when someone mentioned a restaurant in Cleveland made them, I hustled across town to the place. As I recall, the pupusas were fine, but other the items on the menu disappointed. I […]
Read MoreFive ways to behave in a restaurant
Jonathan Gold, the restaurant critic for the Los Angeles Times, recently laid out a restaurant’s responsibility to customers in a superb first paragraph to a review of redesigned Spago: The first responsibility of any great restaurant is to keep you in the bubble, the soft-serve cocoon of illusion where you forget the world exists for anything but […]
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