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RESTAURANT REVIEW: Enjoy

  Recently, my dining companions and I decided to take advantage of our unusually fine weather and make the trip out to Mendon Ponds Park to feed the chickadees. Halfway there, we realized that we didn't have any birdseed with us. A few minutes later, my 5-year-old dining companion observed, somewhat

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  Steak, on a plate: $32. Sides, salad, soup: extra, extra, extra. Service competent, but not inspired. Granted, the petite-cut of rib steak is a beautiful cut of meat, cooked exactly how a steak should be cooked - the exterior a deep, luscious brown, with fat crisped around the edge, the

Immigrant restaurants: a taste of home

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Immigrant restaurants: a taste of home

Romy Sial, owner of the Bombay Chaat House in Henrietta, is watching anxiously as I bite into a creamy, cardamom-scented ball of gulab jamun. A few moments ago, after I'd already eaten a plate of bhel puri (curried rice crispies topped with tamarind and mint chutneys, raita, and a generous

RESTAURANT REVIEW: Restaurants for the Lunar New Year

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RESTAURANT REVIEW: Restaurants for the Lunar New Year

  If you take your sweetie out for dinner on Valentine's Day, you might find yourself sharing restaurant space with lions. This year Valentine's Day - Sunday, February 14 - coincides with the first night of the Chinese New Year, and several Chinese restaurants are rolling out special menus and inviting

RESTAURANT REVIEW: Calabresella's, Martusciello's Bread

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RESTAURANT REVIEW: Calabresella's, Martusciello's Bread

The names of dishes on restaurant menus often tell stories. Peach Melba, that perennial banquet favorite, was named in honor of opera singer Nellie Melba, for whom uber-chef Auguste Escoffier cooked a banquet in 1892. The Caesar salad commemorates a particularly disastrous July 4th weekend in 1924 when the kitchen

RESTAURANT REVIEW: Natural Oasis Cafe

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RESTAURANT REVIEW: Natural Oasis Cafe

Recently one of our loyal readers, Joel Freedman, observed that my consistent advocacy of a diet replete with what I tend to think of as rich, creamy goodness is "little more than a recipe for obesity, diabetes, heart attacks, stroke, cancer, and dementia." I have been a bit forgetful lately.

RESTAURANT REVIEW: Ristorante Lucano

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RESTAURANT REVIEW: Ristorante Lucano

Saturday, 6:10 p.m. The sitter is late. My wife left 10 minutes ago, afraid that we'd lose our reservation. My 5-year-old dining companion, who is staying home tonight, is going ballistic because a) he has not napped, and b) he really wants the sitter, who he treats like a rock

RESTAURANT REVIEW: Tokyo Japanese Restaurant

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RESTAURANT REVIEW: Tokyo Japanese Restaurant

The wall just inside the front door of Tokyo Japanese Restaurant in Henrietta is covered with photographs of people sitting in front of empty basin-sized bowls, their faces flushed with the heat and exertion of taking the Miso Ramen Challenge. Eat a full bowl of the restaurant's incredibly spicy miso

RESTAURANT REVIEW: Palmer's Meat & Seafood Market

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RESTAURANT REVIEW: Palmer's Meat & Seafood Market

Palmer's is not a restaurant. At least, that's what General Manager Jay Cohen says. Standing in the middle of what looks like a rather spartan restaurant dining room at the end of a lunch rush one afternoon, Cohen maintains that Palmer's is a meat market that just happens to serve

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Anthony Bourdain, celebrity chef, author, and television personality, has made a career out of cultivating the image of a foul-mouthed blackguard. Whether he's slagging vegans, attacking ascendant Food Network stars, or choking down "Fear Factor"-type meals in exotic locations, Bourdain never fails to surprise, entertain, and even outrage his audience.

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