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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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I could happily eat Indian food every day for the rest of my life, but recently indulging my passion for curry either involved hunting for parking on Clinton Ave or fighting the swirl of suburban traffic in Henrietta to get my fix. When I heard that a new Indian place
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Those fine folks at the Federal Reserve are telling us that the recession, depression, or whatever you want to call it, is over. But everywhere you go these days people are talking about doing more with less, about economizing, about minimizing waste. Chefs and foodies are waxing lyrical about cheap
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I have a personal question for you. You don't have to answer out loud, but I want you to be honest with yourself. You like, really like, Egg McMuffins, don't you? It's OK. I won't tell anyone, but I can offer you a way to hold your head up high
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Donna Perlo knows almost everyone who sets foot in her East Rochester restaurant. She greets most of her regulars as they come in, others she catches on her rounds through the busy dining rooms. A few stop to chat with her as they juggle jackets and take-out containers on
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I went to Salt Lake City earlier this summer to attend a friend's Greek Orthodox wedding. I left home with visions of Greek excess dancing in my head: endless tables piled high with pita and dolmades, vast dishes full of tasty dips and spreads, fragrant roasting meats (maybe even a
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In recent years, restaurateurs seem to have decided that the secret to success is to create restaurants where the food, and only the food, matters. Almost all of the recent hit restaurants that I've had the occasion to review favorably, even enthusiastically, for their food and drink have suffered from
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Thai food in Rochester, I recently discovered, is a family affair. At various times in his life Sacksavanh Southinvongorath (Sak, for short) the owner and chef of Sak's Thai Cuisine on the outskirts of Fairport, has worked for his mother and father, who opened their first restaurant in the States
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I have no idea how large the kitchen at Rochester's newest upscale Italian restaurant might be, but the grill alone must be massive, the range must have 20 burners, and the ovens are probably large enough to double as hangars for small airplanes. There's no other way to explain the
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There's precious little for you to eat at Taste of Texas Bar-B-Q in Spencerport if you happen to be a vegetarian. There's only one salad on the menu, and that's a side salad served with an entrée that's long on meat and starch and short on the leafy green stuff
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Although you will never stumble on it by accident, Young's Korean Restaurant has been serving a steady stream of customers who have found their way to the nondescript building in an industrial park off Mushroom Boulevard in Henrietta for almost three years. And word has gotten out that there's something
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Jim Staffieri's father was a pizza man. So is his brother. And his uncle. Staffieri grew up in his father's pizza shop in Brooklyn. But he is a graphic artist. Or at least, that's what he went to college to do. Twenty-three years ago, having worked his way up to
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Normally, the success of a restaurant depends in large part on its location. A nice view, pleasant outdoor seating, and a sense of destination can help smooth out otherwise rough edges, leaving you with an overall sense of enjoyment, even excitement, about your meal. Triphammer Grill in High Falls definitely
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In our fair city, there are three viable take-out cuisines: pizza, Chinese food, and Indian take-away. Of the three, Indian is my favorite. After all, a day without curry is really just a day wasted. Maybe it's the subtle combination of flavors, maybe it's all that lovely sauce, maybe it's
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As the weather gets better, the prospect of setting out in search of adventure and a good meal assumes the stature of compulsion. Like Chaucer's pilgrims, who hit the road to Canterbury as soon as April's showers end, May brings out wanderlust in me. And so I put rubber to
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Mary Beth Brinkerhoff, a mother of three who lives in Avon, is shopping at Wegmans across from the Marketplace Mall. Her cart overflows with fresh vegetables, packets of flash-frozen mahi-mahi, a family pack of boneless, skinless chicken breasts, milk, ready-made stock, and a tin of her preferred organic tomatoes. On
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I am the only man in a room full of women. Our smiling server explains that you must put a tea strainer over your cup before you pour your tea. I listen carefully, and proceed to pour a cup full of tea and leaves. Five minutes later, I do it
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Once you find your way to Lincoln Avenue on the west side of the city, locating the new incarnation of Garfield Phillips' Natural Vibes restaurant is not much of a challenge. On a street lined with houses in shades of brown, grey, and red brick, Natural Vibes Jamaican
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The Chinese restaurants of my childhood were magical places. Dimly lit studies in scarlet and black with the glint of jade and gold here and there, they were the very definition of exotic. As I fumbled with my chopsticks and watched drinks in tiki glasses and ceramic pineapples and coconuts
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Until very recently, if you wanted a decent taco in Rochester, you had to wait until Saturday morning and hie yourself down to the Public Market. I was excited, then, when I found out that a new taqueria had opened to fill my need for good Mexican on the other
