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Recently, about a dozen LA and Orange County Food Bloggers and Writers were invited to a 2 day event put together by Lee Healey of Lee Healey Marketing Communications and hosted by both Lee and Debra Gunn Downing, Executive Director of Marketing of South Coast Plaza . The event centered around dining experiences at 5 restaurants as well as checking out a high end kitchen and cooking store. Since I hardly ever go down Orange County way, this was my first experience with all the places we visited and it was nice to find such great eating options down South.

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South Coast Plaza Food Blogger Event

As a part-time DJ and Karaoke Host in Chicago, I spend a lot of time hanging around the bar/club scene, and I’ve befriended many bartenders and servers over the years. When we’re having a particularly slow night, we’ll sit at the end of the bar together, sip some pops (aka sodas) and gab about “bar life.” The other night, I started chatting about tips with my bartender friend Heather. In the United States, it is customary to tip a bartender/server/cabbie/etc.

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Leaving tips in other countries: UK

(This is an ad.) Venezia in Style Truly Venice invites you to experience the iconic city of Venice by living like a local – renting a truly Venetian apartment, not an impersonal hotel room or a standard tourist flat, but a real home away from home. Plan now! What are you waiting for? September and October are the perfect months for visiting this unique city, the Biennale D’Arte and the International Film Festival are on, the climate is stable and mild, the city is flourishing with events and interesting people.

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Live Like a Local with Truly Venice

The Japan Blog List サービス: 優れて非常に暖かい 設備: 素晴らしいwashroom,全面的に非常に綺麗 値段: 良い 特徴: 非常に新鮮な静岡県産の材料が多い。野菜が素晴らしい。季節の材料しか使用されていない。 Tetsuya Sugimoto/杉本哲也がついに新しい店を開きました！ 本当に自分がうれしくてしょうがない！長い間を待てたからね！ メニュがまだまだ研究中ですからとりあえず今回自分と友達（別々で食べに行った！）の写真で”仮紹介”させていただきます！ ご心配なく来週又行きますから本格のきじを描きます！ 僕の写真: ————– 友達の写真: Tetsuya SUGIMOTO ４２０－００３８静岡市葵区梅屋２－１３，１Ｆ Tel./Fax: 054-251-3051 営業時間：１１：３０～１４：３０，１７：３０～２１：３０ 定休日：水曜日 ————————- 英語を読めれば次のブログを是非ご覧になって下い！ Shizuoka Sake Shizuoka Shochu Shizuoka Sushi Sizuoka Gourmet

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フランス料理：Tetsuya SUGIMOTO/テツヤ。スギモト（前取材）

I know people who know people! (yay – yes I can now say such things – who would have thunk it ??  Little ole me?) And that little treasure of information had me across from a ramp, watching the most beautiful girls and guys strut their stuff (although not very happily at times) on the runway, sitting below a girl on a swing – wearing very little as well as massively delicious dominatrix heels. (You had to be there!) They played Madonna’s “Celebrate”  among other 80’s tunes and it was very difficult to sit still in my seat or keep the smile off my face. It was rather peculiar to see with my own eyes – that misery and boredom was a look not only worn by the models but by the spectators themselves

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Heart on the bench

Crispy Skin Mountain Trout with apricot vinaigrette Trout makes the perfect vehicle for showcasing crisp skin.  Delicate and thin, the trout’s skin browns nicely and adds another element of texture.  The tasty golden bits are perfectly matched with roasted cashews and apricot.  This was our favorite dish of the night. Veggie Loaf with quinoa and pecan romesco on a bed of roasted cauliflower, sun-dried tomatoes and shitake mushrooms While this might not be the prettiest dish, it is incredibly rich and satisfying.  The serving is extremely generous bordering on ginormous.  And, Leon’s pecan romesco turns this roasted cauliflower into a vegetable that I’d happily eat every day. Golden Brown Halibut with shaved zucchini and summer squash Rich with butter, thyme and lemon, the slight bitterness of the zucchini was a pleasant distraction that held its own next to the halibut

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Leon’s Full Service

Business Showcase - October 15, 2009   This year we are combining our Women in Business Showcase and the Business Showcase into one.  There will be a prize given to the attendee who successfully finds all businesses that have a woman as a primary owner / partner.  In the event of a tie, we will draw a winner from those attendees that answered correctly.  The prize will be a one year membership to the Lakes Region Chamber of Commerce and can be used towards a renewal membership or a new membership.

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2009 Business Showcase

D.C. “Fete Select TV” Crenshaw, NBC5 Street Team Sooo many restaurants to try and sooo little time to try them.  In-fact, most of us get so caught up going to the same restaurants week after week that we forget about the fine dining options that the city has to offer.  One particular example is Aria, located in the Fairmont Hotel.  The New World Asian restaurant offers a contemporary twist on conventional dining.  Chef de cuisine Ronnie Aleman prepared a meal that was memorable and that deserves to be revisited

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A Meal To Remember

FiDi: It’s been just over a week since avant-garde dessert man Will Goldfarb opened up his barbeque trailer Picnick, Smoked in Wall Street Park. In that short time, the place has been totally swarmed : people have gleefully submitted themselves to endless waits on steamy summer days (fully accepting that there might not be any food left by the time they get their orders in) just to get a taste of mad scientist Goldfarb and partner Kevin Pomplun’s Kobe beef brisket, pulled pork, and Bobo Farms smoked chicken.

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Good News/Bad News: Picnick, Smoked

If the following story sounds like it’s ripped straight from the Onion , it’s because it’s absurd enough to belong there. Just weeks after high end Chinese restaurant chain Mr Chow accused the owner of competitor chain Philippe of stealing recipes and intentionally confusing customers—it all came to a head when they opened across the street from each other in Miami— The Brooklyn Paper and Grub Street pick up a similar story…about two Brooklyn banh mi joints. Now with the banh mi explosion of the last year there was sure to be a flare up eventually

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Banh Mi Wars: Hanco’s Takes on Newcomer Henry’s

The hottest foodie craze to hit our little Houston foodie community is probably the Pho Binh trailer at I-45 south and Beltway 8.  Though it’s a good 30-40 minute drive from our house, we’ve made the trip down there for breakfast pho at least three times now.  Ok, you say, that’s nothing compared to the pho-natics who go every week, natch every day.  But may I remind you that I live with a (my mom calls him in a hushed voice, “very American”) stalwart who I have a difficult time dragging even to Houston chinatown?  And that’s at a reasonable hour for dinner.  For pho, I’m talking about a 40 minute drive for a foreign soup when we’re both hungover and cranky at 9 AM on a weekend.  When we’d both rather be sleeping in.  This stuff is good . My mom used to get pho all the time when I was growing up and I never understood the appeal.  Perhaps it was nostalgia, or maturing tastebuds, but as I got older I developed more of a taste for it.  Pho is a Vietnamese noodle soup based on a richly simmered broth, to which various meats and condiments are added.  Meats can include rare beef, brisket, fatty and lean flank, chicken, meatballs, tripe, tendon, and so forth.  The diner usually adds veggies to the hot broth to taste, which are softened and cooked in the broth.  These include mint, cilantro, basil, peppers, bean sprouts, and lime.  Of course, you can’t forget the siracha and oyster sauce that are also used to flavor the broth.

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We have had requests for more restaurant meal deals, so that will be the theme of this week on Bargains In Buckhead.  Chick-fil-A has two great promotions we want to share with you. For your instant quick Chik-Fil-A FREE  fix register your info on the “Chicken Wave” website here  to get your coupon for the original chicken sandwich.   Keep in mind this is limited to the first 250,000 people.   Your second chance for a FREE sandwich is on Labor Day.   Wearing your favorite team’s sports logo to participating restaurants earns you a free original chicken sandwich. Have a buckhead bargain restaurant promotion you would like us to feature email us at bargainsinbuckhead@gmail.com .

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Chick-FREE-LA

3720 Oak Street Vancouver, BC V6H2M3 Tel: (604) 737-7728 a panda’s crave for Japanese food leads to Hiroshi’s Creations on Oak street… eating with Miss Mushroom again as most of our friends are either in co- op /working or on vacation/overseas without us =( … we nearly missed this place as there was much construction on the outside… a panda and Miss Mushroom we found out today that  much of the coincidences in our lives, that we have the same family doctor that’s just up the street !! Well almost the same, what a small world !! By the time we arrived it was already a bit after 1:30 pm on a Friday afternoon and the place was packed!  All of the tables and chairs were in use, in addition to a couple of people waiting for their take out… despite that, there were only two people working at that time, the chef Hiroshi and a lady by the counter… Lucky while our slow brains was contemplating what to do, take out or just wait, the people sitting by the bar window left and we quickly sat down.

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Hiroshi’s Sushi Creations

L’Espérance 52, rue Abbé Alix 14 200 Hérouville-Saint-Clair France Reservations: +33 (0)2 31 44 97 10 Website Map Entrées around €10-15, Mains around €20, Set menu at €34 (3-courses + amuse bouche) or €40 (same menu + cheese, 1 glass of wine & 1 coffee) A lovely location with a high standard of food at very affordable prices A weekend in Normandy After hosting my wife’s nephew for a week in London, it was time to return him to his parents in Normandy. We decided to take the ferry from Portsmouth to Caen as this is the most direct route to their home, and left on the mid-afternoon boat two Fridays ago. On the Saturday night, Mrs.

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L’Espérance: A Star is Reborn Along the River

I am in the process of wrapping up my business day getting ready to head over to the Saddle Peak Lodge for the Foxen wine dinner when my phone rings, it’s Chris the Sous Chef, “Hey can you stop on your way in and pick up 10 cucumbers?”, “not a problem”, I say, thus dispelling any doubt I had that they might not know that I was coming in. I stop by Vons and pick up the cucumbers and am on my way.  On my drive over there I was thinking about what the menu was going to be and what I would be doing.

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Foxen Wine Dinner at Saddle Peak Lodge

My wife and I and our kids packed up the car and headed on Saturday night for the great city of Cincinnati.  Just about five hours from Chicago, Cincinnati is in Ohio, but only minutes from Indiana – which feels like Illinois – and from Kentucky – the South!  Reform Judaism is still big in this town, and the original HUC branch has been given a lease on life only recently, and the great Reform synagogue, the Isaac Wise Synagogue (formerly Plum Street Synagogue) is still glorious.  But I want to point out three highlights of this trip that highlight some exciting things from the Orthodox and Conservative movements. We went to a wedding at Adath Israel  Congregation, which has been led for the past 18 years by Rabbi Irvin Wise (Reb Irv).  You have to see this shul: I’ve seen a lot of shuls of all movements, but this shul is stunning because for a shul of 600 members (or so I was told) it is huge!  It has a Hebrew school building that would be reasonable for a nice sized day school; it has a parking lot bigger than Detroit, Motown Conservative synagogues, and there is a totally unused grassy lot next to the parking lot that is equally as large.  The shul is even more beautiful inside, with a six year, multimillion dollar renovation recently completed.  Stunning and contemporary stained glass windows in the sanctuary, granite counters in the bathrooms, with a combo of automatic faucets and manual ones as well, presumably for those who don’t use electricity on Shabbat.  There were rooms and rooms, and a huge social hall where each table had its own spotlight to shine on the centerpiece.  This shul is a living monument to the glory days of the Conservative movement.  I have no illusions that Adath Israel must have its challenges which affect all Conservative shuls, and especially in the Midwest, but I urge you to go to Cincinnati and see this shul, and you will be taken back 50 years to the days when it seemed that Conservative Judaism would lead all Jews into a beautiful future as proud Americans.  Again, we all know the difficulties all American Jews face, but especially the Conservative movement, but you won’t feel it when you go to a wedding at Adath Israel in Cincinnati.

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Rabbi Lopatin’s Travelblog: 24 hours in Cincinnati

I have be musing about the idea of gourmet ketchup for too many years now. It probably started in a college eatery in Pittsburgh, the Original Hot Dog Shop .  Students called it the “The O” and a large fry was literally the entire frier basked dumped over an ironically small paper basket.  These fries were frequently perfectly cooked and well-salted.  Needless to say, if you were going to gorge on that many fries in one sitting (and what self respecting college student could turn that many calories down?), you probably were going to eat some ketchup.  They had their own private label ketchup, but it didn’t taste like the thick, bright red, syrupy goop that I ate at home.  It was a deeper color, thinner and slightly spicier.  I wondered why people ate bad ketchup? Fast-forward some years, and I stumbled across Skillet Street Food in Seattle, WA.  So many have already sung its praises, I won’t go into details here (okay, I have to say that chopped sage on fries should not be missed.)  On my first visit, and most since, I’ve enjoyed their homemade ketchup.  Thinner than commercial ketchup and with a real tomato flavor, it re-invigorated my desire for the perfect ketchup.  I strongly suspect there is no one correct answer – different moods and foods will require different qualities.  The possibilities seem endless.

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Small Batch Ketchup

One of the best things about a big city is its variety of restaurants, so of course, before my recent jaunt I prepared a list of all the places I wanted to go eat. At the top of the list was an upscale vegan place with the unfortunate moniker, Fressen . In Germanic languages the word means “to devour feed like an animal.” I suppose they had their reasons for the name so I didn’t let the name put me off because Fressen has been named as one of the hippest vegetarian eateries in North America by VegNews.

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12 Things I Don’t Like About Restaurants

EAST VILLAGE — The Strongbuzz reports Ryan Bartlow, former sous chef at Tailor, is the new chef at Bar Carrera , the sister restaurant to Bar Veloce: “Bartlow is planning to upgrade the small plates menu to include more ambitious Spanish fare. He’s cooked in San Sebastian, Spain, where he worked in the kitchen of three star Michelin chef Pedro Subijana at his restaurant, Akelarre.” [Strongbuzz] WILLIAMSBURG — Off the Presses learns that Brooklyn Brewery is attempting to make a beer that tastes just like a Manhattan. [OTP] WILLIAMSBURG — Mexican favorite La Superior has launched its first ever ceviche week .

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EaterWire: Changes at Veloce, Ceviche at La Superior

An Italian restaurant has just opened up in Needham, replacing an upscale European and New American dining spot that closed earlier this year. The restaurant, which opened last week, is called Pomodoro, but it is apparently not related to the restaurants with the same name in the North End and Brookline, according to a Chowhound poster. Pomodoro opened last week in Needham Center, just east of the railroad tracks where Chapel Street and Chestnut Street meet Great Plain Avenue

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Pomodoro Opens in Needham