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HARRISONBURG —Taste of Downtown, the biannual restaurant showcase, is here again.  From August 18th through the 20th, downtown restaurants will create and offer multi-course meals that show off their culinary creativity; from Ethiopian spreads to Greek samplers to all-American cuisine.  These menus offer a wide choice of budget-friendly dining options in every setting from fine dining to burger-bar

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Restaurants Form Downtown Dining Alliance; 5 New Dining Establishments to Open

A few years ago my husband, Mike, went with his Taiwanese friend to an authentic Chinese/Taiwanese restaurant in Rockville.  Rockville has a HUGE Chinese/Taiwanese population (Quick note: Taiwanese people identify as being Taiwanese rather than Chinese.  They have a strong cultural identity that is different from the Chinese.  There has been some confusion with the Census numbers because some Taiwanese-Americans did not mark their ethnicty as Chinese, thus skewing the population counts.  The population is likely larger than the Census indicates.) Over 30% of the people in Rockville are Chinese/Taiwanese.    Aside from California and Hawaii, this area has the largest Chinese/Taiwanese population in America.  And what does that mean for you and me?  Amazing restaurants!  So Mike raved about this place that his friend, Andy, took him to.  Went on and on about how amazing it was but he couldn’t remember the name of it.  “We’ll have to ask Andy.”  Finally one day Mike remembered to ask Andy.  What was the name of this place that my husband, Mike, couldn’t remember?  Michael’s Noodles.  That cracked me up. Michael’s Noodles is tucked away in a corner of an unassuming strip mall on Darnestown Road. (Never heard of Darnestown Road?  Right.)  The restaurant is very small, but is plenty nice.  This place is definitely not a hole in the wall.  We went on a Friday night and were probably the third table there.  By the time we left there were a few more, but the place was by no means crowded

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My biggest travel dreams are often set in the most exotic locations: a week on a miniscule island in the Maldives or kayaking in Patagonia, Chile. These travel aspirations are wonderful for a bit of daydreaming, but for many travelers may have been put on the backburner because of the current economic climate. Luckily, America is a big, wide, diverse country with plenty of our own culture and exciting destinations to offer: if we remember to infuse them in our travel plans

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Backyard Special: Welcome to Texas

A Fall & Winter Free Dining Promotion is a new and wonderful thing! Dine at Walt Disney World Resort for Free in September, October, November, and December ~ Must be booked by September 26 th , 2009 ~ Please contact us as soon as possible using our online form: http://www.buildabettermousetrip.com/quoterequest.php .  We would like to have all of your reservation information complete so that we can move on your behalf immediately now that the offer is available to the general public. Please include the names of everyone in your party, the ages of the kids, and your travel dates

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Magic Your Way Package FREE Dining Promotion for September 29th – December 17th, 2009

On Monday night, my cousins stayed with us on their way to Auburn from DC.  While trying to determine where to go for dinner, the Husband and I went back and forth about whether to go to a new restaurant or one of our favs.  We end up choosing a fav but a new location for the two of us: Brixx in Dilworth. When we arrived it was pretty busy so we decided to sit outside even though it was in the 90s.  To cool us off, we all decided to get a beer.  The Husband and I love all of the options that Brixx offers (and each location has a slightly different selection). The four of us were pretty hungry, and while many of us contemplated getting the Brixx Salad, we decided to get the Wood Fired Pita Chips and Three Dips

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Brixx in Dilworth

East Village : Trusted Eater sources reveal that the ownership of East Village bar and Southern food oasis The Redhead believes they spotted New York’s Most Wanted , future Times restaurant critic Sam Sifton in there this week. It would be surprising if the man came out of the gate making a star out of some already beloved bar food, but perhaps he’s just eating around town, comparing fried chickens and the like. How they made him?

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Spotting the Siftonator Spotted: Future Critic at the Redhead?

Welcome to First Word, wherein Eater and its correspondents sit for hours at steamy community board meetings to bring back the first word of new establishments and what they’re up to. Your reports from the field always encouraged to tips@eater.com . Last night, Community Board 2 members, restaurant owners, a slew of attorneys and concerned citizens met in an NYU classroom to hash it out over area businesses’ applications for State Liquor Authority licensing

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First Word: Seafood at Bar Q, Antik Goes Private

Wednesday, August 12, 2009 | Daily Podcast Episode #1,220 ABOVE: Today is Day 6 of the 17-day Indiana State Fair MercyMe and Jeremy Camp in Concert at the State Fair Farmers’ Market at the Indianapolis City Market Crue Fest 2 at Verizon Wireless Music Center WFMS Fair Train at the Fishers Train Station Day 6 of the 153rd Indiana State Fair at the Fairgrounds Indianapolis Indians Baseball at Victory Field Devour Downtown at 30+ Indianapolis Restaurants Indianapolis Colts Training Camp in Terre Haute Visual Fringe 2009 on Massachusetts Avenue Indy Parks Sand Adventure at Garfield Park Arts Center Free publicity for your upcoming events! Submit an event .

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Things to do in Indianapolis on 8/12/2009

The former Pease Air Force Base is now home to a magnitude of different businesses (quite the model for successfully redeveloping a military base), including the Red Hook Brewery.  I’ve heard that the original design of the Portsmouth, NH location used the same design as the existing location in Seattle, WA in order to save money on engineering/design costs, and so the building is built to sustain severe earthquakes.  Can anyone confirm or deny this fact? This shot was taken of the brewery from a spot on the tour behind a glass panel.  I decided to help myself to a solo tour since I missed the official Catapult Seacoast event.  Perhaps a Smuttynose or Portmsouth Brewery tour is next?  I’m now accepting invitations!

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Redhook Brewery | Portsmouth, NH

by William Pilgrim In response to the hysteria generated by the novel influenza A (H1N1) virus, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) urges workers, “if you have symptoms of influenza-like illness, stay home for 7 days after symptoms begin or until you have been symptom-free for 24 hours, whichever is longer .” The CDC’s advice to employers? Encourage sick employees to stay away from the workplace and to “provide flexible leave policies.” Unfortunately, it is estimated that nearly 90 percent of restaurant workers are afforded no paid sick leave.  That may soon change if the Healthy Families Act, awaiting approval in the House and Senate, is finally passed. In the United States alone, “40,617 confirmed and probable infections… have been identified by CDC and state and local public health departments,” since the first case of novel influenza A H1N1 was reported on April 17, 2009.  As October draws closer, ushering in the beginning of the flu season, more and more workers will be faced with the choice of missing work (and potentially being fired) or going to work sick

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New Bill in Congress May Help Sick Workers

I as devastated when my mom told me a few months ago that a restaurant called Camp House Grill was officially closing it’s doors.  Given it wasn’t the finest establishment (the last time I ate there they gave me a styrofoam cup with lipstick on the rim), the food was out of control good.  I always used to get their chicken sandwich, spicy fries and end it all with a slice of their heavenly banana cream pie.  No Camp House Grill = no more banana cream pie, and I’ve been on the hunt for a recipe similar to theirs ever since. This wasn’t any ordinary banana cream pie however.  The crust was made of grahm crackers, on which they put a layer of chocolate, and then the banana filling (which is the secret: I could swear it was just whipped bananas, no pudding or gelatin of any sort mixed in), topped with fresh whipped cream.  If anyone has a recipe similar to this please, please share!!!  My happiness literally depends on it

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On The Hunt: Banana Cream Pie Recipe

We got up bright and early on day 2 to take the train to Versailles.  This was my third trip to Paris but my first visit to Versailles so I was really excited!  Versailles is really a must-see on the Paris itinerary. It’s the epitome of gorgeous, romantic, grand, decadent, and breathtaking French architecture.  We opted out of the audio tour because we had downloaded free podcasts from Rick Steves before we left for Paris (actually, Jeff did all the work…hurray for the hubs!).  Also, we were very unimpressed with the King Tut audio tour at the De Young museum so at this point I was a bit wary of another lame, overpriced audio tour.  I was pretty impressed with Rick Steves’ Versailles podcast – it served as a pretty good guide and gave us a good overview.  He doesn’t go into that much detail and at times he seems to offer more of his own random opinions and comments versus actual historically accurate facts but for the most part, I like his podcasts.  Also, his podcasts are meant to be a supplementary resource to his guidebook so there’s probably more comprehensive information there.

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Day Two in Paris

Royal Sonesta Hotel New Orleans When you’re out late in the evening along Bourbon Street (or maybe early in the morning) and the desire for a little sit-down with a few dozen oysters on the half shell overcomes you, just follow the big yellow neon “Desire” sign to of the most famous – and most photographed – restaurant in New Orleans.  The street car named Desire doesn’t stop there, but you should. ( Map ) Desire Oyster Bar is more bistro than restaurant

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Desire Oyster Bar – New Orleans

Here’s the thing, whenever someone tells me they are headed to the health food store or even a “healthy” restaurant I am always so thrilled – BUT I’m a little nervous for them as well. I say this because even though you’re in a natural, organic, healthy restaurant or a health food store DOES NOT mean that everything they sell is healthy! This really is a common misconception and you shouldn’t feel like you’ve been mislead, because these stores and restaurants try to cater to all types of people – mainly health nuts but others as well. What I can suggest is to ask lots of questions! When you’re at a restaurant ask how your dish is prepared, the ingredients that are used and any other question that you feel is fit.

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Don’t Let "Healthy" Food Mislead You

  You want to know something that repeatedly frustrates me?  I will read a great review of a restaurant in our area.  Inevitably, because I live in the most recession proof place that ever, that typically equals someplace really freakin expensive.  I wait alllll year till I have a special occasion to go to said restaurant, and the food is just good – but not great.  And I live for great restaurants.  The price tags and reviews in this situation should equate to great food, but most often it doesn’t.  I took my husband out for his birthday to a place downtown called BLT Steak.   I had high hopes, I had read about the chef, Laurent Tourondel, previously opening several well-received restaurants in New York City.  And I figured, hey if it is good enough for New York, it is good enough for me!  And there is nothing my man loves more than a really good piece of steak.  So it looked promising from the outset – nice mellow décor, and the menu even included a detailed diagram of a cow and where all the meat comes from!  Neat!  Not so neat – it also referred to the cow as a carcass.    Sick.  So it was time for the meal.  Our bread came – popovers that were burnt.  They did give us free pate though!  Score!  But I was the only one who ate it!  Such commoners I associate myself with!  The steak was served on steaming griddles which I liked, but my husband (who not only really likes himself a steak, but he prefers it bleeding at the same time – that’s right, alpha male!) had a rather well-done steak despite his “rare” request.  The sides are pretty small and not conducive to sharing, despite the fact they cost extra.  Eh, in this economy, we won’t be back.

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Everyone’s a Critic (Especially me!)

it’s time for another installment of fab finds — my recurring feature on all things fancy and fun, stylish and special, delicious and delightful! today i wanted to zero in on in a handful of VERY random things i love that happen to be local (within 20 minutes, anyway…) to me! if you’re semi-local as well, you are in luck. take advantage of these wonderful things and thank me later! if you have a few more miles between you and soCal, i have to say the weather is fine and isn’t it about time you took a little vacation??

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Frank and reporter John Berman [Steve Fenn] People, get ready to change that desktop background. In case the Publisher’s Weekly Bruni mug (the smirking Brunz) wasn’t enough, Nightline sends over a still from the special they’re running on the man on August 19. And for some additional fun, a choice quote pulled from the piece on Franktastic’s pet peeves: I hate it when servers use incredibly stilted language…I hate that common phrase in a restaurant, you know, “are you done working on that?” As if you’re chiseling away at a sculpted piece of marble

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Countdown Bruni: How About Another Look at This Guy?

Loved this list, courtesy of the Consumerist . And in case you were wondering, here are the calorie counts for these cleverly named items: Chili’s Quesadilla Explosion Salad: 1,270 calories Applebee’s Chicken Parmesan Tanglers: 319 calories Cheesecake Factory’s Weight Management Asian Chicken Salad: 571 calories P.F. Chang’s Hot Fish: 960 calories Cracker Barrel’s Uncle Herschel’s Favorite: n/a Friendly’s Super Sizzlin’ Sausage Sunrise: 690 calories Outback Steakhouse’s Chocolate Thunder From Down Under: 1,220 calories

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Seven Restaurant Dishes Too Embarrassing to Order by Name

I recently stumbled across this website that has lots of cool information on Richmond.  It has information on what’s happening around town, where to eat, sightseeing places and much more.  http://allinrichmond.com/ If you live in Richmond already, you may find some things to do that you may not have known about.  If you live outside of Richmond, you never know what new things you might discover here.  The site has an itinerary that you can follow for a weekend.  Definitely worth checking out. allinrichmond.com ~ PFu

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Scruby's BBQ in Davie Baked Beans with Pulled Pork Chicken, Ribs, Garlic Toast, and Sweet Potato My Plate- A Sampling of Everything Jamie says:  My all-time favorite BBQ restaurant is Scruby’s BBQ.  When I was younger, I went to the Pembroke Pines location with my family and Grandparents.  We now try to go to the Davie location at least once when we come home from school.  When you walk into the restaurant, the first thing you see is the big open pit grill with meats cooking to perfection; the first thing you smell, is the aroma of quality smoky BBQ.  For some of the best meat, I recommend their baby back ribs ribs, chicken breast, and pulled pork.  They are moist and incredibly flavorful.  On the table, they offer many bottles of BBQ sauces to choose from.  I always top my meat with the sweet BBQ sauce- it is my favorite.  For side dishes, their baked beans, garlic toast, and sweet potato with cinnamon sugar butter are all outstanding.   Although we just went, I can’t wait to go back.  http://www.scrubysbbqcatering.com/a_locations.html

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Scruby’s BBQ