Bejamins very loud and steaks were grisely on our visit.
Wolfang again very loud.

How about Morton's midtown... good meat,excellent sides, good ambiance, have some fish....

Any one see any lilies of the valley at the Union Sq Greenmarket yet?

Setting up a wedding registry and jus thought I'd go with what my family has used for years which is All Clad LTD (stainless steel interior and dark exterior). Learned to cook on that and my mom's 30 year set still looks great. Now it looks like it's no longer available. Help! I like the stainless interior and the dark exterior. What brand comes close? As it is a wedding registry I was hoping to get the best and have it last for years and years.

Before the cake, either carrot or chocolate with white icing, want to do a show stopping dessert... caterer suggestions don't sound exciting though we will see and taste them before.... what did you eat for dessert at a wedding that you remember?

Traveling with adult son allergic to sesame seeds and tree nuts. Suggest upscale restaurants downtown where as much as possible is made from scratch. Ethnic like Asian or Indian are usually not an option. Italian works well, as do steakhouses or New American. Need 3 dinners.

What are the local supermarket chains. Would like to pick up Boars Head or Applegate turkey and bottled water. Will have a rental car.

Any delis you can suggest.

Thanks Milwaukeeians.

There is a great organization called FAAN, Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Network. They have a comprehensive website and offer advise on dealing with food allergies and will email you if some brand all of a sudden has contamination of a product. Beware of Asian restaurants, there are some dried shrimp in sauces. I think they also have a template for the allergy cards someone mentioned. Select Wisely has them with pictures and in many foreign langauges for travel.

Brother of the bride has tree nut and sesame allergies. Trying to also make the wedding kosher style, hence no dairy. Would love for son to be able to eat everything at the wedding. He's been to too many affairs where he ate before hand so as not to eat at the party. Chef willing to do kosher style (no shellfish,pork or dairy ) Suggest some pass around apps that would be good. Also an interesting salad or appetizer. The main course is fillet mignon or a choice of fish. Dessert is up for suggestion.
Give me something interesting. We'd love to make it a foodie event. Thanks all

Coming in to the Monaco near Wacker at about 10:30 PM. Any place nearby where we can get a decent dinner? Hate to resort to room service.....

La Cupola is horrendous. We were there fairly early and there was one other couple in the place. The food took forever to arrive and then was cold and congealed. The stone outside makes you think it is a classy place,but stay away. There is a better Italian just down the road towards Washington, Zini's that was pretty good. Mockingbird that was formerly Tollgate is good too, limited menu, very colonial decor, and locally sourced ingredients. Everything from Chinese dumplings to burgers and steak. Not overly priced either.

I appreciate the recipe but please remember the allergy problem in addition to kosher style. No tree nuts no sesame. I guess olive oil could be substituted for the sesame oil.

keep it coming. The caterer is not kosher and has lots of items on the menu that are nonkosher that we can't use. Going for kosher style and with the allergy limitations that becomes more difficult. My only choice of caterer at the Yale club was inhouse or Foremost.
I have been to too many horrible Foremost events to give them another try. Their food comes out of a factory in NJ and I don't trust them with the allergy problems on top of their icky food.

Caterer's selections are boring, but he is willing to get ideas and work with it. I guess off the shelf is possible, but if he is willing to make it, I should take him up on it. Just no nuts and sesame or dairy.

Planning daughter's wedding and need kosher style ideas for passaround cocktail hour food.
Also must be tree nut free (no pistachio, walnuts,hazelnuts,etc) and sesame free. Anything with a wow taste and presentation factor welcome. Thanks

Can anyone suggest a wedding venue for about 100 people that had great food? Manhattan preferred but can do outer boroughs if necessary.

Zeeburger is no more. Replaced with BuildaBurger or Bildaburger... haven't tried it yet.

Best steak closest to Atlantic Ave (near Convention Center). Also any other upscale in the area. Prefer not to go all the way to Norfolk....Thanks

What is the best steakhouse in Virginia Beach? Two years ago tried One Fish, Two Fish and it was good then, is it still good?
Son has food allergies to sesame and tree nuts, so kitchen has to know their ingredients and make
things from scratch....

Thanks

Wawel
Stumbled on a very cute,tidy and well stocked Polish Patisserie on rue St Marc off Sherbrook. Great jelly donuts, poppy seed pastries made with excellent yeast dough. Very reasonably priced. So good we brought a box of goodies back to NYC.

Join the Food Allergy and Anaphylaxsis Netowrk. They will help you sort out viable alternatives. Very good site and advise.

Blue was the best, 7 prime and sunsets at the Ritz not so much, Copperfalls steak was very good,Agua was overambitious and oversauced, Ragazzi was okay.... Osetra Bay review above.

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“Rayellians meet you at the door”
Reviewed March 3, 2012
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So the Rayellians (all staff in white) are channeling South Miami Beach vibes. Staff pleasant but service pretentious. Daughter ordered a beet salad, and we counted the pieces of food on the plate... 8 lettuce leaves, 3 pieces of beets... Husband also had a Caribbean salad his had a few more leaves. Son had sweetbreads... miniscule, and I had 3 shrimp.... Mains were a bit bigger pieces of fish and there was cute presentation of whipped potatoes (watery mess) in mini milk jugs and vegetables. Desserts were so/so. They gave a palate cleanser of some frozen concoction and a frozen fruit concoction at the end. There was a tiny amuse bouche. Stingy with bread.... drinks sounded better than they turned out to be. The cocoa coated chocolate that they gave as a freebie at the end with much flourish was unworthy of being swallowed. And yes you pay through the nose.
We're from NYC, we know pricey, we also know when we are being gouged. Owners must be laughing all the way to the bank.Go to Blue if you have extra bucks.....

The New York Bake Store on West 22nd off Sixth Ave. has all the fevres you need. Closed Sunday. Staff is grumpy, but they have it all.

The New York Bake Store on East 22nd off Sixth Ave. has all the fevres you need. Closed Sunday. Staff is grumpy, but they have it all.

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New York Cake and Baking
56 W 22nd St, New York, NY 10010

Lucky you, Valrhona is the best chocolate. Makes great brownies. Use in any recipe calling for unsweetened chocolate. You control the sugar content, great in frosting too. or waffles, or cookies.

Sear, get nice crust then finish in 350 until done to your taste. use a thermometer. 130 is rare/med
I think. Maybe pull out at 125 and let it rest. rest it either way for 15 minutes. open a nice bottle of wine and even if the steak is not great nobody will care.

Does anyone remember if the bun had sesame seeds? Am allergic and that determines which burger places I can try.

That Christina's closed like 5-6 years ago. Replaced by a Spanish/Argentinian place that also went under. It's just not a lucky corner. There are several Polish restaurants on First Ave below 14th if you're still interested in Polish food.

I have had several meat deliveries that were just too fatty and gristely to be used. They always refund your purchase price it you complain. Fruit is usually underripe, but berries are overripe.

Make a batch of ritzy mac and cheese, depending on how much cheese you have it can be a big or small batch. If it is a big batch, you can freeze chunks and enjoy at a later date without having to eat the whole thing right away. Barefoot Contessa recipe works whenever I have cheeses starting to go south.

All this cooking personalities have private secrets. In her autobiography Paula Deen says one of the other female chefs throws up after every meal. Don't know who that is (all the skinny ones are now suspect). Her health is a private matter, never made anything is cooked except the corn blueberry muffins from her autobiography book, (they were awful) Can't stand all the "endorsing" all of them do.
I remember watching A Next Foodnetwork Star episode and one of the main concerns from
Suzy whateverhername judge was if a particular contestant would be able to "sell all the related pots,pans etc). So all of them are there to sell , the cooking is incidental.
By the way who do you think PD was pointing the finger at in that vomiting comment?
There are a lot of cats clawing their way to the top at the cooking channel.