We didn’t exactly love the Common Table, as Hanna Raskin points out in her Dish Column, but it sure is a good place to drink some beer. In their well-curated selection you can find a bottle-conditioned Maudite (priced at $89) and American micro-brews like Dogfish Head and Dale’s. Read Hanna’s…
City of Ate’s inbox is typically crammed with messages from eager publicists, hopeful restaurant owners and aggrieved diners, who’ve often found the Better Business Bureau unresponsive to their complaints about grimy bathrooms and surly bartenders. Since we can’t do much for our woeful correspondents either, we’re turning their troubles over…
The Number Six UnwichLettuce wrap stuffed with lettuce, sprouts, tomato and avocadoIt’s funny how what we call a food can change the way we think about eating it.”Champagne,” when misapplied, lends a respectable, continental air to that sparkling white California wine, and “tapas” helps make the prospect of less food…
Each week Out Of Order challenges restaurants to defend their dishes against someone trying desperately to mess things up. We hope to find a few who say the customer isn’t always right. Ensalada de Meat Four WaysBowl of lettuce with chicken, barbacoa, carnitas and steak with jalapeño Tabasco sauce.I was…
Pad Thai Piña CollisionPad Thai Woon Sen (chicken, shrimp, clear noodles and tofu) with pineapple, cashews and squid.After I failed last week to get a rise out of the folks at Which Wich by ordering something terrible, it occurred to me that the problem might have had less to do…
The Paddy CristoWhich Wich Monte Cristo sandwich with avocado, mayonnaise and Cheez WhizThe ordering system at Which Wich — you build your sandwich one ingredient at a time on a multiple-choice form — is clever and efficient. It’s an impressive way to empower customers. It’s also an invitation for disaster,…
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