Charles Phan VIEW: Slanted Door is now located in the waterfront Perry Marketplace. There are turning points in everyone's culinary life, and surely anyone who has eaten at The Slanted Door in San Francisco has experienced one. Few of us...
BELOVED: After eight years, Balthazar has become a New York City fixture and destination. When renowned New York restaurateur Keith McNally and co-chefs Riad Nasr and Lee Hanson opened Balthazar in 1997, they had an instant hit on their hands...
WOW!: When Elizabeth Blau called, the stars came out to Las Vegas. To begin to appreciate Elizabeth Blau's impact on the madcap world of Las Vegas food and beverage, it's best to scroll back to October 1998 when Bellagio opened. Now, stroll...
We know now the three judges on "Cooking Under Fire" (Todd English, Ming Tsai and Michael Ruhlman) preferred Hagan-Welchel over runner-up Sara Lawson and were dead-set on picking her no matter how she performed on the finale. How? The final...
No one can deny that U.S. obesity rates are climbing. A report issued in late August by nonpartisan health advocacy group Trust for America's Health found obesity increasing last year in every state but one-Oregon. Overall, 119 million American...
When Mrs. Bush axed then-White House chef Walter Scheib last winter (see the March 15, 2005 RH e-newsletter), the board of the Women Chefs and Restaurateurs organization got into the act, urging the appointment of a woman...
You really don't need consumer surveys to confirm that people now eat more frequently in their cars. Just look at how auto manufacturers equip vehicles to accommodate on-the-go eaters. Yes, multiple cup holders now come standard. But manufacturers...
Many restaurant development consultants counsel clients to open the second unit of any startup chain in a market geographically removed from the original. Their reasoning: The owners will learn more about their concept-good and bad-and learn it...
Anyone who remembers the grim second season of NBC's The Restaurant was probably taken aback to learn that CNBC planned to rebroadcast all the episodes from that show's two seasons. Who wanted to watch Rocco DiSpirito and Jeffrey Chodorow go at...