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Short Wine Lists (Short Menus): The Economy Leads Trends

Brad Haskel | Posted 05.31.2012

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Brad Haskel

Restaurants with less food items can, in most cases, run a more efficient food cost, and stay focused on their specialty. Restaurants with less wines on their list can carry less inventory.

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Entrée Does Not Mean Main Course!

Meg Hemphill | Posted 04.10.2012

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Meg Hemphill

When did it become okay to call a main course an entrée? You don't need to be a French speaker to translate the word -- it means entrance, as in entry into a meal. But for some reason, chefs are calling main courses entrées.

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Weeknight Menus That Don't Feel Minimalist

Big Girls, Small Kitchen | Posted 05.23.2012

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Big Girls, Small Kitchen

With busy week following busy week, sometimes we've got to transcend such whatever's-in-the-fridge minimalism and make slightly more involved dinners.

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Silver Diner's Kid Critics Help Shape A Healthy Menu

The Huffington Post | Rachel Tepper | Posted 03.20.2012

Read More: DC News, Healthy Food, Video, Children's Menu, Children, Kids, Health, Food Critic, Rockville, Silver Diner, Menus, DC Restaurants, Maryland News, DC News

WASHINGTON -- Silver Diner locations may soon have better options for families looking for healthy ways to eat out. Today, the diner's Rockville l...

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How Restaurants Trick You Into Spending More

Emily Cohn | Posted 02.29.2012

Read More: Menu Engineering, Defensive Dining, Eating Out, Restaurants, Menus, Reading Menus, Frugal, Money Saving Tips, A Dollar a Day, Eating at Restaurants, Frugality, Money News

Welcome to A Dollar A Day, where every day we'll dish out creative and quirky ways to save on your living expenses. We're not going to tell you to...

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9 Dazzling Oscar Night Menus

Food52 | Posted 04.25.2012

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Food52

We bow to the over-the-top fizzy silliness that is Oscar night by offering up not one but nine menus -- one for each Best Picture nominee -- for whatever festivities you have planned.

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PHOTOS: Evening Star Cafe's New Menu Is Fully Southernified

The Huffington Post | Rachel Tepper | Posted 02.16.2012

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ALEXANDRIA, Va. -- A lot has changed at The Evening Star Cafe in Del Ray since it closed last October for a massive renovation. The place now has a ne...

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A Valentine's Day Dinner Plan: Somewhere Beyond The Sea

Food52 | Posted 04.11.2012

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Food52

There's no need to trek out to an expensive restaurant this Valentine's Day; we've got a fool-proof menu for a romantic meal to make at home.

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The Menu Design Mistake Restaurants Have Been Making For Years

Posted 02.03.2012

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Over the past decade or so, a whole cornucopia of new menu sections has bloomed across the once-humble sheet of paper: cheese plates, stuzzichini, "bi...

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Bon Rappetite Hip-Hop-Themed Restaurant, Real Or Not, Has Great Menu

Posted 02.01.2012

Read More: Menus, Restaurants, Pone Thugs & Hominy, Rap Menu, Rapper Dishes, Bon Rappetite, Rap Dishes, Snoop Doggy Corndogs, Food News

Bon Rappetite is a genius restaurant concept: well-known dishes named after rap stars. For example, the Snoop Doggy Corndogs are "4 fresh fried corndo...

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Blue Duck Tavern's New Chef Mixes Up The Menu With New Dishes (PHOTOS)

The Huffington Post | Rachel Tepper | Posted 03.27.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Blue Duck Tavern's new chef, Sebastien Archambault, has been on the job for only about seven weeks following the departure of the restau...

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Rachel Tepper

Chef Spills Menu Secrets For New Dupont Circle Jewish Deli

HuffingtonPost.com | Rachel Tepper | Posted 01.17.2012

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WASHINGTON -- The scene at 1317 Connecticut Ave. NW -- the site of the forthcoming DGS Delicatessen -- is a desolate one, with chunks of concrete stre...

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Taylor Gourmet Unveils New Breakfast Sandwiches (PHOTOS)

The Huffington Post | Rachel Tepper | Posted 01.12.2012

Read More: Sandwiches, DC News, Video, Breakfast, Hoagies, Menus, DC Restaurants, Casey Patten, 14th Street NW, Taylor Gourmet, U Street, David Mazza, DC News

WASHINGTON -- Your options for weekend breakfast just got a bit more interesting. Taylor Gourmet's new location on 14th Street NW which only opened ea...

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Expect Restaurants To Get Even More Expensive In 2012

Posted 01.10.2012

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Last week, Starbucks raised a fracas when it announced its plans to raise prices in some regions by an average of about one percent. Prices at the cof...

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Formulating the Foolproof Foodie Menu

Anna Brones | Posted 02.12.2012

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Anna Brones

Here is a foolproof guide to help you along your way to launching a successful business, one that's sure to get you plenty of write-ups in the blogosphere and, more importantly, tweets from food nerds.

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Cooking Up a Storm!

Liz Neumark | Posted 02.11.2012

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Liz Neumark

What do you serve 2,000 celebrants with sophisticated palates -- without a real kitchen, within a short window of time -- when hundreds of guests arrive all at one time? Welcome to our world, where expectations run high and every game is an away game.

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Archived Menus Reveal Historic D.C. Restaurant Fare (PHOTOS)

The Huffington Post | Rachel Tepper | Posted 12.03.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Although the nation's capital has a grand history of swanky hotels and restaurants, quick turnover has always been a reality. Unlike som...

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All Hands on Deck: NYPL Turns to the Crowd to Develop Digital Collections

The New York Public Library | Posted 11.16.2011

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The New York Public Library

By Vicky Gan, Intern, Strategic Planning Office, The New York Public Library Crowdsourcing is a loaded term. Since its 2006 debut, the word has burge...

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Should Every Restaurant Have A Farm?

Liza de Guia | Posted 11.06.2011

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Liza de Guia

"Last year we had way more produce than we could use, so this year, we tried to scale back a little bit to hit the sweet spot a little more closely." ...

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Starbucks' Secret Menu

The Daily Meal | Posted 10.15.2011

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The Daily Meal

Frequenters of Starbucks know the situation all too well: You're standing in line, reciting the precise order of the five different descriptors that...

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Cheesecake Factory Debuts 'SkinnyLicious' Menu

Posted 10.01.2011

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The Cheesecake Factory, a restaurant known for its heaping portions and epically long menu, has expanded its lower-calorie offerings with the new "Ski...

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Drool-Worthy Menu Descriptions

Inside Scoop | Posted 09.13.2011

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I study menus every night, so I should be immune to their literary charms. However, a few well chosen words can hook me like a fish going after a brig...

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More Restaurants Experiment With iPad Menus

AP | CARYN ROUSSEAU | Posted 05.25.2011

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CHICAGO — The bar is buzzing on a busy night at Chicago Cut steakhouse as regulars Keith and Peg Bragg sit at a high table scanning the wine lis...

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Talking Turkey

The New York Public Library | Posted 05.25.2011

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The New York Public Library

While you're digesting yesterday's meal, feast your eyes on this: vintage Thanksgiving greeting cards from the early 20th century, along with seasonal posters and menus.

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The Menu For Daniel Boulud's $1,000 Game Dinner

Grub Street New York | By: | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Wild Game, Daniel Boulud, Hunting, Menus, Restaurants, Food News

November 18 marks Daniel Boulud's annual wild-game dinner at his restaurant Daniel. A press release tells us this "legendary dinner began as a private...

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