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Restaurant review: A delightful journey into the unknown at Dumpling Library
A first ever taste of bao buns all part of the magic at Belfast Asian specialising in small plates Dumpling Library 6 St Anne’s Square, Belfast Tel: 028 9691 9222 St Anne’s Square’s Dumpling Library in Belfast city centre was on the list. Neither my friend nor I had visited, and a quick peruse (OK,…
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‘Ketchup in my veins’: Retired McDonald’s president says what’s best at 8 fast food chains
What’s it like reviewing fast-food joints with a retired McDonald’s president? Readers might know Louis Mele from Naples Cyclery or perhaps his hot new restaurant Bicyclette Cookshop, where chef-business partner and recent “Chopped” champ Kayla Pfeiffer helms the kitchen. But before moving to Naples, he served as one of McDonald’s head honchos, retiring in 2006.…
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Review: Indian restaurant spices are ambrosial, and you pick heat level from 0 to 10
It’s apparent when you open the door. It might even be apparent before you open the door, but I didn’t linger outside very long. The enchanting scents of curry, cardamom, cinnamon, turmeric, cloves and the secret sauce that is Indian cuisine are warm and welcoming and infuse the room at Bolly Twist Taste of India.…
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The most scathing reviews of America’s three-star Michelin restaurants
DailyMail.com has recently analyzed reviews left by Tripadvisor users Six three star Michelin restaurants have more than 6 per cent bad reviews ‘Absolutely the worst Michelin rated restaurant,’ one said of The French Laundry By Sadie Whitelocks For Dailymail.com Published: 14:42 EDT, 10 March 2024 | Updated: 14:42 EDT, 10 March 2024
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Missy Robbins’s Lowest Key Pasta Paradiso
The Food Scene Missy Robbins’s Lowest Key Pasta Paradiso Misipasta is both a market, selling fresh pastas and sauces, and a restaurant, with a focussed menu of hearty snacks, including deep-fried mozzarella in carrozza.Photographs by Lanna Apisukh for The New Yorker Save this storySave this story Save this storySave this story <a aria-label="You’re reading the…
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Assaggini, Glasgow, review – pizza and pasta small plates in funky new west end Italian restaurant | Scotsman Food and Drink
It’s the age-old dilemma. When in an Italian restaurant, do you order pasta or pizza? Can you convince a friend or family member to go half and half? Well with Assaggini, a new Italian in Glasgow’s west end, you don’t need to decide. Opened in February, Assaggini specialises in fresh pasta, gourmet ‘Pinsa’ style pizzas…
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Paradise Food, Harrogate: ‘Precise and generous cookery’
Paradise Food, Daleside Nurseries, Ripon Road, Killinghall, Harrogate HG3 2AY (01423 877109). Starters £10-£18; mains £18-£28; desserts £4-£10; wines from £25.50 Paradise is a restaurant in a shed at the bottom of a garden, but oh what a shed, and oh what a garden. The shed is a slatboard building over sturdy grey-painted girders. Inside…
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This unmissable West Cork restaurant is unlike anywhere else in the world
Baltimore, Co Cork P81 K291 ★ 9.5/10 When writing restaurant reviews we try to distance ourselves from what the chef or restaurateur might think of our words when they read them. Ditto the manager, sommelier or anyone else on staff. We arrive without expectation. We eat, pay in full and leave, just like any other…
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Bite-sized cafe dishing up nutritious goods to go
A career in politics feels about as appealing as sticking to Jordan Peterson’s meat-heavy Lion Diet, and yet I’ve often pondered what pillars would form the foundation of my campaign. Of the all things we excel at across Western Australia, there are a few we could be doing better. Premium Subscribers with digital access can…
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You say Gabrielle and Li’l Dizzy’s have the best gumbo in NOLA. I tried both.
The votes have been coming in, and our NOLA.com gumbo bracket is down to two contenders: Gabrielle Restaurant and Li’l Dizzy’s Cafe. They’re the finalists as determined by you, the gumbo-loving public, tallied after hundreds of thousands of votes through successive rounds of our bracket. On the surface, people may think that these two finalists…