Mashable!:
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You might suspect a sushi restaurant that doesn’t specify what sort of tuna you’re eating of trying to pawn off an inferior species. Not so. Researchers using novel DNA barcoding technology found that though nearly a third of (Read More)
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed:
PEEKSKILL, N.Y. — A New York state man has been convicted of reckless endangerment after leaving his 85-year-old father in a car on a hot day and finding him dead three hours later.Theodore Pressman of Beacon was found guilty (Read More)
CNN:
Areas of Cairo might as well be under martial law. This normally chaotic but otherwise peaceful city of 18 million has been wracked by football fever gone mad. The government has deployed thousands of riot police and plain-cl (Read More)
About.com London Travel:
Rhodes W1 Brasserie and Bar, located at the front of the Cumberland Hotel, is a stylish venue to meet for a drink or light meal. It's a large space with a funky feel but it's not 'neon-modern'. There's excellent service and c (Read More)
Submitted by magitam
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Turns out that mandatory 18% gratuity for large parties at restaurants is mandatory enough that skipping it can get you arrested. A Philadelphia-area couple who found service at a pub was so scarce they essentially waited on (Read More)
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed:
Colorado's culinary culture has come a long way recently. The state is now home to some of the best chefs and restaurants in the world. As Thanksgiving approaches, we thought we'd give Colorado's most renowned chefs a chanc (Read More)
Lifehacker:
Par down the bill for your next meal out by picking a restaurant where kids get special treatment with the help of web site KidsEatFor. We've shared a resource with you before for finding places that offer free meals to kids, (Read More)
Gawker:
Times are tough, and people are sat at home chewing bellybutton fluff instead of eating out or ordering in. What are restaurant owners doing? Some are not paying staff, and others are sending abusive emails calling them "fuck (Read More)
Recent Reviews Near San Diego, CA:
Location, location! Beautiful views overlooking L street and the harbor. Located in Gaslamp district, it's walking distance to many bars/restaurants and right next to Petco Park. Can't beat the… (Read More)
Grub Street - New York Magazine's Food and Restaurant Blog:
In all our time covering the labor disputes that are increasingly becoming par for the course at New York City restaurants (just today there was the case of kitchen workers suing Mama Mexico), most of the cases arose when (Read More)
Grub Street - New York Magazine's Food and Restaurant Blog:
from Grub Street Boston Wondering if your restaurant plans for the evening would be animal-rights-activist approved? A new database from the World Society for the Protection of Animals IDs restaurants in fifteen citie (Read More)
NY Post:
New York state’s labor commissioner says more than 200 workers at 25 Brooklyn restaurants have been underpaid a total of $912,000. Commissioner M. Patricia Smith said Thursday that 16 investigators made unannounced visits in (Read More)
Gawker:
In case you didn't hear, developers are turning '80s and '90s Chelsea superclub Limelight into a shopping mall during the worst economic downturn in recent history. There will be brownies and a sneaker gallery! It's even w (Read More)
Gawker:
In case you didn't hear, developers are turning '80s and '90s Chelsea superclub Limelight into a shopping mall during the worst economic downturn in recent history. There will be brownies and a sneaker gallery! It's even w (Read More)
blogTO:
The best Chinese restaurants in Toronto tend to be found on Dundas, Spadina or north of the 401. In fact, it has become conventional wisdom that to get the best szechuan, cantonese or other variation of chinese food in the c (Read More)
CNN:
You may remember articles (and posts) about the pianos in the streets of London, placed outside where anyone could play them. And later, a similar project in Brazil. Well now the concept has come to America. Ybor City (pro (Read More)
Grub Street - New York Magazine's Food and Restaurant Blog:
Marc Murphy believes that having to give his employees nine days in paid sick leave will cost him almost $200,000 per year, but the Restaurant Opportunities Center of New York went before the New York City Council on Tues (Read More)
Lifehacker:
My wife bought me a Garmin GPS for Christmas last year. After showing her Google Navigation on my G1, she asked if her gift is obsolete. Sorry to say but, for anything but long-distance treks, Google's Navigation is good enou (Read More)
Lifehacker:
My wife bought me a Garmin GPS for Christmas last year. After showing her Google Navigation on my G1, she asked if her gift is obsolete. Sorry to say but, for anything but long-distance treks, Google's Navigation is good enou (Read More)