Dining News

Fereydoun Salimi , owner of Calvert House Inn in Riverdale, holds a lamb entree Nov.

The four-course "Captain's Table" dinner includes a filet of grass fed veal with green asparagus, macaire potatoes and an herb cream sauce.

After renovating the large, two-room Ludlow Avenue storefront that was the shop Spiral Light, Lydia Stec opened Aquarius Star and Om Cafe in September.

Here is this week's FYI ... Food column. Included are Thanksgiving Day store hours, holiday dining-out options and more: Thanksgiving day store hours * If you need anything for your Thanksgiving dinner, Whole Foods Market will be open from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Thanksgiving Day for any last minute ingredients.

Riding into town on a fire engine, Santa will be arriving in style when he visits Northampton on Nov.

Just like any other theatre, movies play throughout the day, but in order to enjoy a gourmet meal with your movie, you must arrive thirty minutes before the movie starts.

Guests in a tent at the White House during the first state dinner of the Obama presidency.

"Smart cocktails, a Michelin-starred chef, and no plate over $16? To this stretch of Prospect Heights, it's a dream come true." [Photos: Robyn Lee] Editor's note: Ed Levine is off this week; Carey Jones, editor of Serious Eats: New York, fills in.

Going vegetarian on Thanksgiving doesn't mean forcing tofu into faux poultry or shaping legumes into meat-like blobs.

Last week, Edward decided we should purchase salt and pepper mills for our table.

After 32 years in business, the owners of Geppetto's have sold the downtown restaurant to their chef.

Michael Wray, winner of Fox television's first season of "Hell's Kitchen," is teaching cooking classes over the next few weeks at Cochise College Center for Lifelong Learning.

Pizza Fusion has announced the opening of its first international franchise in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, through a master franchise agreement with Samir Food Co.

Holidays can be a hassle for everyone, even the pros. The difference is the pros all have worked out little tricks - what the French call trucs - to make feasts like Thanksgiving a little saner.

On a damp, chilly Tuesday, guest chef Marcus Samuelsson was still out tromping around the White House garden picking herbs for that evening's state dinner at the White House.

SOME PEOPLE spend years talking about the restaurant they plan to open someday. Others just will it to happen.

Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Nov. 24--IN MARTINS FERRY, Ohio, the police chief is going to jail.

Attorneys for Original Joe's, a Tenderloin institution shut down by flames two years ago known for its tuxedoed servers, red leather booths and huge portions of comfort food, filed a request Friday for a temporary restraining order.

Charges are expected to be dropped soon against two college students led away in handcuffs for refusing to pay an automatic gratuity at a Bethlehem tavern.

TRENTON, N.J. - A New Jersey Senate committee has approved a bill that would require fast food and restaurant chains to post calories on their menus.