Dining News

ERIK HILL / Anchorage Daily News / Regular booths and tables await diners at the Rice Bowl, along with alcoves offering more space and privacy for small groups.

While the Norwalk Inn has served as a mainstay for the city's corporate meeting world for many years, it has hardly been known as a dining destination--until now.

LEWES - Palm trees, the sand and fresh seafood are just a few things one will find at the new CoCo Mango restaurant.

A chorus of excited whispers hissed through the room. 'She's here,' said one young Emirati woman, as her friends at the table craned their necks to see.

A little of this, a little of that all in Northwest Crossing. I had been meaning to pay a visit to Portello Winecafe since it reopened in January after a plumbing disaster forced a brief closure, but I don't get out to Northwest Crossing much, and it kind of just fell off my radar.

For many visitors and locals, all they know of Beacon Hill is the charming strip of shops and restaurants on Charles Street.

Broadcast decency is anything but passe. The U.S. Supreme Court recently made that clear when it handed down two important rulings upholding the Federal Communications Commission's authority to fine the TV networks for airing indecent content.

D ining in downtown Sanford has been a bit of a challenge for a while. The revamping of the entry into the historic district from French Avenue onto First Street has been like waiting for a humongous pot of water to boil.

"Welcome back!" I was surprised to hear this greeting addressed to nearly every customer who arrived at Basil, a new "seasonal dining" restaurant in Carmel.

We didn't want to sound any alarm bells when Tailor 's telephone line was disconnected for a short spell a week ago , but now there's officially bad news.

"I think we're going to some place called Steve's Creek," said the Annapolis newbie to the person on the other end of her cell call.

The 'Nuddles' on the English menu would have been highly perplexing without the Russian original to hand , and the true nature of the mysterious additive 'Rosswater' remains a mystery .

A man died Friday afternoon while swimming in a Pike County creek. The unidentified man was swimming in Adams Creek in Dingmans Ferry with about 10 other people when he drowned.

It's always a dog-eat world at New Fairfield's newest restaurant, and that's just the way Linda and Thomas Lavardera like it.

Lieutenant Ignacius "Iggy" Carrol, Public Information Officer for the City of Miami Fire Department, didn't mess around when I rang earlier in the week.

A roaring fire is the cold-weather equivalent of an ocean view: Looking at it while you dine instantly improves the quality of your meal.

Share + Jul 2, 2009 6:30 pm US/Central A Dunkin' Donuts/Baskin-Robbins in the North Side Uptown neighborhood was closed down Thursday after flying insects were discovered all over the restaurant, including on doughnuts and bagels.

Forget to thaw the chicken. Forget to prepare the chicken. Heck, forget to buy the chicken.

The Fourth of July means fireworks and parades, and days full of picnics, parks, boats and lakeshore activities.

Is there a formula for success in the restaurant business? If there was one, Scott Gibbs must know the secret, because he has succeeded where others have failed.