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The Clobster: A Grilled Cheese and Lobster Sandwich is as Good as it Looks

Meals Deconstructed: Bringing Sexy Back With Slapfish

Why it’s OK to send restaurant food back

Are you really such a big deal? No. So stop worrying that you’ll make others feel awkward

The Key to Tender Steak? Baking Soda

WATCH: A Japanese Chef Shows You How To Eat Sushi

Watch a Japanese sushi master explain the art of eating sushi and what you've been doing wrong all along.

Why home-cooked food never tastes like restaurant food

How to Order a Steak at a Restaurant

How to Order a Steak at a Restaurant. It seems as though most people don't know how to order a steak. They don't know the difference between the cuts, they don't know the difference in how it's cooked, and they don't know how steak is supposed to be prepared. If you don't know these things, in effect, you're guessing every time you order. With a...

10 tips for successful al fresco dining

Steven Pike, managing director of guest experience management company HospitalityGEM, gives his top 10 tips to hospitality operators looking to make a success of their al fresco dining.

How to Cook Up a Great Restaurant Floor Plan

The key to designing a restaurant floor plan is deliberate design.

Designing a Modern Fast Food Restaurant

Brandon Agency was posed with a challenge: Design an innovative fast food restaurant of the future, complete from its corporate identity to its interior.

PATIO POSSIBILITIES: Eating out safely has fresh-air appeal

We're still really leery about the risks of dining in, which is why our Takeout Tastings column continues unabated and, occasionally, un-rebated.

Tips for Planning a Perfect Restaurant Dining Room

Every restaurant’s dining room should be unique. It may not seem obvious, but the layout and organization of your dining room supports your branding and subtly influences your customers spending. So be sure that your dining room and seating layouts are strategically designed.

Are bubble dining pods safer than dining inside restaurants?

MIDWAY, Utah (ABC4) – Dining pods — call them globes, or igloos, or bubbles — are exploding in popularity, but are they actually safer than dining inside restaurants? In Utah, one…

Platt: Why Restaurants Are Louder Than Ever

A look at the most disruptive restaurant trend over the past decade.

Who do you trust more? The food critic or the crowd

As someone who tells readers where to eat, this was an interesting turn of the dining tables. Could crowdsourcing guide restaurant critic Amy Pataki to good food?

Restaurants get creative to keep outdoor dining alive in cooler months

There is a chill in the air as summer winds down. What does that mean for all the restaurants that have been relying on outdoor dining to help them survive the pandemic?

11 San Antonio restaurant patios where you should be dining al fresco now

The weather is perfect now to take your dining and drinking adventures outdoors, so here's your guide of where to go in San Antonio.