Japanese Restaurant Fines Guests Who Don’t Clean Their Plates

It’s never nice when a kitchen coughs up a plate of bad fish, but that’s what happened to Village Voice critic Robert Sietsema and a guest on Friday night in the dining room at an unnamed but “expensive” Upper West Side restaurant.

I know what you’re thinking. How secret can “secret restaurants” featured on a travel site actually be? And you’d be right. These restaurants aren’t seeat cretive in the sense that no one knows they exist. They’re actually written about fairly

I have spent most of my restaurant career working in corporate restaurants where the notion of a shift drink was unthinkable. In fact, my first exposure to the term was in a restaurant management training manual where it was explained that providing shift drinks was expressly prohibited.

“Over the holiday between Christmas and New Years, we made reservations a week ahead at Étoile in Uptown Park. In fact, my husband went to the restaurant to make the reservation, picked out a booth table (actually a banquette along the back wall) and reserved it for two at 7:30 on the Saturday night before […]

One of the memorable moments from September’s FS-TEC conference was an exchange of opinions about providing free Wi-Fi service in restaurant dining rooms. The head techie for Carl’s Jr. and Hardee’s, Jeff Chasney, remarked on stage that his charges saw no need to offer the amenity. During tests, he explained, customers didn’t seem to care. […]

Most Americans love a great steak.  It has become a staple of the menu of most restaurants and commonly fetches a premium price.  Steaks have come to sign

If you’re one of the thousands of people who snap pictures of your food and instantly share them on social media, you might be surprised to learn that some restaurants are now banning photos of their food.

Certainly you’ve heard the phrase, “worth the wait”. When referring restaurants, it’s the best compliment you can hope for when you know that waiting