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A Steakhouse Divided

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Martha Cheng Hy’s Steakhouse was synonymous with Calgary dining in the 1950s, but as Canadian tastes have changed over the decades, a Waikīkī offshoot has become a time capsule of the iconic original It wasn’t long after opening in downtown Calgary in 1955 that Hy’s Steakhouse became synonymous with Alberta food culture.

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Parisian Gastronomy Goes Global

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Oxte Immigrant chefs are shaking up Paris’s fine dining scene with Michelin-starred restaurants, venues in five-star hotels, and Lebanese, Mexican, and Korean flavors not traditionally found in haute French cuisine When Enrique Casarrubias came to Paris from Mexico in 2007, he had no intention to stay. Prepping a dish at Oxte.

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14 Restaurant Management Tools to Make your Business More Efficient

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This information can then influence your marketing initiatives. Reservation-tracking tools use your dining room’s capacity and floor plan, which helps prevent overbooking. As both fine dining and casual restaurants have been busy implementing new technology over the past several years, we can now see the real-life effects.

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MRM People & Places: Cassoulet War, Zagat Stories and AQUAlounge

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With so many amazing new dining and entertainment experiences emerging around the world, it feels good to be a part of that revolution and to bring something unique back to San Diego.” Hunter also has plans for a robust dining program in partnership with San Diego’s top restaurants and caterers.

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A Highly Specific Guide to Barcelona’s Best Tasting Menus

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How to go all-out on at least one meal in the tasting-menu capital of the world Fine dining has had a tough go in recent years. In most cities around the world, stepping off the street and into a cushy dining room means missing out on important local culinary traditions in favor of a tablecloth and some generic amuse bouche.

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The Good and the Bad of Singapore’s New Hawkerpreneurs

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Since Sai took over her father’s stall, Coffee Break, in 2011 at the popular Amoy Street Food Centre, she and her siblings have been selling the same traditional Nanyang kopi (coffee) made from dark robusta beans. Ultimately, though, none of it was enough to deter Sai in following in her father’s footsteps and becoming a hawker herself.

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How Restaurant Dessert Menus Shaped Our Sweet Tooth

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The composed little plate (CLP for short) was a staple of the dessert menus of the 2010s, a departure from the stodgy chocolate cakes and boring tiramisu at the upscale dining destinations of the ’90s. In 2011, Oddfellows launched specifically to concoct “wacky” savory ice cream.

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