"Don't you have any soap?" "Of course," I said, pointing to what looked like a cow pie on the side of the tub.

This week, Catalan flavors in San Francisco, pan-Asian in Chicago, and a salmonless-in-Seattle seafood restaurant; plus the Gourmet contributor behind a new London hot spot, and the place to eat in Paris right now....

Avec's pan-Mediterranean menu of small plates—everything from pasta to salumi—was a step above comfort food, and extremely affordable.

I found the place that allowed me to merge my love of sawdust-on-the-floor bbq joints and gleaming-tile-and-stainless-steel smoked-and-pickled-fish emporiums.

This week’s roundup includes a New Orleans “swine bar,” a Beverly Hills temple to tiki, a new Chicago crowd-pleaser, and Ruth Reichl’s latest obsession....

Perhaps, like the phoenix, the restaurants signature rooster will rise again.

This is the restaurant that has, in my Midwestern opinion, the best C–SHD available anywhere.

For every simple, perfectly grilled pork chop, there is a lusciously saline watermelon salad, funky and tart from goat yogurt and beguiling with lime zest.

I’m going to call a moratorium on writing about cupcakes. Right after I finish writing about a cupcake shop called More.

Give this woman the favorite tool of health-conscious eaters, and she’ll figure out how to subvert its purpose.