POSSIBLY because of their French colonial heritage, Vietnamese restaurants swing easily into the cosmopolitan bistro mode that you can find on just about any street corner in North America or Europe.
Vientiane, thanks to its French heritage, is a restaurant town, but quality fluctuates.
Breakfast starts as early as 6 a.m., when men start settling into booths at the back of Troyer's Dutch Heritage, a sprawling restaurant about a half-mile from the village center.
Inspired by their family's decades of firefighting heritage, the entire restaurant concept was built on the brother's love of cooking, family dinners around the dining table upon their father's return home from the fire station and a firefighter's need for hearty piping hot grub.
Does it matter that most people eating there won't have the first idea, or see the connection between this elegant polished wood and the attempt to investigate Britain's culinary heritage which is the restaurant's shtick?
Mr. Canora has since focused on his Tuscan heritage at his own restaurant, Hearth, and the recipes in this book are simple and Italianate, like cauliflower roasted with fresh rosemary and fish fillets slowly infused with lemon peel, thyme and olive oil.
The Oxford Prison buildings have since been redeveloped as a restaurant and heritage complex, with guided tours of the historic buildings and open courtyards for markets and theatrical performances.
So routine have fresh produce and heritage meats become at restaurants serving Italian, French or modern American cooking that I'll understand if you fall asleep before finishing this sentence.
I did a video a few weeks back profiling a small farm out in New Jersey that raises this special heritage breed pig for restaurants and farmers markets in New York City.
An adjoining ceramics shop offers original dinnerware designs reflecting the restaurant's culinary heritage.
Duchardt was proud of that heritage and proud of the restaurant, whose walls are decorated with photos of famous customers such as Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, Steven Spielberg and Jack Nicholson.
