IN early September, after five days of rummaging around restaurants in San Francisco, that most fervent of dining cities, it became evident that the big trend there was small plates.
He enjoys Balthazar in SoHo, one of the most lavish cathedrals of dining theatrics, for what it is: "an elaborate re-creation of an imaginary place".
For Chang acolytes, the most satisfying part of dining at Nishi is tasting the results of his eternal hunt for sources of umami, an extension of his experiments with misos and sauces at his food laboratory.
According to Kristine, an American, English dining is the most acceptable form of dining etiquette anywhere in the world.
With Mr. Kelley doing most of his dining alfresco, from the apple tree or berry bush, she is also the designated cook.
6 p.m. 3. Harbor Dinner Most of the dining options in the restyled waterfront, which has been called Mermaid Quay, are upmarket British chains, but there are a couple of local gems in the mix.
I also realized that self-consciousness is a form of self-absorption, since most of my dining companions weren't sitting around wondering why I was single.
Unimpressed by the restaurants along the beach we head back to the hotel where manager Hafiz has a theory to explain the dearth of dining: most of the places on the sand cater for Italian tourists (that explains the ubiquity of pizza).
In the nightly courtship ritual of dining, most chefs offer a small but tasteful gemstone, but Edward Brown, the Sea Grill's longtime executive chef, is looking for big-time romance on the first date.
