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Mintel Menu Insights, a service that tracks US menu trends, releases five predictions for 2010, saying the restaurant industry will focus on high quality food and ingredients to lure in diners. PRESS RELEASE: Chicago (November 20, 2009)--How do you follow up a wild year of $5 menus, gourmet meals for paupers' prices and buy one get one restaurant specials? You return to quality, that's how.

Restaurants are redefining 'value' on the menu, moving away from the cost-savings that were so important earlier this year to incorporate high quality ingredients, classic flavor combinations and authentic, old-fashioned preparations. In 2010, we expect menus to go back to the basic roots of good food and drink   -Maria Caranfa

 

Though The Roost enjoyed a six-decade run, its first successor failed to last one year. In January, my wife and I came here, to Bombay Garden, for lamb saag and sizzling tandoori. Weeks ago we returned for our second time in 2009, this time for some all-American comfort: surf and turf and a filet of flounder topped with lump crab.  

Thanksgiving isn't until Thursday, but Central Market in York City is getting the Butterball rolling early. The market is holding its first Turkey Times celebration this weekend, and if it proves popular, it could become an annual event, operations manager Annette Fisher said. "We're just trying to do more and get more involved and have a little bit of fun in here," she said.

We're just trying to do more and get more involved and have a little bit of fun in here   -Annette Fisher

 

Chinese food goes sexy. And successful. P. F. Chang's China Bistro has been packing them in for about a month now in the Walden Galleria's ultra-eating section (as opposed to the food court — it's definitely not the food court).  

Food critics risk swift foodie wrath when they proclaim a restaurant to be "the best" at anything, whether it's a debate-riven subject like "best barbecue" (Mista B's in Bear), or even a fairly esoteric topic such as "best Peruvian restaurant on the eastbound side of Kirkwood Highway." (Manos Latinas. Sorry, Chicken House fans). So it's with some fear of evisceration that I submit that the "new" Pomodoro in Wilmington has the state's best Italian food.  

The New England Fishery Management Council has removed a powerful disincentive for fishermen who have chosen to remain outside the catch share system and instead fish independently in the common pool next year. But the margin of the vote Wednesday night — against running the fishing clock at double time against the common poolers for time spent on the inshore grounds — was most narrow, with the recommendation from the council's Groundfish Committee rejected 8-7 with one abstention. Moreover, ...  

As Americans start preparing for next week's Thanksgiving holiday, many are writing their shopping lists and heading to grocery stores. A chain retail announced at the beginning of the month that they have what they say is a menu for eight people, all available for $20. The list included a 12-pound turkey for $5, three cans of vegetables, three packages of stuffing, two cans of jellied cranberry sauce, brown-and-serve rolls and a pumpkin roll cake for dessert.  

Proof is emerging that the federal fisheries department will never spend half of the $15 million it announced in June to help hard-pressed lobster fishermen, an industry representative and opposition critics say. Fewer than one third of eastern Canada's 10,000 licensed lobster fishermen have applied so far for the short-term aid Fisheries Minister Gail Shea unveiled June 10. And of the third who applied, about one-third have received cheques.

It's a lie - and I'll repeat it again - it's a lie that they don't have that information.   -Gerry Byrne

 

Going to Collingswood to eat is like going to the outlets to shop. There's a ton of selections and everything seems fantastic. Bistro AmericanA opened in late summer and is one of the newest restaurants along Haddon Avenue.