As I was in the middle of my whirlwind tour yesterday of some of the 18 cafes on Google's Mountain View campus, one thought came to mind: This company is not only changing the Internet world, but...
• House passes lumbering Farm Bill with 75%, for better or worse [NYTimes] • Foie gras prohibition ends in Chicago; it was sort of fun [Tribune] • BS: Bush admin's claim of biofuel's
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Does that stand for public service announcement or a punishing stomach attack? We don't know. Probably a little of both. Point is, there are two fast food giveaways today. First, McDonalds is trying to
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The view from Union Square's Leatherneck Steakhouse [Photo: Flickr/nickybroderick] · Ten Signs You Might Be In a Good Sushi Restaurant [SJMN] · Behind the Scenes With Hubert Keller on PBS [YumSugar]
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Patricia Unterman tries to get the word out about a possibly-dying hidden gem in the Richmond, where Layalay and its "voluptuous appetizer service" are relegated to the No Man's Land of a residential
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Mikey B visits the office food mecca of the nation, and though it would have been quite the fun precedent to have MB somehow write up a formal review with stars and everything, he comes back with tales
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&set=72157605071633566">?o=0'>?o=0' style='font-size: 9px; text-align: center;'>Click the image above to view the full photogallery. Jennifer Yin, 5/15/08 What you see in the gallery above might be the
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There are few things better than halls of shame, and there are few things more annoying than a bar sans underlying hooks. Hence, the Bar Coat Hook Hall of Shame, where some past inductees (Bourbon & Branch)
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With the current crop of cheftestants down to seven and tensions rising, yesterday's episode of Top Chef had plenty of bad vibes involving almost all the kids. The opening scenes set the tone, as Spike,
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Forbes Traveler has a nice little piece on the rise of offal in American restaurants, and of course, Incanto and Chris Cosentino—sorry, "West Coast innards king Chris Cosentino"—are featured
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The great new blog The Foggy Monocle has the best write up so far on today's free chicken sandwich situation at McDonald's. It involves an IM conversation, a discussion on spotting good breasts, and the
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&set=72157605077569031">?o=0'>?o=0' style='font-size: 9px; text-align: center;'>Click the image above to view the full photogallery. The Embarcadero: The attempt to revitalize the piers just north of
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From the people who brought you The Week in Craig, one of the all time great uses of the internet, comes The Week in Yelp, wherein Amy Blair takes aim at the ridiculousness that is the world of Yelp.
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Here's how this went: We were going to tell you about this weird plan in Britain to secretly videotape everybody who buys cigarettes and alcohol. Creepy! But then we got distracted looking at these adorable
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The earthquake in Mianyang has us on edge. First, we don’t handle widespread death and suffering so well and second, we have a horrible phobia of earthquakes. Being native Californians, our fear of earthquakes
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Good news for gourmands everywhere! Just a few hours ago, the Chicago City Council repealed the two-year-old foie gras ban in the city. It passed with a vote of 37-6 and no debate. Funny how things can
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As luck would have it, we took a good look at Kasa Indian Eatery just yesterday, and soon thereafter, the press releases made the rounds. In addition to sharing a few more tidbits on the Castro's upcoming
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Thus far, reports from Best-O-Burger have been largely positive, albeit not transcendent, but it would appear that based on this pic, the salads there are nothing short of amazingly inept (or very sarcastic),
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Please join us for another edition of Adventures in Shilling as we celebrate the grossest shills from around the 'nets. As always, you too can help fight shills. Nothing spurs shills quite like some neighborhood
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· Waterbar's Raw Eggs Spur Two Separate, Pompous Arguments [CH] · A Movement to Bring the Original Music Back to the Original Iron Chef [eG] · Simple Question: What's the Best Restaurant
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