Some restaurant patrons may pick smaller portions when offered them
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Having the option to order smaller restaurant side dish portions resulted in a substantial calorie cutback among customers, a study finds.\n\n\n\n\n\nSome restaurants (mostly chains) have been criticized for sel");
document.write("ling outsized portions and dishes with too many calories, although some establishments have recently begun offering smaller meals and lower-calorie foods. A few studies have shown that menu label...\n
Leading Seattle Restaurateurs Are Fans of Great Design and Lots of Dining Room Noise
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Joshua Huston\n\nThe spare, referential dining room that's lately taken hold in Seattle is costly and loud, but leading Seattle restaurateurs say they wouldn't have it any other way.\n\n\nIn a panel discussion last night hosted by the Seattle Architecture Foundation, Ethan Stowell (Ethan Stowell Restaurants); Chad Dale (Revel; The Walrus and The Carpenter); Deming Maclise and James Weimann (Bast...\n
Lark's Sundstrom wins chef award; Paris food blogger coming
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Lark took wing Monday night, with Seattle chef John Sundstrom, winning one of the food and wine industry's highest honors: a 2007 James Beard Award for best Northwest chef.\n\n\nThe awards recognize outstanding achievement in 62 categories that include restaurants, chefs, book authors, restaurant designers and more. The James Beard Foundation, named for the late cookbook author and culinary luminary,...\n
The future of the cookbook? Lark chef goes for Kickstarter campaign
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You want that recipe for Lark's chocolate madeleines or chicken liver parfait? Listen up.\n\n\nFor years, people have been asking Lark chef John Sundstrom about writing a cookbook. He's finally going ahead with one, but not in the way you might expect. Rather than going with a big-name publisher, Sundstrom started a Kickstarter campaign this ");
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Seattle's Top 5 Cobb Salads
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\n\n\nSome say the original Cobb Salad can be traced to Robert Howard Cobb, the owner of the Hollywood Brown Derby restaurant. Some say in was invented in the 30s somewhere in or ne");
document.write("ar Lincoln, Nebraska. Regardless of it's origins, the Cobb is an Omnivores' delight that can be found on many a menu from TGIFriday's to the fanciest of Steakhouses. It has served as a Curb Your Enthusiasm plot devi...\n
Yum forecasts strong expansion overseas
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document.write("ILLE, Ky. Yum Brands Inc., the owner of Taco Bell, KFC and Pizza Hut, said Tuesday it's on course to deliver another hefty round of restaurant growth overseas in 2012, led by its insatiable China market and its emerging business in India.\n\nThe company also reported a turnaround at Taco Bell in the U.S., after sluggish sales stirred by publicity from a now-dropped lawsuit that claimed the ...\n