Tacos may be the best-loved Mexican-American dish served in the United States. The Food Lover's Companion describes a taco as "a Mexican-style 'sandwich' consisting of a folded corn tortilla filled with various ingredients such as beef, pork, chicken, chorizo sausage, tomatoes, lettuce, cheese, onion ... Most tacos in the United States are made with crisp (fried) tortilla shells, but there are also soft (pliable) versions."
Over the years, tacos -- which are relatively inexpensive t
You need plans. Fat City has a recycle bin full of event listings. In this post, all of our problems are solved. Lobster might be cheap right now, but it always impresses a date. The Bristol's Power & Light District location (51 East 14th Street) has live Maine lobsters for patrons at the bar this Friday. As a happy hour special, $9 lobster is available from 4 to 7 p.m. Not a bad start to the weekend. If you're still in the mood for seafood, wander over to Nara at 9 tonight. Body sushi is
First dates are not always the time to take risks. There is enough that could go wrong in terms of your outfit or conversation that you want to have a place that feels like a sure thing. So we understand why Pitch readers chose the Country Club Plaza as the Best Place for a First Date. There are plenty of other people around for people-watching, and even the pickiest eaters will find something. But our readers had a wide variety of alternative suggestions, too. This random list of runners up
via Synthtopia.comThere are a lot of great things about this job. The newest, I recently learned: High-tech companies can be convinced to lend out high-tech gadgets for review. I read about the Tonium Pacemaker in the August issue of XLR8R. It's a Swedish-designed, portable, self-contained DJ kit, with two stereo channels, a mixer and a host of digital effects, all crammed into a hand-held gadget the size of a PSP. It markets itself as the perfect on-the-go DJ companion, with the capacity to
Max Chao is back in the CrossroadsLast year, Max Chao was working as general manager for the newly opened Masalas Authentic Indian Diner at 91st and Metcalf in Overland Park. Masalas had opened in the spot where Chao had, for three years, been running a casual dining restaurant called Ohana Hawaiian Grill.
But Chao says he was "downsized" by the owners of Masalas a few months ago, and started looking for new employment opportunities. When he stopped by restaurateur Casey Adams' Nara
More than a novel, a play or a sandwichIt doesn't seem possible that the Monte Cristo sandwich received not one, but two mentions in Fat City this week -- as the subject of this week's Where is it? question and as a menu selection featured in the post about Grand Street Cafe's new breakfast menu.
The Monte Cristo is a glorified grilled ham-and-cheese which was -- depending on which story you believe -- introduced in California in either the 1880s (which would make it older than the f
