Albany dining
- Napkin eater files lawsuit - Albany Herald ALBANY — A Sylvester man who swallowed a deep-fried wad of napkins while dining at an Albany restaurant last year is suing the restaurant for an unspecified amount. Dining at Blackbeard’s Restaurant on April 27, 2007, Bernard Johnson believed he ...
- Dining in the Shawangunks - San Francisco Examiner The Shawangunks don't get the same level of public notice as other New York mountains such as the Adirondacks and the Catskills, but as mountain ranges go they offer a lot. For some "The Gunks,'' as locals call them, are just a piece of the Catskills ...
- A celebration and sharing secrets - Times Union Blogs The excellent local chef A.J. Jayapal hasn’t been in the public eye as much as he was early in his career. That’s because he went the private dining route, heading up the kitchen first at the Edison Club in Rexford and now at the Albany Country ...
- Cascade Grill opens after long wait - Corvallis Gazette-Times ALBANY — It’s been more than two years in planning and construction, but now the Cascade Grill & Bar has opened near the Albany airport. Albany builder Bob Mitchell said he has always enjoyed being in the restaurant business — he once operated ...
- Top 10 for taste - Troy Record TROY — You might notice there is something missing from my 2008 Top 10 list of restaurants. Not a chain restaurant in the bunch. Perhaps it illustrates my prejudice towards impersonal eating places, but I’d rather believe it points out how ...
- A tip of the hat to the Brown Derby - San Francisco Examiner ALBANY, NY -- Quite a few downtown Albany nightspots have closed this year , but that may just be a thinning of the herd. The truly high-class operations seem to be thriving. Based on my first visit there, the Hollywood Brown Derby may join that ...
- Cody Kendall's Top 10 of 2008 - Newark Star-Ledger GEORGE MCNISH/THE STAR-LEDGER The main dining room of the Bernards Inn in Bernardsville. This has been a banner year for fine dining in New Jersey, with a legion of very special new places opening to add sparkle to the restaurant scene and my top 10 ...