Ordering dessert at a fancy restaurant is quite a treat ... it looks absolutely gorgeous -- perfectly sliced, artistically plated, and oh-so tantalizing to the eye. But those pre-sliced desserts ...

Good food: Cut cheese into little cubes, strawberries into little hearts by slicing them thick using a knife/ heart-shaped ...

It reflects the beginning and ending of the regular tasting menu: seasonal canapés, a bread course and dessert ... a spectacle of beautifully plated dishes reflecting the natural world.

True burger aficionados don't want the unvaried, bland efficiency of a McDonald's or the shiny expense of a gourmet burger in ...

The three-course meal is a fancy feast ... soup and an elegantly plated doggie stir-fry in the shape of a heart with rice, chicken, steak, carrots, broccoli and treats. Dessert is a house-made ...

At Brasserie Margot inside Four Seasons Hotel Atlanta, executive chef Jon Novak and his team offer fresh tastes of France in a seductive setting.

There they were at Cafe Commerce, which opened in January on Lexington near 70th, a part of town somehow both full of restaurants and in desperate need of them. (As one Upper East Sider wailed to me, ...

as department-store cooking: Fancy enough for the fancies ... my choice had I not been tempted away by the artistically plated, perfectly shaped globe of stuffed cabbage with vivid-green ...

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