Restaurant Management News

Green Dog Cafe is exploding on the scene and so far has been met with mixed reviews.

He's a renown chef, cookbook author, restauranteur and television star. And now the tussled-haired Jamie Oliver is donning the cloak of culinary crusader, and talking revolution - on food.

This morning, prominent Thornton restaurant owner Dan Tang pled guilty to one count of money laundering for his role in what investigators labeled the " Dan Tang Drug Trafficking Organization ." When authorities took down the drug ring in February 2008, they came away with 24,000 marijuana plants growing in 25 suburban homes, along with $3 million ...

A defendant's former girlfriend testified this morning that he texted her 'I love you' and 'Pray He gives me a second chance' as police searched for Jerome Hamilton, 16.

The home of Iron Pundit v. Iron Skillet ..aka the unofficial OS Top Chef Liveblog.

The owner of a restaurant shut down this month by state liquor authorities is suing the town, claiming false arrest and malicious prosecution after drunken-driving charges against him were dismissed.

Who knows? Maybe someday a local restaurant menu will feature Brooke Rotchadl's homemade macaroni and cheese.

Oysters - whether bare, big, fried, charbroiled or Rockefellered - are but one aspect of the varied menu at Half Shell Oyster House.

Marco Host prepares desserts at John s Restaurant in Boulder last week. John s is one of 45 restaurants participating in First Bite Boulder, a promotional discount that runs through Saturday.

Paris, whose wild nightlife drew generations of party goers from Ernest Hemingway to Jim Morrison, is now more notorious for curfews than carousing.

There are plenty of strategies for getting diners through the restaurant door during a stumbling economy - coupons, specials, drink deals, restaurant owners dressed as lobsters handing out fliers.

In Eatonville the town (outside of Orlando, population 2,400), there are porches where stories are spun, so naturally there must be a 'porch' in Eatonville the restaurant (just off V Street NW, 250 seats) where visitors from the town might sit a spell with customers.

'This is a first,' says N.Y. Nathiri, pleasantly stunned to see this trendy urban take on her rural home town. She rocks her green wooden chair on the rough wooden boards of the porch that's tucked beside the swanky dining area of the Washington restaurant.

While most of the candidates in a six-way Republican congressional primary back a proposal to scrap the Internal Revenue Service and create a national sales tax, Granbury restaurateur Eric Finley says the tax would make the prices on consumer goods and on his menus unappetizing.

Nobody has to tell chef and restaurateur Bill Sohovich that times are tough. In the past year and a half, he's opened, closed, reopened and closed again Billy's, a comfort food restaurant at South Ridge.

The luxury hotel-condominium tower Trump International Hotel Waikiki Beach Walk opened yesterday after nearly three years of construction.

Mayes Oyster House . The resurrected historic restaurant opened last week, serving traditional dishes and other "global delicacies." Look for bouillabaise, Kobe beef top sirloin and oysters on the varied menu.

The Greene County Sheriff's Office is seeking the public's help in apprehending a man who robbed a Beaman's Restaurant employee Friday night.

Pontiac -- An Oakland Circuit judge ruled Monday that a prosecution witness would not be permitted to testify in the second trial of a Southfield teenager charged with killing a restaurant manager about seeing him handling a handgun prior to the October 2008 shooting.

French Dining Journal: New Yorker's annual food issue; do restaurants critics need to be anonymous? November 16, 11:59 AM NY French Restaurants Examiner Howard Portnoy The New Yorker 's annual food issue is out this week , and there are several terrific articles in it, including an interview with one of Michelin's inspectors by John Colapinto .

A Swedish woman who was sentenced to life in prison for a double murder in the U.S. will be released in 2011.