Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Dorignac's Food Center—a historic food store on Veterans Memorial Boulevard in Metairie, Louisiana, near New Orleans, known for offering regional specialties [72] Leidenheimer Baking Company —established in 1896, the bakery is best known for its French bread, used for po' boy sandwiches, and other local breads such as muffuletta and ...
Several restaurant chains have roots in the Minneapolis-St.Paul area, including Famous Dave's, [124] the now defunct Chi-Chi's, and Buca di Beppo, which was started out of a small Minneapolis basement in 1993. [125] Portillo's Restaurants is another Midwestern fast-food chain known for its hot dogs. [126]
Fast-food restaurants with standardized product and franchised service models began to appear and spread with the development of the highway system. White Castle (1916) [78] was one of the first examples. Franchising was introduced in 1921 by A&W Root Beer. The McDonald brothers created their "Speedee Service System" in 1948.
Restaurant guides review restaurants, often ranking them or providing information to guide consumers (type of food, handicap accessibility, facilities, etc.). One of the most famous contemporary guides is the Michelin series of guides which accord one to three stars to restaurants they perceive to be of high culinary merit.
Following the rise of fast food and take-out restaurants, a retronym for the older "standard" restaurant was created, sit-down restaurant. Most commonly, "sit-down restaurant" refers to a casual- dining restaurant with table service , rather than a fast food restaurant or a diner , where one orders food at a counter .
Fast food is a type of mass-produced food designed for commercial resale, with a strong priority placed on speed of service. Fast food is a commercial term, limited to food sold in a restaurant or store with frozen, preheated or precooked ingredients and served in packaging for take-out or takeaway.
Grillades and grits topped with scallions at a restaurant in New Orleans. Gnocchi – Small pasta-like dough dumplings [70] Goetta – US pork and oats dish [71] Gogli – Egg-based homemade dessert [72] Granola – Breakfast, lunch and snack food
Seafood dishes are food dishes which use seafood (fish, shellfish or seaweed) as primary ingredients, and are ready to be served or eaten with any needed preparation or cooking completed. Many fish or seafood dishes have a specific name (" cioppino "), while others are simply described (" fried fish ") or named for particular places (" Cullen ...