Sublime

each restaurant visit you make is worth a constant fraction of the last one.

The $100,000 Salt and Pepper Shaker

Enoteca Can Grande is enthusiastically run by Giuliano and Corrina, who enjoy turning people on to great, well-matched food and wine. You can sit on a quiet street or in a plush little dining area inside. Their star offering is a €40 set menu, a festival of antipasti treats, an imaginative pasta, your choice of a meat or fish course, and dessert. T

The Menu of Pain/Pleasure was the tourist attraction. Depending upon your selection, waitstaff in bondage gear would lightly flog you or do a lap dance or whatever. If you so desired. Eva did not desire. But

In an effort to make standing in those long lines more bearable, Stacy started cutting up their leftover pitas at the end of each day and then baking the pieces into different-flavored chips (cinnamon sugar and parmesan garlic to start) that she would hand out for free to customers while they waited for their sandwiches. “Initially, it was just a w

Guerrero turned them into a living; a daughter, Ana Natalia, branched out with her mother’s approval and opened a chain of Anitas restaurants across Los Angeles, taking with her the family’s taquitos recipes and opening Las Anitas on Olvera Street, not far from Cielito Lindo. Competitors copied those taquitos, along with Mexican restaurants across

mainstream department stores aimed at the “middle-class” homemaker. They amazed and flattered her with the elegance of the environs and with the deference of the salesclerks, but canny retailers understood that their homemaker wasn’t wealthy, and had instincts of thrift and austerity stamped in her genes. They could pull her in with spectacle, addr