Queens Is "Edible," But What About Staten Island & The Bronx?

Rachel Wharton, a former Daily News reporter who's now at Edible Manhattan, agrees their culinary close-up is long overdue. In an e-mail, she writes, "When was the last time you had a chef do a walking tour of any nabe in Staten Island or the Bronx, when there's a love letter to Flushing in practically every issue of the Village Voice. (This also reminds me that there was a line by Ted Danson in bored to death: 'Brooklyn is the new Manhattan and Manhattan is the new Queens and Queens is the new Brooklyn.') What about those poor Sobro loft-dwellers? They need their supper clubs too." So does Staten Island, but who has time for that when there are so many dwarfs to bowl?

Waiters' Secrets Revealed: They're Not Just Spitting in Your Food

Hot on the heels of "100 Things Restaurant Servers Must Stop Doing!" and "64 Things Restaurant Patrons Must NEVER Do!" comes "30 Secrets Your Waiter Will Never Tell You," compiled from two dozen servers nationwide. It's hardly a secret that servers do unspeakable things to your food when you complain (or just for fun) and silently judge you when you make an unsophisticated request, but there are some new insights here, such as:

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