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Sunday, January 15, 2012

5 Signs You’ve Picked a Bad Restaurant


Molten Chocolate Cake: exciting at home, not in a restaurant.


In the New Year, you'll be confronted with a whirlwind of new and unfamiliar dining options hungry for business. Burgers and meatballs will fly, but keep alert and you can avoid the most tragic meals. Here's when to back away.

1. There's more than one cocktail ending in "-tini." If you reach for the cocktail list and a fruit, candy or emotion is fused with that suffix in place of a gin or vodka martini, then things are looking bleak. The appletini is a serious offender, but plumtinis and passiontinis are also indicative of cocktail abuse.

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2. The server tells you to "save room for dessert." There are several red-flag phrases that misguided servers repeat. "Are you still enjoying that?" feels a bit presumptuous if there's still food on the plate, no? Being told that "everything is so good" without asking, or as menus are put down, is also off-putting.

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3. Molten chocolate

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