| A boffo buffet at Taste of Bombay
From the street, Taste of Bombay looks like another dingy hole-in-the wall in traffic-snarled downtown, but step inside and you'll find some of the best Indian food in Miami. The large, bright space is done in the green, orange and white of the Indian flag. Along one wall, gauzy curtains flutter between elevated booths. And in the back, you see the pièce de résistance: a sari-draped buffet running the width of the room. Gleaming copper Indian chafing dishes hold daily offerings such as chickpea flour-battered vegetable pakoras (fritters), tamarind and mint-coriander chutneys, onion relish, basmati rice, dal (stewed split lentils) and a changing roster of north and south Indian dishes. At $9.95 for all you can eat, the lunchtime feast is one of the best deals in town.
Special prices, special meals offered during Eats Week in Manchester
Has the economic slowdown stopped you from going out to eat or trying a new place? For the second year, Manchester offers Eats Week, when downtown and Millyard restaurants will offer items at reduced prices or those not usually on their menus. Eats Weeks is a version of Restaurant Week, which culinary meccas such as Boston and New York City offer to entice people to visit and eat in their restaurants. Eats Week is also a "thank you" to the restaurants participating in Intown Manchester's "A Taste of Downtown Manchester" event, according to Samantha Appleton, special projects administrator for Intown Manchester. She said restaurants participating in "A Taste of Downtown" put a lot of time and talent into the event, producing enough food for 1,000 people.
TV cook wows students at Campbell's culinary institute
Chef Martin Yan wowed the students at Campbell's Professional Culinary Institute with his knife skills by boning a chicken in 15 seconds. The school hosted Yan's cooking demo on March 19 for its chefs-in-training. The jovial TV star and restaurateur told students to be passionate and "love what you do." He encouraged them to think beyond the typical career choice of restaurant or hotel chef and consider other opportunities such as personal chefs, corporate chefs, culinary instructors or restaurant owners. Yan, who has a 30-year career teaching others to cook on television, recently finished taping his latest PBS program, Martin Yan's China. He said that when the red camera light goes on, he sees "$20 bills flying at him." Born in Guangzhou, China, Yan said that his first job was working at a Hong Kong restaurant at age 13, where he also slept on the floor at night.
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Easter was colder than usual, earlier in spring than most times, but a warm outpouring was seen at St. Vincent de Paul's drop-in centre. Meals for several hundred of the city's hungriest people were served with love and goodwill. The 800 clients was more than usual for an Easter sitting at the downtown meal service (between 11 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. Sunday), but it had nothing to do with the placement of Easter earlier on the calendar, just which week upon which it landed. "Because it was a five-week welfare cycle people really were without their resources and it taxes our service a lot more," said St. Vincent spokeswoman Bernie Goold. "Their last cheque was Feb. 23 and they won't get another one until this Wednesday so it was busy mainly because of that."Nonetheless, St. Vincent was prepared. That, said Goold, is because the community was prepared."It really is incredible the generosity of those who donated towards the dinner and all those who came out to help prepare and serve the dinner.
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