MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Google has bought the restaurant review service Zagat as it tries to help people connect with local businesses. The founders, Nina and Tim Zagat, said they will remain a part of the 32-year-old company and will ...

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City restaurateurs say the Baltimore Grand Prix brought record-breaking business to eateries within walking distance of the race course, but operators of establishments at greater distances say their sales suffered significantly. Baltimore officials expected the three-day race festival during Labor ...

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As the landmark redbrick building near the square in Mount Vernon undergoes repairs from a devastating fire in December, the owner of a small restaurant has found hope just across the street. After being closed for eight months, chef and ...

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SAN FRANCISCO — San Francisco chef Chris Cosentino isn’t much of a football fan. But that doesn’t mean he doesn’t know how to toss the pigskin around the gridiron. Or the frying pan. We’re talking hide of the hog, of ...

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FRUITLAND — When chef Jim Hughes tells patrons at his Restaurant 213 that the vegetables and fruits on his menu are fresh, he really does mean fresh. Just outside his restaurant door is his garden, a 10- by 100-foot strip ...

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Who says you can’t go home again, at least to get a hamburger? Turns out that you can, if that burger is a Gino’s Giant. The hometown favorite returned to the Baltimore area last week, when the resurrected fast-food operation ...

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BERKELEY, Calif. — If the restaurant world had farm teams, Chez Panisse is where the talent scouts would hang out. The Berkeley restaurant, cofounded by food activist Alice Waters 40 years ago, is famous as a pioneer of serving fresh, ...

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West Coast burger chain In-N-Out Burger has filed a federal lawsuit against an Aberdeen restaurant whose red, white and yellow logo and pared-down menu of hamburgers and hot dogs are allegedly too similar to its own. The Irvine, Calif.-based company ...

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It was barely 10 a.m., yet dozens of people were itching for a burger — and not just any burger. “It’s all about the Gino’s Giant!” exclaimed a number of hungry loyalists whose enthusiasm was matched by the hundreds of ...

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When the Old Stein Inn burned down last New Year’s Eve, owner Mike Selinger watched 28 years of his life go up in flames. Selinger began working in the restaurant in 1983, the year his German-born parents opened the business ...

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