Featured
Buffet
Sugar Editorial Picks
All You Can Eat — Recession Buster or Fat Maker?
Taybarns restaurant is introducing a new dining concept to the English — all you can eat. It's nothing we haven't seen in the United States. We have all-you-can-eat baked potato and pizza bars, endless breadsticks and salad, and the kind of buffets that would make Elvis weep if he was still kickin' it in Vegas.
Would You Eat This Tropical Fruit Chutney?
A couple weeks ago, at a buffet dinner, I came across this gross-looking condiment. The only ingredient I recognized was pecans.
As I was about to quickly pass by, I noticed a little sign that said, "Tropical Fruit Chutney with Pecans — Tastes better than it looks!"
You Waste, You Buy
If your eyes are bigger than your stomach, one restaurant thinks you should pay the price for being too greedy. In an unprecedented move, Hayashi Ya, a Japanese buffet on Manhattan's Upper West Side, has begun adding a 30 percent surcharge for customers who don't finish food on their plate. In other words, the restaurant's $26.95 meal deal is all-you-can-eat — but not a bite more.
Crave Worthy: Jethro Macey Sideboard
If you told me the words lace, sideboard, white, floral, lacquer, and modern could exist all in one breath, I wouldn't believe you — and I'd likely chastise you for being a tease. But impressively, those adjectives do exist all together . .
Before and After: A Buffet Gets Styled
Talk about changing the look of things! Craftster member Olga reports that this buffet, which is made from cheap materials, was purchased for $15. She writes, "I wanted to do something to help this buffet, and at the same time I needed to get more practice with different or new materials.
Healthy Eating Tip: Hit the Buffet
The buffet can be your friend or foe. It all depends on how you look at it. You can either load up your plate with piles of high fat, high calorie foods with little nutritional value or you can take advantage of the variety and opt to cover your plate with the abundance of healthy foods usually available on any given buffet.
How to Deal With the Buffet at a Wedding Reception
It is June and wedding season in is in full bloom. Weddings are fun-filled events, but beware of the buffet. It is all too easy to pile the calories onto one little plate.
Set the Table With Salad
Over the weekend Fab and I attended the Junior League of San Francisco's — a great organization that helps mothers in need — annual luncheon and fashion show. Instead of having a boring buffet or walking waiters, the tables were set with ingredients to make-your-own salad. Having to pass platters was a great way to start conversations between the unacquainted guests.
Nice and New: Brastilo Console
Brastilo, a line of home furnishings made from indigenous wood harvested from renewable resources from Brazil, takes a casually elegant approach to entertaining with their earth-friendly products. This Brastilo console ($1259) brings together a hand-finished solid pine frame mixed with cast-brass handles and aluminum hardware to create a strikingly beautiful effect. With two sliding doors and two shelves, it makes a great addition to a dining room when used as a buffet.
Love It or Hate It? Boca do Lobo Forest Sideboard
The body and base of this sideboard is made of wood and covered with a branch-like cut-out that covers the whole body of the metallic (not mirrored) piece, which was finished with a lacquer for high gloss shine. According to the product description of this limited edition piece, the structure "transports the external nature to the interior" in a way that is "imposing and functional." No price was listed.
More on FitSugar
Fall Award Season
Top Brands
Taillissime
Therapy
High