The quality of your restaurant's food, the friendliness of your wait staff and the ambiance of the restaurant are all crucial to the success of a customer's dining experience. This all works together to determine whether a diner will come back to your restaurant again. Therefore, it should come as no surprise that a family-friendly environment is also key to success. However, you have to go about it the right way because you have to make the families and their kids happy without compromising the quality of the experience of your other diners.
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Mexican food is a part of the pantheon of American food, but many of the foods we know as Mexican are nothing more than Americanized versions of the Mexican original. While taco and burrito joints are a dime a dozen in most cities, if you want real Mexican food, you need to look beyond the ease of ready-to-order food and try to find classics. For example, you could try mole, carne adobada, or tamales.
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If you live in the United States, the majority of the Mexican food that you consume is most likely Tex-Mex, which is a blend of Mexican, Native American, and European ingredients and cooking methods. Tex-Mex tends to feature more beef, wheat flour, and cumin, whereas authentic Mexican food features corn tortillas, various protein sources other than beef, and various white cheeses as opposed to yellow cheese. There are several reasons why authentic Mexican food can be the healthier choice between the two.
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White pasta tends to be the old standby when it comes to dining out at an authentic Italian restaurant, but for those looking to expand their boiled carbohydrate horizons, there's a huge variety of different mix-ins, flavorings, and even foundations that can be added to pasta dough for a totally new eating experience. If you want to try something new on your next forkful of homemade pasta, then try looking for one of these three unique types of pasta that look and taste radical.
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Planning your very first catered holiday party is likely to require tons of food planning as well as alcoholic beverage planning. If you're just serving beer or wine, many of your choices are easy. However, since it's the holiday season, you'll likely want special cocktails as well as harder liquor. Your caterer from your favorite restaurant can help you decide what to serve. But as you're creating your list, this guide explains what you can expect your caterer to bring to your home to properly serve alcoholic beverages at your holiday party.
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