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If you aren’t preparing your own meal, or visiting friends or family, national restaurant chains are ready to serve you on Thanksgiving Day. “Eat, drink and be thankful” is the way one chain restaurant is promoting its Thanksgiving Day feast. Here’s a list of chain restaurants planning to be open on Thanksgiving Day 2017, some
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Eating out is important for family memories, as well as helping teach kids proper table manners. These are the top kid-friendly restaurants in five top US cities, which also happen to be top vacation destinations for families. There are no fast-food or national fast casual chains on this list, only the best kid-friendly restaurants chosen
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New Orleans is famous for its food, so it makes sense that a museum devoted to food is here. The Southern Food and Beverage Museum showcases the food and crops of the South, not just Louisiana. The museum, SoFAB for short, is in the Central City neighborhood, which – like so much of the city
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If you want to or need to avoid gluten when you dine out, put these FREE smartphone apps on your menu: Dine Gluten Free – This FREE app is more than just a listing of restaurants and fast food joints. It also offers reviews by members of the gluten free community. The app is published
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The world’s largest annual winter carnival is the annual Quebec Winter Carnival, in the heart of Old Quebec. It is 17 days of fun in the snow, February 1 to February 17, 2013. The daily schedule of festivities includes parades, fireworks, slide runs, a giant foot ball game, concerts, snow sculptures, horse-drawn sleigh rides, dogsled rides, snow sculptures,
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There are no Chinese restaurants in Taiwan, at least the kind so popular in North America, where Chinese restaurants serve up a menu mix of Szechuan, Hunan and Cantonese food. In Taiwan, when you want Szechuan, you go to a Szechuan restaurant, or to a Beijing-style or Shanghainese or Fukanese restaurant or dumpling house for
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Where you go on vacation can determine how much weight you gain. Surprisingly, the legendary rich food of France, the all-you-can-eat buffets in Las Vegas, or the beer and pretzels in Germany, did not top the list. The destination with the largest weight gain is Greece, where the average adult puts on three pounds over
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I’ve never understood the slavish — and expensive — devotion some people have to Starbucks. Money is tight these days, so these tips can help you stretch your coffee break budget — Free Refills — Register any Starbucks Card, earn 5 Stars, and enjoy free refills of brewed coffee or tea- hot or iced while
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Which sit-down restaurant chain has the best food? Worst service? Which one is the most kid-friendly? Here are the answers, based on more than 110,000 restaurant visits by readers of Consumer Reports, which most of us consider the absolute leader in non-partial reviews of products and services. Americans spend about $1.7 billion a day at
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What are the top kid-friendly, family-friendly restaurants in the USA? A survey by OpenTable, compiling nearly five million reviews by diners, shows families love going out to eat in restaurants offering healthful choices, comfort food, Italian and Mexican menus, and steakhouses. And, of course, budget-friendly prices. The 75 best kid-friendly restaurants in the USA, according
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