Dear Salty, I have a friend who insists you should ask your server for recommendations whenever you go out to eat, which he does *every* time. He says it’s a way to tell the quality of a restaurant—if a server doesn’t have a favorite meal or two, he says it suggests they don’t eat the food there and/or that the food…

Author Andrea Nguyen is a friend of The Takeout who’s helped us understand the magnificence of Vietnamese pho and gave us a killer recipe for umami garlic noodles. We own every book she’s written and we encourage you to do the same.

Roasted garlic is the ultimate finishing touch. Smear it across a steak, mix it in a dip, or toss it with some sort of grilled vegetable salad, and it will make it better. But, in the summer months, the act of roasting turns your kitchen into a sweaty, unpleasant place. The great news is that you don’t have to choose…

Given that the Fast & Furious franchise has already ripped through eight installments, with a spin-off due later this summer and a formal ninth entry coming in 2020, we’re at a point where the series has to strain to come up with fresh ideas. From hordes of remote-controlled cars to, uh, apparent superhumans, the F&F m…

In a perpetually expanding global craft beer market, any brewery worth its hops must find a solid hook, a way of distinguishing its products from every other brew out there. Sometimes this goes wrong, but often it’s what helps a brewer take that crucial next step. As hooks go, a beer made by Trappist monks, in a…

Robots are taking over the food industry. If you’re alarmed, fret not; this is simply the next necessary step in evolution. They’re delivering our groceries. They’re running our grocery stores. They trawl the streets with our meals. In some places, they also prepare those meals. Resistance is futile. This is the new…

Last month, a study found that people who ate “ultra processed” food (think cereal and muffins) ate more calories and gained more weight than those who ate a less processed diet. Ever since, I’ve been using the study’s menus as breakfast inspiration.

If you’ve ever been to Texas, and especially if you’ve ever met somebody from Texas, you know at least something about Whataburger. The fast-food chain, with over 800 locations as of this article’s publication, is a cultural mainstay of the region. While its empire has expanded over the years to other parts of the…

Not since The Takeout declared as a unified staff that loaded fries suck have we have felt compelled to alert our beloved readers to another culinary scourge upon our taste buds: Apple Jacks.

Every food media site and its mother are trying to collect on that sweet, sweet, YouTube ad revenue. So we tip our hats to our colleagues at First We Feast, who have on their hands a genuine, bonafide viral hit in Hot Ones, a celebrity hot wings challenge in the guise of a surprisingly substantive interview show. The…

At the Firestone Walker Invitational Beer Festival held in Paso Robles, California, earlier this month, the temperature was a bordering-on-hot 80 degrees. Festival attendees painted on sunscreen or huddled under shade, and I even saw a small line for, of all things, the water fountains. But brewers in attendance had…

Throw the words “Best Burger” or “Best Pizza” up on the internet and it’s like throwing a carcass at a pack of vultures. You’re inviting people to scream share their deeply held opinions and defend it to their deaths.