HUNTINGTON BEACH Calif. Joining a growing number of casual-dining concepts with small-plate offerings, BJ’s Restaurants on Wednesday introduced a new “Snacks and Small Bites” menu category, as well as ...

Innovations are good things in most businesses, and the restaurant business is no exception. Sometimes, though, a good thing can go a little too far. Take small plates. Many years ago, Bay Area ...

LOS ANGELES Following a growing trend in casual dining, California Pizza Kitchen has debuted a new “Small Cravings” menu featuring smaller dishes at a lower price range. The new small cravings range ...

Looks like Charlotte is leaning the way of our European counterparts, at least when it comes to smaller plates and portions offered at old and new local restaurants. A major reason for this is the ...

At Chicago's Avec restaurant, where the entire menu is small plates, chef Koren Grieveson tries to keep dishes simple but intense, limiting the number of ingredients and tools needed. The restaurant's ...

Everyone knows a clever restaurant name will help us to remember an eatery’s moniker. This newer Vero Beach restaurant does have a clever name: Curfew. Clever because it is one of the very few places ...

Modesto’s most experimental bar (“Laboratories” is in its name and everything) is branching into another area of the culinary sciences — namely food. Lo-Fi Laboratories, downtown Modesto’s artisan ...