The restaurant underwent a major renovation in 2005 and there are now three floors of different dining rooms, an enormous wine selection and a comforting menu of surf and turf featuring their famous dish, lobster Thermidor.

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And the most famous dish in the capital is named after it: the Peking roast duck, a dish said to be first written into a recipe book in 1330 by Hu Sihui, an inspector of the imperial kitchens when the capital of China was in the city of Nanjing.

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The meal was mofongo, a famous Puerto Rican dish that just so happens to be my favorite (for my own recipe, go here).

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Laura Esquivel's novel Like Water for Chocolate made the dish famous.

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But New Dish is famous for one thing: pork momos.

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While they are famous for their gumbo, the signature dish is the St.

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With up to 20 varieties flown in fresh daily, they have been doing oysters about as long as anyone, doing them perfectly, and in addition to raw bar they have a huge menu of every imaginable seafood dish, plus their rich and creamy signature oyster pan roasts, and a deep list of both famous and little known champagnes that go perfectly with oysters.

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