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• Diner’s Journal Blog: Dear FloFab: We Ate Cheddar and Ritz Crackers for Christmas Eve Dinner

  Advice on handling a host who can't handle the cooking, avoiding unpleasant surprises on the check and tipping the person who retrieves your coats. Read More... Posted Nov 04 2011, 02:47 PM by NYT > Dining & Wine Filed under: Restaurants, Cooking, Dear FloFab, advice, Etiquette, Drinking, the check, service, Holiday, coat check, house guests

• Diner's Journal: Dear FloFab: The Kitchen Dropped My Dinner

  What to do when a restaurant serves everyone at the table but you, when a picky mother-in-law comes along to a three-star meal, and when you split the check with a heavy drinker. Read More... Posted Nov 11 2010, 02:06 PM by NYT > Dining & Wine Filed under: Restaurants, Dear FloFab, advice, Etiquette, the check, service, picky eaters, splitting the check

• Dear FloFab: My Favorite Restaurant Plays Awful Music

  Advice on confronting a chef about his taste in music, fending off guests who want to take home leftovers, and when to pay for a cocktail you didn't like. Read More... Posted Sep 30 2010, 03:20 PM by NYT > Dining & Wine Filed under: Restaurants, Cocktails, Music, Dear FloFab, advice, Etiquette, entertaining, the check, service, leftovers

• Dear FloFab: My Stepdaughter Ate My Doggie Bag!

  Florence Fabricant gives advice on purloined leftovers, when to speak to a restaurant's owners about a bad meal, and what to do when you eat out with somebody who likes to share everything but the tab. Read More... Posted Aug 19 2010, 04:55 PM by NYT > Dining & Wine Filed under: Le Bernardin, Dear FloFab, advice, Etiquette, the check, service, doggie bags, splitting the check, wine temperature, leftovers

• Prime Meats No Longer Cash Only

  The restaurant in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn, now accepts American Express, but no other cards. Read More... Posted Jun 03 2010, 06:10 PM by NYT > Dining & Wine Filed under: Restaurants, the check, Cafe Pedlar, Frank Falcinelli, Frankies Spuntino, Frank Castronovo, Prime Meats, credit cards

• Dear FloFab: Would You Like Fresh Black Pepper on That?

  Florence Fabricant dispenses advice on the roving pepper grinder problem, the mysterious "captain's tip," and how to let invited guests at a birthday party know that they'll be splitting the tab. Read More... Posted Jun 03 2010, 08:00 AM by NYT > Dining & Wine Filed under: Restaurants, Pepper, Dear FloFab, advice, Etiquette, the check, waiters, tips, pepper mills, tipping, invitations

• Dear FloFab: Are You Still Working on That?

  Florence Fabricant answers questions about waiters, tips and getting the check before you ask for it. Read More... Posted May 06 2010, 05:10 AM by NYT > Dining & Wine Filed under: Restaurants, Dear FloFab, advice, Etiquette, the check, waiters, tips, service