Sam Yoo, chef and owner of Golden Diner After a post-pandemic craving for luxury, today people are wanting comfort and familiarity out of restaurant experiences, which diners deliver in spades.

Winter has me in a pancake mood. So does Amazon Prime's "The Sticky," a Fargo-like caper based on the $18 million theft of maple syrup in Quebec that I recently binged watched — only amplifying ...

This week's restaurant news also answers reader ... Jack Boykin asked about Lake Park Diner on Bonita Beach Road "that has been sitting empty for at least a year, any news on when it opens?" ...