It wasn’t quite as dramatic as the best of dines and the worst of dines, but recent visits to two newish Italian restaurants certainly produced different reactions.

Robin Roberts (1960) is an American television broadcaster. Roberts is the anchor of ABC's Good Morning America. After growing up in Mississippi and attending Southeastern Louisiana University, Roberts was a sports anchor for local TV and radio stations. Roberts was a sportscaster on ESPN for 15 years (1990–2005). She became co-anchor on Good Morning America in 2005. She has been treated for breast cancer and for myelodysplastic syndrome.

So much has been in the news about R House and its battle with Ron DeSatan, excuse me, DeSantis, that it would be easy to forget that it is primarily a restaurant.

Fogo de Chão means "ground fire", and at the first Fogo de Chão, a wooden structure, nestled in the countryside of Porto Alegre, they literally cooked over fire pits. Fogo opened its second restaurant in São Paulo, utilizing modern restaurant equipment. After being urged to enter the American market, Fogo opened in Dallas in 1997.

Valentine’s Day, Friendship Day, Treat Yo’ Self day…whatever this day represents to you, it’s a day when you might be tempted to visit a dining establishment.

You want to do something special for your valentine, but this year Valentine’s Day is on a Wednesday. Making dinner reservations the weekend before or the weekend after is great, but if your schedule is too hectic for that mid-week dinner date, Papageno’s Wine & Provisions has solutions that are simple, elegant, and tasty; all sorts of ways to make your Valentine’s at home memorable.