WASHINGTON: A single meal at a North American restaurant may contain more than half the calories the average person needs for the whole day, according to research published Monday in a leadingUSmedical journal. Researchers from theUniversityofTorontosampled hundreds of meals at 19 chain sit-down ...

  TAMPA UPI   AFloridarestaurant known for its unusual tacos is raising eyebrows by offering a taco featuring African lion meat for $35. Taco Fusion inTampa,Florida, which previously gained attention for tacos filled with beaver and otter meat, has raised controversy by using African lion ...

POZNAN: A British tourist has complained after finding ‘cervical cancer with chips’ on the menu at a restaurant in Poland. Owen Durray, 32, from Kent, found ‘Cervical cancer served on beetroot carpaccio’ being offered at the Bee Jays restaurant in Poznan. Mr Durray said: ...

LONDON: Spain’s El Celler de Can Roca seized the title of the world’s best restaurant from Denmark’s Noma on Monday, one month after dozens of people came down with a bout of food poisoning from the Copenhagen eatery. The restaurant in Girona, run by three brothers and known for ...

MEXICO CITY: Mexico’s President Enrique Pena Nieto has ordered an investigation into the closure of a popular restaurant after the daughter of the country’s consumer watchdog was denied a table. In a bizarre episode worthy of Mexican telenovela, Pena Nieto has waded into the furore ...

MUMBAI (AFP) - An Indian court sentenced a cyber cafe worker to death on Thursday for his role in a deadly bomb blast which ripped through a restaurant in the western city of Pune three years ago, lawyers said.Mirza Himayat Baig was found guilty earlier this week of criminal conspiracy and murder ...

THE honest owner of a Californian restaurant has posted a sign explaining the eatery is closed - due to a cockroach infestation. Cafe del Soul, in Marin County, posted the sign near its front door - after reporting itself to local environmental health officials. Manager Sandro De Oliveira told the ...

MORGAN Freeman has closed his restaurant in Mississippi after the business failed to turn a profit in 10 years. The Hollywood actor set up the Madidi Restaurant in Clarksdale, Mississippi in 2001 with his business partner, Bill Luckett, but the pair decided to shut down the eatery due to financial ...

LAHORE – A fire broke out in Lahore Broast, the Wahdat Road restaurant of the Rescue-1122’s District Emergency Officer, on Monday, and the Service’s Media Coordinator Karamat Ali tried his best to conceal the matter from the press. He even threatened this scribe asking him not to ...

LAHORE – Daewoo Pakistan Express has opened its first food chain restaurant “D Zone” at Chowk Bahadurpur Bus Terminal. D Zone restaurant was formally inaugurated by Company’s Chief Executive C I Kim while local MPA Makhdoom Ahmad Mehmood, Javed Ahmed Dhiloon and DCO Rahimyar ...

QUETTA - Explosives planted by unidentified people in a restaurant in Wadh area of Khuzdar district went off with a big bang, causing damages to the restaurant. However, no loss of life was reported in the blast. After the blast, police rushed to the site and cordoned off the area. Station House ...

A restaurant in the US has added a 338lb (24 stone) burger costing $2,000 (1,200) to its menu. Mallies Sports Grill & Bar in Southgate, Michigan unveiled the 'Absolutely Ridiculous Burger to a crowd of would-be diners on Thursday, the Detroit News reports. The burger consists of 15 pounds of ...

A buffalo about to be slaughtered at a restaurant escaped and rampaged through the streets of Vietnams capital, injuring one man and throwing traffic into chaos, police said Friday. Policeman Nguyen Dang Hau said the owners of the Loc Vung restaurant in Hanoi told him they were trying to kill the ...

A Saudi restaurant has started fining diners if they order more than they can eat. Fahad Al Anezi, owner of the Marmar Restaurant in the city of Dammam, said he wanted to avoid wasting food. He also wanted to encourage customers to be less extravagant with their orders, reports Gulf News. There are ...

At least 45 people were killed and 93 wounded in a suicide bomb attack on a restaurant near the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk on Thursday, the city's deputy police chief Torhane Yussef said. Women and children were among the victims of the attack on the "Abdullah" restaurant, an interior ministry ...