Our Scottish friends across the pond are well known for cranking out delicious whiskey, but are you familiar with their famous haggis? The sausage-like dish is a staple throughout the country, but many people aren’t aware of what it actually is. In fact, 33% of US tourists believe haggis is an animal, and almost one quarter thought it was possible to catch one.

An outdoor dining area on an icy canal. Interesting way to dine.

Score one for the machines. On Tuesday, Applebee’s announced plans to install a tablet at every table in its 1,860 restaurants across the United States. Customers will be able to use the devices to order food, pay the bill, and ignore their dining companions by playing video games.

Some exceptions should obviously apply.

Jawdat Ibrahim is offering a 50% discount to diners who turn off their phones while they enjoy their meals at his restaurant in Jerusalem.

After a gay server at a New Jersey restaurant said a customer denied her a tip and wrote her a hateful note on the receipt, a local family contacted NBC 4 New York and said their receipt shows they paid a tip and didn't write any such note.

Fine dining at Michelin-starred restaurants around the world can come at a price. But what you get for those high price tags (which can often be accompanied by sticker shock) are outstanding dining experiences that can take you to a castle in Switzerland or to an underwater culinary experience in the Maldives. From Japan to Europe to the Big Apple, luxe dining menus are often designed tasting courses paired with wines, which substantially adds to the consumer's bottom line.

Ducks used in Gordon Ramsay’s foie gras dishes suffer horrific cruelty before being killed.

Heart-clogging trans fats have been slowly disappearing from grocery aisles and restaurant menus in the last decade. Now, the Food and Drug Administration is finishing the job.

The customer at the center of a racial slur written on a Red Lobster receipt last month in Franklin is speaking out for the first time and says new evidence proves he didn't write it.

McDonald’s said Friday it was dropping ketchup king Heinz as a supplier of the key hamburger condiment, citing management changes at Heinz that put the company closer to rival Burger King. McDonald?s said it was ending a relationship of over 40 years as it axed Heinz from its supplier list.

McDonald's is revamping its Dollar Menu and renaming it Dollar Menu & More - a move that will add pricier items to its value offering. The company's CEO Don Thompson said on its third-quarter earnings call Monday morning that the menu will be rolled out nationally and supported by national advertising dollars.

After up to 10 hours of standing with virtually no breaks and no real nourishment, there are generally two options for a famished team of chefs, cooks, waiters, bussers, porters and everyone else it takes to run a restaurant.

The Magic Restroom Cafe opens in a suburb of L.A. on Friday and, as the name suggests, it’s a wall-to-wall, porcelain-throne paradise in there. Bathroom-themed restaurants have had great success in Japan and China in recent years—over a dozen Modern Toilet locations have opened in Taiwan alone—so it seems inevitable that the trend would eventually come stateside.

A restaurant owner in Moscow has decided to only hire sets of twins in a bid to attract new customers. The Twin Stars diner employs identically-dressed siblings to serve its hungry clients with food and drink - taking inspiration from an old Soviet-era movie.

Jon Basso, owner of Heart Attack Grill, discusses his open stance that the food in his restaurant will kill you and how Americans just need to make responsible choices about their eating habits, not have decisions made for them on what they can and can’t eat. He speaks on Bloomberg Television’s “In The Loop.”

Like cats after the cream, Parisians are flocking to a new cafe whose centerpiece is not food but felines.

Researchers tried to find out what was in chicken nuggets from two fast food chains, with disconcerting results.

Want to impress your date? Know how to order oysters. Though there's no scientific evidence that oysters are actually an aphrodisiac, they are a classy appetizer for when you want to seem like a modern-day Casanova.

Heart Attack Grill's Triple Bypass Burgers have been known to precipitate sudden cardiac arrest. The restaurant is heavy-handed with lard and processed cheese, but for good reason, says Basso: He's just trying to spit some truth in an age of Burger King's reduced-fat fries and McDonald's white-tablecloth chef-washing, which he considers to be gestures.