In 2003, the renowned, 52-year-old French chef Bernard Loiseau, then one of the most famous chefs in France and an inspiration for the chef Auguste Gusteau in the Pixar film Ratatouille, shot himself in the mouth with a hunting rifle amid speculation that the Michelin restaurant guide was about to pull his restaurant’s third star.

The Fig & Olive restaurant chain has been linked to Salmonella outbreaks in both Los Angeles, California and Washington, D.C. All the cases occurred during late August and early September this year.

There are HUNDREDS of supper clubs in Wisconsin, and you should strive to check them all out. But here are ten more you should definitely get to.

Margaux’s Restaurant in Raleigh, North Carolina has been combining their ever changing menu with impeccable service to create an unforgettable dining experience. http://margauxsrestaurant.com

Cathal Armstrong was 19 when he opened his first restaurant with his father in Dublin. "It was a disaster from the beginning," he recalls. "We never had a business licence, we never had a health permit - who knew you needed such a thing? The walls started closing in and we began running out of money.

While the big cities have some excellent restaurants, there are actually some fantastic restaurants in small towns. We are profiling some of the very best.

McDonald’s is changing its identity to compete with other big-name chains, but is it doing too much?

Hobbit Restaurant in Orange is one of California's Premier Fine Dining Restaurants. The Hobbit Experience includes an entire evening revolving around a fixed menu and superlative service in an elegant, traditional location with one of the largest wine cellars in the United States.

How the demise of the iconic Four Seasons restaurant may mark the end of a singular sort of masculine power. By Robert Draper.

The clock is ticking on one of Dallas' oldest and most venerated restaurants: Pietro's Italian Restaurant is on the market, and is just a lease agreement away from serving its last plate of meatballs with signature red sauce.

These days, a burger is so much more than a patty between buns. Even the very best chefs in the world have devoted resources to building burgers with only the finest ingredients. To find these white-tablecloth-quality burgers, we read through dozens of menus at Michelin-starred restaurants across the country. From classic cheeseburgers to a succulent burger with truffle mayo and chicken skin, here is a sample of America's most sophisticated and succulent burgers.

Those sick and tired of having to deal with their fellow humans all the time have a new respite – a fully automated restaurant in San Francisco. Customers at Eatsa in the Financial District will order from an iPad, sending the order to the kitchen. When the meal is ready, it appears in a small glass compartment. The food is prepared by real people, but the patrons never have to see them.

I must admit that I fully expected to dislike Eatsa, a new restaurant slated to open next week in San Francisco with a sleek, 21st-century take on the famous Horn & Hardart Automat. In the late 1980s, when I was a summer intern in New York, working in the Daily News Building, the last remaining Horn & Hardart Automat was right around the corner. The cafeteria chain that operated in Philadelphia and New York was in its twilight then...

Dierks Bentley has announced plans to open a Whiskey Row restaurant in Las Vegas, on the Strip. The eatery, which will open in July of 2016 on the Las Vegas Strip, is part of a new, bustling retail and dining district, the Park, that will span eight acres.

If there ever was a restaurant destined to get crappy reviews, its Curry Shop Shimizu. The Tokyo-based eatery opened earlier this month with the house specialty being "poo-flavored curry." To be fair, the dish doesn't contain any actual poop, just natural ingredients like green tea, bitter gourd and cocoa powder that, when combined, looks and tastes similar to human defecation, OddityCentral.com reports.

SOCIAL media posts about your upset belly or last night’s dodgy kebab are the latest weapons used by health authorities to stamp out outbreaks of food poisoning.

Dine at Greater Des Moines’ top restaurants Aug. 14-23 for just $25 for two lunches or one three-course dinner. The metro area’s innovative and talented chefs will create special fixed-price menus that will showcase their palate-pleasing cuisine at pocketbook-pleasing prices. The fabulous fare undoubtedly will have you going back for more!

Titus O'Neil is a large man. He also appears to be a kind man.

This travel season, you’re invited to dine like a local on your summer road trip with the OpenTable 2015 Summer Road Trip Restaurant Guide.