fava beans

On Our Plate: Arizona Restaurant Week Is Here; Best Restaurants for Outdoor Dining; Triangle Restaurant Week Reservations Are Live; Fava Beans + More

Happenings on and around OpenTable… * We’re celebrating the release of the 2012 Diners’ Choice Awards for Top 100 Restaurants for Outdoor Dining. Discover the nation’s best al fresco spots! * Speaking of the great outdoors, do you eat lighter fare when you’re dining outside? Vote in this week’s poll! * This week’s restaurant review trend? Fava beans! * Did you [...]

Trending on Recent OpenTable Restaurant Reviews: Fava Beans

Fava beans are twice the work that other beans are — literally. You have to peel them two times! So, when I serve these straight out of the garden, I throw a peel-your-own-fava-beans cocktail party. I’m not even kidding. It seriously takes that much work to prep them, at least in the volume that we [...]

Date/Time	Event
06/01/2013 - 06/02/2013 5:00 PM - 10:00 PM	Montclair Food & Wine Festival Woman’s Club of Upper Montclair, Montclair New Jersey
06/03/2013 7:00 PM - 11:00 PM	Long Island Hospitality Ball to Benefit American Cancer Society Crest Hollow Country Club, Woodbury New York

Caroline Potter is the Chief Dining Officer for OpenTable, Inc. She’s a dining trend-spotter and an OpenTable VIP, who dines out more than she eats in and has accrued more than 10,000 Dining Rewards points. Caroline started working in restaurants as a teen and she's since tackled every front-of-the-house job, from bartender and hostess to runner and server. She trained as a chef at Manhattan’s prestigious French Culinary Institute, cooking at L’Ecole. In addition to her role at OpenTable, she has written about food from farm to table for New York City’s famed Greenmarket and Edible Brooklyn and Edible East End magazines. Caroline is also a Certified Master Gardener.