1.   Beverly Johnson e-mails looking for two restaurant recipes.

2.   Because these are restaurant recipes, they often call for popping something into a very hot oven for just a minute, a technique familiar to few home cooks.

3.   Probably the most requested restaurant dessert recipe at The Chronicle is the Banana Cream Pie with Coconut Caramel Sauce at Grand Cafe.

4.   Q. I have been using dried shiitake mushrooms to make a wonderful soup from a Verbena restaurant recipe.

5.   Their success also depends on their ability to translate large-scale restaurant recipes into home dishes that can be prepared with supermarket ingredients and everyday kitchen equipment.

6.   There are even restaurant recipes, like one for the pasta Laura Galli makes at her Osteria Giusti in Modena.