Restaurant reviews – the opinions expressed are solely my own. Often, though it will appear that they’re based on a single visit, they’re based on more than one. And I’m willing to hear from folks who disagree – I do know that restaurants, including my own, have their off days.
“A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones. – Proverbs 17:22 If there’s one thing the Chinese have on us westerners when it comes to naming restaurants it is that they are unflaggingly positive. The names invoke fortune and spirit, caring and beauty. Not that I knew what the… Read More Be of Good Cheer, Spice is Here
“Well something’s lost but something’s gained in living every day….” – Joni Mitchell, Both Sides Now I mean, just look at it. It’s a little neighborhood cafe. An octet of roughly put together wooden tables, slathered over with black paint, the chairs not much better, decor consisting of a black and white vine motif wallpaper… Read More Not Just Any Cafe
“Up a lazy river by the old mill run, that lazy, lazy river in the noonday sun.” – Sidney Arodin, songwriter, chorus to Lazy River I’m going to be as lazy as the Rio de la Plata in this post and leave it pretty much all to the photos. My usual trips to Uruguay are… Read More Up the Lazy River
“You may have the universe if I may have Italy.” – Giuseppe Verdi You know that little Italian place down the street? The one with the tables too close together, and a little rickety at that. A bar overcrowded with bottles gathering dust because no one orders that stuff. Maybe a prosciutto or some sausages… Read More The Hunchback of Rodriguez Peña
“Why Become Extinct? Authors with varying competence have suggested that dinosaurs disappeared because the climate deteriorated (became suddenly or slowly too hot or cold or dry or wet), or that the diet did (with too much food or not enough of such substances as fern oil; from poisons in water or plants or ingested minerals;… Read More Calcium, the Building Block
“…sprinkled with sugar and eaten hot, they form an exquisite dish. They have a golden hue and are tempting to eat. Thin and transparent like muslin, their edges are trimmed to resemble fine lace. They are so light that after a good dinner, a man from Agen is still willing to sample three or four… Read More Wrap it Up in a Crepe
“What Rocky H. Aoki started as a tiny four-table restaurant in Manhattan on October 9, 1964, serving one or two customers a day, has grown into an international restaurant organization that has profoundly changed American eating habits. When the first Benihana opened forty years ago, Japanese cuisine was unknown to most Americans and the idea… Read More Rocky LXXXIII
“If there’s just one piece of advice i can give you, it’s this – when there’s something you really want, fight for it, don’t give up no matter how hopeless it seems. And when you’ve lost hope, ask yourself if 10 years from now, you’re gonna wish you gave it just one more shot. because… Read More You Are Now Entering V-Burg, Part 3