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.
After my recent trip to NYC and trying some fairly high end, creative sushi spots, I started to think about the differences between the upper level sushi bars there and here. Some of it is the obvious stuff that I’ve talked about in various sushi reviews – the heavy reliance on salmon here as the… Read More Nikkei Twice-Over
Bestia, Primera Junta 702, San Isidro, has been luring diners up to the north suburbs for, I think, going on two years now, maybe more. It’s promise, basically… meat, meat, and more meat. It was one of the first places around to start offering dry aged steaks… [Closed in early 2025] …and “perusing” their meat… Read More Feed the Beast
Enrique Rodríguez Larreta, Uruguayan by birth, but raised in Argentina. A famed author, teacher of medieval history, politician, and art collector. Married into the politically powerful Anchorena family. Important enough to be buried in Recoleta Cemetery. He was nominated for ten Nobel Prizes in literature, and though he didn’t win one of those, he did… Read More The Supremes
A fun lineup this time… and for a change, almost everything was good. We have an alliteration of pizza, Peruvian, pasta, and pastrami! We’ll kick off with the one that wasn’t up to par. “I love a good mushroom pizza, if it’s made with fresh mushrooms, not canned. I hate canned mushrooms” “Sir, we… Read More Bite Marks #78
Our usual hodgepodge of spots for a Bite Marks… some from before my trip, some from after. Life is short, eat dessert first. Okay, we ate it last, but still. And yes, that picture is really only about the ice cream, nothing else. I swear on a Baskin-Robbins napkin. Heladería Capricci, Fraga 602, Chacarita. I… Read More Bite Marks #77
There were several reasons for stopping for two days in Atlanta at the end of my whirlwind vacation, none of them all that interesting for our purposes here, other than, that I ended up staying out in one of the two “K-town”, or Koreatown, areas, and yes, Atlanta has two of them. Actually, although that’s… Read More Burning through Atlanta
Welcome to Louisville, Kentucky, home of the Kentucky Derby (aka the biggest party in the south), the world’s largest Beatles festival (aka Abbey Road on the River), and Yum! (aka KFC, Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, and WingStreet). Oh yes, and my parents. The focus was not on food, but on the visit for Father’s Day… Read More City of the Yum!?
And, the wind-up for New York, days 5-7… with less grazing. Y, la liquidación para Nueva York, días 5-7 … con menos caminata de comer. Cheung Fun (rice rolls) & Crispy Duck Salad at Hakkasan, 311 West 43rd Street, Manhattan. Absolutely spectacular dim sum lunch of various dumplings and buns, plus two versions of… Read More Back to the Big Apple #3