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.
Our trip continued with a long drive from north of Chicago to just north of Louisville and my parents’ home, where Henry and I stayed for a couple of days. Mostly it was just visiting with them, a lunch with a couple of old friends, and a little bit of touring around, but not too… Read More A Dip in KY
We’ve been on to three days in Chicago – the botanic gardens, fireworks, and the architecture boat tour, and of course visiting with family were the highlights. Some of you probably have seen posts and tweets and such about Anthony Bourdain’s recent criticism of folk who take photos of their food and share them on… Read More And All That Jazz
It’s not all about food. We did a bit of wandering, a lot of shopping, and took one day on one of the hop-on hop-off buses to get an overview feel for Miami Beach and City. For those who don’t (which I didn’t), Miami Beach is pretty much a separate city, on an island to… Read More Miami ‘eat
While our first day in Miami started off with a bit of wandering and a whole lot of shopping, some casual food (more later, perhaps), the heavens opened up in late afternoon turning the streets into flood zones and pelting anyone who ventured outside with massive amounts of water. There was talk of a sort… Read More The Bazaar… Bizarre?
“It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities and talents.” – Eric Hoffer, philosophical writer Initially I was going to call this “New Kids on the Block”, but then I realized that the kids aren’t… Read More New Sandboxes
It’s time once again to play that game, Roundup of Bites. Not that we have that game, but hey, let’s make everything a game. Speaking of which, a couple of people asked about what happened to our new online Top-Master-Chopped-Iron-Chef series (seriously, one of you has to give me a better name for that, and… Read More Roundup of Bites
We’ll go in for a a group of pizza spots this time around, moving the great 92 bus pizza trek ever forward. We pick up again in Caballito on the return leg of the journey. (49) So the first spot (at least that’s open during the day, I still have to decide what I’m going… Read More 92 Bus, Stops 49 – 53
What do you do when you’re an award winning chef… no really award winning, pretty much all the accolades available to a chef… who has run the kitchens in some of the best hotel restaurants in the country, been the director of one of the country’s best cooking schools, been part of various major food… Read More Reborn in a French Bistro