Okay, I was warned off of this one. A local friend had given it a try and sent me a tweet telling me to stay away. He saw it was on my “to try” map, and had gone himself, and said that while they had a beautiful terrace (wait, a terrace, in this location? So,… Read More Junghwa yori… Korea meets China
A much better Bite Marks than some of the recent ones have been…. Let’s start simple. Pizza. This one was not on my radar. I was just in the mood for ordering a pizza, staying in, finishing off a bottle of wine, playing some Everquest, and relaxing. And they had bacon and pickled pepper pizza –… Read More Bite Marks #72
We’re thinking about making some changes in our Casa SaltShaker format over the next couple of months. One of the things I want to do is put more emphasis on the wines, and have some sort of theme for the week that relates to them, and then plan the dishes around them. The other, and… Read More Five Shades of Pinot Noir
Enough with the downer reviews, no? More and more we’re starting to see Chinese restaurants here that are offering up “real” Chinese food rather than the ubiquitous dumbed down for local palate style that we see not just here, but in much of the west. Places like Caracol de Amor and Old Beijing that have menus… Read More Blown in from the Northwest
Not exactly what comes to mind when one says “bar & grill”, but I’m going sushi bar and Korean bbq here…. Faded Elegance Back many, many moons ago, when I was writing for Time Out Buenos Aires, my editor Matt suggested we go check out a place he’d been hearing about that was a hotspot… Read More Bar & Grill
Let’s just say that this post is for those of you who like takedowns. See, my New Year’s Resolutions never make it very far. Okay, for the last couple of years, people have been carrying on about the amazing small plate Asian-influenced, particularly Indian-influenced, food at Gran Dabbang, Raúl Scalabrini Ortíz 1543, Palermo [w3w: swam.bouncing.panels]. The place… Read More To the Contrary…
Two relatively new spots (both opened, I think, within the last year) for traditional sushi… the biggest plus from my perspective is… no cream cheese! [Side note: for those “in the know”, I’m going to start adding in the w3w location of restaurants when I review them. For those not in the know, it may,… Read More Sushi, with Tradition
I’m on a bit of a staycation, as the term goes. Henry’s away for three weeks, it was a last minute thing, and I decided rather than spring for airfare and hotel, and also not wanting to cancel existing Casa SaltShaker reservations, I’d limit dinners to the nights we already had reservations for, let them… Read More Reborn Again in a Not-French Not-Bistro