Category Archives: restaurants

Meal Mondays: A Vegan Affair

Texas, home of the rib-eye, born and raised, it’s where I spent all of my days and most of my meals until I traded that red, hot state in for a snowy, blue one, or so I had thougth.  I abandoned Texas for Massachusetts nearly 2 years ago and since then Massachusetts has turned Republican [...]

Best Meal Ever

What’s your favorite, dying wish, could eat every meal, meal?
Here’s mine:
The other day Jammy Jamms took me to Red Robin for lunch.  We like to go there whenever we have a gift card.  And whenever we don’t.  But luckily we had one this time.

Look how artistic I am taking a picture of something with Red [...]

For the best smoked salmon crepes – go downtown!

I be in possession of known this little gem for years now and I have introduced the whole of my friends to the delightful smoked salmon crepes. Located in the downtown shaded walk (the Steven Avenue Mall, 202A – 304 – 8th Avenue SW), Fresh Crepes is to have ~ing found in the smaller food [...]

Lunch at L’Astrance

This is allegedly one of the hardest reservations in all of Paris to obtain.  When Parisian chefs took over the Momofuku’s for the 4 Fucking Dinners event last year, the chefs of L’Astrance took over Ko – since I’ve been to Ko a number of times I thought I would be able to get in [...]

MANILA – CHARACTERISTICS OF SHANGRI-LA HOTEL LUXURY, BOHEMIAN MARKET EMBASSY nightclubs, restaurants, Makati

Manila is a huge metropolis that includes contrasting neighborhoods and subcultures. Our tour today includes a luxury hotel, a market bohemian, a colonial city with walls, a nightclub, and two beautiful but very different restaurants. SUBSCRIBE TO ALL OUR CHANNELS: PINASWATCH1, PINASWATCH2, PINASWATCH3, PINASWATCH4, PINASWATCH5, PINASWATCH6, PINASWATCH7, PINASWATCH8, PINASWATCH9, PINASWATCH10

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Early V-day

Happy early V-day. Well, I actually hate Valentine’s Day. I like the idea of “celebrating love” or whatever, but I’ll always remember the years when I was lonely/sad being single and having Valentine’s Day rubbed in my face. For that reason, I will eternally hate V-day. However, I will gladly accept chocolates given to me [...]

Salvatore Ristorante Italiano

Jan. 14, 2010 – Thursday night on Roosevelt Ave NE. Given the rare occasion that the family was available, was getting dressed up (for a portrait), that it was evening and that we would be just across the street, dinner at Salvatore’s was a natural beginning for the Roosevelt Project. Of course, the reality [...]

Just because

I was watching “Guess Who” the other day for a series of non-reasons. It was 10 a.m. on a weekday. I’d already applied for all the foodservice jobs I could find online. I was unshowered and otherwise unmotivated. The bottom of my bottle of self-preservation was ever nearing in my mental viewfinder. So I was [...]

Perfect Birthday Dinner: Alto NYC

I’ve been wanting to dine at Alto since a friend described a meal there with such passion and sensuality that I felt I was a voyeur in his personal fantasy world. Passion, sensuality, good food and fine wine are the basis for an ideal life… Had to go there! 
When it came time to plan my [...]

Eddie Gilberts

Puns, I’ve discovered, are rather hard to avoid when writing about fish, so I’ll do my best not to use the most deliberate of gags. We visited this new Ramsgate restaurant on a Friday lunchtime wishing for greatness but anticipating some teething problems at the very least. The warm interior gives a tasteful nod to [...]