Ann Lemons Pollack
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Highway 61 Roadhouse and Kitchen
We definitely don’t consider ourselves food snobs. Any regular reader knows we get as excited over a good corn dog as we do over a beautifully prepared chunk of foie gras. But we got a little suspicious when we walked into Highway 61 Roadhouse and Kitchen. It looks an awful lot like one of those
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Shrimp Dip/Spread (Your Choice)
Those of us who love to cook and to feed people know the Eatin’ Season is coming. From Thanksgiving through the Super Bowl, it’s show time for us. I’m going to kick things off with a new-to-me dish that began with a recipe from The Border Cookbook, by Cheryl Alters Jamison and Bill Jamison. The
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~scape
The resurgence of Maryland Plaza is not just a civic booster-type press release. It’s been one of our favorite areas for a long time and we’ve watched as it waxed and waned. At the moment, it’s waxing happily with new dining, drinking and shopping spots. Sitting at a sidewalk table watching the to-and-fro is extremely
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Paul Manno’s
We’ve never walked into Paul Manno’s when the place wasn’t buzzing, even on a night early in the week, usually a quiet time. But when people have even a brief wait for a table at 9 o’clock on a Tuesday, it tells you something. But buzz will get folks in the door, almost any door,
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National Meatloaf Day
The website Serious Eats has proclaimed October 18 National Meatloaf Appreciation Day and because I was about to make one anyway, I decided to participate. For more on the whole meatloaf-blogging thing, you can look here . At our house, meatloaf is a standard. In fact, at times Joe is known around here as Mr.
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India’s Rasoi
It’s a whole new restaurant. India’s Rasoi has retained, seemingly, only its name as it moved around the corner with a new menu. a new attitude and some new prices. The long-time Central West End stalwart has gone upscale in a handsome new set of rooms in the old Forest Park Hotel on North Euclid
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This Week’s Wine October 1, 2007
The Jewish High Holy Days have come and gone, but like all holidays, be they religious, secular or commercial, they’ll be back. And that’s encouraging, because it’s an opportunity to choose wine for a celebration, which is an important part of wine-buying whether it’s for pouring as a host or taking as a gift to
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Barrister’s Brunch
There aren’t many Sundays left when we’ll be able to eat outside, perhaps only through October. We like the fresh-air factor, however, so we pondered our options, and, following our own advice, checked by phone before we left the house. The first four we called no longer serve the meal. We ended up at Barrister’s
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Tin Can Tavern & Grille
If truth in labeling applied to restaurant names, interesting things might happen. In one particular case on Morganford Road, we would have visited the Aluminum Can Tavern & Grille. But we agree that "Tin Can" sounds a lot more pleasant — and frankly, that’s what most folks call the metal containers beer arrives in. Theoretically,
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Chicago, Part 1
Chicago is an underappreciated city. We never fail to be charmed by its use of the lake, its neighborhoods and its food. (And the theater’s pretty fine, too, but this wasn’t a theater trip.) We don’t visit often enough, as we invariably find ourselves saying about 48 hours into any Chicago adventures. For instance,