On The Road
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MartAnne’s Burrito Palace
On the road again, this time in Flagstaff, Ariz., in search of breakfast beyond the humdrum and the frozen. We visited MartAnne's Burrito Palace. And we're glad we did. Flagstaff is a college town, home of Northern Arizona University, and college towns often have a larger number of ethnic and/or quirky eating spots; MartAnne's falls
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Macon, MO: los Jimadores
We were in Macon, MO, not long ago as we played tourist for a couple of days. We viewed the northern part of Missouri by crossing the state on US 36, which runs from Hannibal to St. Joseph. The highway intersects with US 63, which heads north to Iowa, south to Columbia, and there seemed
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New York Week 2010, Part 2
A bargain in midtown Manhattan? Astonishing but true, and pretty darn tasty as well. (Cheap is easy; cheap and good is hard.) Le Relais de Venise is one of six restaurants, the original in Paris, two in London, one each in Barcelona, Bahrain and now on Lexington Avenue at 52nd Street. The premise and
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New York Week, 2010, Part 1
Great N.Y. Noodle Town is practically a dive. When we say it's steamy, we're talking about what happens when the kitchen door opens, not as a seduction site. It's on the famed New York Bowery, in the shadow of the Manhattan Bridge, brightly lit, jammed with tables one shares with goodness knows who (but it
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Southern Connecticut Week, Part 4
Friday night dinner at a lobster spot in New England, we thought, would be good for food and for people-watching. And we were right on both counts, once we found Captain Scott's Lobster Dock. At the end of a dead-end street on an arm of land with a marina on one side and the Amtrak
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Southern Connecticut Week, Part 3
Lobster in the rough—or as it's pronounced in situ lobsta—is an old New England habit. The phrase might evoke some cobbled-together approach to the crustacean, but actually it refers to eating outdoors. Lobster shacks, which frequently aren't (quite) shacks, can be found along the Atlantic Coast from Connecticut all the way up into Maine. Maybe
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Southern Connecticut Week, Part 2
Years ago, when the completed Zagat questionnaires came in to us, those who wrote about Zinnia always included plenty of comments like “PURPLE!” because of the color of the fine little Webster Groves restaurant. Kitchen Little, in the seaside town of Mystic, CT, might not warrant the exclamation mark or even the capital letters, but
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Southern Connecticut Week, Part 1
New London, CT, is the home of the Coast Guard Academy. It's an old city, relatively quiet, where we recently spent some time at the annual meeting of the American Theatre Critics Association. New London was the home of Eugene O'Neill, and the O'Neill Theatre Center was the host. The city, while not a major
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Martha’s Vineyard, Part 3
Built in 1891, the Harbor View Hotel sits, of course, above Edgartown's harbor. From the broad covered porch, tall, cool drink in hand, a visitor can see yachts arriving, the blinking of the lighthouse, and a surprisingly short distance across the water, the woods of Chappaquiddick Island. On a summer evening just before dusk, many
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Martha’s Vineyard, Part2
Not surprisingly, Martha's Vineyard has plenty of interesting places to quaff and nibble. Few, if any, chains, either food or retail, are a blessing. Herewith, a few words on some quick bites around the island The Wharf Restaurant and Pub sits on Edgartown's main drag. It's very popular, but much better than it appears from