On The Road
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Camellia Grill, New Orleans
After Katrina, the restaurant business in New Orleans was closely watched by outsiders as a sign of things returning to – well, the new normal. Surprisingly, the opening, but not until last spring, that provided us with cheer-up-we're-getting-there was not one of the great old Quarter divas or an out-of-the-way seafood dive. It was the
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Gulfport, MS
Years ago, Ann was in Gulfport, Miss., with a friend who had grown up in what was then Yugoslavia. Friend surveyed the long empty stretches of sunny beach and gentle surf, and remarked, “You know, in Europe, a beach like this would be full of people. What’s wrong with you Americans?” Well, that’s one thing
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Stops Off I-55 Heading South
Memphis is one of those places that claims – early and often – that its barbecue is superior to all others. So why are we heralding Pollard's, a tiny and relatively obscure takeout spot in its southern suburbs? Because the meal was excellent enough to make the claim seem reasonable, and the experience was improved
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Grapevine Grill
Just where is Coffman, Missouri? Well, look between Farmington and Ste. Genevieve on a state road that runs almost parallel to State Highway 32. Ann can say firmly that there's never been a restaurant there before; a hundred years ago, her grandmother was a little girl playing in the valley that spreads out from the
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Sausage Museum
There must be some polysyllabic Latin-based word that refers to sausage lovers, beyond the generic swinophile. If so, they have a new destination. This turns out to be the 60 th anniversary of one of the most popular German sausages, currywurst, and someone has opened a currywurst museum in Berlin. The sausage, it seems, goes
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Cowan’s
There’s a certain golden glow about America’s collective memory of small-town restaurants and cafes. Slices of tender, juicy meatloaf and crunchy chicken drumsticks parade through our brains, followed by apple pie with flaky crust and vanilla ice cream in a perfect scoop, or maybe a little round dish of peach cobbler. But it seems as
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The River’s Edge
As the town of Hermann has become more of a weekend destination rather than just a Sunday drive, we get more questions about where to eat dinner. For a number of years, our answer has been the River’s Edge, in residence long enough for Joe to have written about for the Post-Dispatch in 1994. A
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Atlantic City
A couple of years ago, we raved about the food of chef Stephen Kalt when we ate at his Corsa Cucina in Las Vegas. Kalt has moved on, and this week, he told us that he’s opening a restaurant in Atlantic City in the Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa. Named Forneletto, its menu – and
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San Francisco 2009
Re-visiting San Francisco always fills us with a mixture of delight and anxiety. We love the city and its environs, filled with interesting things to delight the eyes, the nose, the mouth, even the ears. But the serious business of deciding where to eat is an early and then constant focus. How many of our
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Santa Rosa & St. Helena, CA
A recent West Coast trip left us with a little less time to spend in the wine country than we would have liked, but we did find two exemplary spots to eat, one lunch-like and the other more dinner-esque, one each in Napa and Sonoma Counties. Dinner was at a Sonoma spot called Willi’s Wine