On The Road
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Louisville, KY: Toast on Market
When we’re driving east–and hungry–our respect for Louisville keeps on growing. Leaving St. Louis on I-64, it’s a fine place to stop for lunch. The city may be a culinary sleeper, at least for a midday stop. The city was made memorable by the Hot Brown, reportedly a native. We’ve written about Lynn’s Paradise Cafe,
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Strasburg, VA
Traveling from St. Louis to Washington, D.C., by car is an easy trip on I-64, but it can be an Eater’s challenge. Louisville is full of interesting places, but moving on eastward, it becomes more and more difficult for travelers who. want to avoid chain restaurants, from "dinner houses" like Denny’s and the drive-throughs.
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San Francisco (and a little Napa)
A recent fast run to northern California left us with more than a touch of tan and pleasant memories of sun and sand, food and wine. As always, there were discoveries to share with friends. Some of our old long-time favorites have thrived, one seems to be sagging, and there are, of course, always new
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Tucson And More
We’ve been on the road again, this time a trip to Arizona. Neither of us had been there for a zillion years. Since then, it seems to have become the new Florida, with lots of retirees and plenty of suburbanish sprawl, golf courses and gated comunities. But the countryside manages to be both bleak and
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Chicago: Tru and Everest
Two major dinners at two equally major Chicago restaurants left us realizing that we couldn’t decide which was best. We’d called for reservations at Everest, whose name is due to its location on the 40th floor of the Chicago Stock Exchange, but we sort of fell into dinner at Tru, which turned out to be
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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,
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Cozy Dog Drive In
No question about it: This is indeed the corn dog season, with end-of-summer fairs and festivals in full swing. So it seemed more than appropriate to take a road trip and visit the birthplace of the corn dog. To be perfectly honest, we didn’t know that when we walked into the Cozy Dog Drive In.
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Iowa State Fair
We were in Des Moines a couple of weeks ago. We went there to learn about soy beans, and some of our newly acquired knowledge will be discussed in this space shortly. But the Iowa State Fair, the mythic grand-daddy of all state fairs, was in progress, so we spent a couple of days there.
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New York: Babbo
A recent weekend run to New York to accompany an old friend on her first visit to Gotham produced one particularly remarkable meal at a spot we haven’t written about before. We also ate at Veselka and Jing Fong; earlier comments can be found here . Babbo is on Waverly Place, just west of Washington
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Paris Restaurants
Yes, we were in Paris last fall. We’ve not written about our favorite dining experiences there because of an assignment for the May issue of Midwest Traveler, which bought the first rights. But now we can share our finds. And let us make a point about the benefits of traveling in the off season. If