On The Road
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Warm Springs Ranch
Rumors of spring are rumbling around and with that in mind, maybe it's time to be thinking about a road trip. The commercials for Anheuser Busch on the Super Bowl reminded me that a good, and very interesting, time is to be had at their Clydesdale breeding farm. Known as Warm Springs Ranch, it's about
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New Orleans: Deanie’s and The Old Coffee Pot
Two more restaurants in the French Quarter to discuss briefly. One is Deanie's, new to the Quarter but not new to the city. They've been on the Lakefront, a neighborhood known as Bucktown, but now officially part of Metarie, and now are in the Quarter as well, just up the street from the Acme-Felix's faceoff.
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A Brief Note on New Orleans
A short vignette from a New Orleans breakfast earlier this month: http://blog.thetriptribe.com/tiny-travel-essay-breakfast-in-new-orleans/
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Brunch: Muriel’s Jackson Square, New Orleans
It's an adage among restaurant aficionados that the better the view, the worse the food. Now, that's certainly not always the case, viz the much-mourned Windows On the World and others. But for many, there's a lingering question about eateries in places like Times Square or Piccadilly Circus or, uh, Jackson Square in New Orleans:
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Hermes Bar
Even in New Orleans, things change. These days all of the old line "French" (because they really aren't French) restaurants in the Quarter have smaller, more casual operations near the motherhouse. For Antoine's, there's the Hermes Bar. (And a small coffee/sandwich/dessert location on Royal Street, as well.) It's next to the main entrance to Antoine's,
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New Orleans Notes 2013
Just back from a visit to New Orleans, and while there are some longer restaurant reviews to offer you in the coming days. here are a few random notes to kick things off. — For instance, that shortage of pecans that hit the news in late November clearly has had repercussions down there. Praline prices
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World’s Fair Ice Cream Cones
And speaking of road trips, here's something from a trip to Virginia last month. Yes, that's our World's fair. It's from St. Louis Magazine's food blog Relish.
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Breakfast in Kansas City
Once upon a time I didn't like breakfast, didn't eat breakfast except rarely and had nothing to say about it except to hit the snooze alarm. Then my very first editor told me I was going to be writing a column about breakfasts at restaurants. One begins to remember the old W.C. Fields line, "It
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Tuesday In the Park With Sid
It looked like a movie set: The sky was blue, the grass and trees were lush, plenty of people – not a crowd but not just a few – were soaking in the sun, walking or talking or sipping drinks. Small children swooped around, giddy from being released temporarily from their strollers. I was in
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Pierce’s Pitt Bar-B-Que
Williamsburg? What do you eat there? It's been too many years since my tourist visits for me to discuss places like The Trellis and Chowning's Tavern. But there's one spot that draws me back and rewards anyone who takes my word for it and stops by. I think my first visit to Pierce's Pitt Bar-B-Que