On The Road
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New York City: Colicchio & Sons
While we normally post here about our restaurant experiences when we travel, St. Louis Magazine's food blog Relish decided they'd like them. We were really happy with Colicchio & Sons, and it's following the trend for offering less-pricey options. You can read about it here.
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New Orleans: Pascal’s Manale
Heirloom tomatoes. Heritage pork. Lots of old, traditional foods are being rediscovered and saluted, thanks to heroic cooks and restaurateurs who didn’t let them die out. It’s that way with restaurants, too, sometimes. And there are plenty of examples in New Orleans, a city where, like St. Louis, “We’ve always done it this way,” is
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New Orleans: Brennan’s
Given a fairly wide iconoclastic streak in our makeup, we passed on the tourist tradition of breakfast at Brennan’s on a recent visit to New Orleans, where post-Katrina recovery has been at least a partial success. Instead, on a quiet Sunday night, we dined in the big pink house on Royal Street, and we departed
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New Orleans: The Acme vs. Felix’s
The two French Quarter oyster bars that are the stuff of arguments are Felix's and the Acme, across the street from one another and a mere block from Canal Street. Both attract a mixture of localsand visitors, both are slightly scruffy in the manner of many old New Orleans favorites, and both, of course, have
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Memphis: Interstate Barbecue
Yes, the Neelys of Interstate Barbecue have been on television. We’ve not seen them, but what brought us to their house of ‘que was their reputation in print and on the net. It’s well-deserved, worth a detour (as Michelin would say), and the fact that it’s easy to get to from I-55 should endear it
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London: Yauatcha
We would never visit London for longer than 48 hours without having a Chinese meal. While it probably can no longer boast it has the best Chinese food in the world, the city continues to offer interesting choices, and seemingly familiar things have different looks and flavors than they show at home. Looking for dinner
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London: St. John Restaurant and Bar
One of the pioneers in bringing English cookery, to use their noun, into the contemporary world is Fergus Henderson. In 1994 he opened St. John Restaurant and Bar near the historic Smithfield Market in London. His food, considered by many to be a bit twee, another Britishism, meaning a mite too cutesy, turned out to
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London: The Gilbert Scott
It’s no news that London is now among the first tier of eating cities in the world. Not as romantic as Paris or as frenzied as Rome, perhaps, and considerably less vertical than Manhattan, London’s last twenty years or so have brought forth a new generation of chefs and people wise enough to back them
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Ashland, OR Part 2
Once a breakfast-phobe, Ann has become a convert to the pleasures of the meal; one morning while Joe was in a meeting, she slipped away to a restaurant called Morning Glory, the only one of our Ashland, Ore., restaurants that isn't within easy walking distance of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. It's in an old Craftsman
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Ashland, OR 2011. Part 1
Why go to Ashland, Oregon? Well, probably for a small orgy of theater-going. The Oregon Shakespeare Festival, based in the small, lovely town, plays nine months a year. Three stages, including a large, outdoor Elizabethan-style one, often mean four different shows a day, not all Shakespeare, at the height of the season. But this, the