Restaurants
Rick and Ann’s Yukon Gold Hash with Poached Eggs
When I move away from places I’ve lived, one of the things I always miss the most is my favorite restaurants. When I moved away from the Bay Area earlier this year, I knew there were going to be countless places that Aimee and I were going to miss. One of those places is one [...]
Friends in the Industry
Last week I stopped by to say hi to my friend Chris Cosentino over at his restaurant Incanto. You may have seen Chris; he’s been on the Food Network quite a bit in the last year or so. If you don’t recognize the name, you should check out his website so you know what you [...]
Camellia Grill in New Orleans, LA.
Camellia Grill is a 70 year-old classy short-order diner, famous for its sandwiches, breakfast all day, pies and “freezes.”
Hurricane Katrina closed down this staple of the Uptown-Riverbend neighborhood. Luckily, its persuasive fan base (evidenced by the number of internet postings referring to the place, its wikipedia page, and the copious amounts of love letters left [...]
Dear Diner: Kelly’s Diner in Ball Square, Somerville, MA
It was a Saturday. Morning of the Decent Community flip-cup tournament and the plan was get the team together for a good breakfast and let our preparation begin for four hours of free flowing low grade beer.
Ideas were thrown but in the end it was Kelly’s Diner where we pointed our nose and mouths. As [...]
Dear Diner…To Danny’s Diner in Porter Square
This is the first installment in what I hope to be a long series of diner reviews/letters in and around the Boston area. It will always start off with “Dear Diner”. So I will call it my Dear Diner column.
The goal of Dear Diner is to help enforce a code of honor for those looking [...]
Spoiled in San Francisco
Why say that? I think the pictures should explain. Late September, temperature in the low seventies, Happy Hour at Hog Island, it’s hard to find fault with anything on a day like this.
For those of you that aren’t from the Bay Area, Hog Island is an Oyster Farm based north of San Francisco in the [...]
Todd English’s “Figs” in Charlestown, MA
Todd English is the renowned chef and owner of several restaurants in Boston, MA including Olives, Kingfish, Bonfire and Figs. Other notable chefs in the Boston area came up out of Todd’s shadow such as Barbara Lynch (No 9 Park.), Chris Menke (Basil’s) and Paul O’Connell of Chez Henri, a spot cooking up French American [...]
Studying Dietetics in a Notoriously Delicious Place
Hi I’m Syrah, like the wine.
Have you ever heard anyone say anything even slightly bad about the food in New Orleans (NOLA)?
Have you ever heard of Dietetics? Well its my life right now as I settle into my cozy uptown apartment just minutes from Magazine Street and Audubon Park. I’m realizing that I landed in [...]
