Category: Eating out
Piedegrotta Bakery in Baltimore, MD
| April 14, 2011 | Posted by Cheeks under Breakfast, Dessert, Eating out |
There’s not a lot more to say about this place except…YUM. Actually, there is a lot to say. Located sort of off the beaten path in Baltimore’s Little Italy neighborhood, Piedegrotta is a little bakery where everything – EVERYTHING – is homemade. Which would be understandable if the place put any limits on itself – “hey, let’s…
The Southern – Chicago
| November 12, 2010 | Posted by Cheeks under Eating out, Junk food |
The Southern. Has the. Best. Fried. Chicken. Let’s let that sink in for just a few minutes. I’m no expert on fried chicken – far, far from it. I rarely eat it, and can probably count the number of times I’ve ever had it on both hands. It wasn’t a food we ever, ever ate growing up (although I…
A. G. Ferrari’s Deli in San Francisco
| October 28, 2010 | Posted by Cheeks under Eating out, Sandwiches |
Across the street from this little hotel is a small Italian specialty food store and deli. It looks like a nice, new little place. A quick Google search reveals that it’s a mid-size California chain, although it doesn’t feel much like a chain when you walk in. It carries Italian candies, wines, imported pastas, and olive oils,…
Thirsty Bear Brewing Co.
| October 26, 2010 | Posted by Cheeks under Eating out |
First free night in San Francisco, and I happened to know that there was a little brewery and tapas restaurant not three block from my hotel. “Happened to know” being, of course, a euphemism meaning, “as always, I heavily googled the area surrounding my hotel to unearth any available information on local restaurants, and then…
Are you going to San Francisco?
| October 22, 2010 | Posted by Cheeks under Eating out |
If my last hotel was “the hotel from the FUTURE,” this hotel is definitely a thing of the past. And I say that is a fond, affectionate way. While it’s not my personal style, as in I’m not gonna run out and get a four-poster bed for our little apartment bedroom, I appreciate the history…
On the road again…
| October 21, 2010 | Posted by Cheeks under Eating out, Main Course |
I’m out of pocket this week….or, more accurately, out of the kitchen. Another work meeting has taken me first to DC, and next to San Francisco, for the next 8 days. I shouldn’t complain, really. We get to stay at nice hotels—much nicer than the the hotels my cheap ass reserves when I’m paying the…
Moonshine reaffirms its “Meh” status
| September 20, 2010 | Posted by Cheeks under Eating out |
Anybody who lives in Chicago’s Wicker Park neighborhood undoubtedly knows where Moonshine is, due in large part to its expansive sidewalk patio that turns into a mecca for people-watching, beer drinking, and general tomfoolery every weekend day. It’s insanely popular, with the whole patio filled up more often than not, although for the life of…
You must eat here on Sunday
| July 20, 2010 | Posted by Cheeks under Eating out |
You must. Or don’t, because then I’d have to wait in line. I like it about 1/2 empty, as it currently seems to always be, because it doesn’t get loud and you get better service–and food. Although if the 1/2 emptiness is going to lead to out-of-business-ness, then GO! NOW! Just not too often, or…
Hotel Food, day two
| July 13, 2010 | Posted by Cheeks under Eating out |
Work meetings continue… But buffet lunches are fun! Hotel food is never the greatest, in my experience, but there is just something I love about a buffet—sheer volume of food, of course; all the choices, all the many dishes to sample; trying to strategically organize the plate to allow as much to fit on it…
Zocalo Restaurant and Tequila Bar
| July 7, 2010 | Posted by Cheeks under Eating out, Main Course |
Met good friend/bridesmaid/fellow wino C for dinner at Zocalo last night. It’s a mexican restaurant and tequila bar—both descriptors of which I’m very fond of, tequila being the only liquor i can actually drink straight. Yet I managed to resist the 100+ list of reposados, anejos, and blancos—and even the flights and infused tequilas–and instead…
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