Well Fed On the Town

Chicago deep dish is beyond a food or conversation starter around here. It’s the subject of maps, books, Web sites and merchandise. I’m all about pizza — it’s really the perfect food. You can hit all the food groups if you play your cards right.
Then again, when it’s in deep dish form, all of those […]

Last weekend, my wife and I took a short drive to Columbus, Ohio. One of the places we visited was the North Market, as 59 Spruce Street, just north of downtown and near the convention center.
Columbus originally had 4 markets: central, east, west and north, and the North Market is the only one remaining. […]

The spirit of the local bakery is still alive and well in Asheville, NC, and this Saturday the many regional bread-makers will get a chance to show their stuff. The 4th Annual Asheville Artisan Bread Bakers’ Festival will showcase the artisan breads of 15 Asheville area bakeries.
This is a great event if you just love […]

Kent Rathbun has it going on right now. He and his brother Kevin recently defeated Bobby Flay on Iron Chef America. As if that wasn’t enough, his restaurant, Jasper’s, located in The Domain in Austin, TX is doing a great job of making great food.
Very tastefully and artfully decorated, Jasper’s invokes feelings of spring with […]

Tea parties almost seem like a tradition of the distant past … one that could use a resurgence. Although I don’t drink tea, given an excuse to entertain a small group of friends and make dainty little tea sandwiches, and I am so there. But, if you’re in the mood for a tea […]

As if you needed a good excuse for a road trip, just in case you do, and you happen to be within driving distance of Poteet, Texas, you might want to pencil in the dates of April 11-13 to visit their annual Strawberry Festival.
Arts and crafts, music, a food show and auction, helicopter rides and, […]

I do love my Mexican food and Chicagoland has some great examples. For birthdays, one of which we were celebrating last night, we’ve made it a routine lately to go to Tacos el Norte in Gurnee, located at Route 21 between Washington and Grand. Our reasoning is that the wait is never long, the food […]

Almost any restaurant can earn my immediate respect simply by having an excellent selection of Single Malts. Truluck’s would have my respect for this reason, if for none other. With well over twenty Single Malts available, diner’s can enjoy things like Highland Park 12 year, Talisker 10 year, Dalmore Cigar Malt 12 year and more.
However, […]

Bittersweet, the self-described chocolate café of Oakland and San Francisco, is one of my favorite places to get a chocolate fix. Whether you’re looking for a good dark chocolate bar such as Hachez 88%, a steamy cup of probably the best vegan hot chocolate around, or some nice pain au chocolat, Bittersweet probably has what […]

Yes, you read that correctly… In a downtown that is almost lifeless outside of work hours, there’s something of a bright spot appearing along the edges. First was the Therapy Cafe, a trendy, metropolitan club that started making something of an island of martini-drinking inhabitants in the middle of old concrete and industrial […]