Well Fed On the Town

I recently received information on National Catfish Month, and how the Grand Central Oyster Bar is celebrating:
GRAND CENTRAL OYSTER BAR TO CELEBRATE NATIONAL CATFISH MONTH DURING AUGUST
***Executive Chef Sandy Ingber Concocts Four Purr-fect Catfish Entrees on the Menu throughout August***
New York, July 24—The Grand Central Oyster Bar will celebrate “National Catfish Month” with catfish specialties […]

I never much liked cheesecake from restaurants. Until, that is, I went to Manhattan and tried cheesecake where it’s made like it’s supposed to be made!
My first foray into good restaurant cheesecake was at Carnegie Deli in Times Square. I got a slice thinking I’d try it, just to say I’d had it. […]

This is my last installment on the local market (at least for now). The major departments are done, with the exception of groceries. The market I’ve been picking on, Dorothy Lane Market (DLM), in Dayton and Springboro, Ohio, has the typical shelves full of cereal, oils, flour, sugar, candy, etc.
What’s different about DLM than chain […]

I’m used to chain grocery wine departments. They offer a smattering of international wines, usually cheap Pino Grigio and Chianti from Italy, along with standard California wines and cheap Aussie wines. You can find some decent wines here, and, locally, some Kroger stores actually have walk in wine coolers for their better wines. […]

I’m now back to looking at my local market, Dorothy Lane Market (DLM), and the next department in the store is my personal favorite, the Meat Department!
Meat departments seem to fall into one of two basic categories

Feed the family as cheaply as possible
Offer the best quality product

I have to say that DLM definitely falls into […]

I’m still celebrating my trip to NYC. I have a few more restaurants to write about, but this week it’s the Carnegie Deli in Times Square.
Is this a touristy place? Oh yeah.
Is it worth a trip? OH YEAH!
I’ve not had the pastrami from Katz’s Deli, though we were nearby there while in the city. I’ve […]

I’m going to briefly depart from writing about my local market because I was not local last week. My wife and I celebrated our 4th anniversary in New York City, and over the next weeks I’ll have more from NYC to share too.
On the advice of a friend, and with his help setting up a reservation for […]

Next in the line of departments that I’m going through at my favorite local market, Dorothy Lane Market (DLM), in the Dayton, Ohio, area is the seafood department.
What makes one seafood department any different from another? There are a few criteria that I look for:

Freshness. This one is obvious, but a lot of people seem […]

The next department on my continuing series on local markets brings us to the cheese department.
What makes a local market’s cheese department different?  There are two main things, to me.  The first is selection.  Dorothy Lane Market (DLM), the same market I’ve been picking on in my other posts, differs from the typical market in […]

To continue looking at the local market, I’m again using my favorite local market, Dorothy Lane Market (DLM), in the Dayton, Ohio, area. So far, I’ve looked at the bakery and produce departments, and the next one in line is the deli.
DLM’s deli is really something, in my opinion. They have a good […]