Stuff unrelated to food, wine & spirits that I just feel like posting.
Okay, not really part of the dumpling crawl, though I did get in a dumpling plate at one point. Originally I hadn’t planned to stay in Boston for much of Sunday, but head back on one of the “chinatown buses” sometime in the morning. But my friend Ed, who also joined for the Il Molo… Read More The Great Boston Dumpling Crawl – Day Three
Seems like a guy who’s losing an argument with his wife…. We started out fairly early again on Saturday morning headed over to the area that is vaguely sort of a Koreatown, though in practice, it seems to be sort of just a pan-Asian area, mixed with a lot of Latin American. The earliest place… Read More The Great Boston Dumpling Crawl – Day Two
Are you ready? Of course you are. You’re about to be jealous, in awe, and probably a bit queasy. No doubt you’ll think we’re just a trifle insane. So, you know how much I like my quests. And now and again in life, one finds someone else who likes those sorts of things too. One… Read More The Great Boston Dumpling Crawl – Day One
A little different, as following on the quick appetizer bites at Upland NYC in the last post, the following 30+ hours sort of became a gradual appetizer crawl, with different friends popping in and out for different parts…. Nur, 34 East 20th Street – new, modern Israeli restaurant, getting lots of hype. Would it be worth… Read More What-Apps
A little bit more of a refined dinner than a crabcake in a pub, dinner with friends Marc & Susan, both of whom work in the wine world, at Contra, 138 Orchard Street on the Lower East Side. Wow, when I was living here, there was nothing like this on the Lower East Side except for… Read More Big Apple Bite Marks #2
Hey, may as well – a mix of food and frolic. In NYC and Boston areas for the next 9 days. Say hello to Dan Perlman. Not me, on the left, but him, on the right. [Edit: Obviously, this is not him. Respecting his wishes for controlling his online image presence, I’ve cropped him out… Read More Big Apple Bite Marks #1
Let’s go a little different this time around. No burgers or tacos or shawarmas or pizzas (well, there will be a pizza involved, but, well, you’ll see). No real focus to my wanderings and nibblings. And, away we go! Bread + Butter – You may remember my equivocal review of Söder just shy of a… Read More Bite Marks #39
[I realized that this post was still sitting in my “Drafts” folder and I’d never published it. So, three weeks late, but what the heck, my look back at last year.] 2016 was a year that we spent a bit more time traveling than past years. Or, at the least, to new places, and/or traveling… Read More 2016 in the Rear View Mirror