It took six years, but I finally found outstanding Italian food in DC. I don’t just mean the occasional tasty dish. I’m talking about top-notch, consistently great food from the appetizers through to the dessert, with a great menu to choose from. The place is Al Tiramisu in Washington’s Dupont…
Interview 31: Dinner With A Pastor
I kept trying to think of religious pop culture references for this post’s headline, but kept coming back to the two song titles “Like A Prayer” and “Losing My Religion,” neither of which really suit today’s interview subject, even though he’s a religious man. Pastor Patrick Walker of the New…
Breakfast At Fripon’s
Woohoo, more Montreal restaurant reviews. Last Saturday morning my friend Brent, my housemate and I had breakfast at Le Fripon in Old Montreal. It’s a restaurant housed in a historic building in the Place Jacques-Cartier, a large square that apparently is home to nothing but dining option after dining option,…
Money’s Too Tight For Steak
Bonus points if you get the reference in the post title. Even more bonus points if you’re actually a reader of this site and not some spam comments robot. Following on from my post about poutine, I wanted to give praise to the place I had dinner on Friday night…
Canadian Bacon (And Poutine)
That’s a photo of a particularly dreary Friday in Montreal. Flew back on Sunday from a long weekend in the Canadian city, and boy are my arms tired. Ho ho. I was up there for a wedding on Saturday, giving me roughly a day-and-a-half to explore the city and its…
Praise For The Bulldog
A few weeks ago I wrote mini reviews of some New Orleans dining spots that my friends and I visited during our recent trip to the Big Easy. Turns out my pea-sized brain was not functioning on all cylinders, because I forgot one place. The Bulldog, on Magazine Street in…
Interview 30: Eating With An Environmentalist
Here’s a new interview from my recent trip to New Orleans. I sat down to brunch with Anne Rolfes. She’s the head of the Louisiana Bucket Brigade, an organization that works with communities living near refineries to collect air quality samples. They use that data to pressure industry to cut…
Back From The Big Easy
Back from New Orleans, with a fresh interview in tow. Well, the audio of an interview. Now I have to write the article, a task at odds with my general love of procrastination. More on the interview, and the restaurant where it took place, in a week or so. While…
Goin’ Back To New Orleans
Next week I’ll be back in New Orleans for an annual long weekend holiday with a few friends. I am sure I will be sober and behave maturely the entire visit. The cliche about it being impossible to find a good restaurant in the Crescent City is almost true. I’ve…
Ping Pong Dim Sum
No, that headline isn’t just a random assortment of four words. Ping Pong Dim Sum is the name of a dim sum restaurant in Washington, DC, that I tried for the first time this weekend. Though this site isn’t exactly up there with Zagat for restaurant recommendations, I can happily…