Category: Reviews

• Bistro Nota: better than bread…

  

  On a dark and gloomy Friday evening, my friend Volchy and I braved the cold streets of Fort Wayne to dine at Bistro Nota–without a reservation. By luck alone, we snagged the last available table. Sometimes, things just work out how they’re supposed to; no plan B necessary. It was there, amongst the exposed brick…

  Plonk&Pleasure

  November 11, 2023

  Reviews, Wine & Food

  #Bistro, #Bread, #Cozy, #Delicious, #Focaccia, #FoodandWine, #FortWayne, #FortWayneBlogger, #FortWayneFoodie, #JamesBeardAward, #MidwestBlogger, #MidwestFoodie, #SupportLocal, #Wine

• Junk Ditch Italian Pairing Dinner: complimenti al cuoco…

  

  Last evening, I attended Junk Ditch Brewing Company’s Monday Night Pairing Dinner. This is the third dinner of its kind that Junk Ditch has hosted, but only the second that I’ve been able to attend. On this special evening, the theme was Italian cuisine. If you were expecting Sunday gravy, a metric ton of spaghetti,…

  Plonk&Pleasure

  October 31, 2023

  Pairings, Reviews, Wine & Food

  #FoodandWine, #FortWayne, #FortWayneBlogger, #FortWayneFoodie, #MidwestBlogger, #MidwestFoodie, #SupportLocal, #Wine, #WinePairing

• Brew260xVolchy: brunch has never been this cereal-sly delicious

  

  The word ‘heaven’ is sure to conjure up images in all of our minds. For some, it’s the paradise that awaits us after death: full of cherubs, harps, and loved ones we lost too soon. No shame to the sinners for whom heaven is a fairytale you don’t buy into. I’m just the same–I’ll save…

  Plonk&Pleasure

  October 28, 2023

  Reviews

  #beerpairing, #Brunch, #BrunchPopUp, #Cereal, #CerealBeers, #CraftBeer, #FortWayne, #FortWayneBlogger, #FortWayneFoodie, #MidwestBlogger, #MidwestFoodie, #SupportLGBTQ, #SupportLocal

• Yes, Papi: there is good pizza in the Midwest…

  

  There was a time, not very long ago, when there was a pizza spot with a glowing sign that called to new Fort Wayne residents like a siren song in the night. In my first weeks living in Indiana, I could hear its lullaby from the dinner hours until I drifted off to sleep. “Eat…

  Plonk&Pleasure

  October 14, 2023

  Reviews

  #90sNostalgia, #FoodandWine, #FortWayne, #FortWayneBlogger, #FortWayneFoodie, #MidwestBlogger, #MidwestFoodie, #pizza, #PizzaPizza, #SliceShop, #SupportLocal

• Tolon: everyone is happy at brunch…

  

  I went to brunch on a Sunday morning. Brunch is the liminal space that appears, like magic, on weekends between what otherwise is referred to as the breakfast and lunch hours. Brunch is a thing that people like to do, especially on Sunday mornings and especially if they drank the night before. Unlike so many,…

  Plonk&Pleasure

  October 3, 2023

  Reviews, Wine & Food

  #Brunch, #ChickenandWaffles, #Delicious, #FoodandWine, #FortWayne, #FortWayneBlogger, #FortWayneFoodie, #MidwestBlogger, #MidwestFoodie, #PinotNoir, #ShrimpandGrits, #SupportLocal, #Wine, #yummy

• Bravas Caramel Apple Burger: a love story…

  

  It’s no secret that I’m a spooky season fanatic. Some girls are for the streets. I am one of those girls: but only when the gutters are full of fallen orange, brown, and yellow leaves and the front porches of houses are bedecked with mums, pumpkins, and gourds. Everything about autumn gives me life and…

  Plonk&Pleasure

  September 28, 2023

  A Love Story, Reviews

  #CaramelAppleBurger, #FoodandWine, #FortWayne, #FortWayneBlogger, #FortWayneFoodie, #love, #MidwestBlogger, #MidwestFoodie, #Smasburger, #SupportLocal

• Pintxo & Tinto: “Buy the ticket. Take the ride.”

  

  I’ve had trouble writing lately…again. I still love writing; words just aren’t flowing like they used to, which leaves me feeling unlike myself. I think I’m broken. If a hundred thousand dollar English degree doesn’t entitle me to unwavering creativity, what the fuck did I pay for? Bestie says I can’t always have creative juices…

  Plonk&Pleasure

  September 14, 2023

  Reviews, Wine & Food

  #FoodandWine, #FortWayne, #FortWayneBlogger, #FortWayneFoodie, #MidwestBlogger, #MidwestFoodie, #Pintxo, #SpanishWine, #SupportLocal, #Tapas, #Wine, #WinePairing

• The One Ten Experience: five courses, five wines, infinite delights for the five senses…

  

  The menu at One Ten Craft Meatery reads like a tome of all my innermost desires; a beautiful book that holds all the words I cherish most. My own delicious thoughts and dreams–black ink on paper. An entire page is dedicated solely to various cuts of steak and beckons to me: “Would the princess prefer…

  Plonk&Pleasure

  September 2, 2023

  Pairings, Reviews, Wine & Food

  #FarmtoTable, #FoodandWine, #FortWayne, #FortWayneBlogger, #FortWayneFoodie, #Indiana, #Midwest, #MidwestBest, #MidwestBlogger, #MidwestChef, #MidwestFoodie, #ScratchKitchen, #SupportLocal, #Wine, #WinePairing

• Plonk & Pleasure: a manifesto

  

  Well, baby, it’s been a year. Happy Birthday, blog. I haven’t even come close to reaching the goals that I set for myself when I started this venture. By the one year mark, I was really hoping to have at least 1,000 Instagram followers, some sort of income associated with my writing, and a local…

  Plonk&Pleasure

  August 31, 2023

  A Love Story, Wine & Food

  #FoodandWine, #FortWayne, #FortWayneBlogger, #FortWayneFoodie, #MidwestBlogger, #MidwestFoodie, #Plonk&Pleasure, #SoFuckingDelicious

• Monday Night Tasting Dinner at Junk Ditch: Mondays have never tasted so good…

  

  Sometimes I feel like the world is my oyster–and it’s rotten. My life hasn’t been all peaches and cream. I’ve had many moments that were starved of joy. Haven’t we all? I suppose that’s why when life is truly delicious, with whipped cream and a cherry on top, I try so desperately to savor the…

  Plonk&Pleasure

  August 29, 2023

  Pairings, Reviews

  #beerpairing, #FortWayne, #FortWayneBlogger, #FortWayneFoodie, #MidwestBlogger, #midwestbrewing, #MidwestChef, #MidwestFoodie