Category: Reviews
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Bravo Bravas!
I’ve never wanted to fight somebody over eggplant before. Enter Bravas, inspiring me to reach new heights of debauchery with their delicious cuisine. They opened their doors to their new ‘weird, Spanish-American restaurant’ at eleven o’clock sharp(ish) on this Tuesday morning. While I wasn’t the first person in the door, I was the first person…
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Electric Hero: champion of sandwiches
Some days, I like to dine at fancy restaurants, enjoying multiple courses of fine food with thoughtfully paired wines. Other days, I like to wander into little hole-in-the-wall places and gamble on whether I’m about to eat the best food of my life or get food poisoning. One day last summer, I found myself in…
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260xRunex2Toms: I only want to live in a world with chicken liver French toast…
Currently, I find myself in the strange place of having a million things that I want to say, yet I find myself at a loss for words. I just had the opportunity to meet some of the kindest, most talented, genuinely beautiful people I’ve ever met in my life and, at the same time, indulge…
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Country Heritage Winery: Picturesque and Unpretentious
“In the lea of a picturesque ridge lies a small, unpretentious winery, one that pampers its fruit like its own babies.” Many of us have heard this quote before (and then proceeded to nearly pee our pants laughing) but how many of us have been to a winery that was both picturesque and unpretentious. Unfortunately,…
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Barrel Aged Cider: how do you like them apples?
If wine is the nectar of the gods, cider is the beverage of choice for forest nymphs and fairies. Ciders dance the fine line between other-worldly and familiar; with some tasting like sweet, childhood memories of slurping down apple juice in the sunshine and others sipping as sinfully complex as any other adult beverage. Recently,…
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Petite Chou Bistro & Champagne Bar is ma petite chou…
We fall in love with people, but what about places and things? Can a city capture our heart? Can we entertain a romance with a certain street? What about a particular restaurant? Boys have broken my heart but a good Champagne has never done me any measurable amount of harm. Men may come and go,…
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Olives: a love story
Once upon a time, I did not like olives. I’d like to say that this was a long time ago, in a far off land. But, if I’m telling the truth, this was really only about a year ago, roughly 600 miles away on the East Coast. I had just remotely purchased my first home…
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La Crême is the Crème de la Crème
I’m obsessed with crêpes. I have been since my 24th birthday when I first tried a brand-new, tiny, hole-in-the-wall crêpe stand in the city where I went to university. For years, crêpes were a weekly bite for me. I punctuated most happy (and sometimes sad) memories with a crêpe. That crêpe stand sadly no longer…
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Oak and Alley: Brussels Sprouts in All the Right Places
I was a kid who did not want to eat my vegetables. It’s really no big surprise; many of us were. But, somehow, when I say it now, it always feels like I’m confessing a horrible, dirty secret. How could this Brussels sprout obsessed, broccoli-craving, cabbage-crunching, micro-green-snacking lady have ever turned her nose up at…
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Patatas Bravas: a love story
When asked what my favorite vegetable is, my brain will automatically jump to my favorite green vegetable. (For the curious, it’s a solid tie between Brussels sprouts and broccoli, with arugula as a close runner up and green cabbage as an honorable mention. Wait, I almost forgot–I also love peas. Forget it, I can’t rank…
Plonk & Pleasure 