Category: Wine & Food

• 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

• Great Breakxpectations: an anarchist guide to a happy breakfast…

  

  You know what I hate? Breakfast foods. Hear me out—y’all know I’m a slut for some pancakes, I think French toast is a love language, and I’m a simp for sausage. So, when I say “I hate breakfast foods,” it’s definitely not that I hate the foods. What I hate is the concept of certain…

  Plonk&Pleasure

  August 3, 2023

  Reviews, Wine & Food

  #Breakfast, #BreakfastSandwich, #FoodandWine, #FortWayne, #FortWayneBlogger, #FortWayneFoodie, #Fuckbeingnormal, #MidwestBlogger, #MidwestFoodie, #Mortadella

• Wes Anderson & Wine: you can’t drink wine if you don’t open the bottle…

  

  My favorite director is Wes Anderson. Never ask me why, I’ll either say too little or too much. The whimsy, the symmetry, the style, the color palettes, the soundtracks heavily influenced by the 1960s, and the understated yet heartfelt performances speak to me. I understand that it’s polarizing–people tend to either love or hate this…

  Plonk&Pleasure

  June 23, 2023

  Pairings, Wine & Food

  #AsteroidCity, #FoodandWine, #FortWayne, #FortWayneBlogger, #FortWayneFoodie, #MidwestBlogger, #MidwestFoodie, #WesAnderson, #Wine, #WinePairing

• Catawba Wine: if it’s good enough for the poets, it’s good enough for me…

  

  If you’re in a room full of wine snobs, especially ‘old world wine snobs,’ and they ask you what your favorite wine is–lie. When a pretentious wine snob asks you what your favorite wine is, there are right and wrong answers to the question. Despite what you may like to think, the rightness or wrongness…

  Plonk&Pleasure

  June 10, 2023

  Wine & Food

  #Catawba, #CatawbaWine, #FoodandWine, #FortWayne, #FortWayneBlogger, #FortWayneFoodie, #InternationalRoseDay, #MidwestBlogger, #MidwestFoodie, #RoseAllDay, #Wine

• Rough Draft Taproom Requires No Revision: it’s flawless as is

  

  I’ve had several conversations with friends recently about whether certain establishments in Fort Wayne are safe for women to drink at. I hate that these are conversations we feel compelled to have. It truly makes me sad. Despite my desire to always try to see the best in people, the universe constantly reminds me that,…

  Plonk&Pleasure

  May 14, 2023

  Reviews, Wine & Food

  #FoodandWine, #FortWayne, #FortWayneBlogger, #FortWayneFoodie, #MidwestBlogger, #MidwestFoodie, #pizza, #Taproom, #Wine

• 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…

  Plonk&Pleasure

  April 18, 2023

  Reviews, Wine & Food

  #CannedWine, #FoodandWine, #FortWayne, #FortWayneBlogger, #FortWayneFoodie, #MidwestBlogger, #MidwestFoodie, #SpanishWine, #Tapas, #Wine

• 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,…

  Plonk&Pleasure

  March 18, 2023

  Reviews, Wine & Food

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

• 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,…

  Plonk&Pleasure

  March 5, 2023

  Reviews, Wine & Food

  #Bistro, #Champagne, #FoodandWine, #FortWayneBlogger, #FortWayneFoodie, #FrenchFood, #Indianapolis, #MidwestBlogger, #MidwestFoodie, #Wine

• There’s More to the Meatery…

  

  After being so thoroughly impressed by my recent dining experience at One Ten Craft Meatery, I found myself wondering: would the experience still blow me away if it didn’t center around exceptional cuts of meat. I went back for another dinner and quickly answered my own question with a resounding yes! Their new fall menu…

  Plonk&Pleasure

  November 28, 2022

  Reviews, Wine & Food

  #Bacon, #EatLocal, #FoodandWine, #FortWayne, #FortWayneBlogger, #FortWayneFoodie, #MidwestBlogger, #MidwestFoodie, #Pasta, #SupportLocal, #Waygu, WinonaLake

• Thanksgiving Wines

  

  I’ve been avoiding writing this, because it doesn’t feel easy. While some may struggle with words, finding the right thing to say is usually rather simple for me. I know that I’m lucky in this department. I’ve watched others grapple with it and rack their brains trying to figure out how to say what they…

  Plonk&Pleasure

  November 16, 2022

  Pairings, Wine & Food

  #EastonPA, #FoodandWine, #FortWayne, #FortWayneBlogger, #FortWayneFoodie, #LocalWine, #MidwestBlogger, #MidwestFoodie, #Thanksgiving, #Wine