Tag: #FortWayneBlogger
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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…
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Apocalypse Burgers: if the world is ending, at least we have good burgers…
Is it just me or have you ever dined somewhere and enjoyed it so thoroughly that you soon fell down a rabbit hole Googling what other food-centric endeavors the proprietors of the restaurant might be up to? This exact thing happened to me after dining at Petite Chou in Indianapolis. If you’ve been following my…
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Spotted Lanternfly Honey: an invasive species has never tasted so sweet
I don’t think it’s particularly divisive of me to say that invasive species aren’t really a good thing. Take the Spotted Lanternfly: after hitching a ride on a delivery of stone, it made its way from its native China to Pennsylvania where it proceeded to cause nearly $43 million in damages. Having previously lived in…
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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,…
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Tacos with Friends: the root of all civilization
As a stoner in my early twenties, I used tacos as currency. In my wild-child years I bought many things using nothing but tacos and charm–some of those things are unmentionable in polite company–but I can share with you that two soft shell tacos once purchased me a beat-up, oversized, striped sweater. (I was going…
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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,…
Plonk & Pleasure 