with a kind of rustic charm. There is lots of dark wood and dark leather banquettes. One mustard-colored wall is dominated by huge modern, oils of faces, close-up. The chairs are wooden straight backs, without pads and are,...

Yes, I admit it, the Filet O' Fish. And a sausage McMuffin. I can NOT begin any true roadtrip without a sausage McMuffin. My family has all gone over to the dark side and McGriddles, but I’m a purist.

served on a kaiser roll, onion roll, or plain old burger bun. I also enjoy a good patty melt on dark rye with melted swiss cheese, grilled onions, and 1000 Island dressing..

Say what you will, but the Rum Cup at Trader Vic’s was awesome.

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it yet) light rum leftover pork in spicy marinade leftover Thai green curry leftover sweet potato-chickpea curry one slice of rye bread, half a pumpernickel bagel half a yogurt cake various dried fish things crammed in there by my...

Shall we send out the Saint Bernards with the rum collars? Where exactly are you? Don’t mean to be snide considering your possible wintery confinement but were you considering serving the mint tea before or as an after...

's tail- rum and melted ice cream!). Nigella Lawson is an annoying greaseball, I don’t care how well-placed she is in Britain. One of the increasingly few people left that I like is Alton Brown, and he’s not really a...

Med small plates, flatbreads, fruit, olive,cheese plates Interior DARK ...leaded glass covers only window, no front door, no signage — you gotta know where it is Sound damping is well done with curtains, tiles (jazz 2-3...

minute with my homemade sauce (kind of dark and vinegary and spicy and a bit sweet). We love these chewy but tender grilled ribs and know they’re not BBQ. Neighbor ST has a big fat smoker and uses my rub (it IS good) and...

fond memories of taking an evening bath and her placing a tray on the tub with Abendbrot = dark bread topped with cheese or pistachio mortadella (still one of my major weaknesses when in Germany), cut up cukes and quartered...

that they got, and they sat in the dark, crumbs falling in the sheets, trying to decipher whether it was a lemon drop, a ginger snap, a butter cookie, etc, while the little cookie shards melted on their tongue and they tried to...

We had a lovely Christmas. Between all in our house, we received Hendrick’s gin and Anchor’s Junipero gin, a bottle of walnut liquer, a bottle of rum, a great tail book called The Bartender’s Bible, a slow...