shaped bandstand, and sure enough, there’s one right there in the quiet praça, where they have tables set up in nice weather. They have a spectacular sopa de peixe (fish soup, chock full of chunks of various fish-best I had...

the outside of the house which has to take precedence before cold weather arrives. I also tend to overdo my meals, planning lots of options in case someone doesn’t like X or Y. It slowly dawned on me that when we’re...

SRoF, do you mind listing those six vendors? I can’t ever get my SO to wander around with me long enough in the hot sun to figure out where the really well priced stuff is — and i share OP’s sentiments about...

?" That’s really hard to tell. However, I do have a friend from high school who has a chain restaurant in Dallas (some sort of steak joint, if memory serves) and he says business is actually UP with the recession (it...

that I would expect it to be. In Minnesota, we have less than 90 frost-free growing days a year. If you’re any eating any fresh produce this week, it’s greens, and if it’s not greens, it’s something grown...

sit down until 9pm. Sounds like the host/ess had a hot date and didn’t want to have to stay a moment later. Not the poster’s problem.

and Deduction video along with some upper body strength training using 5 lb weights, and Friday a re-cap of both videos. I live in northern Indiana so the weather hasn’t been really conducive to outdoor activities. On the...

at a burrito joint, one that calls extra meat a “double wide,” has tattoo tuesdays, where you can get a discount for showing off your body art, and their motto is "Flaming Amy’s, Hot, Fast, Cheap and Easy"....

I agree, in nice weather I love long walks around Boston, Cambridge, Somerville Brookline, Alston, punctuated by stops for chow and beer.

/ the rest Syrah & Mourvedre). Followed that to Coffaro’s website, which is pretty fascinating in its own right, including weather updates and a winemaker’s diary that is updated at least weekly. Also a quite curious...

"At popular places, walk in after 9pm for a table for one or two, even without reservations. Has worked really well for me in SF" along those same lines: at first sign of a blizzard, hurricaine, or other major weather problem, go...

're in constant danger of having someone drag their purse, coat, butt, etc. through your pizza. Now that the weather's nice, though, their terrace will be open. That’s always a pleasant place to enjoy a meal.

a horrible snowstorm that morning, yet all the girls were still on the subway in their red pumps, slushing through several inches of freezing mush. I mean, really, if you have a date that you can’t reschedule due to...

. They were then hot, but it was from a heat lamp. The fries were obviously frozen, pre-prepared generic fries, not unlike any fast-food outlet. The Catfish Platter suffered from some of the same problems – overcooked with soggy...

-lunch and wandering around weather, so enjoy!