it is today. The jolly fellow helping you select something to drink is Tyler Packwood, the Inn’s former cellar master. At Foti’s, he is quick to make you feel good about ordering wine, stripping the experience of any...

of these as a child – after being served them for breakfast at an American friend’s house) Anything with “fake cherry flavour” - ie fruit rollups, jolly ranchers, tootsie roll pops – same goes for...

Candy corn and mallow pumpkins (they’re pumpkin shaped candy corn) are my seasonal crack. I get 0 trick or treaters so I have absolutely no alibi for my purchase.

Tummyache, I felt the same way after paying $14 for 4 pumpkin ravioli drowning in sauce with no accompanying anything. Sure they were good, but I also don’t appreciate his bringing you bottled water without asking which...

Costco all the way at my house. Little boxes of Playdough and marshmallow pumpkins for the toddlers. Gummy eyeballs and mini candy bars for the elementary through middle school crowd. And gruesome gummy body parts and full size...

In my fridge now DogfishHead Festiva Peache Jolly Pumpkin Weizen Bam in a growler Chapeau Banana Lambic

decor! Jolly Roger Taproom- Ballard- for sliders!! and the sampler of local brewery Maritime (they have a HH)- is on the water industry side of Ballard La Isla- Ballard... something a little different that has been getting great...

wise, a good sports bar with a good beer selection and good bar food is kind of tough for me at this point. I like the Irish Pub on 20th and Walnut to watch games and eat wings on Sundays. Also, jolly's on 19th btwn Market and...

~David Winery, which is about a mile east off I-5 on Hwy 4 towards Lodi. Besides good food, they have a pie bakery and other snacks to take with you. This is a simple place with a clean, family atmosphere. Last year, I think they...

, by the way, is Le Petit Cafe, 2842 Colorado in Santa Monica. Had a very jolly dinner there en famille, and three or four excellent lunches since. I also like Cafe Massilia in Monrovia, run by two guys from Marseilles, though...

. buttermilk pie from a joint in SC, followed by a missippi hot chil tamale, a slab of coconut cream pie from apple pie along with a pumpkin slice, slice of cherry pie from the cherry hut, a chocolate croissant from patisserie...

I really like the fig bars at Trader Joe’s, sort of a take on the Fig Newton. They’re called “A Fig Walks Into a Bar” (har har). I think there’s an apple version too. I also love lemon zest Luna Bars,...

on Beverly. Fish tacos from Baja Ensenada on Whittier Blvd. pumpkin ravioli or duck ravioli followed by great tiramisu at giorgio baldi in malibu. Dumplings from either DTF, Dumpling House, or Dumpling 10053. Pastries from either...

Smith, Bell’s, New Glarus, Jolly Pumpkin, Stone and Rogue. The people making these beers have years of experience brewing beer, and to disparage them with the scare-quotes around the word brewmaster is frankly offensive.

. it feels like it should be in a student town. made from scratch and everything i’ve ever had there was great. make their own muffins (i’m talking double choc or pumpkin or cran-walnut, etc) Abscinthe —i like...