French food sucks, fruit tastes good, and more.

Springs 9 a.m.-1 p.m. • River Rock CafŽ, 30260 Saratoga, Fair Oaks Ranch • Mu–oz Market, 1625 S. Zarzamora 9 a.m.-2 p.m. • Midtown Market, 1802 Blanco 9 a.m.-3 p.m. • Texas Thrift Store, 6708 S. Flores 10 a.m.-1 p.m. • Artisans' Alley,...

A nice well-kept secret is the Blue Oar, on the Connecticut River in Haddam. It’s an outdoor restaurant, and casual, but the food is quite good. lots of grilled seafood and exceptional desserts. The true magic of the place...

(about 4 miles before Longwood and almost directly across the street from the Brandywine River Museum). Nothing fancy, just great breakfast and lunch. Long lines out the door at Hank’s are proof of its popularity.

they recommend — I’d love to see others' comments on any of them. Joanna LOCAL RESTAURANTS (directions and full menus available at the front desk) East Burke (30 minutes south) River Garden Café 626-3514...

These are not college cafs but high school ones with restaurants (you don’t eat with the students!). Lynn Vocational High School has a different menu every day. The food is good – selection of two to three main meals,...

cook their signature fish dish at the table. There are many one pot dishes here. It can all feel a bit rushed here so I don’t go that often. Tay Do Caf on Kingsland Road’s pretty good too. Enormous exotic crayfish on...

Pini’s Pizza on River St (across from Shaw’s) has great pizza. It’s just a small pizzaria, so I’m not sure if you are looking for a higher end restaurant or not.

, Water Club, Terrace in the Sky, Windows on the World, One If By Land, TIBS, CafÉ Des Artises, Daniel, Le Bernadin, Lespionasse, Jean Georges, Fire Bird, Water’s Edge, Bryan Park Grill, Nirvana, The Boathouse, Tavern on...

—-reserve through the CAF. They have a website. Click onto Tours then onto River Cruise.

, VT area — itÕs too touristy, overdeveloped, and rude. For a better Vermont vacation, head further north, to the Northeast Kingdom area of Vermont, especially to the town of East Burke, and visit our favorite restaurant...

I enjoyed the dark mole poblano at El Tapatio and the guacamole with tortilla chips. They have nice, small corn tortillas. Strange, though – they only offer decaf coffee not caf. Nice to be in a place where most of the...

Rocky’s Gourmet Pizza on Magazine delivers but call them to make sure 891-5152. Also New York Pizza (both places are real good) NYpizza is 891-2376. There’s a Foodies right down river from Tulane on St. Charles that...

, have wanted to go there for a while. Good thing as now we’d never get in. Sunday looks like should have nice weather. We will do Millennium Park, Art Institute and maybe one of the CAF river tours. Lunch will be The Gage. I have...

flavorful with nothing that really separates it from the other top places. It’s also smallish for the price. But those fries.... Caprial’s: I’m glad “Cap” comes immediately after "Caf" because as good...