Hard to pass up on a good Hefe-weizen for a summer brew... Here in the Twin Cities, Summit Brewing has a limited run belgian style ale (only available on tap) called Scandia (spices like cardamom to give it a...

. I hope you’re used to changing diapers on the floor; good restaurants in Seattle seem to be allergic to changing tables. No idea why. (Props to the Front Street Ale House in Friday Harbor WA for surprising us with...

My son is graduating from Carleton in Northfield, Minnesota in June. There will be 7 of us out from New York. We’d like to do a nice family dinner on Saturday night (not terribly noisy; good food)somewhere within 45 minutes...

Definitely do not miss Barley John’s. Terrific beers and the food isn’t too bad either. I would say the beer and food is better than Town Hall, however, Town Hall almost always has draught cask-conditioned ales, which...

For seven or eight years I’ve been beer-commuting 647 miles from Oklahoma to Minnetonka to drink real ale as often as I can (without being declared clinically insane). As a Brit who loves everything about the USA except for...

Thanks for all of the recs for dining for my upcoming visit to the Twin Cities. I also enjoy a pint or two of hand crafted brew. Priority first is a good selection of beer, with secondary priority of a unique setting/atmosphere....

) Surly (craft brew local only to Minneapolis) Gluek’s (also a craft brew local to the twins) Heineken Sapporo oil can Foster’s oil can Stite (I don’t know if this counts – it’s technically a metal bottle)

a regular stop. I wonder if they might do roast and Yorkshires? Dreaming now maybe. Roast Lamb! [Further fantasies here] The thing to stress is this a private enterprise. Not Sherlock’s House of Watson’s Baker St. Ales...

beers, pale ales, stouts, and the like. Firebrick is one of my faves. Also, they bought the Grain Belt rights, so they’re now making the local swill in most of the dives.

alone Heinz 57! Mark did get a bad oyster or something for dinner in Savannah... We were damn near like Siamese twins with the sharing of food, but I didn’t get sick at all. He certainly dropped a couple of cylinders for a...

Childhood revisited! Boozeless, of course. Until I got older... '-) The eggless Siamese twin of Tom and Jerries is hot buttered rum. I think it’s even better. Both from the same era, but hot buttered rum is a real snow...

For a first-timer in Kuala Lumpur, I would recommend Madam Kwan at Suria KLCC, Petronas Twin Towers. Basically, it’s a restaurant in a shopping mall serving good Nonya (sort of like Malay-Chinese fusion) food in a pleasant...

of the 1900s who flocked to a Parisian brothel to try the siamese twins. It is very sad but this is dark side of the British restaurant scene. In pleasing his customers, Blumenthal has compromised himself greatly by plagiarisim....

. The Farmhouse Inn has some delicious food, no checks. It’s at the corner of 20 and the road to LaConner east of the twin bridges. I particularly like their warm turkey/cranberry sandwich. No checks? The Rockfish Bar & Grill...

that was not long after they opened, and places do improve." So this morning I went to pick up half a dozen bagels. I found the entire experience depressing. The bagels look so sad there. Dull, not shiny, with some rough edges,...