every one in a while, usually around 2:30-3am, usually while intoxicated, I just HAVE to have some street meat. with chilli and cheese, even better!

meat vs pastrami....IM JUST SAYING) We opened the foil packets about 2 hours and 5 glasses of wine into the flight. I’ll tell ya, the aroma was intoxicating, everyone in the cabin was salivating (the closer ones started...

of shoulder. You may not want all of the mushroom soak water. Boosting the amount of anchovies, onions, and marjoram is, to your taste, a good thing. Eggplant Parmesan – THE BEST. But triple or quadruple the amount of...

. At first, I found myself missing the smokey flavor of browned sausage (the sausage is added with the water); however, the smokey bacon jumped in there to give me that note. Eventually, I found myself digging through the beans...

people drink tap water vs. bottled? What use is it to chide bottled water drinkers that they are duped fools? They’ve decided tap water is not as good so they are drinking water that is marketed as better for them. Is it? I...

Water, a Sprite with blue coconut syrup added), and their breakfast offerings are some of the best in the fast food realm. Worth trying for breakfast is the Breakfast Club toaster, which they offer as a limited-time item but can...

on the outside while staying light and fluffy inside (one reason why frozen fries or potatoes that are first bathed in ice water make better fries). They’re okay if you like potato, but they’re not the ne plus ultra...

a restaurant. Many of these restaurants had long leases (Snooky’s, Tonio’s Carriage House etc) date from pre-gentrification Park Slope, from a time when chic restaurants really werent finding an audience. These are...

-4774 And Hinano’s (dive bar variety) on Washington Blvd. in Venice Beach just steps from the water and Venice Pier.

will have a bottle of wine with one dish and find the wine ordinary. A week later, the same wine with another dish will be outstanding. It’s no wonder that some folks opt for beer or water or iced tea—after all, you...

secret compartments, where they could hide, then pop out of nowhere to fill a water glass, or remove a soiled spoon, because the only time that I saw them was when they silently arrived at the table at the exact moment they were...

that, but at each place, there was a gracious welcome by the server along the lines of “Welcome, I hear you're celebrating, can I offer you an aperitif while you read the menu?” (Babbo gave us the choice of still or...