This past week I made a trip out to the San Francisco Bay Area to see for the first time one area of the country I’ve never heard a single complaint about. Having failed, during my 3 hour layover in the Philly airport, to find a restaurant/bar that had both a free table by an…
Somewhat disappointed by my first recent venture out to Davis for a drink and a bite to eat, I opted for Central Square when it came to discussing a venue for meeting up and dining with one of my most gourmande friends in Boston. Due to certain time constraints, though, I ended up having to…
I was pretty excited when I heard about Mike Isabella’s new sandwich shop, G Sandwich, opening on 14th and W. I’ve had a good experience at Graffiato on my visits there for lunch and dinner. The wood oven pizzas are solid and everything on the menu shows a hint of creativity (I’m especially a fan of…
My Boston has changed a bit recently, as I find myself spending most of my time in a ritzy green suburb between Davis and Porter Square, quite a big change from being 2 blocks from Fenway Park in the bustling Kenmore-BB Fens. Not better, nor worse. Just different. Maybe good different for me, specifically, considering…
I’m writing this review sitting at a horrible little Mexican restaurant at BWI with a Blue Moon after having just moved out of my apartment of five months. As I consider the next steps of my life, thoughts of the neighborhood I am leaving cross my mind and I start to reconsider plans to move…
A great rooftop option for beating the crippling heat waves hitting D.C. this summer is Masa 14 in Logan Circle. A central staircase leads up from a spacious, chic, under-lit dining room to a long, elegant second floor bar. This opens to a roofdeck with a living wall of plants inclining upwards from the center,…
I started writing this article on April 11th, a few days after starting my work on the Smithsonian Folklife Festival out of the Capital Gallery building at L’Enfant Plaza. Food trucks surround the building between 10:00am and 2:00pm and around 11:30am of each day the topic of office chatter would inevitably turn to which trucks…
I was first exposed to Balkan-chic Ambar a few months ago in the context of a patio happy hour event and wasn’t too blown away by just about anything. I had heard of their rakia program and Balkan wine selection, and was left thoroughly disappointed by the happy hour cocktail menu, which consisted of a margarita (tequila), a mojito (rum)…
Fusion sometimes gets a bad rep on the culinary mean streets, especially among the purists, regionalists and the more stubborn keepers of convention. While I agree that the grand majority of attempts to fuse two distant cuisines in one plate end in a tacky mess, I do appreciate the effort when research is conducted and…
Integration back into normal society after the “Night at the Museum” type chaos of the Marriott during the Folklife Festival was a process which certainly had its ups and downs. On the one hand, I had grown extremely weary of the hotel’s breakfast buffets and the constant availability of filling yet largely unsatisfying hotel food.…
That Best Bite 