If you’re looking for a delicious breakfast in the Orleans area, look no further than the “Hole in One” Donut Shop. As someone who takes breakfast pretty seriously—the most important meal of the day, after dessert!—you should listen when I say that I won’t go to Orleans without stopping at Hole in One. Sunday, April 28, […]
Saturday, April 13, 2013. My boyfriend suggested VIA Italian Table in Worcester, Massachusetts, for our Saturday night dinner after he saw it on Phantom Gourmet. I hadn’t heard of the restaurant, but then again I haven’t spent much time around Worcester. I was game. We didn’t have a reservation, but we arrived early at 5 […]
Wednesday, March 27, 2013. My boyfriend and I were on the wait list for L’Espalier‘s first 35th anniversary dinner in late January, but we didn’t manage to get off it. The dinner was relatively inexpensive for a L’Espalier meal at $48 per person, so it was very popular. Then in early March, I received a phone […]
Barbara Lynch’s Menton, located in Boston’s Seaport district, was my second-ever tasting-menu experience. The second time is important. Like with anything else, your first time is memorable for its novelty but you don’t know what to expect. It can be nervous or anxious or distracting. Sometimes first experiences are best viewed as test runs. But […]
Saturday, July 28, 2012 and Saturday, November 24, 2012. In the past two years I’ve tried a half-dozen upscale steakhouses in the Boston area. My favorite is Del Frisco’s Double Eagle Steakhouse. The restaurant opened in 2011 on the Seaport, a newly trendy neighborhood that has attracted a lot of restauranteurs. Del Frisco’s dining room boasts an […]
Cafe Mangal in Wellesley, Massachusetts is one of the very few restaurants where I eat healthy. I should probably feel worse about saying this, but health isn’t really my thing. Faced with a choice between a green salad versus a hamburger with bacon, peanut butter, and fried bananas, nutrition isn’t a factor and I go Elvis. For […]
Four years ago my hair was fire-engine red. Or maybe it was pink-purple, I don’t remember exactly; I went through a phase of dying my hair colors that cannot be found in nature and now they blur together. I was living in the suburbs and only ventured into Boston on Wednesday nights, when my friends […]
