Southern Hospitality

You’ve all heard of my fried pickle quest – I do so love fried pickles, you know – but did you know how much I love Justin Timberlake?  YouTube “Plasticville” or his “immigrant” SNL skit.. or any of his Digital Shorts like “Dick in a Box” – well look, I love JT.  Now that the hype has died down from his restaurant opening eons ago, I swung by to check out the place and see if the BBQ was well, any good.  Y’know.  Cuz I’m such an expert on good BBQ, being a NYer and all, y’know.  As soon as [...]

MG’s

SpB and I met up around Austin Street recently and headed over to 5 Burro Cafe, but it was unfortunately super packed!  So we turned around and headed to MG’s, which was… really empty.  MG’s used to be Mardi Gras, which I’ve written about here and here.  Neither time was impressive nor horrifying (well, that 2nd time was borderline horrifying), and with the new name, I figured new management or at least a new menu…The bread was the same as I’d remembered it, nothing spectacular but nice to munch on since I was really hungry.We started off with a basket of [...]

Press 195

The last “sort of” monthly meeting with my BFF found us at Press 195… the story goes, I was anxious to show off my new car to her, so she parked her car in my spot and off we went to have sushi on Bell Boulevard (a place HB recommended to me)… except that spot was closed! so we went to Press 195 next door, where BFF had been a few times in the past.  We were celebrating Ms. Resident of the Month two months running Frites were on the menu, and frites were ordered.  This is the ’small’ [...]

Eleven Madison Park

I’m not that big on Valentine’s Day in general, especially the zoo that the restaurant industry becomes around that day.  This year, it fell on a Sunday, and it disturbed me that a certain Batali restaurant had a special menu for that day which cost xx, but also offered the same ’special’ menu on Friday and Saturday before Valentine’s Day… for half that price.  I just think that’s rude!  It was blatant and out there… not cool.  (Admittedly, at least one other Batali restaurant had no special menu at all for Valentine’s Day, which boosted my opinion of that one [...]

City Crab & Seafood Company – Restaurant Week

Recently, Dr. PB and MK wanted to grab lunch in the city… it happened to be Restaurant Week (which I’ve decried extensively in the past), and they wanted to check out City Crab.  It surprises some people that I’m generally not one to complain about restaurant choice – this topic came up when a friend found out I was at an Applebee’s with some non-food-obsessed friends.  Honestly, I go out to eat with my friends mostly to hang out with my friends; if they’re food-inclined, great, we’ll eat somewhere awesome (and, as you can see, most of my friends are [...]

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