Charlie Brown’s Steakhouse

I’ve never kept it a secret that I do enjoy chain restaurants; I appreciate what their purpose is, and respect when they achieve that purpose fairly well.  Some don’t (Crapplebee’s, I’m looking at you: you served me a bad salad.  Seriously?  How can you make a salad BAD?!  Don’t dry the greens enough and leave them outside or something so they wilt.  Geez.), and some do.  One that I’ve been to a good handful of times in my life now that consistently hit the mark is Charlie Brown’s, a cute “steakhouse” style establishment that boasts inexpensive meals, a location really [...]

Fresh Direct Local Farm Tour

Remember when I mentioned that Fresh Direct facility tour and dinner… and I won a tour of the local farms from which Fresh Direct sources a lot of its local produce?  I finally went on that tour, and got to meet Jeff Rottkamp of Fox Hollow Farms.  He showed us around and explained a lot of the finer nuances of running a farm, things that would never occur to me – why would they? I don’t know the first thing about running a family farm! – and just amazed us with his knowledge.Here’s a shot of Jeff picking Sungolds.  You [...]

Sripraphai – Williston Park

You know how much I like Sripraphai, so when I heard they opened up a Long Island location, and close-ish to where my sister lives, I had to check it out.  She took me there for my birthday actually, which was fun because I honestly can’t remember the last time we had a meal together, just the two of us – we usually roll with the fams, y’know?    (And yes, that means this meal was in October sometime…)  I started off with a Thai iced tea, which, to my surprise, my sister never had before.  It was pretty standard [...]

Dining at La Ratatouille… aka Panino Cafe

On a recent, rare trip to the mall (Roosevelt Field in Long Island), BF suddenly exclaimed, “I’m hungry!” and led me to the food court.  “Want tacos?” Yes, he meant Taco Bell, and while I’m not in the habit of eating fast food, I do occasionally indulge.  Feeling recently a bit heavy and falling far from good eating habits, I suggested we go somewhere for real food.  He responded, “Oh, we can go to that Italian place!  It’s not great but it’s fine, and it’s real food.”  He led me past the food court, to the end of the mall, [...]

Buoy One

1175 W. Main Street Riverhead, NY 11901 For FeistyMom’s birthday recently, the sibs and I (if you must, we can call them FeistySibs, but by far the Feisty title belongs to one of us and only one!) decided to take her out for a day of shopping out at Tanger Outlets. After a long day of shopping, of course we got hungry and the FeistySibs chose to take FeistyMom to partake in seafood – her favorite! – at a place both of them have been many times and which, sadly, I hadn’t yet been able to go for the awesome [...]

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