gDine at Bobby Van’s

I was recently alerted to the existence of a fairly cool concept made real: group dining made easy via the internet, aka gDine. Essentially, when you’re planning a group outing, just choose your restaurant and have people go to the website and pay for their own meal upfront. No more trying to calculate the bill at the end, with some people drinking and some people not, and some people saying “Oh I forgot to bring cash” or anything silly like that. (Admittedly, my friends don’t seem to have this problem, but we’ve also been dining together for well over 10 [...]

Peter Luger – Burger

You all know how I love baseball, but the past few months has seen me watching more football than I’ve watched in my entire life, for one simple reason: fantasy football.  This year was my inaugural fantasy football season, and I think I dig it… What’s this got to do with Peter Luger, you ask?  Well, the winner (not me) received a lunch at Peter Luger, courtesy of the losers (one of which was me).  I would finally get to try this burger everyone’s raving about!  The bread basket was so monstrous, someone requested I take a photo of it.  [...]

Santa Fe Steakhouse

Recently, while wandering around Forest Hills after a movie (Tower Heist, which was fun for all its NYC scenes, and included this awesome line: “And girls from Forest Hills don’t usually become FBI agents!”), I realized I was hungry and needed something to eat.  I noticed Santa Fe Steakhouse, where I ate once probably 10 years ago, and we decided to give it a try.  Caesar salad that came with our entrees, which was underdressed and had croutons way too hard for me to comfortably eat.  But I dutifully ate my vegetables…  It is a source of endless amusement to [...]

Gauchos Steak House (Panama)

Back towards the beginning of the year, CT and I learned that CT’s Sister’s Sister-in-Law would be getting married in Panama at the end of July. Why Panama? The Bride’s parents live down there now full-time. We learned that Panama has a huge ex-pat population mostly because it is so cheap and the U.S. Dollar is the functional currency down there. Since CT’s whole family is quite close with her brother-in-law’s family, we were all invited to the wedding. Since neither of us had been to Panama before, we decided to spend an extra couple days down there to explore [...]

Uncle Jack’s Steakhouse

Remember when I quit my job to go back to school and get my degree?  Well, after a lot of red tape, obstacles thrown in my way, and just BS, I graduated!  With a general associates’ degree, because that was the way to go so that more of my credits would transfer in order for me to then go to a four year school.  Unfortunately, due to basically life happening, I am putting my plans to continue school and get a bachelor’s degree on hold.  But what is a graduation – or any major happening in my life – without [...]

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