Live Bait

One of the perks of being a freelancer is making your own schedule – which is also one of the downsides for those who can’t manage their time.  I won’t say which one it is for me   In any case, one Wednesday afternoon, feeling antsy, I tagged TC and we headed into the city for a beer.  Since I had dinner plans around the corner later, we hit up Live Bait – which is one of my favorite bars in the city.  By which I mean, I’ve been to Live Bait a notable number of times for a person [...]

Birthday Bar Hopping – Canz & Sweet Afton

Following the Heinz press event, I headed into Astoria to meet up with friends for one last happy hour – at Canz.  Unfortunately, Canz has some weird happy hour that isn’t every day, so on this Thursday, we contented ourselves just drinking and eating what TC and I had enjoyed last time, for full price.  Close to Halloween, El Pizza Padre showed up to show off his muscles.  Hilarious.  There are other pictures of El Pizza Padre in action that night, but those’re for those who were there…  I ordered a side of sweet potato waffle fries to munch on [...]

Freshly Ground Meat & Friendship

I am forever grateful to my super lovely host and hostess for making this impromptu road trip possible; for opening their lovely home to not just me, but to my surprisingly well-behaved dog (except for that moment of panic when I realized she was no longer in the backyard and had wandered ACROSS THE STREET – I ran outside barefoot and almost had a heart attack!); for just being all around awesome people to board a stray food blogger with a lot on her mind AND her dog, to listen to that same food blogger blab on and on about [...]

Crook’s Atrium Cafe

Whimsy would be my middle name, had I an English middle name.  Perhaps I’ll name my daughter that… In any case, I recently got a huge bug in my butt to leave town for a few days.  I’ve not been on any trips in about a year, and I’m the type who likes to travel a few times a year – locally (road trips) and farther (cross country and beyond), so I packed up my stuff, threw Keywee in the car, and headed off into the sunrise.  Of course, how do you pick a destination when you’re rather poor, you [...]

GO Burger

New burger places seem to be popping up all around me on the Upper East Side. Yes, they’re usually a new outpost for an existing restaurant, but I’ll take it. More inexpensive, decent comfort food options! GO Burger is owned by the BLT Hospitality Group, which owns all the various BLT restaurants around the city as well as a GO Burger truck and a GO Burger restaurant in Midtown. PS and I walked across Second Avenue to the Upper East Side location, with its garage-door storefont (rolled up, naturally, for business). They opened months ago, but until a couple of [...]

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