Posted on September 14, 2011 by bayareafoodie
Mike and I spent a long weekend in Seattle visiting friends. We had never been so we arrived with a long list of things we wanted to check out and luckily our hosts were game to show us around. Here are the highlights! Day 1 We arrived around noon and it was amazingly sunny and [...]
Filed under: Outside the Bay Area, PLACES TO EAT/DRINK, Seattle | Tagged: Bainbridge, black bottle, built burger, daily dozen doughnuts, din tai fung, eleven winery, ferry ride, food, island vintners, Kirkland, palace kitchen, Pike Place Chowder, pike place market, purple cafe, review, seattle, street donuts, tom douglas, travel, underground tour, washington, wine tasting | 3 Comments »
Posted on September 11, 2011 by bayareafoodie
For our last evening in Boston we headed to Cambridge. We decided to first check out a small restaurant called Hungry Mother that serves up seasonal southern grub. We ordered the following: GREEN TOMATO GAZPACHO: maine crab salad, cherry tomatoes, cornbread crumbs FRIED CHICKEN: sautéed collard greens, compressed watermelon, tabasco honey LOCAL CATCH: summer corn [...]
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Posted on September 5, 2011 by bayareafoodie
On our second evening we ventured to the waterfront area for dinner and drinks at Sportello and Drink, both owned by one of Boston’s most renowned chefs Barbara Lynch. Sportello (Italian for counter) is a modern Italian take on a diner. The restaurant is composed of almost all counter seating with an open kitchen. The [...]
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Posted on September 3, 2011 by bayareafoodie
BEST FREE TOUR EVER!!!! If you have time to go out to Jamaica Plain and do this tour I highly recommend it because you get to drink beer for free ~kinda (they suggest that you leave a couple bucks that is donated to the local community). Mike and I are not big beer drinkers but we still had fun. [...]
Filed under: Boston, Outside the Bay Area, PLACES TO EAT/DRINK | Tagged: boston, free, review, Sam Adams Brewery Tour, samuel adams beer, travel | Leave a Comment »
Posted on September 2, 2011 by bayareafoodie
I had heard that an itty bitty sandwich shop in Boston’s bay village neighborhood serves up some killer breakfast eats so on our way to the Sam Adams brewery tour we stopped by for some morning grub. You don’t want to drink on an empty stomach ! We ordered 2 sandwiches: – fancy bacon and [...]
Filed under: Boston, Outside the Bay Area, PLACES TO EAT/DRINK | Tagged: bacon and egg fancy, bay village, boston, breakfast sandwiches, food, Mike & Patty’s, restaurant, review, shop, travel | 2 Comments »
Posted on September 2, 2011 by bayareafoodie
Joanne Chang is the chef/owner of Flour Bakery. The Harvard grad turned pastry chef beat Bobby Flay in a Sticky Bun throwdown so of course we had to stop by one of her 3 locations to see what all the hype was about. We arrived at 1pm so it was a bit busy with the [...]
Filed under: Boston, Outside the Bay Area, PLACES TO EAT/DRINK | Tagged: bobby flay, boston, Flour Bakery, Joanne Chang, review, sticky bun throwdown, travel | Leave a Comment »
Posted on September 1, 2011 by bayareafoodie
Our first meal in Boston had to be seafood and all reviews pointed to Neptune Oyster. I knew ahead of time that it was difficult to get a table because they don’t take reservations and they only have 6 small tables and a long bar. Protocol is to arrive and put your name on the list and [...]
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Posted on August 31, 2011 by bayareafoodie
We had an awesome trip to Boston the first week of August. We stayed at the Omni Parker House Hotel which is not only in a super location it’s the birthplace of the original Boston Cream Pie! The pie is actually a cake with a custard filling and if you order room service they will bring [...]
Filed under: Boston, Outside the Bay Area, PLACES TO EAT/DRINK, VERY RANDOM THOUGHTS | Tagged: boston, boston creme pie, freedom trail, haunted, omni parker house hotel, tours, travel | Leave a Comment »
Posted on April 16, 2011 by bayareafoodie
For our one special dinner out in Maui we decided to eat at Tropica, our hotel restaurant because it was outdoors overlooking the beach and had a lovely prix fixe menu. We were seated at a romantic table with a fantastic view of the water 20 minutes before sunset. We decided to start the night [...]
Filed under: Maui, Outside the Bay Area, PLACES TO EAT/DRINK | Tagged: dining, food, hawaii, HI, Lahaina, Maui, menu, ocean view, prix fixe, restaurant, review, tasting menu, travel, Tropica, Westin Maui Resort | Leave a Comment »
Posted on April 13, 2011 by bayareafoodie
Bev Gannon is a super famous chef on Maui so we decided to give one of her many restaurants a try. We headed to the Hali’imaile General Store which serves up fresh island cuisine in a refurbished plantation store located Upcountry in the middle of nowhere. We started off with the popular Sashimi Napoleon: [...]
Filed under: Maui, Outside the Bay Area, PLACES TO EAT/DRINK | Tagged: Bev Gannon, food, Hali'imaile General Store, Haliimaile, hawaii, HI, Maui, Pineapple Upside-Down Cake, restaurant, review, Sashimi Napoleon, travel | Leave a Comment »
Posted on April 8, 2011 by bayareafoodie
Finger lickin’ good! Who would have thought that one of the best meals I had in Maui would be served from a truck? I read all the stellar reviews about the Geste Shrimp truck on Yelp and had to give it a try. It is located less than 10 minutes from my sisters’ house on [...]
Filed under: Maui, Outside the Bay Area, PLACES TO EAT/DRINK | Tagged: food truck, Geste Shrimp Truck, hawaii, hawaiian scampi, Kahului Beach Rd, lemon-pepper, Maui, spicy pineapple, travel | 1 Comment »
Posted on April 6, 2011 by bayareafoodie
Shave ice… where have you been all my life? Don’t be confused…shave (not shaved ) ice is nothing like a snow cone. Forget about sugary syrup and chunky ice cubes piled into a paper cone that leaks from the bottom. Shave ice takes fun frozen treats to a whole new level. While in Maui we [...]
Filed under: Maui, Outside the Bay Area, PLACES TO EAT/DRINK | Tagged: HI, Lahaina, Maui, review, travel, Ululani's Hawaiian Shave Ice | 1 Comment »
Posted on December 5, 2010 by bayareafoodie
Momofuko Milk Bar, the super popular bakery in NYC, has started shipping their goods (cookies and pies) just in time for the holidays. We needed to bring a dessert to our annual pre-thanksgiving dinner for 10 and I knew this is what I wanted to get. I ordered 4 varieties: Here is our critique… blueberry [...]
Filed under: New York, Outside the Bay Area, PLACES TO EAT/DRINK, REVIEWS OF PRODUCTS | Tagged: Christina Tosi, compost cookies, cookies, david chang, delivery, mail order, Momofuku Milk Bar, new york, online | Leave a Comment »
Posted on September 2, 2010 by bayareafoodie
While in Paris I wanted to make sure Mike had the opportunity to do a tasting of French wines. O Chateau fit the bill perfectly. It is a fairly new establishment right near the Louvre. We chose the 1 hour introductory tasting which was held in O Chateau’s intimate wine cellar. Leading our tasting was [...]
Filed under: France, PLACES TO EAT/DRINK | Tagged: class, french wine, O Chateau, Paris, travel, wine tasting | 1 Comment »
Posted on August 31, 2010 by bayareafoodie
We ended up at Chef Yves Camdeborde trendy wine bar “L’Avant Comptoir” two times on our trip. The first was on our food tour and the second we came on our own to get a crêpe. We were told they were the best in Paris. We actually attempted to have dinner at the famed bistro [...]
Filed under: France, PLACES TO EAT/DRINK | Tagged: crepes, france, L’Avant Comptoir, Left Bank, Paris, travel, wine bar, Yves Camdeborde | Leave a Comment »
Posted on August 26, 2010 by bayareafoodie
After hours of online research on Paris restaurants and food I was overwhelmed and decided I needed help. When I found Wendy Lyn’s website on Paris I knew she would be the best tour guide. Wendy, originally from the South, has been living in Paris for 20 years, works as a food writer and is [...]
Filed under: France, PLACES TO EAT/DRINK | Tagged: Eric Kayser, Food & Wine, L’Avant Comptoir, Left Bank, Paris, Patrick Roger, travel, Walking Tour, Wendy Lyn | 2 Comments »
Posted on August 17, 2010 by bayareafoodie
San Sebastián is a gorgeous beach town located in the Basque country and is known as the Culinary Capital of Spain with the highest concentrations of Michelin stars in the world. We were in San Sebastián for a family reunion. Mike has a cousin that lives there so we were not visiting to spend hundreds [...]
Filed under: Outside the Bay Area, PLACES TO EAT/DRINK, Spain | Tagged: Aldanondo restaurante, Donostia-San Sebastián, food, La Fabrica, pintxos, San Sebastián, Spain, travel | 5 Comments »
Posted on August 12, 2010 by bayareafoodie
Before leaving for Madrid I did some online research and one place kept popping up as a must do activity — eat Hot chocolate and Churros at Chocolateria San Ginés. We arrived at 11:30pm (early by Spanish standards) and the cafe was about half full. We easily found a table and immediately ordered …2 hot [...]
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Posted on August 12, 2010 by bayareafoodie
Mike has a cousin that lives in Madrid and one of the places she suggested we check out was the Mercado de San Miguel – a hip new indoor farmers market filled with over 30 vendors selling seafood, sandwiches, fresh vegetables, sweets, baked goods, tapas, wine, ham and more (similar to Oxbow market – if [...]
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Posted on August 10, 2010 by bayareafoodie
For our first foodie adventure in Spain Mike and I decided to go on a Tapas tour since we had limited time in Madrid and no idea where to go. Our walking tour started in the heart of the city at the Puerta del Sol where we met our guide James. We had a fairly [...]
Filed under: PLACES TO EAT/DRINK, Spain | Tagged: Adventurous Appetites Tapas Tour, food tour, Madrid, travel | 1 Comment »
Posted on January 12, 2010 by bayareafoodie
For our one big night out in Maui we took my sister and husband to Merriman’s to thank them for hosting us. Mike and I became familiar with Merriman’s on our honeymoon in Kona where we had a fantastic meal so we were excited to try the Lahaina location. We arrived at 6pm just as [...]
Filed under: Maui, Outside the Bay Area, PLACES TO EAT/DRINK | Tagged: HI, Lahaina, Merriman's, Peter Merriman | 1 Comment »
Posted on January 9, 2010 by bayareafoodie
Mike and I headed to Maui to visit my newly relocated sister and her hubby & kids in early December. One of our day trips took us upcountry to Kula where there is a cool goat farm. When we arrived 2 baby goats (boy & girl) were being hand fed. They had just been born [...]
Filed under: Maui, Outside the Bay Area, PLACES TO EAT/DRINK | Tagged: goat cheese, hawaii, Surfing Goat Dairy | 1 Comment »
Posted on November 21, 2009 by bayareafoodie
I first heard about Sucré Sweet shop on our visit to New Orleans in August. The Pastry chef Tariq Hanna had just won TLC’s “Ultimate Cake-Off” so he was all over the local TV news. I really wanted to stop by while in town but time didn’t allow. Then 2 months later I received an [...]
Filed under: New Orleans, Outside the Bay Area, PLACES TO EAT/DRINK, REVIEWS OF PRODUCTS | Tagged: confectioner, coupon, discount, hand-crafted artisan chocolates, Magazine Street, New Orleans, NOLA, pastries, spca, Sucré | 2 Comments »
Posted on August 22, 2009 by bayareafoodie
This was my overall favorite dinner in New Orleans. John Besh’s Lüke is a French brasserie paying homage to NOLA’s past. The decor is bright & simple with a business casual vibe. We were seated in the back room in front of the kitchen. The menu reminded me of Thomas Keller’s Bouchon (which is a [...]
Filed under: New Orleans, PLACES TO EAT/DRINK | Tagged: brasserie, business district, food, french, john besh, luke, New Orleans, NOLA, restaurant, review | 1 Comment »
Posted on August 20, 2009 by bayareafoodie
We went to New Orleans in August because Mike had a convention to attend (not because we are gluttons for punishment!). While Mike was away I had to keep myself busy so I decided to take a cooking class at the New Orleans School of Cooking. Every morning they hold a 3 hour session where [...]
Filed under: New Orleans, PLACES TO EAT/DRINK | Tagged: cajun, cooking class, creole, food, french quarter, review, store, The New Orleans School of Cooking | Leave a Comment »
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