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Worth It … If You Can Get In

Hello again – Well, I started off the year saying I was going to post more often even if they were shorter, and I’m still only managing something  something like one post a month.  Oh well.  Doing my best here. . . . Read More

7th & Grand Continues Its Dominance

Hello Enthusiasts – Well, one of my enthusiast-olutions was to write about newer places sooner, even if it meant fewer bells and whistles.  So … here goes. And … showing the difficulty of that, I wrote the line above 4 . . . Read More

Three Secret Dinners

Hello Enthusiasts – It has been too long.  My apologies.  It’s all this damn work. But I couldn’t stay away any longer, because I have three secret dinners for you to try, and at least a couple of them won’t . . . Read More

LeKa and Towne: Is A Great Space Enough?

Hello Enthusiasts – I blame Perch.  Well, perhaps “blame” is too strong a word.  But, Perch is something of a precursor to two recently opened restaurants that I am struggling with.  Let me explain. Perch is a great space.  An . . . Read More

Downtown’s Best New … Everything

Hello Enthusiasts – Loyal readers of this little vanity project will note that I usually try to provide a theme for my posts, even while telling you about the latest and greatest.  (and for those of you who complain that . . . Read More

The Virtues of Rebirth, Thrice

Hello Enthusiasts – Well, here we are again.  Sometimes you hit on a theme and it proves itself relevant beyond what you could have predicted. In Act 1, we considered a situation where the owners of an existing place that . . . Read More