'Restaurant Reviews'

Sometimes a Plan B is the better course to take.

Pun totally intended.

When in Jacksonville last month for our final convention appearance of the year we were in a different part of town than usual and cast about for a place for dinner.

Finding out that there was a “Monkey’s Uncle Tavern” just down the street seemed like fate …

Photo courtesy of Rita Connelly

I went to the media preview of Smashburger and I think they will do well in Tucson. The franchise owner expects to open 4 stores here by the end of 2014 so it’s just a matter of time. The first location is in the former Buddy’s Grill at 4821 E. Grant Road in the Crossroads …

Last weekend, for our 5th anniversary, Todd and I planned to go out for dinner but without any sort of cravings one way or another. The destination up in the air, I remembered some discounts we received at the office for the newly opened Buca di Beppo so decided to give it a try.

Well, after first looking up the …

Earlier this month Todd and I found ourselves in small-town Mississippi, Louisville to be exact, for a one-day comics show and we were looking for someplace nice and local for supper Friday night. We thought we’d found a likely candidate, searching online, in the Red Onion Restaurant and headed that way only to find out it was only open on …

Last weekend we were in Jacksonville for Ancient City Convention and one of the many things we were looking forward to was another visit (or 2) to European Street Cafe.

But out first night, after driving the 2.5 hours to get to town, checking in out our hotel and unpacking, and then heading to the convention hotel to set …

The other night I just flat-out did NOT feel like cooking.

I’d been craving some “real” sushi for weeks and decided that would be the night we’d try out Kiku, a sushi place just up the road that was forever advertising a buy-one-get-one sushi roll special.

Because of the advertisements I was expecting something along the lines of a …

Orange Smoothie Productions blender logo (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Cookbook Review: What Color is your Smoothie?

I love my blender. I love my blender.
It makes me happy, a happy ender.

Okay, enough silliness but I do love my blender as well as my melon baller, coffee maker and microplane. Those are my four favorite kitchen gadget appliances. I’m a minimalist …

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3 days: 3 Tucson restaurants

With guests from L.A., we went out to eat three days in a row. Here’s a recap of eating Tucson restaurants.

Friday after wine tasting at CataVinos Wine Shoppe, we went to dinner at Bushi. Bushi used to be Kampai Sushi. I had never been in Kampai but recently …