Category: Restaurant Review

Renata’s Creperie (Arcata, CA)

Open for almost a year now, I have eaten at Renata’s many times.  The location doesn’t have great parking, and it can be quite crowded, but the food is awesome.  There are several good vegetarian choices as well as carnivore options.  The salads are good, but really the crepes pretty well fill you up so [...]


Hard Rock Cafe (Baltimore, MD)

Three things brought me to the Hard Rock Cafe in Baltimore. 1.Hunger 2.Novelty (I live in a small town) 3.Blogography I’ve been reading Dave at Blogography talk about the great veggie burger at Hard Rock for so long, I half expected the burger to come with a side of crack. I’ve never eaten at a [...]


La Scala (Baltimore, MD)

There are many things to enjoy in Baltimore’s Little Italy, and La Scala is definitely one of them.  It was not the only restaurant in Little Italy that I tried, but it was the best. I should have known when we they couldn’t accomodate our group on short notice the first night.  Several nights later, [...]


Liquid Earth (Baltimore, MD)

I love a good vegetarian restaurant. What is better than that? A great vegetarian restaurant with reasonable prices and nice folks running the place. Being in a strange city and needing a meal, I usually start with Google maps and search for vegetarian restaurants. Liquid Earth came up on the first page for Baltimore, but [...]


Luigino (Washington DC)

We went to Luigino because we wanted good pizza. Wood-fired, the real kind. Our hotel had a recommended restaurant list, and Luigino looked like a good fit: moderate price, casual clothing. While waiting for the Metro I looked it up in the AAA guide. AAA seemed to think it was pretty good, two diamonds, they [...]


Brooklyn Diner USA (NYC)

Visiting New York City brings many surprises. Most of the time we just let the mystery unfold and ate at whatever restaurant was nearby. The best surprise food-wise was definitely Brooklyn Diner USA. We went twice in one week, both times for breakfast. I could not recommend it enough for breakfast, easily the best I [...]


Frankie’s Little Italy (Scottsdale/Phoenix, AZ)

For lunch this afternoon I went to a shopping center at the corner of Scottsdale Road and East Mayo Blvd. in Phoenix, AZ. Considering the size of the complex, I knew there would be several eating options. Neither of us had breakfast, and we were famished. We drove past several eateries and finally decided on [...]


Bobby’s A Mancuso’s Restaurant (Scottsdale, AZ)

Today for lunch I headed to Kierland Commons in Scottsdale, AZ. A year or so ago we enjoyed a nice Mexican meal there at a beautiful location and hoped to repeat the experience. Instead we found “Bobby’s A Mancuso’s Restaurant”, and lucky for us it was their first lunch service after a few weeks of [...]