Where: 601 Queen Anne Ave. N., Seattle, WA 98109 Price: $10 The three-hour drive from Portland to Seattle was punctuated with intervals of rain. And I’m not talking about logical end-of-sentence periods, exclamation points and question marks. No, no, no. This schizophrenic precipitation fell as commas, semi-colons and hyphens: dropping mid-sentence into the drive with… [Continue Reading]
Screen Door: Fried Chicken Cathead Biscuit Sandwich
Where: Screen Door, 2337 E Burnside St., Portland, OR 97214 Price: $10.95 I am not a big breakfast guy. I like to sleep in as late as I can, and I wake up slowly and with little grace. During the week, this usually results in rushed mornings to get out the door for work, and… [Continue Reading]
Hemstrought Bakery’s Chocolate Half-Moon Cookie Recipe
Hoo boy! It’s been a while since I’ve stepped to the mic. Things have been a little hairy on this end lately between work (freelance on top of 9-to-5), parenting and a trip to the Pacific Northwest (posts of our scouting trip/food tour to come). But I’m back in the house, and I bring you… [Continue Reading]
Black and Whites: Omonia Next Door
Where: 32-20 Broadway, Astoria, NY Price: $2.75 I’d been hopeful for a while that the Omonia Cafe Patisserie would add black and whites to its impressive array of desserts. But maybe it was too simple to join the shelves of complicated strawberry-glazed cakes and chocolate-dipped cookies. But as autumn turned to winter, a sign appeared… [Continue Reading]
Attack of the Shake Shack Shack Stack
Where: Southeast corner of Madison Square Park, at 23rd Street Price: $8.50 Since the line at this trendy Flatiron kiosk can get prohibitively long during the summer, I took advantage of a cool but manageable off-peak-season day to visit the Shake Shack near my office. The brain-child of NYC restaurateur Danny Meyer, Shake Shack serves… [Continue Reading]