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]
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]
Pies n’ Thighs: Chicken Biscuit
Flaky biscuits, a couple of tablespoons of sweet butter, fried chicken and hot sauce. As a sandwich? Um…HELLS YEAH! Shan and I took the boys into the City today, mainly to get the chicken biscuit from the Pies n’ Thighs booth at Madison Square Park. Today is the last day the booths are open, and… [Continue Reading]