Archive for the 'dining' Category

In LA I had built a wiki, ordered by dining category, of all the notable places I’d eaten and of information gleaned from chowhound about places I wanted to try. It was rewarding, a lot of people found it through google, but it was a pain to maintain. Wikis are even more fertile ground for [...]

The two most available bagels in Orlando are those at Einstein Bros. and at Panera. Both of these are like high-end Lenders bagels, they’re really just bread with a hole in it. The bagels don’t have any bite to speak of. I did some pretty exhaustive searching online, and found reference to a place called [...]

We met up with my parents last weekend in Las Vegas and ate one night at L’Atelier de Joel Robuchon in the MGM Grand casino. Robuchon is widely considered one of the greatest living french chefs, having hung up his toque ten years ago after being the youngest chef to consecutively win 3 michelin stars. [...]