Jul 18, 2012
davanti – in front of enoteca – wine bar – from the glossary on Davanti Enoteca’s menu The Italian restaurants in the St. Louis of my memory are the Cicero’s, the Rossino’s, and the Talayna’s; a vowel-laden litany of...
Jun 25, 2012
If you ever discover termites are devouring part of your house, and to fix that problem you must remove all the food, the medicines, the 125-gallon fish tank, the 30-gallon fish tank, the 10-gallon fish tank, and the houseplants – as well as the plants living...
Jun 25, 2012
Poolside at San Diego’s Marriott Marquis, post Silver Strand bike ride. I pulled together this fetching, perfectly composed bite from our Tequila Grill appetizer selections: a single crunchy tortilla chip, spread with creamy guacamole, layered with a spicy bit...
Jun 21, 2012
Imagine the nerdy-cool kid from high school: the quiet and deliberately unfashionable one, the one who chose to wear horn-rimmed glasses and ride his bike to school every single day, the one who actually understood all the cultural references, and who surprised...
Jun 20, 2012
I’d heard there was biking on Coronado. I took this as a personal challenge; there’s nothing more I love than than wandering down a new street or trail. There’s a thrill of discovery in experiencing a new piece of the world first-hand, the...
Jun 14, 2012
If you’re visiting San Diego for a day or four and need a good old-fashioned tourist experience, visit Old Town, the bougainvillea-studded, Mexican-restaurant filled, historic center of San Diego. You will want to eat, and it’s honestly impossible...
Jun 12, 2012
Seaport Village, to be exact, where Kid Two and I are hiding out while our house is being termite-proofed. Banishment at the Marriott Marquis is not a so bad … here is our view: We slept in, finally venturing out about noon for breakfast and found these...
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