It is all about green on St. Patrick’s Day, the wearing of the green, and if you wear green on St. Patrick’s Day you save some green and get a FREE order of guacamole, which is green.
Forget the Good Humor truck, there is a grilled Caesar salad and crème brûlée truck coming. Fresh, delicious grilled Caesar salad with your options of plain or adding free-range chicken, shrimp and steak will be offered. The grilled Caesar truck remembers your sweet tooth, something beyond Tastycakes, brilliantly decadent, crème brûlées. My little gourmet heart is pounding!
Like Mother Hubbard, there are families whose cupboards are empty. Hunger isn’t just in some far away country; it is here in the United States, Maryland and in Baltimore. Today kicks off the U.S.
Outback Steakhouse has a mission, a mission beyond their food on your plate though it is the ends to the means. In like the March lion, Outback’s Operation Homefront kicked off yesterday with the ultimate goal of donating a minimum of one million dollars to U.S. troops and their families.
A new burrito truck is hitting Baltimore’s asphalt. They claim 'real” Mexican burritos, tacos and more.' Ole! “Always fresh, always fast and always delicious” is on their logo. We’ll have to wait and see if they live up to their bravado.
Who designated this time of year as the 'best' of season? Everyone is coming out with their picks, polls and posts on the best of dining, top local restaurants, chefs, bars, best servers and more.
Imagine yourself 15 years old, dreaming of a career in the culinary world but where do you go to follow this dream. Across the country there are high schools offering a program called ProStart which allows these dreamers to make dreams a reality. These ‘wanna cook’ kids are able to make their dreams come true early.
The Restaurant Association of Maryland announced this afternoon their nominees for the annual “Stars of the Industry.” The awards honor the Maryland hospitality industry’s best in categories such as Maryland’s Favorite New Restaurant, Chef of the Year, Caterer of the Year and more. Winners of these prestigious awards will be revealed at the 56th Annual McCormick & Company “Stars of the Industry” Awards Gala on Monday, April 26, 2010 from 6pm to midnight at Martin’s West in Baltimore
This is a pretty simple deal; Alizée Boutique Bistro and Wine Bar offer a selection of the hamburgers half price the last Sunday of the month. Don’t have plans for Sunday, February 28th you just might want to consider their signature Bistro Burger. Check out the details:
If you don’t know what the James Beard Awards are let me tackle that first. In each industry like the films, music, Broadway shows there are awards. There are the Oscars for the movies, the Grammys for music, Tony’s for Broadway and then there is the James Beard Awards for the restaurant industry. At this time of the year the James Beard Foundation issues its list of semi-finalist for the top restaurateur, top restaurant, top chef, regional chefs, best service, best beverage etc. It is then narrowed down to finalist with the awards taking place in New York City on May 2nd.
It isn’t all that far fetched. The marvelous Martha Stewart amtracked it to Baltimore with friends on February 14th for a very special Vietnamese celebratory dinner at Mr. and Mrs. Phung Doan home for Chinese New Year. Many Asian cultures celebrate this holiday, not just the Chinese.
Doesn’t it seem a number of winners of competitive eating contest like Nathan’s Hot Dogs and others are always tiny people? Being a previous tiny person, short and thin---I did say previous, I was known for my healthy appetite. My late mother-in-law used to say I had an appetite of a longshoreman but it was never so huge that I would consider competitive eating. Well maybe if it was lobster.
Please enjoy this video in the spirit it is presented. It is refreshing, clever and everyone needs a smile added to their day. I’m not sure I want what was eaten but I would love to sit across from the diner at a table at Per Se
For those who aren’t aware of what the bucket list means, it is a list of the things you want to do before you die, i.e. hence the phrase “kick the bucket”. I do have a “kick the bucket” story before I get on with the top 30 restaurants in the United States as determined by Opinionated about Dining poll. When my neighbor’s daughter was 4 years old she admired a ring that I wore. I told her if she was really good that when I kicked the bucket she can have the ring.... Read the full story and see the list of the Top 30 Restaurants: Top 30 Restaurants in the US - my new bucket list
Who knew we would loose so many dining days due to the snowpocalype that covered our streets and homes. A number of restaurants in Baltimore have extended the pre fixe menus from the Winter Restaurant week I just saw a post on my Facebook page that the Oceanaire Seafood Room is extending through the end of February. It is a great menu and they were on my list before all this snow started.
On Thursday, February 18th at 7 p.m. Cinghiale Restaurant will host Anna Abbona, proprietor of Marchesi di Barolo vineyards for a very special evening of great food and fine wines from the Piedmont region of Italy. In the Marchesi di Barolo cellars one can find the birthplace of the Barolo tradition. Now in its fifth generation, Ernesto and Anna Abbona are two of the leading voices from the Abbona family and spokespeople for the Langhe.
In the Globe and Mail out of Toronto comes a piece that describes that chefs are using acupunctured fish that enhance the freshness. A needle insertion technique renders the fish paralyzed while it is being transported. The fish is alive although brain dead which keeps its flesh from decomposing.
