Have you ever gone to a new city and not been able to decide where to eat? Have you ever had that problem at home? A new company, Miami Culinary Tours solves that very problem. They take tourists and locals alike on a two and a half hour culinary adventure through […]
Yearly Archives: 2010
163 posts
I just don’t get valet parking, unless you can’t walk or it is pouring rain. 100% of the time I will choose to self-park, however. Why? A) I don’t want to pay you to park my car when I am perfectly capable of walking all the way from the parking […]
We make our way up to the dessert room at Bern’s. To call it a room is a bit of a misnomer. In fact, it is a big space with many individual wooden-enclosed booths, complete with doors. Weird is an understatement. It is, however, unique.
Over the weekend, we went to Tampa to visit some friends and celebrate her 40th birthday, or as she likes to put it: the first anniversary of her 39th birthday. Friday evening was at Sidebern’s, the “creative” restaurant owned by the same people as Bern’s, the steakhouse. The food was […]
Wine dinner does not adequately describe Saturday night. Yes, there was dinner. Yes, there was wine – and a lot of it. But mostly, there were good friends and a whole lot of laughs. Of course, it never hurts to have a vertical of Grange to keep things fun. Florida […]
Imagine relaxing on a cool, breezy day, palm trees swaying, sitting in the shade with a view of the beach and a cocktail in hand. OK, it felt like it was 200 degrees outside and I was drinking iced tea, but you get the idea. Like many other businesses in […]
With the opening of new wine bars faster than you can say “Cabernet” I have been on a quest to try them all. So, we went to try Grand Vin. I had not been there in a very long time. When I walked in, the overwhelming stench of stale smoke […]
Good morning! This is just a note to let you know that I have given you yet one more distraction from work during the week. I will continue to post three times per week, at least, but they will be on Monday, Wednesday and Fridays. So if you need a […]
When people come to visit us – which is generally every weekend in the winter, and only slightly less frequently in the summer – they often ask what they should do while they are here. I have pointed out the Hemingway House at least 100 times on a map, yet […]
I was called out on my post last week on The Porch for it not actually being the newest wine bar in Key West. In fact, at the time of posting, it was the newest wine bar, but that was last week. This week, the newest wine bar is d’Vine, […]