The folks at Dine Out Lauderdale invited me to dine at Spazio last night. Having never been there, I was excited to try it. (It also helped that the restaurant is on Fort Lauderdale Beach and the weather was just about perfect – warm, with an ocean breeze.) Once we […]
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We were recently invited to dine at Ireland’s Steakhouse in the Bonaventure Resort, as part of the Dine Out Fort Lauderdale program. I had never been to Ireland’s and have not been to the Bonaventure Resort in several years, so I was curious.
Our friends have long been going on (and on, and on…) about how much the like Morton’s. As I typically avoid chains, I didn’t really think much of it. The last week I got an email from this friend, forwarded from Morton’s. It was a $49.95 four course menu, and […]
Last week we were talking to someone we had just met, over lunch at our synagogue. We were talking about all sorts of things, and honestly, I have no idea how this even came up. Nonetheless, as we were chatting, this woman started telling us about when she was married […]
The first time we went to Chicago for a Cellar Diminishment Party was in 2007. At that time we were going to a party hosted by some fellow wine geeks, in their home, and we had never met them in person. Now, we go to Chicago every other year for […]
I will say, for the record, I was content just having some deep dish pizza for lunch and skipping over breakfast entirely. My new cousin-in-law, not so much. (“OK, so we are going for pizza in the afternoon, but what are we doing for breakfast?“) This was on the heels […]
As we awoke Friday morning, I asked FKGuy if we really had become the people that obviously overstay our welcome. He agreed that we had, but it wasn’t too big of a deal (fortunately we had gracious hosts). He also noted that due to the overstay we had not eaten […]
I’m sure there are people that go to Chicago to do things other than eat and drink, but I don’t happen to know any of them. When we booked our trip, I let my new-to-Chicago cousin know we were coming and she immediately went to work on our dining itinerary.
This weekend we are headed to Chicago, for the every-other-year Cellar Diminishment Party. As always, we are looking forward to seeing old friends, making new ones, and drinking some good wines. Naturally, the trip must include some Chicago deep dish pizza.
When our group of wine geek friends decided to get together for a dinner at Market 17, it was something I was looking forward to. The combination of farm-to-table concept, utilizing organic and pesticide-free ingredients, as well as the wine friendly atmosphere was intriguing.