The Don Giovanni Restaurant on west 44th Street in New York City is my favorite type of eatery. It’s small and cute, feels “authentic” and has great food and service. Located between 8th and 9th Avenues just west of Times Square, it’s also one of those places tucked into a dim area where you […]
In between our blasts of wintery weather, I recently made the drive over to one of my all-time favorite places for fried and baked and smothered and “everything-else’d” chicken – the AQ Chicken House in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Although there was a large menu of mouth-watering choices, I stuck with my usual: a special bit of […]
Over the holidays, I was excited to check out the Movie Lounge, a Fort Smith, Arkansas movie theater that bills itself as “a triple feature” of fine dining, fun, and film. I had read that Chef Blythe Beck, from the Oxygen Channel’s Naughty Kitchen TV show, had taken over cooking duties at the Lounge and […]
The first time I was introduced to Bathtub Gin, a favorite haunt in New York City, was 3 years ago — although since then I’ve taken many people back to this hidden fun spot. Back in 2010, a group of us had finished a work-sponsored dinner and were enjoying the warm yet breezy August evening […]
