Tag: food
New York City: the Quest for a Quality Meal at 3am
I had my charge & the hunt was on: find a non-greasy, non-sketchy, semi-healthy, semi-respectable place to have breakfast. In Midtown Manhattan. At 3:30am. On a Sunday morning. ‘Easy enough,’ I thought. ‘Most people who go out when they’re in NYC don’t even start heading home* & until at least 3am.’ I did what any intrepid…
Washington, D.C.: Where to Eat in the District
Best chicken: Nando’s Peri-Peri The Peruvian chicken here is out of this world. The sides are generous (the mixed leaf side salad is enormous), the pitas served warm & the lemon herb seasoning that comes on the chicken is just spicy enough (but you can add your own peri-peri sauce to liven things up if…
New York City: Pizza
Pizza can be a very personal decision. Personally, I’m a thin crust pepperoni & green pepper kind of girl, but you might be a thick crust sausage & pineapple kind of person. Many people associate New York City closely with pizza, after all it originated there in the early 1900s. I’ve had a lot of…
Restaurant Review: Marriners Restaurant; Camden, Maine
When we travel, we try to eat locally whenever possible (i.e. no chains allowed!). I love finding local gems by asking store clerks, baristas, & waitresses what their favorite places in town are, which is exactly how we found Marriners Restaurantin Camden.We stumbled into Marriners early one morning before we headed out to kayak. You…
Restaurant Review: District; Portland, Maine
When we walked up to the front of District, we almost didn’t go in. The outside looks a bit dodgy, with few windows & a generally plain looking building – like the outside of a seedy bar; but boy am I glad we opened the front door, because what we found inside was a comfortable,…