Old time A&W root beer brings back memories of the best root beer ice cream floats! Rt 66, Holbrook, Arizona has an original A&W menu and speaker box inside Farr Service and A&W walk up window restaurant. First, we got gas from very old style gas pumps and you don’t pay until after pumping. Once...
The live show with Christopher Kimball is about to start. We’ve been following him from his former enterprises America’s Test Kitchen and Cook’s Illustrated. He recently started Milk Street Kitchen and the man famous for cooking and wearing a bow tie will be speaking soon. I dared my Chris to ask him a cooking question!...
I asked people in the know where to dine near Mesa, Az and responses were mixed. While driving down Country Club Dr I spotted the Blue Adobe Santa Fe Grille and told Chris to turn around, I found the place to eat. What a find it was. They get hatch and red chiles from New...
I needed to eat some authentic Mexican and Southwestern foods and began driving toward Arizona and New Mexico. First stop was in Yuma with pots of simmering Chile Verde and Chile Colorado on the stove. Francisco Duron owner of Duron’s El Zarape Grill is proud he makes it all from scratch by grilling chiles and...
Poke, Hawaiians will tell you, is pronounced Po-kay, ending with an “e” and not pronounced as if its spelled poki. With that in mind, I was ready for the annual poke competition in Waikoloa, Big Island, and an event of the Hawai’i Island Festival. First I had to make my way past a royal guardsman...
Buttery and caramel tasting to the right degree. Le Caramel Company makes thousands of batches of caramels, caramel sauce and chocolate sauce using beautiful copper pots in El Cajon. Husband and wife Christen and Vincent originally from Europe, studied caramel making from France’s leading candy maker, Mr. Palix. Their top seller, the salted caramel cream...
It’s true, a quality Southern Italian restaurant in Alpine! Mediterraneo has been in the Alpine Creek Shopping Center for over 20 years and the new owners, Vincenzo and AnnaMaria Croce, have livened it up with authentic Sicilian cooking. AnnaMaria’s mother has been cooking in Italian restaurants for 50 years and she comes in the morning...
When a pastry chef tells me he graduated from culinary school in Switzerland, I stand at attention. Chef Carl Zeitsen and his wife Melina (also a baker) own Eccentric International Chefs Bakery in Santee and make exquisite wedding cakes and cakes for all occasions. Chef Zeitsen’s resume includes making desserts at resorts in Monte Carlo,...
Vince Giacalone, began his first restaurant in 1965 and then bought a little lot on Voltaire Street in 1973, and today the Venetian Pt Loma still serves superb Italian food. The restaurant has expanded over the years by buying the next door dry cleaners and liquor store, plus tastefully modernizing the interior. Vince retired in...
Now I know how the orange industry started in Southern California and its relevance to The Mission Inn. In the late 1880’s a group of people started their own colony in Riverside and found success growing orange trees from two grafts which were provided by the US Dept of Agriculture. The area grew like gangbusters...
Almost cult like, there is a serious following with no pretense and images of little grass skirts. Welcome to tiki bars, and this one hasn’t lost momentum in seventy years. Located in the famous and internationally known Fairmont hotel high on Nob Hill, San Francisco, the Hurricane Bar and Tonga Room are wildly popular. A...
