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5 Best Meals of 2023: Pretty Fine Dining
I did a post on the best barbecue meals of 2023, and lest you think that, consistent with its name, this blog only deals with barbecue, here are some of our outstanding upscale meals for 2023. Let’s...
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Best Side Dishes at Barbecue Places, 2023
Man does not live on barbecue alone, still less does woman. You really want something to eat that’s delicious in its own right, that will go with all sorts of things. In the meal, something to balance...
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The Best Coffee in Town, Key West, Florida
I just love Key West. It has so much going for it, including, believe it or not, plenty of family activities. The town is known in some quarters for abundant opportunities for drunken debauchery, but...
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Trường Tiền, Eden Center, Falls Church, Virginia
I don’t go to the Eden Center often, but when I do I go with Doug Herbert. Doug, our Senior Mississippi, Idaho, and South Texas Correspondent, lives nearby, and loves to try out-of-the-ordinary foods....
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2fifty Texas BBQ Goes Downtown with a New Place in Mount Vernon Triangle
Wonderful news! 2fifty, home to the very best barbecue in the greater Washington area, opened it’s long-awaited place in DC at 414 K Street NW, at 11:00 this morning (1-13-24). 2fifty began as a...
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Best Breakfasts of 2023
Breakfast is the most important meal of the day, and since I’ve already highlighted the best Barbecue and Pretty Fine Dining meals of the year, as well as the Best Side Dishes at barbecue places, I...
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Hurricane Hole Restaurant, Bar, and Marina, Stock Island, Florida
What a fun (and tasty) lunch! I’ve found another Keys winner on Stock Island. Stock Island is the last of the Keys before you enter Key West, and Hurricane Hole is the very last left turn before you...
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The Italian Store, Arlington, Virginia
A while back, I wrote about the muffuletta at Manifest Bread, the best I had tasted in the area — not that I’d tasted many here. I sent a BOLO for other muffulettas in the Washington area, and heard...
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La Crêperie, Key West, Florida
I had a strong and authoritative recommendation for La Crêperie from Michelle, a parent at Ella’s school who’s a regular in Key West. And it was endorsed by Sue and David Boyd, who’d just been there....
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More Bests of 2023: 14 Standout Dishes
I’ve already posted my Best Barbecue Meals, Best Barbecue Sides, Best Breakfasts, and Best Pretty Fine Dining meals of 2023. so let’s wrap things up with the Best of the Rest. Here, without further...
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The Country Ham Biscuit at the Hardee’s in Emporia, Virginia
I have a strong preference for locally owned restaurants, and I rarely eat at fast food places. I am, however, a sucker for country ham biscuits. On my way down to North Carolina to eat barbecue I had...
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Angelina’s Pizzeria, DeLand, Florida
For those who live in in Central Florida as well as those headed South this winter, Kathy Card, our Senior Central Florida Correspondent, offers another good option for folks in or near DeLand,...
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Wilber’s BBQ, Goldsboro, North Carolina
Wow! Is Wilber’s better than ever? Let’s see what the experts say. First, some background about Wilber’s. The barbecue at Wilber’s has long been the stuff of legend. For years it was a regular stop on...
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Cactus Cantina, Cathedral Heights, Washington, DC
We had a hectic Sunday. Georgetown Presbyterian had a gorgeous and inspiring Messiah service that ran a little over (most un-Presbyterian), and Ella had a piano recital scheduled for 1:30 at Hearst...
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Flo’s Kitchen, Wilson, North Carolina
I wrote about last year after my first visit, and you can read a lot of background about Flo’s here. The upshot was that the tenderloin biscuit there overcame my skepticism and justified all I’d heard...
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Stephenson’s Bar-B-Que, Willow Springs, North Carolina
After our breakfast at Flo’s, John Shelton Reed, Allan Parnell, and I headed to Stephenson’s. I’ve reviewed Stephenson’s twice before (here and here), and it easily won a place in my list of the Ten...
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Mundy the Pirate at the Key West Artisan Market
The Key West Artisan Market is held every Sunday from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm at 1801 White Street in the parking lot by Indigenous Park, near Higgs Beach. Do not miss it. There’s always plenty of parking...
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EZ Thai, Prince Frederick, Calvert County, Maryland
Nancy and I were in the market for a new place to eat, and after my last barbecue-eating trip to North Carolina, I was looking for something light. We scanned the offerings and ended up stopping there...
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The Pik N Pig, Carthage, North Carolina
I bid a fond farewell until next time to Allan Parnell after our breakfast at Flo’s and lunch at Stephenson’s.Then John (Shelton Reed) drove him up to Apex where they had dropped Allan’s car, and John...
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Sfoglina, Van Ness, Washington, DC
Nancy is a genius at selecting presents that the recipient will actually enjoy, and part of the Christmas bounty for me was a lunch at Sfoglina, a highly regarded restaurant. It’s just down the street...
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