Posts Tagged "food"

I’m not vegetarian, but I am allergic to fish sauce. This may affect the dining experiences of vegans and vegetarians. My adventure took place in a highly-rated Thai restaurant in San Francisco this year. There was a menu item that sounded great. It had an asterisk that meant “can be made vegetarian.” My immediate thought […]

WTF does this even mean? This bacon agrees with itself on its consumable nature? Everybody got together and agreed it could be eaten? The lettuce and tomato are of the same mindset on a number of key issues?

You’ve been told by someone that you should eat lots of whole grains. Everybody got on the whole grains bus and now a bunch of crappy foods are made with whole grains. You now think you must be doing something nutritionally good. Unwhole grains are unholy. Unwhole grains are another way of saying processed grains… […]

Who cares? I wish more restaurants did. Because I and other people care. I’m one of many people with serious food allergies. My main food allergy is fish. I can have shellfish. I can’t have fish fish. To the extent where when I get sushi (usually with shrimp), if the sushi chef cuts something before […]

I was recently in PHX around Xmas 2012, and while having a snack near the restaurants and shops in Terminal 4, I noticed this sign. Click to enlarge: I didn’t try it as I was already eating, boarding soon, and unlikely to be hungry again. But it seemed like an interesting idea and way to […]

I was in Disney World, Florida in mid-November 2012, and was lucky to be let into the previews of their still-being-built Fantasyland. A few rides are ready, a few still being built. A lot of it is themed from the Beauty and the Beast movie, including a face character (guy walking around dressed as someone) […]

2012’s not quite over, but I’m ready to crown my best meal of the year. First, Honourable Mention to my second best meal of the year, which was at the brand new Be Our Guest restaurant in the Magic Kingdom in Walt Disney World in Florida. But since that place had some interesting new tech […]

Restaurant.com is a great place to get discounted gift certificates to restaurants you like or want to try. I generally like to use it when I can find the right place to eat. However, FINDING that place is PAINFUL. First, I noticed that they are NOT using the Yelp API to bring in reviews. I […]

I cook well. And I have a pet peeve: restaurants that don’t cook. They reheat stuff that they made earlier or off-site. I’m not talking about a chef preparing a large batch of sauce, or slicing all the veg he’ll need for that night. I mean the places we all KNOW are not using fresh […]