5 May, 2016

Brotzeit Lokal

Comments : 1 Posted in : Cider, Dining in Oakland - CA, Restaurants on May 5, 2016 by : The Gourmez

Tags: aspall's cider, Beer, beer garden, bread pudding, brooklyn basin, brotzeit lokal, german cuisine, german food, oakland, potato pancakes, restaurant review, sausage, views

Brotzeit Lokal is memorable for more than being a mouthful to pronounce. We all love beer gardens, right? So what makes a beer garden even better? A beautiful view! You can see it from inside the tinted glass walls of Brotzeit’s dining room, but the open-air patio is where that beer garden pull is strongest.
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3 July, 2014

Asena Restaurant

Comments : 1 Posted in : Dining in Alameda - CA, Restaurants on July 3, 2014 by : The Gourmez

Tags: alameda, asena, bay area, bread pudding, dinner, fine dining, french connection, fried artichoke, ginger sake martini, gnocchi, greek, hummus, lamb ravioli, linguica, Mediterranean, mezzes, monte cristo, review, sesame bread, steak lime butter, stuffed chicken, upscale

About a block off the central Park strip in Alameda, you’ll find this Mediterranean-focused, upscale dining spot. By Mediterranean, I mean all over the Sea with a menu featuring pasta, sour cherries, artichoke, hummus, and so on and so on. Whatever region you want of the Mediterranean, you’ll probably find something that qualifies. And if
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8 February, 2013

Eats and Night Sights in New Orleans

Posted in : Bars in New Orleans - LA, Dining in New Orleans - LA, Restaurants, Travel Guide for New Orleans - LA on February 8, 2013 by : The Gourmez

Tags: alligator, bar, barbecue shrimp, beignet, bread pudding, cafe du monde, cafe pontalba, central business district, chicory, coffee, crescent city brewhouse, etoufee, food guide, french quarter, frenchmen art market, frenchmen street, gumbo, jackson square, lucy's, lucy's retired surfers, marigny brasserie, meat pie, mississippi river, mother's, mr. b's bisto, new orleans, panorama, po boy, restaurant, review, riverfront, sazerac, ss natchez, tourism, visitor's guide

Eats and Night Sights in New Orleans Why, you might ask, are you focusing on dining at night in New Orleans? Isn’t the food there good anytime? Of course it is! But one must make distinctions between their blog posts somehow, and with the massive amount of eating we did in New Orleans, I figured
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28 January, 2013

Weathervane

Comments : 2 Posted in : Dining in Chapel Hill - NC, Restaurants on January 28, 2013 by : The Gourmez

Tags: bread pudding, caramel popcorn ice cream, chapel hill, chef ryan payne, dinner, duck confit, fancy, fried tomatoes, fritters, goat mashed potatoes, gourmet, hearty, lamb bolognese, olives, raviolo, review, scallops, short rib, southern season, tater tots, triangle, upscale, weathervane

Weathervane 201 S. Estes Drive University Mall, Chapel Hill Website $11–$38 Weathervane is the restaurant portion of Southern Season, and hearty southern dishes have a definite home here. Chef Ryan Payne has had a fantastic year, winning pretty much every local cooking contest he has entered. I had previously tried his food at Fire in
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