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Of Coning & Window Rage: Drive Thru Confidential

by · November 9th, 2011 · No Comments

The Fast Food Drive Thru has been servicing the motorized masses since 1948. Cornering that lucrative niche of hunger panged folks, too lazy to exit the vehicle, too impatient to stand in line or who just want to be alone with their Burrito, on the freeway, doing 70 mph with a Fries Supreme balancing on [...]

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Tags: Burgers · Comedy · Fast Food · Restaurants

Eating Styles: Eating Out Edition!

by · September 8th, 2011 · 3 Comments

  “I don’t feel like cooking tonight.” “Me neither.”

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Worst Food Trends

by · July 8th, 2011 · 4 Comments

I recently came across one of Yahoo’s properties called Shine (another portal for women – and couldn’t the world use one more of those) because of an article about the 10 worst food trends in a restaurant near you.  Food critic Jonathan Gold made the list, and I agree with many. #1: “Changes and Modifications [...]

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Shake Shack DC

by · May 17th, 2011 · 10 Comments

Last night, I attended the pre-opening party for the new Shake Shack location in Washington, DC.  This marks the 11th Shake Shack location in the United States, and 13th worldwide. The new DC outpost takes the space of the old Fuddruckers location in Dupont Circle and will soon be joined by a second DC location [...]

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Tags: Burgers · Fast Food · Restaurants

Olive Garden Overserves and Underperforms

by · April 14th, 2011 · 4 Comments

When you’re here, you’re family – especially if that family is full of boozehounds.  It seems that on March 31, a Florida Olive Garden mistakenly gave a toddler a sippy cup full of sangria instead of the orange juice that was ordered.  According to an AP report from today: Jill VanHeest says she took her [...]

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Tags: Booze · News · Restaurants

Restaurant Critic Outed: Fair Or Foul?

by · January 7th, 2011 · 9 Comments

One story over the holidays that caught my attention took place a couple days before Christmas in LA.  Apparently, an owner of the restaurant Red Medicine came up to the noted restaurant critic for the LA Times (S. Irene Virbila) while she was waiting for a table, took her picture, and posted it on the [...]

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La Jugueteria: “There’s Babies in the Rafters!”

by · November 8th, 2010 · 1 Comment

Continuing my exploration of the food in Bogota, Colombia led us to a unique restaurant called La Jugueteria. After several days of lots and lots of street food, my final night in Bogota we opted to eat at a “nice” restaurant and drop the kind of cash you wouldn’t normally come close to spending on [...]

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Tags: On the Road · Restaurants · Reviews

So Good on the Road: Red Eye

by · September 17th, 2010 · No Comments

After my Pop Tart’s World experience, I knew I had to go find something even crazier to eat while in NYC. This led me to Long Island City in Queens, where I met my best friend from college for a tasty lunch at El Ay Si (get it? like LIC for Long Island City?).  He [...]

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Tags: Bacon · On the Road · Restaurants

So Good is Heading to Vegas….

by · March 24th, 2010 · 9 Comments

..on Thursday.  And what happens there will definitely be staying there. Except for where I eat of course, which I can share with my So Good peeps.  So my question, So Good readers, is where should I eat? Any recommendations for restaurants/places I need to hit up?

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Yelp! Rating Systems and You

by · January 13th, 2010 · 2 Comments

I stumbled across Yelp several years ago when looking up a restaurant’s address.  It seemed interesting enough; a cloying aggregator that collects people’s instant opinions to form an overall one-four star rating system.  However, like most things on the internet, reading the actual reviews by customers made me wonder how reliable this service actually is. [...]

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Tags: Pizza · Restaurants · Reviews · Web Sites