Category: restaurants

• Luigi’s

  July 25, 2014

  festivals, food & drink, Madison Restaurant Week, play, restaurants

  We were pleasantly surprised by our fourth pick for Restaurant Week.  I figured Luigi’s pizzeria was pretty much exactly what it looked like: a strip mall pizza place. Happily, it’s much better than that. The walnut red pepper dip that B ordered for an appetizer was so scrummy that we ate every little bit of… Read.

• The Bayou

  July 22, 2014

  festivals, food & drink, Madison Restaurant Week, play, restaurants

  The day was still eighty degrees and damp as a dishrag when we got home last night. I mowed the lawn anyway, something I had planned to do tonight but that was before I knew I was going to eat a dinner so spicy that I would need to walk it off or risk lying… Read.

• what’s better?

  June 11, 2014

  food & drink, play, restaurants

  “I want pizza,” My Darling B said to me when we ran into each other in the hall yesterday.  I didn’t have any on me at the time, so she had to wait until I took her to Roman Candle after work, where we ordered a large pie with four kinds of meat, including some… Read.

• tasters

  May 6, 2014

  beer, festivals, food & drink, Madison Craft Beer Week, play, restaurants

  I only had ten beers, honest! And I feel just fine! We stopped by Harmony Bar after work for a free beer tasting they were hosting as part of craft beer week. I tried six or eight beers (it may have been as many as ten, but I don’t want to sound like I’m bragging)… Read.

• Craft Beer Week

  May 3, 2014

  beer, festivals, food & drink, Madison Craft Beer Week, play, restaurants

  It’s Madison Craft Beer Week! We stopped at Next Door Brewing after work to get something to eat and OH MY GOODNESS I’VE NEVER SEEN IT SO BUSY! The place was wall-to-wall beer-drinking and conversating customers! We had to wait at the bar for a table, but only for fifteen minutes or so and, as… Read.

• hospitality

  February 23, 2014

  beer, food & drink, play, restaurants

  When I was a boy, our family used to pile into the car about once a month and make the two-hour drive from our home in central Wisconsin to visit my father’s parents in Door County where, mere minutes after we got out of the car and were welcomed at the door, my grandmother would… Read.

• Sardine

  January 24, 2014

  festivals, food & drink, Madison Restaurant Week, restaurants

  I was up about half the night after I made the mistake of popping open a bottle of my most recent homebrew. The mistake was that I had just come home from Sardine, one of our favorite restaurants, where my sufficiency had already been serensified so my belly really didn’t need all that beer. On… Read.

• molten chocolate cake

  January 21, 2014

  festivals, food & drink, Madison Restaurant Week, play, restaurants

  It was cold enough to freeze my beard to my face as we made our way across Campus Drive to Steenbock’s on Orchard, where we had a dinner reservation this evening, our third night out during Madison Restaurant Week. Everything that was on the menu sounded really good so it took us forever to decide… Read.

• Plate and Barrel

  January 21, 2014

  festivals, food & drink, Madison Restaurant Week, play, restaurants

  Finding places like Plate & Barrel, in Sun Prairie, is why we like going out for Madison Restaurant Week so much. The only trouble with finding yet another place that has good food and great service is finding the time to visit again. But I’m pretty sure we’ll go back. Plate & Barrel serves tapas-style… Read.

• setting up shop

  January 20, 2014

  entertainment, festivals, food & drink, hobby, LoCo Rwy, Madison Restaurant Week, play, restaurants

  What I did with my Sunday: Well, first I made a big, steaming pot o’ joe, same as I always do. Always. The day doesn’t start without a pot o’ joe. I don’t know if you’ve noticed that. If you have, and you’ve been wondering why your day didn’t start as early as every other… Read.