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I am an Idaho native.  Born and raised.  I’ve been able to do some limited traveling, but I’ve only really lived one other place.  In my early 20’s, I lived in Buffalo for about two years.  Even after that, I never did understand the Buffalo wing craze (and I still don’t), but there were a […]

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On more than one occasion, I’ve been accused of being too harsh toward a restaurant that had just opened.  I won’t bother to mention any names, but the fact is that you can still usually tell if there’s something worthwhile about a place even if they’re having a bad night.  Such is the case with […]

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In many parts of the world, it’s not uncommon for an eatery to specialize in one or two dishes, making them over and over again every day until they achieve a level of perfection that’s hard to imagine in a country that demands numerous and varied options everywhere they go (if you don’t believe me, […]

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Our last day in Seattle was Groundhog Day.  The movie, I mean.  Once again, I was the first out of bed.  Once again, everyone else was stirring by the time I emerged from the bathroom.  And once again, they wanted me to go across the street to Starbucks for a carbon copy of their orders from […]

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I arrived back at the hotel, planning to lie down for a little while and digest.  The International District is closer to it than the Space Needle, so I figured I had at least fifteen or twenty minutes to relax before the ladies arrived.  As I stepped off the elevator I could see right into our […]

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I don’t know exactly what time I woke up.  All I know is that everyone else was still asleep so, as the lone male in our merry band of traveling Idahoans, I jumped at the opportunity to be first to the shower.  Like everything else about the hotel, the shower worked ass-backwards, meaning that you had […]

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Eagle is a very interesting place to eat lately.  Unfortunately, my experiences with the restaurants that have been opening there recently has been mixed to negative, which is why I approached the grand opening weekend at Schnitzel Garten with fairly cautious optimism.  Opening a new restaurant is never easy and I expected some kinks, but this […]