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Two and a half years.  That’s how long it took me to make it to Luciano’s.  Why?  Because nobody wanted to freaking go with me.  Every time I’d mention it to someone when trying to make dinner plans, it was invariably rejected because either the prices were higher than everyone else wanted to pay, or […]

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Recently we celebrated my mother’s 60th birthday.  Mama wanted steak, and I decided she was gonna get it.  The question: where?  The last time I tried to take her out for a steak, the place literally served her a slab of raw meat.  She isn’t fond of “stuffy” places, plus we had kids with us, […]

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I spent the first couple of years of the new millennium living in Upstate New York.  Unfortunately, I was a much different person then, especially in regards to food.  I was surrounded by options I’d never had before, and as a rule I ignored them while my then-girlfriend and I made the rounds of various […]

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 After we checked out of the hotel the following morning, it was time to once again feed my constant dim sum craving.  After good but still somewhat lacking experiences in Seattle earlier this year and at a different place in Portland last year, I finally returned to my first love.  The actual name of the joint is Wong’s King […]

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Welcome to the Pacific NorthwestAfter a satisfying lunch (pulled pork and side dishes aside), we went and got checked into the hotel, made a quick trip to my favorite Safeway (and a not-so-quick trip to the Fred Meyer down the street due to its horrible parking lot) for some essentials, then back to the hotel again to enjoy not being […]

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A while back I found out that The Kids in the Hall were embarking on their first tour since 2008.  I initially wavered back and forth about whether to go, but I still had enough money after returning from the Oregon Coast in March to pull it off.  It was going to be my first […]

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Okay, I’ve been sitting on this one for a while because…well, because I just didn’t feel motivated to do it.  But I’m trying to weed through my backlog of unfinished reviews, and I’ve had to delete so many because it’s been so long that I just didn’t remember them that well.  I just want to […]

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One of the things you have to get used to living in a landlocked area is that there’s generally not a truly superb seafood restaurant.  Oh, you can find fish and chips and other fried stuff.  Plenty of salmon to go around, too.  Lots of stuff drowning in sauces.  Crab cakes.  Shellfish.  But nothing like […]

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So, I’ve been sitting on this one for several months now, in hopes that I would have a chance to return and try some more things (and honestly, get some better pictures).  It’s almost happened a couple of times but just didn’t pan out.  Maybe writing about the place will galvanize me into dragging my […]