Tag: wine
member name: Dave Sandborg
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January 27, 2008 09:09 PM EST --
This past summer, we got wind of a restaurant north of Pittsburgh set in a bookstore, known as the Bookworks Café. When the book store closes, they set up tables among the shelves and serve food . . .
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October 03, 2009 03:57 PM EDT --
I can be perfectly happy with a modest meal but some occasions call for something more elaborate. On one such occasion this past year Janna and I decided to try Eleven, one of Pittsburgh's . . .
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August 16, 2006 11:30 PM EDT --
I have already written several reviews in which I espouse the joys of restaurants that offer a variety of small dishes, to be ordered in combination. For that reason, I was intrigued when I found out . . .
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December 01, 2009 08:07 PM EST --
This is the second post in an ongoing series about our 2009 trip to Spain, mostly to ride roller coasters. The first post is here .
I have a rather idiosyncratic way of numbering the days I'm . . .
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October 08, 2009 08:51 PM EDT --
We have many favorite restaurants around Pittsburgh. If I had unlimited time and money I'd visit them all more often than we do. But given that we have to make choices, we often focus on a . . .
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October 28, 2009 09:55 PM EDT --
Plum
Though a lot of new restaurants have opened in our area lately, some may be having difficulty in staying afloat. Less than a year after it opened, Richard Chen-- which I reviewed previously . . .
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November 20, 2006 09:22 PM EST --
Thai food is obviously one of my favorite cuisines. I've written reviews about a couple of Thai restaurants in the Pittsburgh area already. In one of them I mentioned another Thai restaurant, Typhoon, . . .
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April 15, 2007 09:46 PM EDT --
Were it not for Janna's coworker, there are many restaurants in the Pittsburgh area that we would likely never have tried. A few months ago we learned from her of the Aspinwall Grill, which . . .
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May 15, 2007 09:29 PM EDT --
I've mentioned how we've taken the advice of a coworker of Janna several times to find new places to eat around Pittsburgh. So far she's not led us wrong. We were in the mood . . .
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July 23, 2008 07:23 PM EDT --
I've written about several restaurants owned by the Pittsburgh Big Burrito consortium, but haven't yet gotten to Casbah, the one closest to us. This is a nice casual dining restaurant on . . .
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May 04, 2009 11:04 PM EDT --
In spite of these hard economic times, there have been many new restaurants opening in and around my neighborhood. I feel privileged whenever a new one opens. I suppose it was inevitable that . . .
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June 21, 2009 10:10 PM EDT --
Pittsburgh seems to be experiencing a kind of food renaissance, in spite of the hard economic times. I suppose there's a chance that innovative and interesting Pittsburgh restaurants have always . . .
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February 26, 2007 09:27 PM EST --
There is a small restaurant in our Pittsburgh neighborhood called Café Zinho. Though it's within a short walk for us, we only visit it rarely. Perhaps this is because it's a very . . .
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August 06, 2008 09:52 PM EDT --
I have not been a big fan of American-Italian food, at least since I had genuine Italian food in Italy itself. It seems that too many "Italian" restaurants serve pasta with uncreative . . .
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August 04, 2006 08:25 PM EDT --
I like wineries. If it were just a matter of their creating a beverage I enjoy, I could always just buy bottles of wine at the store. But wineries are not just places where wine is made. They're also . . .
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April 02, 2009 08:57 PM EDT --
I feel very privileged to live in my neighborhood. One of its best features is the number of good restaurants in easy reach, with more seeming to sprout up all the time. I hope that they will . . .
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December 15, 2005 12:15 AM EST --
I enjoy wine and beer tasting. Though my palate is not very sensitive, I simply like the taste. In fact, these days I really enjoy the taste of these drinks at least as much as the alcoholic effects. I . . .
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November 29, 2006 07:56 PM EST --
(Note, this post was written a couple of years ago. Red Room has gone through some changes lately; I'm not sure if their menu is the same. We will return, and I'll write a new post . . .
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June 07, 2006 10:54 PM EDT --
Tapas is not a dining style I was familiar with even a year ago. However one warm autumn Sunday afternoon while exploring a nearby neighborhood last year, Janna and I stumbled upon a restaurant that offered . . .
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May 09, 2006 02:32 PM EDT --
One of my favorite activities is eating out. One wouldn't expect Pittsburgh, probably best known for extremely rare steaks or sandwiches that come with fries and cole slaw directly between the bread, . . .
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