Category: food (of all types)

• Dooking It Out For Molly Dooker Wine: Where Everyone’s a Winner

  Anybody out there like wine? Yeah, I thought so. Us, too. My sommelier-for-eternity XFE and I love wine and have really gotten into good wines over the last couple of years. We even invested in a wine fridge. So when Kimpton Hotels tweeted that they would be holding a winemaker’s dinner, XFE looked into it.…

  thepoelog

  September 17, 2011

  food (of all types), travel

  Australia, luck, Molly Dooker, Wineries

• Food Porn: Palladio at Barboursville Vineyards

  My opposite-sex-partner-for-life XFE and I don’t really celebrate an anniversary per se. We met, we started dating, but I never really remember exactly when, and I don’t know which date we should commemorate: when we met, or when we had our first date, or when we had our first kiss? I know we met in…

  thepoelog

  September 4, 2011

  food (of all types), Trips Down Memory Lane

  Fall Fun Day, Petunia, Wineries, XFE

• Hotel Crashing: Kimpton’s Ink48

  The first night I was in New York last weekend, I stayed with my lovely friend Emilia in her super cool and industrial loft in Williamsburg and hung out with the hipsters, drinking rose at the Brooklyn Winery and listening to some kind of blues-jazz mashup that might have even been “gypsy jazz.” The band…

  thepoelog

  July 29, 2011

  food (of all types), opinions (big book of), travel, trip report

  Bars, Hipsters, hotel crashing, Hotel Ink48, hotel review, Hotels, Kimpton, New York

• Food Porn: Alinea

  So on Friday night a big crew of us went to dinner at Alinea in Chicago. It’s a pretty swanky place. Definitely not your local Shake Shack. And it was good. In fact, the food was pretty great. Visually arresting presentations all the way, backed up by awesome flavors and textures, in a very hip,…

  thepoelog

  July 12, 2011

  food (of all types), travel

  Alinea, Captain Crunch, Chicago, Food Porn, fussiness, Michelin dining, rants