Restaurant Reviews

I did not know that maple butter and cheddar cheese would taste good together, but the folks at Smaaken Waffle Sandwiches in Portland, Oregon sure did. Their creative menu brings together all kinds of unexpected ingredients, and cozies them up inside a folded over Dutch-style waffle with great success. On a recent trip to the […]

I have a new favorite Bellingham restaurant. Nothing will ever beat out Pepper Sisters for dinner, but my heart now belongs to Big Love Juice for breakfast and lunch. They’ve been open just 6 weeks and I’ve already been 3 times. In the last 10 days.

Want to improve your odds of success for eating well? Find a place that serves only healthy food and you can’t go wrong. Take your pick of menu items. Anything your heart desires is fair game, and actually good for you. No guilt, no gluttony, no regret. Just one more meal on the books where

Mood lighting is nice, especially in a restaurant. Everything feels romantic, everybody looks their soft blurry-edged best, and the food appears to be starring in a film noir movie. But man it makes life difficult for food bloggers. We eat somewhere yummy, we try to capture the creatively crafted dishes with our cameras so we

For some reason it took me 7 months after starting this blog to get around to writing a post about my favorite local dinner spot. And now it’s taken me 6 years to finally write a post about my favorite local breakfast spot. I understand this is why real bloggers have editorial calendars. They actually