Where You Should Be Drinking in LA: Big Bar We spent extended time in California over the holidays for a few reasons: to enjoy as much warm weather as possible during our parental leave, to introduce our West Coast friends and family to our new baby,...
Where to Drink in LA: Church Key While on our extended holiday in California this year, we decided to do a bit of reconnaissance on Los Angeles neighborhoods. One of us is from Greater LA, but only if you take the 'greater' part at its most...
Where to Drink in Columbia, SC: Bourbon A recent work trip took me to Columbia, SC. When I'm away from the comforts of home, a key question is, 'Where will I unwind at the end of the day?' I had some hope that the answer would...
Where You Should Be Drinking in Boston: Bronwyn After a two year absence, we returned to our home in Union Square noticing some things we'd overlooked the first time around. For instance, we noticed just how fast and recklessly cars whip around the corner in front...
Where to Drink on the PCH: Pebble Beach When we spent the first week and a half of January on a driving tour of California, introducing our new child to some of our favorite people and places, our family kindly lent us one of their cars...
Where You Should Be Drinking in the Bay Area: Tamarine Early January was a whistle stop tour of California as we introduced our baby girl Nora to our family, to some of our favorite places, and to our Golden State friends. One day, on our way...
The Return to Acqua al 2 One of us was raised in California; the other in Chicago. Because of this, while in most regards our tastes are quite similar, we have very different comfort foods. For the Californian, it's sushi, smoothies, and juice; for the Chicagoan,...
Where You Should Be Drinking: Kirkland Tap & Trotter Halfway between our Union Square condo and Harvard Yard, the perfect distance for an evening stroll, is Kirkland Tap & Trotter, the second restaurant by Tony Maws, chef of the famed Craigie on Main. Tap & Trotter...
Eatbar Shows Us Whiskey's Bright Side Ever since our first entirely delightful visit for apps and drinks shortly after Eatbar opened, every time we pass by--which is all the time since it's right around the corner--we say, 'We should go back there to try their burger...
Where You Should Be Drinking in Boston: Ward 8 Everything we know about Boston's West End, we owe to Dennis Lehane. Apparently, in the 19th and the first half of the 20th century, the West End was the second stop on an immigrants' path to assimilation...