Mark seems to have gotten a case of food poisoning. We went to a place called Villa-O, kind of organic Italian. It was a little noisy, but we liked it. We ate different entrees – I had scallops with a fennel crust served on top of basil vinaigrette with arugula & tomatoes & a few [...]
Our last night in D.C., Sunday, after all those receptions, we had what I thought was the best dinner of the trip, at a place called Founding Farmers. The menu looked good, good food, not too pretentious. When the waiter gave us his spiel, we got a little worried – he seemed to have a [...]
Last night we had dinner at a place called PS7. The guys – Mark & his son Ethan – liked it a lot, but I thought it was the kind of menu where all the dishes had too many ingredients, and none of the food looked like what it started off as. Like the bread [...]
I know, I know, not so exciting, millions of people’s gots kids on YouTube …. But John got a new camera, and shot this vid of a building that burned down in Milwaukee. It was a pretty popular pizza place, plus the fire blocked off a major road in the city for a few days, [...]
On Saturday night we took a break from conferencing/touristing and went over to Cambridge to see a Madison ex-pat who’s come home to Boston to live with her aging mom. We started wandering around Harvard Square and ended up at a place called Harvest, that our local guide described as really good food but kind [...]
