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• 01.19.09
  VALENCIA ON FOOD NETWORK: THE LBC FORGETS TO SET HIS TIVO Uncategorized | (0)

  ABOVE: Chef and co-owner Michael Young employs a little Don Julio Blanco while cooking for the lunch rush at Valencia Luncheria in Norwalk. VALENCIA LUNCHERIA: 172 MAIN ST., NORWALK 1/13/2009 Last night, Guy Fieri's Food Network show Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives featured Valencia Luncheria in Norwalk. Yeah, I know. Too late. I knew this was coming up after they filmed at the Main Street eatery in October, but since there is essentially zero information on the show's website, I sort of lost track of the air date. For some reason I thought it was to air on the 20th. Perhaps I'm confusing the inauguration of our ...
• 01.19.09
  SONO UPDATE: LUSHE’S SONO DINER Uncategorized | (0)

  1/13/2009 ANOTHER QUICK UPDATE: Owing to the downturn in the economy, Lushe Gjuraj, the owner of several area restaurants is retooling and converting Habana Restaurant and Bar in SoNo into an 'upscale diner' to open in the next week. Lushe's SoNo Diner, at 70 N. Main St., will open as early as Thursday, pending city inspections. The diner with join other the other Gjuraj family of restaurants; Spazzio, Quattro Regali and Parkway Diner in Stamford and Ocean Drive also in South Norwalk. This end of SoNo has seen other changes as of late, including a new location for O'Neills Pub and Restaurant and ...
• 01.19.09
  WINGS ON SUMMER Uncategorized | (0)

  1/13/2009 BlogStamford is reporting a Buffalo Wild Wings chain restaurant will move into a vacant space on lower Summer Street. Um, great, yet another sports bar-ish joint. –CP
• 01.19.09
  TELEVISION: TAIBE OF NAPA & CO. ON MARTHA’S SHOW Uncategorized | (0)

  Chef Bill Taibe of Napa & Co. 1/13/2009 – UPDATE A QUICK HEADS UP: Chef Bill Taibe, of Stamford's Napa & Co., will make an appearance today, Jan. 13, on The Martha Stewart Show at 11 a.m. on WNBC-TV. Taibe places special importance on local ingredients at his restaurant, "I want to know where the food is coming from, that's what I care about," Taibe said. "Caloric intake, that's for you and your doctor." Staying true to this philosophy, Taibe will prepare striped bass on the live show, noting that the fish is popular among sport fishermen in the Long Island Sound. Personally, I don't ...
• 01.19.09
  KELLEY AND PING: BUDGET SOHO Uncategorized | (0)

  Noodle soup with duck broth and meat, egg noodles, wontons and vegetables at Kelley and Ping, SoHo. $10.50. 1/11/2009 KELLEY AND PING: 127 GREENE ST., NEW YORK CITY While running around the city with a friend-of-a-friend from LA, we and ducked into Kelley and Ping in SoHo for lunch. I'd probably stop by more often if I could remember where – exactly – it is. Helpfully though, they now have better, if temporary, signage. In any case, it's well worth seeking out with its assortment of delicious and fresh noodle soups, wraps and salads at reasonable prices. Though I've been on something of a mission ...
• 01.11.09
  THE LBC ON ASSIGNMENT: CAPITOL HILL Uncategorized | (0)

  ABOVE: Trust me, this tastes way better than it looks. GOOD STUFF EATERY: 303 PENNSYLVANIA AVE. SE, WASHINGTON D.C. 1/06/2009 It's fairly apparent that I've never met a cheeseburger I didn't like, but today with the Colletti's Smokehouse burger from Good Stuff Eatery in D.C., I can honestly say I've never been happier to lay eyes such a sandwich. After a grueling day that started by photographing newly-minted Congressman Jim Himes jogging on the National Mall at 7:45 a.m. and ended many hours later after sitting through roll call votes, race walking the seemingly endless hallways and tunnels of Congress just generally trying to ...
• 01.11.09
  ¡HOLY CABRITO! GOAT TACO ALERT Uncategorized | (0)

  Tacos de barbacoa de cabrito at Casa Villa, Stamford. CASA VILLA: 182 WEST MAIN ST, STAMFORD 1/04/2008 I've never been accused of being a glass-half-full kind of guy. But, after realizing I was an hour early for the Three Kings Day event at the Yerwood Center in Stamford, I had a clear vision of this situation's silver lining. It was obvious what I had to do next: find me some goat. So, after a few obligatory conversations, meeting with the organizers and checking in with a couple of community contacts, I set off down the hill for tacos. About a month ago, a friend alerted me to ...
• 01.02.09
  THE GREAT FRENCH FRY ROLLBACK OF OUGHT-NINE Uncategorized | (0)

  1/2/2009 While I am not generally one for new year's resolutions, I will say this: in 2009 I will make an effort to control my famously substantial appetite for French fries. Let me make one thing clear, I'm not vowing to avoid fries altogether this year. I am just proposing to give up the baskets of deep-fried mediocrity I find myself frequently consuming. Banished will be the soggy fast food fries, the sub-par pub fries and the rest of the previously frozen potato products that are endemic to our nation's bars and restaurants. These are a black mark on the glorious fried potato ...
• 01.02.09
  ON THE ROAD WITH THE LBC: WINE COUNTRY EXCURSION Uncategorized | (0)

  The View from Artesa Vineyards & Winery, Napa. 12/28/2008 ARTESA VINEYARDS & WINERY: 1345 HENRY ROAD, NAPA, CALIF. Tucked out of the way in the Carneros Valley, on the Napa-Sonoma county line, Artesa Vineyards & Winery has become something of a family favorite. After consuming a great deal of Artesa's 2001 Merlot during Christmas at the familial homestead in nearby Vallejo, it was decided we should make the trip to the winery over the weekend. Being only 15-miles from home, relatively free of the crowds associated with Napa wine tasting and possessing absolutely stunning sweeping vistas of three Bay Area counties, Artesa is ideal for ...
• 01.02.09
  ON THE ROAD WITH THE LBC: THE FERRY BUILDING Uncategorized | (0)

  The Ferry Building, San Francisco. [If you thought Metro-North's M2 trains were old, check out the renovated 1948 MUNI streetcar running on the F-Line.] 12/28/2008 FERRY BUILDING MARKETPLACE: THE EMBARCADERO, SAN FRANCISCO It wasn't until after I was walking away from the legendary Acme Bread Company with three sourdough rounds that I realized my error: I really meant to order a loaf of pain au levain, the same bread I read so much about in Jeffrey Steingarten's inspiring book "The Man Who Ate Everything." Perhaps it was performance anxiety as the pressure of knowing there were twenty or thirty hungry people behind me in ...

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