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Day: October 3, 2014

What is Buffalo's beef on weck? Thinly slice rare roast beef, pile it in a roll spangled with coarse salt and caraway seeds, and add horseradish to taste. Don't forget to dip that roll in some of the beef juices!

Celebrate 100 Years of Buffalo’s Charlie the Butcher

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In 1914, the Charles E. Roesch and Company butcher shop was founded. (Mr. Roesch later found time to become the mayor of Buffalo.) The shop continued under the helm of his son Charles, and today his grandson Charles runs the business now known as Charlie the Butcher. All next week, Charlie the Butcher will be celebrating 100 years in business with all sorts of planned events. At the various locations around town there’ll be free birthday cake and certificates for a free beef on weck. We especially like Wednesday’s offer of a free beef on weck to anyone who shows up with something from 1914! Details of the festivities are on their Facebook page.

From the Biscuit Love Truck: hot chicken, local honey, house-made pickles, mustard. On a Biscuit Love biscuit. !!!

Biscuit Love Plus

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If all Ellen Margulies had touted in her Nashville Ledger story about where to take Nashville visitors was the Biscuit Love Truck, we’d have been grateful. How about fresh biscuits filled with Nashville hot chicken, local honey, and house-made pickles?! Or the Wash Park: Bear Creek Farm beef burger topped with pimento cheese and Benton’s bacon jam? Or the seasonal Nathaniel: a griddled biscuit topped with buttermilk cheese and local peaches and honey? Yes, get us to the Biscuit Love Truck! One other recommendation that stood out was Hattie B’s, a hot chicken purveyor that opened two years ago and has become hotter’n a whorehouse on nickel night. Continue reading

Free Tamales!

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When we posted the news on Monday about the opening of a new Tucson Tamale Company shop we hadn’t yet learned of the connected promotion: folks who dine at the grand opening of the new restaurant on October 18th will receive a free warm pumpkin dessert tamale. They’ll also offer 50% off the first six packages of frozen tamales to take home (tamales freeze and heat beautifully). If we lived locally we’d be there! Continue reading

Most of what we've sampled from the menu has been good but we still think the burger is the best dish in the house.

Trap Rock Restaurant & Brewery, Berkeley Heights NJ

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REVIEW

We visit brewpubs all over the country but rarely eat in them (and, therefore, rarely write about them). While we love craft brews the food in the pubs is fairly predictable: at best, hearty pub grub like burgers, sausages, fish and chips … Nothing wrong with any of that, mind you, and the execution is generally OK, if you stick to the less ambitious selections. But interesting food? Yawn. Trap Rock is one brewpub that smashes the mold.  Continue reading

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