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Day: March 19, 2015

Testicles, Rattlesnake, and Yak

Denver’s Buckhorn Exchange is more than a restaurant. It’s a piece of history from the American West, founded in 1893. Bill Dutton, GM of the restaurant, says, “As great as our steak is, you can have steak as good or better in many other cities.” His point is not to denigrate his restaurant’s steaks, but to point out that you really should order Buckhorn’s exotic meats. Larry Olmsted, in his story about the Buckhorn for USA Today, agrees. He loves the place but it’s for the entire, mounted-animal-head, Buffalo-Bill-Cody-ate-here package that he is won over: “[W]ith exceptions like the prime rib and Rocky Mountain oysters, nothing was stunning (except the crazy good hot Dutch apple pie).” We’d agree, except to say we did not fall in love with the fried testicles. Every visitor to Denver should go to the Buckhorn at least once.

American Sardine Bar, Philadelphia PA

REVIEW

Our mini-cheesesteak tour of Philadelphia brought us to American Sardine Bar. Now we understood that the Sardine is by no means a cheesesteak joint – it’s an anti-hipster/hipster pub with a reputation for quirky quality bar food. Nonetheless we’d read that they served a mean cheesesteak done Pittsburgh-style with fries and slaw on the steak, and we felt like a beer, so here we were. And, of course, there was no cheesesteak on the blackboard menu. Continue reading

LAF in the A.M. March 19th, 2015

A Morning Menu of LAF-Style Food News and Stories to Begin Your Day

 HAPPY NATIONAL POULTRY DAY!

Cupcake Royale of Seattle Hosting Donut Pop-Up

Local Gallery Helps Restore Memorabilia Damaged in Nu-Way Fire in Macon

Bring Banana, Get 1/2-Price Banana Split at Woodside Farm in DE

Garden & Gun’s Ultimate Barbecue Bracket

Cupcake Royale of Seattle Hosting Donut Pop-Up

The restless and creative bakers at the Cupcake Royale located in the Ballard neighborhood of Seattle, Washington are opening a donut pop-up within Cupcake Royale. Every morning from 7 a.m. until the donuts are sold out Rodeo Donut will produce half a dozen flavors using their scratch-made brioche dough as the donut base. They intend this venture to be several large steps up from standard and even hoity-toity donut shops, sourcing ingredients for their glazes and toppings from area farms, just as Cupcake Royale does. Opening day is Saturday, March 28th. The address of the Ballard Cupcake Royale is 2052 NW Market Street.

Local Gallery Helps Restore Memorabilia Damaged in Nu-Way Fire in Macon

The fire that gutted the original Nu-Way Weiners of Macon, Georgia last Friday also damaged 100 years of memorabilia representing the restaurant’s, and a piece of Macon’s, history. Elizabeth Maffeo, and her gallery Ocmulgee Arts, is storing and helping to restore items damaged by water and smoke until Nu-Way rebuilds. See more in this video.

Bring Banana, Get 1/2-Price Banana Split at Woodside Farm in DE

Woodside Farm Creamery of Hockessin, Delaware (just outside of Wilmington) makes good ice cream. Really good ice cream. From the milk from their own cows. This ice cream is so good that we always get it straight, with no sauces or toppings or whipped cream to interfere with the enjoyment of ice cream perfection. We make one exception to that rule, however. That’s on opening day each spring, when Woodside Farm runs their BYOB special: bring your own banana and get half off a banana split! That happens this Saturday, March 21st. See you there – we’ll be the ones with a whole banana bunch for those sad banana-less souls.

Garden & Gun’s Ultimate Barbecue Bracket

Garden & Gun is running a bracket competition between 32 Southern barbecue joints, covering pretty much all the regional traditions in Southern Q. We didn’t do the detailed work to know for sure but it appears that every Southern state is represented in some way, which is as it should be. First round voting is going on now. Our pick for most evenly matched first round battle: Kreuz of Texas vs. Craig’s of Arkansas. Biggest mismatch: Lexington of North Carolina and Chaps Pit Beef of Baltimore. We like pit beef just fine but we don’t see it lasting long among these heavyweights.

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