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During City Hall renovations one of Lexington's original barbecue pits was uncovered.

A Piece of Lexington NC Barbecue History Uncovered

March 17, 2015 / / 0 Comments

Here’s some exciting news for those with a passion for America’s culinary history. Workers renovating a part of Lexington (NC) City Hall were surprised to uncover a series of barbecue pits. Researchers have determined that the pits date to the early 1950s and belonged to Alton Beck, who ran Lexington’s first barbecue restaurant. The city has changed their renovation plans as they intend to preserve and highlight this important piece of city history. Lexington today is known across the country as one of the epicenters of great American barbecue. Read more on the uncovered barbecue pits here.

A perfect smoked fish platter at the incomparable Barney Greengrass - clockwise from far right, that's nova (salmon), whitefish, sable (black cod), and sturgeon

Yes, You Can Still Enjoy Jewish Cuisine in NYC!

March 16, 2015 / / 1 Comment

No, there is no longer a Jewish deli on every street corner, and yes, the descendants of the original Jewish immigrants have long since assimilated. Be that as it may, the cuisine of New York City still retains some of the identity of its early Jewish settlers, just as the cuisines of all its immigrants over the centuries have forever been imprinted upon the New York City palate. You can enjoy hand-carved deli at Katz’s and appetizing at its finest at Russ & Daughters, or feast on kosher steak at Le Marais or, believe it or not, kosher sushi at Butterfish. Read about these and other New York City Jewish restaurants here.

The great migas breakfast taco from San Antonio's Taco Taco, which made it past the first round in the breakfast taco bracket

San Antonio Breakfast Taco Madness Bracket

March 16, 2015 / / 0 Comments

If you know San Antonio, Texas well you may want to take part in the San Antonio Madness breakfast taco bracket assembled by mysanantonio.com. If you don’t know San Antonio well enough to participate, but plan to visit at some point, you might want to use the bracket as a way to scout out your future San Antonio breakfasts. They’ve already eliminated the first 16 entrants, and Round Two voting is taking place today.

Voodoo Coming to Austin

March 16, 2015 / / 0 Comments

At the end of 2014 Voodoo Doughnuts said they planned to open a store east of Denver. They wouldn’t narrow it down any further. Well, they recently announced their new Voodoo and, as many expected, they’ll be landing in Austin, Texas. The address will be 212 East Sixth Street. As for time frame, all we know is “sometime in 2015.” Austin, as in Keep Austin Weird, sounds like a perfect city for Voodoo.

Here's the view you'll get as you head towards your table at The Salt Lick of Driftwood, TX.

LAF in the A.M. March 16th, 2015

March 16, 2015 / / 0 Comments

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

HAPPY NATIONAL ARTICHOKE HEARTS DAY!

Is TX’s Salt Lick “The Best Damn Barbecue” in the Country?

Original Nu-Way of Macon GA Destroyed by Fire

Pepe’s of New Haven Finally Coming to Boston

“What Slow Smoked Pork Should Taste Like”

“What Slow Smoked Pork Should Taste Like”

March 16, 2015 / / 0 Comments

The Brick Pit of Mobile, Alabama begins by “loading up the massive smoker with 30 or so 8-9 pound Boston butts that will undergo some 25-30 hours of smoking at about 225 degrees.” Pitmaster Bill Armbrecht uses no seasoning at all, other than that which the smoke from pecan wood provides. The pork is hand-pulled and served with sauce on the side. That’s what David Holloway of al.com named The Best Thing I Ate Last Week. Read his writeup of The Brick Pit here.

Here's the view you'll get as you head towards your table at The Salt Lick of Driftwood, TX.

Is TX’s Salt Lick “The Best Damn Barbecue” in the Country?

March 16, 2015 / / 1 Comment

Owner Scott Roberts of Driftwood, Texas’ Salt Lick says his restaurant has the “best damn barbecue” in the country. Sure, he may be a tad biased but he’s not alone. The writer of this Business Insider story about The Salt Lick says it’s the place to go if you have time for just one restaurant in Austin. What started as the most rustic of Texas barbecue pits has grown over the decades into a very comfortable, almost upscale (as barbecue restaurants go) sit-down eatery. While we wouldn’t go so far as to call it Texas’ finest, we think any barbecue tour of Texas is incomplete without a visit to The Salt Lick.

Briny, salty, garlicky, juicy, oily, toasty, chewy... Pepe's New Haven, CT white clam pizza is the perfect food!

Pepe’s of New Haven Finally Coming to Boston

March 16, 2015 / / 0 Comments

In the on-again, off-again saga of Pepe’s Pizzeria‘s entry into the Boston market, the latest news is that Pepe’s (of New Haven, Connecticut, and America’s greatest pizzeria) really has found a home and really is coming. Last year, they had intended to set up shop in Brookline, until the occupant of the space they were moving into decided not to vacate. The location they found to replace it is in Chestnut Hill, in the mall, in the space formerly occupied by Papa Razzi. We relayed the news here last month but it sounded very tentative at the time. This news sounds more certain. Opening date is sometime this fall.

Mustard, onions, chili, slaw - the classic Nu-Way configuration

Original Nu-Way of Macon GA Destroyed by Fire

March 15, 2015 / / 1 Comment

Nu-Way, which has served chili- and slaw-topped weiners to Macon, Georgia residents for 99 years, was destroyed by fire Friday morning. The inside and roof were totally destroyed, but the shell and facade may be salvageable. Greek immigrant James Mallis started Nu-Way in 1916 and, since then, the weiner joint has expanded to nine Nu-Ways in and around Macon. The original is said to be the second oldest hot dog restaurant in the country. Nu-Way’s owners say they intend to rebuild.

One of the keys to a good Hot Brown is real roast turkey, not deli slices.

LAF in the A.M. March 15th, 2015

March 15, 2015 / / 0 Comments

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

 HAPPY NATIONAL PEARS HELENE DAY!

Top 20 Food Cities in the U.S.A.

Rich Farm Ice Cream of Oxford CT Opens Today!

A Taste of Tucson’s El Charro in Las Vegas

Is Al’s #1 Italian Beef on Taylor Better than All Others?

One of the keys to a good Hot Brown is real roast turkey, not deli slices.

Top 20 Food Cities in the U.S.A.

March 15, 2015 / / 0 Comments

The list is presented by Travel + Leisure, and chosen by their readers, as the best “food snob” cities but it doesn’t appear that any sort of pretentiousness is part of the equation. These seem more to be the 20 cities for people whose primary travel activity is eating, and that includes us. The list begins at #20 with Seattle. Louisville, at #16, gets recognition for the Hot Brown sandwich invented at The Brown Hotel. #15 New Orleans (#15! Wow!) topped the survey for fine dining, like Brennan’s, and sandwiches, such as the great ones served at Parkway Bakery. NYC is #10 and Cleveland (!) is seventh. Best food city in the U.S.? Houston!

Rich Farm's Snicker's ice cream

Rich Farm Ice Cream of Oxford CT Opens Today!

March 14, 2015 / / 0 Comments

For those of us who reside in the northeastern United States, it seemed as if it might never arrive but, finally, there are hopeful signs of spring’s imminent arrival! Here’s one of them: today, about a half hour after this post goes up, Rich Farm Ice Cream of Oxford, CT opens for the season. We love all kinds of ice cream in all kinds of settings but we have to say that our favorite setting of all is homemade ice cream eaten on the grounds of a dairy farm. And that’s exactly what you’ll find at Rich Farm.

Street taco trio as served at the MGM Grand's Hecho en Vegas

A Taste of Tucson’s El Charro in Las Vegas

March 14, 2015 / / 1 Comment

The Flores family has run Tucson’s legendary (since 1922) Sonoran restaurant El Charro since 1992. If you’ve ever enjoyed a chimichanga you can thank El Charro for inventing the dish (or so they say). The Flores family opened a restaurant in the MGM Grand in Las Vegas at the tail end of 2013. It’s called Hecho en Vegas and, while it is not a branch of El Charro, it features many of the Flores’ recipes, and certainly the Flores family’s way around the kitchen can’t help but inform their MGM Grand project. See more in the KVOA piece below:
KVOA | KVOA.com | Tucson, Arizona

The Cozy Corner has been one of Memphis' top barbecue establishments since it opened in 1977.

Memphis’ Cozy Corner New Temp Home Across Street

March 13, 2015 / / 0 Comments

When the great barbecue restaurant Cozy Corner of Memphis suffered a fire in January, it appeared that it would be many months before Memphians would again enjoy the products of their pit. Not so, Cozy Corner fans! Starting Tuesday, Cozy Corner’s pits will be across the street in the newly opened Encore Cafe, which specializes in things like smoothies and veggie wraps. Said Encore owner Monroe Ballard, “We’re helping a neighbor in need.” There’s some good karma. Stop by Encore for some great Memphis barbecue and be sure to thank Mr. Ballard with, say, a smoothie purchase. Goes great with Q!

The Key Lime Pie Co. of Key West uses real Key limes in their pies.

Best Key Lime Pie in the Florida Keys

March 13, 2015 / / 3 Comments

A more than decent Key lime pie can be made with regular supermarket limes, but if you want to experience the pie at its transcendent best, try one made with the very rare Key limes. The best place to do that is, naturally, in the Florida Keys. Here are six of the best Key lime pies to be found in the Keys, in all sorts of styles. Some are topped with meringue, some with whipped cream. At some of these places you can get a frozen wedge on a stick dipped in a chocolate shell and, at one, you can have your pie deep-fried. Us, we’ll stick to the straight wedge, unfried and unfrozen.

The Jewbano, from the Comfort Diner on New York's Lower East Side

The Jewbano Has Arrived!

March 13, 2015 / / 0 Comments

“I was so nervous about the name that I emailed my rabbi.” That’s Ira Freehof, owner of the newly opened Comfort Diner on New York’s Lower East Side, speaking about his Jewish/Cuban mashup. Said the rabbi, “It’s in good humor — it’s OK.” The Jewbano starts with a roll from nearby Kossar’s Bialys. The roll is stuffed with pastrami from Katz’s around the corner, pickles from The Pickle Guys up the street, roast turkey, Swiss cheese, and deli mustard. Then it’s grilled in a press like a regular Cubano. Now that sounds like good eating! Read more about Comfort Diner in this Jewish Daily Forward story.

That's a Cream of Nectar and pineapple Sno-Bliz at Hansen's of New Orleans. You can usually expect to wait in a line to get yours.

New Orleans Restaurants Worth Waiting in Line For

March 13, 2015 / / 0 Comments

For which of New Orleans’ many great restaurants would you wait in line? The New Orleans Times Picayune asked its readers that question, and ten places passed the 50% threshold. Most waitable? 70% of respondents said they’d be willing to wait for a table at Galatoire’s, which is pretty much the only way you’ll eat there unless you want to reserve an upstairs table. Jacques-Imo’s came in second at 68%, and Hansen’s Sno-Bliz, where the wait is expected but relatively brief, came in third, as 67% said they’d get in line for a syrup-soaked Sno-Bliz.

Dining Across Door County WI

March 12, 2015 / / 0 Comments

Door County, that little pinkie of Wisconsin that juts out to separate Green Bay from Lake Michigan, is known as the Cape Cod of the Midwest. It’s a popular tourist destination with a distinct Scandinavian bent, and some unique dining opportunities. You can find fresh cherries growing throughout the region, dine on Swedish pancakes with lingonberries at a restaurant with goats grazing on the sodded roof, or have dinner at one of the many Wisconsin supper clubs. One meal you should not miss is one of the area fish boils! Read more about dining in Door County here.

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