Today’s post is a mouth-watering snapshot of the eats and treats in New Orleans, brought to you by my whacky and loveable coworker/homegirl Liz Emery! When Liz isn’t sales planning the crap out of our company, she has been experiencing all sorts of awesome foods around the country. Hailing from Chicago, she visited the land…
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A Carnival of Food, Friends, and More Food: Reviewing Straw
Some people fall punch drunk in love. Me, I fall in love potluck/brunch/ice cream/sunshine-drunk-style. If that doesn’t make sense, it’s not supposed to; the twenty-something life never does. To persevere through this ungainly young adult limbo, it is important to have one or two things with which to stay grounded and to serve as a…
Tap Those Tapas: Reviewing Michael Chiarello’s Coqueta
Coqueta (The word, translated): A pretty girl who flirts to gain admiration and attention from others. Coqueta (The restaurant, translated): A two-week-old tapas place on Pier 5 that flirts with being delicious but expensive and mediocre but creative to gain admiration and attention from the hungry people of San Francisco. One of my goals for…
SXSW, aka The Weekend I Woke Up In a New Bugatti
Okay, #notreallytho, but with the amount of times that song was played this past weekend, the entire city of Austin may as well have woken up in a shiny new sportscar because that’s how ballin’ South by Southwest was. To back it up a bit: I spent four days last week at SXSW Music in…
Perpetually Hungry: Reviewing State Bird Provisions
I get nervous a lot. Exploring new places, whether mentally, emotionally, or professionally, is terrifying, and it is fair to say that the past few weeks have been a whirlwind. From a citywide pillow fight (yes, this exists), New York, New York (take me back!), half-marathon training (is it June yet?), and skydiving (what the…