This story is part of a cross-post between Indefinite Articles and The Eaten Path.
You can read James Boo’s “Preemptive Strike” on Chili’s here.
For all the amazing food we have in the Bay Area, the little holes-in-the-wall and the grandiose temples to flavor, every once in a while there’s something appealing about the strip mall meal. […]
The first part of this cross-post can be read here.
In this day and age, it is almost a crime to admit to liking good, greasy food. It is especially fitting in SoCal that the salad—throughout most of history a side dish or appetizer—has taken the place of the baptism: that which serves to wash us […]
In the wake of America’s love-hate relationship with the petrol pump, one fictional character has the intrepid spirit to take the steps of leadership that pandering politicians dare not consider. On Thursday, June 26, Jack, CEO of west coast fast food chain Jack in the Box, staged the restaurant’s first ever Two Free Tacos Day. […]
I’ve been told that carpeting patterns in casinos are meant to be disorienting. Not only do the elaborately hideous murals lining the floors of Las Vegas make it harder to notice the stains of drinks tipped past, they guide the attention of casino guests away from any kind of aesthetic ruminations and straight to the […]
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My first exposure to the barbecued rib was delivered in the final forty seconds of every showing of The Flintstones that I watched as a kid. The closing sequence plays as follows: Having just watched a thirty-minute episode of his own life at the local drive-in, Fred Flintstone immediately pedals his granite rolling pin-mobile to […]
While perusing Yelp’s page for M & M Soul Food, I stumbled upon the review that might render this entire entry unnecessary.
“M and M’s is the truth.” Since I was first introduced to this Los Angeles chain of soul food restaurants by my comrade Zakhar, I’ve held these words to be self-evident. For the […]
When I moved back to my hometown of Diamond Bar in January of 2007, I had just completed the six most adventurous months of my life. My plan was to loll around for a few months, then begin the next stage of adventure in Oakland, CA. $15,000 in debt and a handsome pile of doubt, […]
In the past two decades, Williamsburg has built a conflicted reputation: With the onset of gentrification, what had been a patchwork of ethnic enclaves was infiltrated by a downwardly-mobile vanguard of artists and hangers-on. Renovations were made, storefronts opened, rent prices began to climb, and a new dynamic began to take hold in this gritty […]
A widower doesn’t ask much of the world. He does, however, have a lot of questions. My biggest question, of course, is: What does a widower do with his free time? I never realized what a depressingly lonely activity watching cable news every night is until I started doing it by myself. Beyond the founding […]