Chicago is Heaven on Earth for people who love dated signage, and quite possibly Hell in neon for those who don’t. Every self-respecting bar in Chicago seems to be the victim of some kind of small business moratorium on renovation, disallowed from admitting that America made it through the ’70s and convinced that the people [...]
“You eat with your eyes first.” Fair enough. Here’s another one: “What game was the ref watching?” I’ll accept pride in plating, but when I order a tray of carne asada fries, a fistful of fried dumplings, or a Jack-in-the-Box taco, I calibrate my visual appetite accordingly. The same rule applies when I’m in line [...]
As a newly minted resident of Park Slope, I’ve been asked more than a couple times how I plan to enjoy the alleged boredom of my gentrified milieu. Is there really good food in yuppie land? Can I have a good time without being among the hip, young and tasteful? Do I miss the excitement [...]
This is the finale of a series on Mexican food in San Diego. Zach will complete his correspondence from S.D. on his regular, biweekly schedule before leaving for San Francisco, where he will continue to write and edit for The Eaten Path. The very idea of me coming up with a top ten list of [...]
If you’ve done any kind of soul food searching in the borough of Manhattan, you know – or at least have been ordered to accept – that the story of New York City’s best fried chicken begins with Charles Gabriel. I became one of the many who give this kind of order on December 10, [...]
“You’re not very impressive.” A pause punctuated this matter of fact as Joon stumbled into the rest of his thought. “…But you’re good just to have around, you know?” I don’t know if I knew or if I’ve ever really known, but being the kind of guy who tends to practice honesty to a fault [...]
By the time we stopped to sit down, the hazy weekday afternoon had already begun to falter. The sun was still beaming down on Budapest, but midday was well done. We’d been walking through and around Városliget, Budapest’s central city park, for almost two hours. The directions we’d been given to the biergarten of our [...]
On February 1, 2009, my roommate and I entered a contest. On April 16, 2009, we were declared winners. He received two round trip tickets to Budapest. I received a bag of women’s beauty products. The products were testers. On June 7, 2009, haggard, hungry, and hopelessly jet lagged, we took a seat in an [...]
Ask enough questions about pizza in New York, and sooner or later you’re bound to find yourself at a table in Midwood, Brooklyn. Seated in a corner that might as well be an Atlantic Ocean’s length from Greenwich, you float your eyes across years of newspaper scraps and magazine covers that blanket the walls with [...]
To the western traveler, India is in general a miraculous world of everyday eating. The most upscale restaurants (all three of them) I visited when staying in the region’s capital of Lucknow charged me no more than $10 and change for a feast of sumptuous north Indian cuisine. Much like Boykji, however, what my taste [...]
