A meal at Relish is something to relish Lemon-braised artichoke with roasted garlic herb butter. Venison carpaccio with Humboldt Fog blue cheese, organic olive oil and black pepper....
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By Jason Sheehan
Published: October 09, 2008
Il Posto proves worth the wait My notes from my most recent meal at Il Posto are almost indecipherable — hasty scrawls on the back of an envelope I'd found in my car, on...
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By Jason Sheehan
Published: August 14, 2008
D Bar Desserts The first time I saw Keegan Gerhard, it was on TV. That was also the second place I saw him. And the tenth, fiftieth and hundredth.
Given...
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By Jason Sheehan
Published: July 31, 2008
Hamburger Mary's One of the most awesome things about this job is that I never have to worry about who's buying the cheeseburgers. I just have to worry about...
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By Jason Sheehan
Published: July 24, 2008
Pho 99 My dentist hits the button and slowly brings the chair back to vertical.
"All right," he says. "We're done. How ya doing?"
I nod, say something...
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By Jason Sheehan
Published: July 17, 2008
Mona's I'd been having such a good day.
A full night's sleep and then some — rare for me, insomniac that I am. Waking late, bumming around the...
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By Jason Sheehan
Published: July 10, 2008
Santa Fe Tequila Company Albuquerque, New Mexico, about eight years ago...
The rush started around five. There was never any way to gauge it — nothing scientific,...
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By Jason Sheehan
Published: July 03, 2008
Second Home Colorado is absolutely beautiful in spring. Unlike the East Coast — where spring will come on hot and wet and odorous, the land itself like...
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By Jason Sheehan
Published: June 26, 2008
Wine Experience Cafe I started worrying about Wine Experience Cafe the moment I stepped inside. The place was empty, completely deserted on a day and at an hour when...
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By Jason Sheehan
Published: June 19, 2008
Coleman's Soul Food When I was a young man of nineteen, maybe twenty, I spent three weeks living in a motel in Detroit. The particulars of how I found myself in such...
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By Jason Sheehan
Published: June 12, 2008
Chicago With every meal we eat, we betray ourselves. Our politics and our personal history, our deepest longings, our most private loves and hates...
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By Jason Sheehan
Published: June 05, 2008
Bonos Pit Bar-B-Q I can be bought with an easy smile and a pint of sweet tea. When someone has a grill going in my neighborhood, I will sometimes sit out on my...
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By Jason Sheehan
Published: May 29, 2008
Sushi Katsuya I watch the guy behind the counter work the rice, his hands moving with the formality and grace of a Balinese dancer's, through a series of...
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By Jason Sheehan
Published: May 22, 2008
Gemelli's Three weeks ago, I had the worst shrimp scampi of my life.
Two weeks ago, I wrote about it when I reviewed Grand Lux Cafe. The shrimp scampi...
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By Jason Sheehan
Published: May 15, 2008
Spice China One of the great things about being a gastronaut — one of the great things about living a food-obsessed life — is that you can engage...
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By Jason Sheehan
Published: May 08, 2008
Grand Lux Cafe I'm supposed to be anonymous in this job, and while I don't always perform with perfect super-spy cool and élan in the dining rooms and...
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By Jason Sheehan
Published: May 01, 2008
Westfalen Hof Coming down from the mountains, I was eating tafelspitz with my fingers. I was scooping up spaetzle — sticky with gravy, dyed purple by the...
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By Jason Sheehan
Published: April 24, 2008